Andrew Berg

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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"Losing Texas"? Someone needs to write this song, quick!

The POTUS and VP hyping the Acton ad is like Springfield “eating the pets”. You think the guys at the highest levels won’t go so low — surely they’ll leave the gutter swimming to their minions — but no they will absolutely go to the depths. You have to conclude, they like it.

genAI boosters are always like “you think you’re better than me because you drew a picture? You think you’re better than me because you read a book?” and it’s like, well, no, but you seem very unhappy

Bruh

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

Facebook comment (reply) posted yesterday by former OEOI Chief Idowu regarding the Globe’s piece about Mass Daily News. Posted here with Idowu’s permission.

Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.

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...

Those MBTA ads attacking the Boston Public Schools were a bum rap. Read why. #bostonschools #bospoli schoolyardnews.com/those-mbta-a...

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

Just want to say your read of P&P is the best thing I’ve ever read on bluesky, and I’m enjoying your romp through Emma just as much.

Skeletal remains were found in the woods of an affluent Boston suburb almost two years after the victim was killed. For three decades his name remained hidden. Bellingcat dug through public records for clues in the cold case. www.bellingcat.com/news/us-cana...

The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

"Hayden then went against the research evidence his own office commissioned and shelved the declination policy. He returned misdemeanor charging to the kind of case-by-case discretion that historically produced significant racial disparities." #mapoli #bospoli commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/how-...

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Not wanting to attend a large public event in the presence of a Muslim man isn’t a valid opinion, even if something terrible and tragic happened to you. You are free to feel it, but not free to have it treated as acceptable

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

"They want mass deportations, no new wars, and the American worker and family uplifted." In other words, they want classy Nazis, and instead they're getting tacky Nazis. How sad for them.

“Whoever created and approved this slide did not know where countries in Africa are and did not care to ​check their work” All you need to know about this administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We joke around a lot about our British friends on this app but you really have to admire their commitment to changing their leader when everybody fucking hates them

This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.

"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure". ~ Clarence Darrow, 1932

“Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention. Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Donald Trump was from the very beginning, and chose him over his country.” - Steve Schmidt

I hope the gates to heaven are hosted today by hundreds of thousands of beautiful Iraqi and Iranian and Palestinian and Lebanese children and they get to decide

It’s really clarifying how the BPPA wing of the Boston City Council is silent when a city employee **whose job was to keep us safe** is killed. If that city employee was a cop these councilors would call for 10 days of public mourning.

anyone talking about the "fertility crisis in america" is doing the 14 words

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

UEFA: “.. Football, like any other sports, relies on rules .. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.” www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Trump bribing FIFA to put a birthright citizen back on the USMNT for World Cup really brings home how the birthright citizenship case was about power - the power of the state to deny or affirm citizenship based on their utility to the ruler.

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

the claim of fraud is simply the claim that americans who vote for democrats are not legitimate members of the political community and their votes shouldn't count.

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

26 backers away from "that One Brown Kid" stretch goal .. Let's do this! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee...

It’s a club and you’re not in it

may we remember speaker hortman every time a kid in Minnesota eats their free lunch. every time a trans person moves to mn for safety. when an undocumented person gets their driver’s license or a returning citizen gets to vote. when we have clean energy and electric school buses and warm homes.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation