That’s every conspiracy theory. That’s the POINT of conspiracy theory.
Sarah Jones@sarahjones.bsky.social · 7d agolab leak is a conspiracy theory for people who want to seem a lot smarter than they are
Sarah Jones@sarahjones.bsky.social · 7d ago
Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
newyorker.com
In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.
I simply do not understand how moving humanity to a planet that at a minimum doesn’t sustain any complex lifeforms would be an easier or better alternative than bringing the temperature back down slightly on ours
Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe fantasy of human colonization of Mars isn't just stupid, unrealistic, or a waste of resources — it's pernicious, because it actively stokes insouciance with respect to safeguarding the only planet that at least 99.99999999% of us are ever going to live on.
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo agoKNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN
It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Elon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.
Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo agoI thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
Real strength protects the weak. Real men punch up, not down. Real masculinity doesn't need to keep a woman small to feel big. We know the difference. It's time to say so. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
This Isn’t Masculinity; It’s Insecurity Masquerading As Strength
The right turned cruelty into a personality trait. The left abandoned healthy masculinity. Young men got caught in the wreckage.
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Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.
Lifted off food stamps? Trump and Republicans RIPPED food assistance away from millions of Americans to pay for giant tax giveaways for billionaires.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "Under our leadership, 5 million people have been lifted off food stamps just in a short period of time"
tech companies: AI is going to take your job, decide whom to target in future forever wars, supplant all human connection, and entrap the average voter in a funhouse mirror version of reality that will make them incapable of making rational decisions. also tech companies: Why so afraid of AI??
A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.
. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew: Tax cuts are the HOTTEST new idea for Democrats Booker & Van Hollen (2028 prospects) unveil big tax-cut plans. Porter says exempt $100K in income from CA taxes. K.L. Bottoms says exempt teachers from GA taxes. Pitched as an answer to cost-of-living struggles. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 3mo agoI genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.
There will be no shortage of crimes to prosecute if we have the political will.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4mo agoQ: "Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva Conventions and international law…Are you concerned that your threat to bomb power plants and bridges amount to war crimes?" Trump: "No, not at all."
two of the hardest things ever written are "face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" one of them came from a tumblr shitpost and the other one came from a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals the internet truly is a magical place
Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 4mo agoDon't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post
This should be broadcast, streamed, and read aloud by Democrats between now and the Second Coming. Trump says all federal programs—Medicare and Medicaid by name, Social Security by implication—must go. It’s astounding. It’s political poison. Make Republicans drink it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "The US can't take of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We're fighting wars. Medicaid, Medicare -- they can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. But all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them."
unlike education, health care, child care or parental leave which is woke bull shit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "This is true investment in your children's and grandchildren's future"
Los Angeles citizens chasing ICE thugs I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of this. People are fed up.