it is remarkable that this has happened despite a near-unanimous effort from mainstream politicians and news media to prevent it from happening. there's some hope there

autumn coded@hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2h ago

During the First and Second Intifadas the gap was, like, 40-50 points. Now that's not only gone but it's gone negative. Incredible work really.

thank god the poorest among us will be able to generate hideous pictures of fish to eat, just as jesus intended

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2h ago

The Gates Foundation has pledged to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to expand global access to A.I. and help “narrow gaps between the richest and poorest rather than widening them.”

“the first klan was the same economic class and sociocultural milieu as jan 6ers, disproportionately affluent, college educated, and from heavily urban areas” i whisper to myself 3 cans deep

I should have posted this on Labor Day.

Kanye’s brand of antisemitism isn’t a threat to the Christian capitalism that the NFL requires. “Free Palestine” is.

ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 22h ago

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

one of the stadiums that said they would cancel Ed Sheeran's show if he brought Macklemore with him "because something something antisemitism" is literally hosting a concert by Kanye West

Very rare to see someone like this with principles

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 23h ago

He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · yesterday

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

Maybe the people who lied about the economy for the last five years and think data centers are pro-community shouldn't be the ones who get to decide which marginalized groups get sacrificed

"but talarico's voting record was good..." liberals should read what he actually said. he said that his votes were based on republican overreach in those bills but that he wants to write better ones. he literally is saying that in a democratic majority he will help write new anti-trans bills.

This is what has happened with Labour in the UK. Most people don't believe that Labour could be transphobic - they aren't the Tories or Reform after all - and refuse to see it, and they are the most transphobic government of my life. So much harder to fight against, so much more damage done.

samantha@commiesamantha.bsky.social · yesterday

this is what we're all telling you. a democratic majority that includes talarico and others like him is more dangerous to us. because the 'reasonable' versions of anti-trans bills will get written and passed and you all will go back to brunch and not care. you don't care what happens to us.

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month

No, this is not a joke. UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*. That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists. On the same legal footing as ISIS. Membership would mean 14 years in prison. This is what we’re dealing with

you're calling me a stupid ass bitch liar just because I was lying?? ON ROSH HASHANAH???

Reporting on Schroder's statements without acknowledging that Dolly's death was on par with the average life expectancy for US women is journalistic malpractice IMHO. She was 80! And has recently suffered the loss of her husband. Her death is sad, heart wrenching, and in no way unexpected.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye@sazeracla.bsky.social · 2d ago

This asshole can fuck off into the sun.

All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.

the mold whispering into JK Rowling's subconscious: "you should put on your website a list of every mean thing you think anyone's ever said about you just in case someone doesn't know you're in the Epstein files"

Suzanne 🇵🇸 she/her@rummlie.bsky.social · 2d ago

JK Rowling putting up a disclaimer about having mold in her castle in the FAQs section of her website is satisfying. She was so bothered about the mold she learned how to blur her backgrounds, now this. Bullies are such pathetic creatures.

I doubt they disclosed that Larry Ellison, de facto owner of CBS, owns Oracle, which is deeply, deeply in debt building AI data centers - and any AI bust will likely bankrupt Ellison. Complete corruption of CBS to become corporate propaganda for its owner.

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 2d ago

New correspondent Ross Douthat says "no story looms larger than the latest developments in artificial intelligence." The technology and its impacts will be a major focus of 60 Minutes reporting.

you can tell from how he speaks so cavalierly about trans people as uniquely susceptible to cults and having psychosexual obsessions etc etc that will stancil’s fans have been working overtime for years to convince him that trans people are just mentally ill. he is a lost soul.

you can tell that a significant segment of the bluemaga chuds on here (that are all defending dem candidates who want to further strip trans people of human rights) genuinely think being trans is a choice. feel free to dismiss them as bigots.

Chris Brown?! funny how many of her narcissistic supporters say that voting for Talarico in the primary meant you hate Black women. what does THIS show you think of them?!

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and Representative Venton Jones honored Chris Brown and Usher with a Congressional Record recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing their artistry in Arlington, Texas. Truly some wild nonsense to honor the man who beat Rihanna.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

The former Special Assistant to President Joe Biden decided to throw a temper tantrum on Twitter, but I do think it is actually really good to have Biden alumna say this out loud.

Idk who needs to hear this but the biggest coordinated activism in Georgia in decades happened in 2023 when they gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures for a referendum opposing a police training facility in Atlanta—twice—and the Democratic controlled city council simply ignored it

“Not hugging a notorious wife-beater onstage at his show” feels like a very easy bar to clear for any politician AND YET

fellas is being a murderer gay?

i didn't hire the guy from republican John Cornyn's failed primary campaign to be my policy director and I didn't take his advice to abandon trans people, all I did was say "wow that sucks ass bro"

another reason you know she's lying is that she's Scottish and at noon in Scotland that day 9/11 hadn't happened yet

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d ago

A helpful key here for understanding what wingnuttery is and how it works, here. I 100% guarantee you this did not happen and that the boys she’s talking about - she later clarified they were “Pakistani” - do not exist. And yet, I can also assure you Eve is *absolutely convinced* she saw this.

A helpful key here for understanding what wingnuttery is and how it works, here. I 100% guarantee you this did not happen and that the boys she’s talking about - she later clarified they were “Pakistani” - do not exist. And yet, I can also assure you Eve is *absolutely convinced* she saw this.