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You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

This Black MAGA creator says she “cannot believe the disrespect” after being removed from a San Antonio rally hosted by Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton!?!?! Why would they treat her this way???

If El-Sayed had gone “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m not actually Muslim I’m fine with deporting them please vote for me” he would just look weak and convince no one. Anti-trans Dems are falling into the same trap.

One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

I appreciate a lot about Ms. Rachel but in the top 5 somewhere is that she demonstrates how effectively the powers of permanent, irrepressible theater kid energy can be harnessed for good

I actually just think libertarians are children.

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

The only version of these movies I'll accept is for three of them to be straight movies that are all very similar in style and then Ringo’s is a Muppet movie where Ringo is the only human.

Underlining the message that all immigrant citizens are second class citizens under Trump. Our rights can be revoked if we dare to criticize a corrupt regime.

"this isn't the time for purity politics" the white man said whitely

So I want to start a restaurant in an airport that only serves custard-based desserts and only to couples who are on long layovers and agree to split one order. Call it "Time Flies when You're Halving Flan."

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.

As a theatre person, I cannot stand how often pitchers stop the game after like the second pitch because their pitchcom device isn't working. THIS IS WHY MIC CHECKS ARE A THING, PEOPLE! #NLCS

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

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...

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

Shared some thoughts on the Trump administration’s boat strikes: “In the absence of an armed conflict,” Finucane said, “the term for premeditated killing is generally murder.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

“Pretend I’m on the ballot,” Trump says. He is, along with: An illegal war, high gas prices, ICE’s street murders, measles, crypto scams, explosive diarrhea after food safety cutbacks, concentration camps and pardons for cop beaters. When you vote for Republicans, you’re voting for all of that.

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

tech bro is short for technically broken

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

Every time they dig up some "shocking" old tweet from Abdul El-Sayed I keep clicking through to see if there's a part two before realizing yet again that it's just something Muslims aren't allowed to say

As our president tries to paint Canada as an enemy during the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it might be a good time to see "Come From Away," the story of a small Canadians town embrace of Americans stuck there after the terror attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af77...

But he IS trying his best....

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As a Jew, the most vital thing I need anyone running to lead us to denounce are the concentration camps where civilians, from babies to elders, are being held without due process. I know what happens when a group is reviled, scapegoated & held captive by an authoritarian force dividing to conquer.

not sure how to express this without sounding like a chair-turned-around youth pastor, but there's something so radical about having your most well-known lyric be "i will always love you" and then sincerely embodying it whenever possible

Okay. Here's the deal. We have lost... pretty much the unanimous moral foundation of our nation. The imperative now. The only way forward. Is to be the kind of person Dolly would have been proud of.

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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.

Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/