This is why I don’t support any news outlets currently. The Atlantic does a lot of good work but then undoes all of it with stuff like this. I’ll keep my money, thanks.
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This is why I don’t support any news outlets currently. The Atlantic does a lot of good work but then undoes all of it with stuff like this. I’ll keep my money, thanks.
I moved over to bluesky when a visibly unwell and extreme right wing candidate won the presidency at the same time his equally as insane right-hand man was ruining Twitter- apparently that’s hard for “normal” people to understand.
a very high proportion of centrist punditry now just boils down to "progressives yell at me on the internet and i don't like it." you would think that getting paid millions of dollars per year would give you thicker skin
RFK was a rockstar all of 2024 and seen as a bold thinking outsider from the entire podcast / social media sphere. Maybe ppl being deprived of all vaccine access this flu season is mother nature’s way of teaching a lesson and shouldn’t be upended 🤷♂️
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Can't afford to care for your kids; can't afford to care for your parents; can't afford to care for yourself—America makes it hard to care for each other, yet we have unlimited opportunity to be selfish or cruel. Demand a system with less friction and bullshit—it's "unrealistic" or "impractical."
Science is real
The best suggestion you will hear today.
That paragraph is so British it started its own slave trade mid sentence.
American Pravda strikes again.
Not a weird choice. A complicit and authoritarian choice. There is little independent media left in this country.
Marlins were also not inclined to take any AB’s off because the Mets beat up their position player sanoja just the inning prior when they were already up like 9 runs. Those Mfers were *working the count*.
when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones
They’re consuming FB and podcasts which are probably even less critical.
Quite frankly they’re saying it’s shining like nothings ever shined before…
These are prob the same jamokes that said ‘all the empty ships idling in the port of LA spells summer catastrophe’.
Wut
What happened to all the “blank shipments” and supposed empty containers sitting in the port of Los Angeles? It’s counterintuitive as hell to think that wouldn’t have had any impact on the economy and yet that’s what happened.
Exactly this. A huge fail by most of bluesky that still nobody has reckoned with.
It seems most of the country has pivoted to caring mostly about crime and immigration, shattering the old paradigm of politics.
All the idiots bitching about inflation last year. Where are they now? Why are the media dead quiet about the rampant inflation this year?
Mets No. 4 prospect, nice guy, pro grilled cheese maker… Get to know Jonah Tong ahead of his Major League debut tonight!
Entire face pressed against the hot stove is the only way. Even then, there will be a heavy lift for communicators of all stripes to properly articulate cause and effect.
I know I’m out of the loop with football because I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of Micah parsons
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
what?? The CDC had very few defenders throughout the last 5 years and that's partly responsible for this mess. People loved to shit talk it in casual conversations. Americans deserve what's coming to them.
Goddamn motherfucking Mets. Fuck.
oh okay so they like RFK then, got it
it will need to be put on social media as the main stream media won't air it
a lot of men with alcoholism, divorce, and watch lists in their future.
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Enjoy it america.
mets also helping out with an obvious poor performance let-down game against the fish
Very much so. A ruby red voting block.
People were executed and tracked down throughout South America and brought back to be tried and executed. They weren’t perfect but it was a hell of a reckoning.
She’s one of the best imo. Just a basketball savant.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
Still waiting for all those pansies with the Gadsden flag in their tacky front lawns to pretend to give a shit. Oh wait, they’re hypocrites??
honestly how did we ever achieve even just obama-era united states homeostasis. Its a wonder we're not just blowing each others heads off every 5 seconds.
There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual. When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.
The fact that all major news sources in the United States have daily lead stories like "Experts weigh in on the most delicious ice cream" and not "Democracy is dead" is one of the greatest derelictions in duty in the history of the country.
Rachel Maddow reacts to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's speech…. "Shoot that right into my veins!": Maddow on IL Gov. Pritzker's speech
Woh
Walk-off WINNERS! LGM 🔥
Let’s go Mets. 23-6 against the Phillies at citi field over the last few years. Also Diaz > Duran any fuckin day. LFG!!
What to do about helsley....
Increasingly the answer to that question has been someone who hates openness and curiosity and views the world as dog eat dog and little else. JB is going to need a lot of luck on his side.
