Southern Jacobin

Southern Jacobin

@thomas26july.bsky.social

My comments are solely my own and do not represent my employer.

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Every western country has absurd news bias that favors the ruling classes and yet Sheinbaum, Lula, Petro, and Sanchez were able to build leftist majorities. We don't need media hegemony to win and it may even be harmful to have our every delusion verified that way.

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GERALT: Hhh. Seven Monster cans. Empty. And a diet Dr Pepper. If you're lucky, you've got a pack of small gamers. VILLAGE HEADSMAN: And...and if we're not lucky? GERALT: One really big one.

Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social

*finger to the air* a turn up god stood here

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4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:

stripes.comLawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issueThe order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.

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Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

*placing finger to ear* I'm hearing Brandon Johnson has called bratwurst "mid" and said that he "loves ketchup on his dogs"

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

coming out against taco trucks is the caliber of self-imposed destruction with very few rivals. I'm thinking Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, General Custer, Division General Leclerc. Sun Tzu wrote a whole book about not giving your opps this much to work with

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David Rohde says that the major logistics problems for the Navy largely come from the fact that the Navy's chief resupply station in the Gulf of Oman was completely destroyed in an Iranian attack, and Hegseth decided to keep it secret, from the public, Congress and the White House.

ms.nowUSS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: RohdePresident Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the condition...

I think Meta is going to be liquidated by lawsuits in the next 5 years

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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DSA member Angie Nixon was outspent 36:1 and did not receive an AOC or Bernie endorsement, and yet she won the Florida Senate primary by more than 12 points

I think it gets lost in the sauce that this generation's Admirals spent their formative years doing booze cruises in the Med during the Clinton years only to be safely behind a desk at some COCOM office by the start of the Iraq invasion.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social

There’s truly something pathetic about the military leadership (Brad cooper in particular for writing this slop) that it basically took family members blowing the whistle for this deployment to come to an end

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The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

I'm generally on here less these days because I'm trying to bounce back from several big life changes. But just wanted to say whatever conception you have of dating in the app economy, it's about 100 times worse

When I was a junior officer in the Navy (2012-2017) I attended a lunch and seminar with a dozen admirals. Half of them were foaming at the mouth lunatics fully bought into a Dr. Strangelove-esque conception of war with China and the other half were checked out and ready for their job at Boeing.

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper told Israeli officials he is pushing for renewed strikes inside Iran and believes a resumption of the war could shift Tehran’s position in negotiations, Channel 13 reports

On my second ship we had 4 suicides in 2 years because the pace of deployment at the end of the Obama presidency was too much for people to keep their life together

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

There have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record

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SHOCK REPORT: Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard amid an extended Middle East deployment, as families sound the alarm over severe mental health struggles, exhaustion, food shortages, water contamination, deteriorating conditions, + more, per Military Times.

militarytimes.comMultiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families sayMultiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.

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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

not sure what DSA should do about this, I don't follow national drama that closely, but for the record "Marxism-Leninism" is a bunch of horseshit reverse-engineered by Stalin to justify his reskinned Russian Empire. about as relevant to the modern US as the Council of Nicaea

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AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

There are better versions of the article than stale British conservative romanticism. But the comments themselves reveal that most people are addicted to alienation and otherizing the world in a Zone of Terror. Pure Social Media induced psychosis

she should rebrand this as a decolonial cocktail party, she'll put up maduro numbers

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social

not joining the Thanksgiving discourse at this time. But asking people to sit for a minute with whether naming the discomfort of being in certain areas of the country as a POC is disqualifying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...