alex
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optimism of the will pessimism of the grace
Today marks one year since the United States began an unlawful campaign of lethal military strikes targeting vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming 227 lives. US officials should be urgently held to account for these killings. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cnFJ2t
Apropos of nothing, it's kinda weird they never caught this guy despite having video surveillance of his car.
OPB@opb.org · 5d agoOregon election officials want voters to choose the drop box over the mailbox this Election Day. And as a fight over the postal service’s role in the November election plays out in federal court, they’re asking state lawmakers for emergency funding for extra ballot boxes.
I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
One of the defining aspects of American conservatism is the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3y agoi really think that the strangest accounts on the internet are the RVTURN accounts on twitter that tweet 1950s advertisements all day as if they were 1:1 representations of real life
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
I think maybe Democrats should be trashing this guy and not a twitch streamer
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · last wk.Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last wk.A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
genuinely cannot imagine anything like this ever happening again.
we would very much like to thank you for all the time and dedication you put into being a multimillionaire or whatever you are. unfortunately we've decided to go in a different direction and will be rightsizing your assets. we will definitely provide relocation and transition support for you though
wow you're telling me a bunch of old guys who hit a massive payday and spent the subsequent 20 years huffing their own farts are super into ai?? first i'm hearing of it etc
Austin McCoy@austinmccoy.bsky.social · 2w agoAlso, Rick Rubin recently declared AI to be the "new punk rock" and Palantir touted Raekwon visiting their facitilies. All of this happening this past week, I believe smh
So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.
All I ask of these people is that you convince your mother *before* lecturing everyone else on how to convince your mother.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w agoThe media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...
This show is not actually targeted to people who do their own cooking. It is targeted to wealthy people who neither cook nor do their own grocery shopping. It is propaganda meant to bolster the lies economists continue pushing about regular people being irrational about the cost of living.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2w agoRFK’s cooking show is pretending that 1.5 lbs of wild sockeye salmon costs $8.99 lmao
Anyone else have some dull, patronizing grievance they want to lecture everyone about? Seems like today's the day.
The modal american for whom materialistic jingoism is a core part of their personality does not see The Troops as humans. They’re plot devices whose job is to come home in a flag-draped coffins that shame people out of criticizing the war.
"There's nothing ethically wrong with what I'm doing, but for some uh, other reason, I cannot allow anyone to know I'm doing it"
Bryan Toporek@btoporek.bsky.social · 3w agolmfaoooooo www.businessinsider.com/claude-users...
oh no did an administrator use left-coded verbiage against you in a cynically exploitative way? did HR subject you to hackneyed buzzwords that insulted your intelligence? well damn I guess all projects of liberation have failed and you should just get your bag! or maybe just grow the fuck up
10/10 dramatic irony. No notes.
DollMaidCrystal@dollmaidcrystal.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is a soviet propaganda poster from 1980. The text on it translates to "Prudery is the enemy of art!" I'm looking at it and yelling "The USSR figured this out in 1980! THE PRE-GLASNOST SOVIET UNION FIGURED IT OUT!"
The numbers we get about the military once they can finely be blamed on a democrat are going to be craaazy
Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 4w agoi've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter. - The American Prospect
Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.
prospect.org