Roger Marshall has finally taken down the horrible ad :( he blew at least four grand on it though

Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 2d ago

anyway, Roger Marshall has put another couple hundred bucks behind this ad since last night and it's gotten another 10k impressions or so.

this post was very confusing until i realised "Greek life" is a specific thing in America

utopia deferred@utopia-defer.red · 12h ago

destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.

I do worry a TINY bit that this is how we got JK Rowling long before she went fully mask-off TERF, she was the darling of liberal Twitter for her sassy Trump dunks and that is 100% the reason she got so high on her own supply that she began sincerely believing she was a necessary voice in politics

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater.com · 3h ago

Everyone loves the JCO takedowns, but forget she has her own wildly problematic takes.

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

We very badly need to marginalize these people and treat it the same as following Hanania or being a Tucker fan, and we equally as badly need to have a position on owners of the tech that spreads this shit (social media) bribing the pedophile president so they wouldn't be held accountable for it.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 19h ago

I’ve never been in denial about it but I do think today was the first day I truly realized how much antisemitism is spreading and being normalized in online far-left circles. It’s scary and frightening and is only going to get worse if the left insists it’s not a problem.

This is broadly speaking understandable when you realise that to a certain kind of American liberal, only America actually exists, and the rest of the world is a sort of theoretical argument that is only brought up to distract from the manichaean struggle between Democrats and Republicans.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22h ago

A lot of people have reverse-engineered their entire understanding of 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 specifically to defend Joe Biden in online arguments c. February 2024 and it all ends up being fascinatingly weird.

people who I am 99% sure voted for trump at least twice between 16/20/24 are now openly making 'no beardos' jokes at pete's expense in DoD offices that are full of people who voted for trump "Pete is a joke" is percolating far and wide across the force, it's not a GOFO/deep state/w/e thing

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3h ago

anyway yes there's work to be done, but it's on the level of "robust Congressional oversight and immediately asserting a democratic admin civilian control to scare the hoes," not "we have to denazify the entire DoD over the course of a decade"

7/ All that said, the flu is already starting to pick up unusually early this year, especially in the West. So I wouldn’t wait until October to think about it. If you haven’t gotten your flu vaccine yet, now is a good time to schedule it for maximum protection.

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

Tara O’Connor@taraocomics.bsky.social · 15h ago

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

Was talking about gender as performance in one of my classes yesterday and, man oh man, is it hard to find a more prominent example rn of a guy whose masculinity is built more obviously on inadequacy and insecurity than Hegseth.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5h ago

Hegseth: The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top

BTW 121.5 is the International emergency frequency and Always monitored. In case off-duty pilot not available, use that frequency to communicate and air traffic will talk you down, i.e. give instructions to land the plane.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h ago

everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.

Lots of folks responding with pics of US Grant but the thing you have to remember is that Hegseth believes the Union forces were enemy invaders against the smol bean US South that was simply trying to “preserve its institutions”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

One month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Hegseth: "Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich"

if you begin feminist history at #MeToo then it's easy to despair that nothing has changed (or that some things have actually gotten worse). if you take a much longer view though things have changed so much! the little gestures we make today are adding up to something we can't see yet!

this is why trying to see far into the future will drive you insane, all you can see is how far away the world you want still is. but the more straightforwardly oppressive world of the distant past is also far away! because small people did small things that added up over time!

Staggered at the number of supposedly intelligent, right-thinking people who still think they are immune to X’s powers. Boromirism.

I’m gonna go against the grain and say operation warp speed was actually extraordinarily impressive, by also the second Trump administration has done everything to make sure that we will never have the capacity to do it again

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

Trump: "We did a very good job in covid"

She’s the CEO of one of the most consistently hateful organizations in the country, you fucking losers

Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com · 2d ago

One year after Charlie Kirk’s murder, the MAGA movement is fracturing and the future of Turning Point USA is uncertain. Erika Kirk now finds herself both its leader and a victim of the conspiracy mentality Kirk fomented. vanityfair.visitlink.me/Rr5QVj

Updates: the Ethiopian army is in control of the city of Alamata, after 3 days of fierce fighting on the city's outskirts. At least 50 people in the city died, many from artillery strikes, per medical sources reached by the BBC. A strike that targeted the city's marketplace killed a dozen people.

Ethiopia fighting escalates in Tigray killing 52 civilians in Alamata, medic tells the BBC

The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela.

bbc.com

Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

404 Media@404media.co · 10h ago

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.

Within a decade, I suspect that millennial calls for “consent training” will look just as out of touch as boomer calls for “rape whistles.” Both interventions were equally as successful. The rate of sexual assault has not changed on college campuses since we started measuring it 60 years ago.

Campus sexual assault is not an “institutional problem” merely in the sense that assault takes place at an institution. It is an “institutional problem” in the sense that the institution fosters the conditions for the problem, punishes the victims, and colludes with the perpetrators to cover it up.

They won’t tell you this in school because of woke but this was a vuvuzela.

Lotta people defended this fucking guy to me in 2020 and all of you are suckers and losers.

Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 17h ago

a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts

IT’S WOIMSDAY AGAIN

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 22h ago

When you have no concept of how people engage with music