Mets offense coming to life at the right time
Do we really have to burn down 250 years of US progress so the functionally illiterate can relive our effed up past because they can’t/wont just read history books.
This is a good step, make sure you also talk to your friend. Most veterans voted for the fascist.
Just saying it's easy now to posture while having no power, let's wait and see.
He just casually says that people would like a dictator and no one bats an eye. What is wrong with people? This is not a drill. It’s happening.
Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.
will it not be overturned by a diff court? Hard to know what's a victory these days
Everybody enabling this shit, every rank and file ICE bozo, needs to understand the possibility that their side will not, in fact, be in power in perpetuity and that some day they're going to have to answer for their actions.
The era of brainrot via increased exposure is real. We've seen so many people fall from grace. He's suspect until proven otherwise.
We're gonna see how much americans are brainwashed into thinking 'lets sacrifice a bit now to build more industry here in the long run' - my brain says no way since americans like their trinkets but my gut says americans suck and will absolutely become hardcore pro-tarriff dweebs in short order
you guys present well researched arguments and are unabashedly pro-democracy, what's not to love. Vanishingly few outlets/orgs do what you guys do these days.
We'll see, give it like 1-2 years
Top story on NYT until later tonight/early tomorrow morning when they shift it to something mamdani tweeted 4 years ago
The media are all cowards with extremely few exceptions, maybe like 6 total..
The new york mets.... WHO ARE GOOD...
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
Reposting
No way. He’ll be on an iron lung and still in the White House.
I was told that wanting a little social safety net as a treat was communism, but now we have the federal government eager to take over private companies for some kind of centralized economic planning model.
“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
Tennis doing things that prove it deserves the bougie, elitist connotation it has to the wider public example number 27364949
Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.
Couldn’t believe my ears when the booth said “it seems like they had this one comfortably just a minute ago”. Uhh… guys
“Birthing person”: extremist, divisive “Poisoning the blood of our country”: normal, healthy
JD Vance out here quoting Timothy McVeigh on a daily basis and we're *still* talking about language policing baristas in brooklyn, lol. It's all very instructive of where the media gets their marching orders and who they feel most comfortable criticizing.
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
What's up with this idea that language should always be fixed and never updated. Do we still talk like its the 1800s?
Do democrat politicians really use these words though? I think that's the question
Mets have had stretches like these each of the past 3 seasons. Last year they turned it around in time, this year they’re maybe doing the same. Went 18-31 this year and a 10-25 stretch last year, year prior it was a 7-19 stretch they didn’t bounce back from.
"HPD Detective Kyle Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks" Okay well someone should tell that to lots and lots of the current Real Officers
Hah I used to, but I’ve recovered
An attorney left the Downtown LA federal building known as "B18" yesterday, and the reality was bleak. Her client has been trapped in a basement room with 50 others since Tuesday. No beds. No showers. Same clothes. Sporadic meals. No medical care for injuries from a violent arrest.
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Ask not what jeeves can do for you ....
If you abandon Ask Jeeves, you're surrendering poor Jeeves to the fascists.
If you’re an online adult over 30, you’ve probably already been part of multiple mass exoduses from formerly popular social media websites. Leaving Twitter is no different from leaving Facebook, Tumblr, or MySpace - which is why I don’t buy these justifications for continuing to post there.
The media are complicit
That’s big league
And let's be real, they don't hate "birthing person" and "Latinx." They hate hearing Spanish in public and seeing male cheerleaders. They hate interracial couples and female CEOs. They hate trans women as normie as Sarah McBride and gay men as moderate as Pete Buttigieg.
The first NY Times employee to write a tell all book about how toxic and broken that culture is will sell 5 million copies and never work in legacy news media again. So it’s a win/win.
Chairman Cow.
Nice win. Bullpen needs to figure their shit out damn fast though. Helsley is a liability and Garrett looks gassed.
Nolan McLean? More like Nolan Lisan Al Gaib!
#Mets streak is over!! A non-Petey starter just finished 6 innings!!! Go Nolan!!
Leave this guy the fuck alone
The media deserve everything that happens to them at this point.
JD Vance was clearly not consulted on this.
the people of America cried out "IKEA is too cheap Mr. President! It is too easy for me to find affordable and utilitarian home furniture!" and the President lept into action
Shorter Claire: “brown man bad”