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691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

There is this constant argument that the right would not have gone fash if the shitlibs were nicer to them. Meanwhile MAGA has been telling me for a decade "fuck your feelings."

Cannot be stressed enough that she didn’t bring this up at all

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry attacking Brad Lander - a self-described liberal Zionist - by name, simply for doing protective presence, should be the final sign that the Israeli government would gladly sacrifice every last Jew in Diaspora to dominate more Palestinians with impunity.

republicans still regularly bring up carter and clinton and democrats act like bush and reagan never existed except inexplicably to praise them.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

I am so tired of our president being a big racist dipshit

That guy looks like a guy that should be taxed. They couldn't have found a more shiny, round "tax me harder" face if they tried.

Sorry to be an ass but voters won't "at some point" come to understand corruption and corporate greed are deepening an unsustainable wealth gap. We need to keep hitting the hammer, mobilizing, and organizing. Reality is scarier than than the lies; we don't need to "rise above," we need to punch.

Right, the problem was that it showed this correspondent was (1) biased & bigoted and (2) unable to understand what had actually transpired at the event, both of which are disqualifying for a reporter.

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

So many American Jewish organizations have decided to go full force against El-Sayed because of his criticism of Israel and their own Islamophobia, apparently without realizing the vision of the country advanced by these Christian nationalists will not ultimately be good for any religious minority.

This is inspiring in the way that kids running a lemonade stand to pay for their friend's chemotherapy is inspiring: the kids are amazing but they should never have to do this. if this inspires you at all, let it inspire you to create a real right to vote so they can just vote on campus.

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Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

State boards of education decide the standards and policies that school districts must follow—and this fall, we are watching elections that will shape the balance of power in five states: Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas.

Exposure is a first step towards accountability, but real accountability needs punishment, yes. Put it this way: Should a grand effort to overthrow US democracy that involved a lot of lawbreaking go down as a cautionary tale—a Do Not—or as a thing to try again because the consequences are minimal?

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

Zohran Mamdani is living proof it is possible to be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, and some antisemitic anti-Zionists AND some right-wing Zionists will never forgive him for that.

Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

How it started/how it’s going

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis

You can easily now see how he could bankrupt two casinos.

Also, ***I*** am allowed to be upset about the Obama DOJ war on whistleblowers. The trump White House — which during the first term and ESPECIALLY this one has outstripped Obama’s actions against the press by many many many MANY magnitudes in substance and style — can shut the fucking fuck up

My deepest hope for the increasing likelihood that, like, 4 guys are going to own the entire entertainment industry is that we're going to get an avalanche of incredible indie work in every medium that finally buries the safe, four quadrant approach everyone has been following for too long.

Donald Trump has destroyed the economy and threatened the rule of law. But my liberal neighbor has a Darwin fish on his Prius I have never felt more politically homeless

Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.

the fact that the Trump admin keeps deporting people in violation of court orders suggests that it requires a stronger incentive to abide by court orders and judges *have options* for punishing noncompliance and compelling the admin to follow the law use them! ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing

This really gets it. Why aren't they mad?

I've been thinking about this a lot because of all the talk about how Dolly Parton "didn't take sides" and I think she's proof that if you don't want to talk about politics you don't have to, but she took sides with her money & her actions and her side was pretty clear. So is Sheeran's, I guess.

This is a wild misapplication of the test for a stay, sure, but it’s also just disconnected from how the real world works. In Alito’s mind, the only factor for determining whether something is legal is “Does Mister Trump want it.” A little bobblehead for fascism. Vile, stupid, get out of my face.

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

“We asked them to unconditionally surrender and we’re all out of ideas”