Another word for "migrants" is "people".

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2d ago

At least 109 migrants have died, including 15 children, and some 116 went missing when a boat sank off the shores of Djibouti in the early hours of Friday morning, a UN agency has said

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

You know, friend, I don't think I'll be following you back.

lol Lmao even Has there ever been a more obvious fraud than the promise to Make America Healthy Again?

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here it is! Our definitive graphic novel #Murderbot , revised look approved by @marthawells.com ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

That's bad actually. I play tabletop RPGs which is close to this, but you're still sharing the experience with a group.

onion person@junlper.beer · 3d ago

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Nic Cage is showing how easy it is to be a beloved icon by having correct opinions.

I knew I liked him.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

Speaker Johnson, who said he’d take a blow torch to your healthcare is saying if Republicans lose the House he will leave and start a lawn business. Next week I’m going to donate a wheelbarrow to him, so his staff can wheel him out of DC.

DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment — theonion.com/doj-to-bring...

DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment

WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...

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The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

I need to add here that silicosis was still diagnosed even after “aggressive” protection equipment & procedures were put in place for the stonecutters. There is no countertop or remodel worth someone’s lungs or life.

SleepyNeutrons@sleepyneutrons.bsky.social · 6d ago

Shitty way to die. Something similar killed millions of animals after the last Yellowstone eruption.

I can't believe that he found a way to say "what about Biden" to this question. And when the answer is proven ridiculous, he blames Biden supporters. Amazing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

ALEXANDER: Why wouldn't McConnell's constituents be better served if he stepped down? TILLIS: It's the same Q people ask of Biden A: Biden is no longer POTUS T: But guess what? We're following the bad advice of people who supported him. The difference is Mitch's brain is as strong as it ever was

Lot of this again today, re: the GPEW

lewys@generalquixote.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lot of people, even those ostensibly pro-Palestine, spend more time worrying about not saying anything to offend bad faith critics of the movement, rather than the enormity of the crimes we are witnessing, the genocide at hand. Everything pales in comparison to that.

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Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.

Coal companies are fighting miners’ federal black lung benefits claims, while the black lung rate surges to a 50-year high. Remember: Trump indefinitely stalled a rule that would limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, which causes black lung. The “pro-worker” president.

‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge

Trump says he digs coal – but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delays

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I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

A list of well over 200 historical oddities to inspire your stories

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

My three-year-old was at the Ed Sheeran concert when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why isn't the nice white rapper performing?" And when I told her "Because an old guy who visits teen-aged prostitutes had him cancelled," she started crying.

The fact that the religion's holy text is a Harry Potter fan fic makes me think the world is a simulation designed to annoy me specifically

Hell Frasier: Bloodline@babadooknukem.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ok I've seen enough. The ai guys are in a millenarian apocalyptic cult. They convinced themselves they were too smart for religion and then looped right around into creating a machine god. No more to it than that.

Ok I've seen enough. The ai guys are in a millenarian apocalyptic cult. They convinced themselves they were too smart for religion and then looped right around into creating a machine god. No more to it than that.

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

Fine, I'll say it. "Israel did 9/11" is American exceptionalism. It's a way for cis white leftists to ignore that through decades of imperialism and hubris, we did 9/11 to ourselves. And no, I don't mean 9/11 was a false flag. I mean we armed Osama bin Laden to attack the USSR,

Hit it twice, then find out later she used you as an excuse to install cameras all around the neighborhood?

Happy Labor Day!

California Nurses Association@calnurses.bsky.social · last mo.

Billionaires and millionaires did not give us the right to organize, the 8‑hour work day, a 40‑hour work week, child labor laws, or a minimum wage. Workers did that! This Labor Day, we honor the victories that built our country and the fights that are still being waged. ✊

Thank you pharmacy for your picture of workers standing with a cop, with a quote about the value of hard work.