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I love cats and getting really mad about politics!!!!! I do not hold your unfollowing me because I repost too much against you :)
I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50
there’s some beautiful stuff happening out there
Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 5h agoI heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.
if we could actually get some legal action against evangelical youth ministers this would be proven true in a heartbeat and i would grudgingly apologize to Great Britain
FormerGregSamsa@formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 16h agoI kinda feel like the US is dark-horsing its way ahead lately.
Perez Hilton appeared bloody, wielding what looked like a knife, for FIFTEEN MINUTES on a TikTok livestream before the feed was cut. The company says "moderator error" allowed the stream to continue for so long without intervention.
TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up
The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.
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Universal healthcare is a wildly popular centrist position. It is also a pro business position as it boosts labor market dynamism and removes what for most firms is a non core operation and cost. Asking how it will be paid for in a system as rife w/ inefficiencies as the US sort of misses the point
An insane video game-related Lost Media find has quietly popped up on YouTube. Two episodes of "Say Powww!", a 1979 game show about video games that only aired in some markets. People in studio and over the phone played Intellivision (!!) games. Predates Starcade!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tJ...
What’s it like to be interviewed by Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for a government job? @telliotter.bsky.social spoke with an engineer who did exactly that:
The National Design Studio Became a DOGE Landing Pad. Now ‘Big Balls’ Is Recruiting
WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward "Big Balls" Coristine for a government engineering role at the NDS, the White House agency staffed by other DOGE veterans.
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Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it
Christopher Michael Benoit (/bəˈnwɑː/ bə-NWAH; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who worked for various promotions during his 22-year career. Despite his accomplishments,
When you’ve been around a while you realize one mark of a really skilled politician is having the freedom to moderate your stances because your base knows where you’re coming from and trusts you
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 17h agoEl-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.
a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 8h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
everything is speculation now. everyone who threw out or gave away their pokemon cards or video games from 30 years ago has been driven mad by the thought that they could have made upwards of several hundred dollars off them
Your Canadian Girlfriend@yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · yesterdayWhy? Why must everything we enjoy be sealed up with a "grade"? I get baseball cards being put in plastic because you can still enjoy both sides of the card. But a Blu-ray?
This is good but I’m gonna guess that not a lot of $5M+ pied-à-terre owners are registering their cars in Pike, Wayne, or Monroe Counties to save a few thousand bucks on insurance and maybe this screening should be applied to, you know, everybody?
Andrew Giambrone@andrewgiambrone.bsky.social · 2h agonew: Gov. Hochul's office is actively looking into any potential tax fraud revealed through the rollout of NYC's pied-à-terre tax, a spokesperson says. e.g., cases where someone claims to live here most of the time, but doesn't pay NYC taxes, or has their car registered elsewhere
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
Main downside of the largest parts of FIFA being European is that the chances of Gianni getting bonesawed are very low
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 1h ago⚽ FIFA president Gianni Infantino held emergency talks Wednesday with directors of world football's governing body in Morocco, a source tells AFP, amid a wave of criticism over his now shelved plan to open the World Cup to private investment ➡️ u.afp.com/SHqK
The thing about all this is that there is a market for his fabulism, a market for the racists hunting Black faculty, a market for the play-by-play of racists vs Cambridge, and so on, and they are all bigger than the market for serious work about race and racism.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 1h agoJason Arday, the University of Cambridge professor, is leaving the school after plagiarism claims and questions about his life and career exploded into public view.
This is incredible content, it's the same "it's cheaper if you cook / I'm too tired from work to cook" discourse from BlueSky except literally no one posting actually cooks or has a real job, so nobody has any standing to argue either side and yet they're far nastier about it.
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
Mama is PLAYING and the kittens are BAFFLED. They didn't know she could do that!
The trouble with right wing political theology is its stupidity rather than its malice, which Bonhoeffer identified as the greater threat to the good.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last yr.This is so embarrassing
“We are told we don't have enough money to feed our children… But somehow we have enough money for this foreign nation...” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & @ilhanmn.bsky.social discuss the influence of money in U.S. politics, from funding war in Israel to AIPAC’s future. Watch: zeteo.com/p/live-from-...
