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Glad to say I'm a lead on this project and we're VERY excited to see what it produces! Whether you're a vet leader that wants to share your skills, a budding one wanting to learn, or just want to come see some cool corpo shit, everyone is welcome! #VRChat

AyumiKoi@ayumikoivr.com · yesterday

Cool things happening in VR! A bunch of community leaders from around VRChat are getting together to share and present their own knowledge on skills and growth as leaders! Everyone is free to join as well as to present their own resources and knowledge too! #VR #VRChat

The discord is open for coordination and how to join or participate in the Summit: discord.gg/CGknjYFsKq

Cool things happening in VR! A bunch of community leaders from around VRChat are getting together to share and present their own knowledge on skills and growth as leaders! Everyone is free to join as well as to present their own resources and knowledge too! #VR #VRChat

Always feel a bit lame asking this but if you like this video and subscribe to our channel from it specifically you will actually materially help us out, so anyone willing to take a couple of minutes to do so I greatly appreciate youtu.be/S_nVcXXhYDM?...

Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will (with Brad Lander)

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Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

Abdul El Sayed's open-mindedness on the question of how to actually resolve the question of Palestine is one of the best indicators of his overall intelligence and sincerity. Policymakers in DC should adopt a rights-based approach which prioritizes ending the occupation and apartheid systems.

Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · yesterday

El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

Michigan, this is OUR moment. Vote Tuesday, August 4th.

>makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness >makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness >makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness

Proud to stand with these three Michigan champions for a politics of solidarity that focuses relentlessly on the needs of working people. All three of them are hustling to turn out voters until the minute polls close tomorrow. (1/3)

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

YES BABY THIS IS A GOOD ARGUMENT I LOVE IT

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d ago

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

Really just cannot stress how much of a self-own this war has been. Doomed strategically, now losing operationally.

E Jones@eofchi.bsky.social · 3d ago

The damage that this war has done to US hegemony in the Middle East & to the ability of the US to project power in the future against adversaries such as China & Russia is immense. We forced ourselves out of the Gulf The US attack on Iran may yet be akin to Britain’s 1956 Suez fiasco Treasonous

The damage that this war has done to US hegemony in the Middle East & to the ability of the US to project power in the future against adversaries such as China & Russia is immense. We forced ourselves out of the Gulf The US attack on Iran may yet be akin to Britain’s 1956 Suez fiasco Treasonous

E Jones@eofchi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The new reality is that Iran now has control of the Strait & will continue to control it This unprovoked attack for Israel has cost the US enormously: shredded diplomatic credibility & control lost over an essential strategic area, as well as also likely forced the US military out of its Gulf bases

we are talking about covid because their base is pissed and telling pollsters they won’t show up and the racism dial is already turned as far as it can go but they think maybe there’s a little blood to be squeezed still from the fauci stone. that’s it. that’s the only reason we are doing this.

me, being forced to exist in this moment in history

I woke up today with no dm's on Discord. Legit thought my Discord just wasn't loading. This hasn't happened in months. So peaceful.

so many people still have their head stuck in the sand about a post-Trump GOP every Republican under the age of 30 has only ever known Trump-era politics, there is no possibility of a "return to normalcy"

Guys, the best weapons to protect your neighbors from ICE are NOT GUNS They are CAMERAS, WHISTLES, and a well-organized RAPID RESPONSE AND NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SYSTEM. ICE is better-armed than you'll ever be. But they like to rely on secrecy, and you can make it much harder for them to be secret.

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

He really is the median voter

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

HABERMAN: “.. He thinks the economy is boring. He literally will tell advisers he finds this boring to talk about.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Really is insane that QAnon just disappeared once Trump 2 started. Like, just absolutely gone.

Mike Rothschild@rothschildmd.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think we've forgotten just how insane QAnon was for a while. Q believers got a charter school fundraiser shut down because they thought James Comey was going to attack it. They deluged a butterfly sanctuary with death threats. A guy killed a Mafia boss and wrote "Q sent me" on his hand!

I think we've forgotten just how insane QAnon was for a while. Q believers got a charter school fundraiser shut down because they thought James Comey was going to attack it. They deluged a butterfly sanctuary with death threats. A guy killed a Mafia boss and wrote "Q sent me" on his hand!

Must be Friday.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d ago

*TRUMP ORDERS ATTACK ON IRAN FOR AS SOON AS THIS WEEKEND: WSJ

Hunter Biden: “As it relates to Donald Trump, fuck him. Fuck his son. Fuck his daughter. I mean it. All of them. The whole family, down to the grandchildren. I hope that, for the rest of time, their names will live in ignominy. They have done the most awful things to my family and to me.”

The *important* thing here is when he says what do you expect me to say about people who have harmed me? The implication is that no one is expected to say nice things when intentionally harmed. Yet Trump calls Chuck Schumer a Palestinian and Schumer says nothing. Nothing?

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hunter Biden: “As it relates to Donald Trump, fuck him. Fuck his son. Fuck his daughter. I mean it. All of them. The whole family, down to the grandchildren. I hope that, for the rest of time, their names will live in ignominy. They have done the most awful things to my family and to me.”

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." —FDR

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.

I am pretty skeptical that the city-run groceries are going to be a W but like, that’s the point of pilot programs, if they work well we figure out how to scale and if they don’t then oh well. pretending like they’re an *obvious* or common-sense W is just idiocy though