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Our media should do a better job conveying what groups like Heritage, the America Enterprise Institute, and other right-wing think tanks really represent: a policy agenda that overwhelmingly benefits entrenched wealth, protecting it from the reach of democracy, at the expense of the people.
/lowers āFSU went 2-10 with one FBS win over Cal by five pointsā flag //raises āAlabama is 5-5 in its last 10 games including four losses to unranked opponentsā flag
I canāt tell if journalists are trying to suck up for the next facist era or so braindead that they donāt think they will be under any threat from this soon.
Trump and congressional Republicans are canceling a home building and renovation grant program which mostly benefits rural Americans. This is what Trump voters wanted him to do? apnews.com/article/trum...
Itās the Confederate Army retaking the Union states (and the nations Capital). This is the civil war redux GOP turned MAGA Party has been pushing since Reagan kicked off with a dog whistle 1980 speech on (irony alert) āstates rightsā in Neshoba, Miss where the Klan murdered 3 freedom riders.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Tonight, the Texas Senate is debating the latest version of the bill meant to ban mailing abortion pills into Texas. If the Senate OKs the bill, it heads to Abbottās desk. Some abortion opponents call it a model to stop telehealth abortions, which have helped thousands get around state bans.
Suicides at the border āmissionā were elevated. Prolonged deployments can lose guardsmen jobs.
CHICAGO: LOUD FOR AMERICA
similar to abc news, this only mentions that crime is way down in chicago in third to last sentence
Iām amazed there is a whole class of people paid to have dumb opinions. I have even dumber opinions for free
again weāre seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
Liberals, holding the gun to trans people's heads: Why won't you trust us?
"But you liked me yesterday"
What would my drag name be??
This is incredible pickleball OSINT work from the NYT's @ethansinger.bsky.social. I love everything about it--the concept, the use of databases, aerial imagery, and ML to crack the case. This should win an OSINT blue ribbon. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Funny how these MAGAts never talk about mass shootings by bible humping, male Trump supporters. 95% of all mass shootings over the past 60 years are by men, and 55% are by White men. But keeping telling yourself the problems are with Trans people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Looks like an 80s music video.
I've watched the entire movement at close range. The loudest activist protest a lot and barely even vote. The average centrist dem backed off the "defund" the police fast because the cop unions held the American people hostage. The right wing can whip a panic over tiny amounts of prop damage
Police are currently super funded, totally unaccountable, and starting the next level of a full on paramilitary rampage through the entire country. The activists were right, but the average American is more concerned with a broken window than their rights until they are personally victimized.
Finding Gary, Walter Mitty
Holy shit itās @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong?
He is touring a lot right now! Might have to get his tickets second hand, I saw 75% of his shows sell out in a few days. www.wellesmusic.com/tour
Jesse Welles writes a lot of original music people might overlook compared to his ācurrent events folk telling.ā I really enjoy his album tracks. youtu.be/cqfJnUgvso0?...
99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it itās a wonderful experience
We are living through an incredible moment of MLB rookies who look older than me
Yep. I had Trumpy relatives who were *outraged* by covid mitigation, but they barely leave their houses to begin with. If they hadn't been told to be angry, they wouldn't have given a single shit.
The guy who tariffed lumber, who is trying to deport the construction workforce, and who campaigned on his opposition to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing does not actually care about bringing down housing prices.
Notre Dame canceled the Miami series just when it was getting good. Based on the framing of this article, itās all the fault of Miami fans for [checks notes] being mad that the Catholics vs. Convicts T-shirt guy was selling them ADJACENT TO THE ORANGE BOWL. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
New, in my newsletter: Donald Trumpās military occupation of American cities is unpopular. The news media is trying to manufacture consent for it. www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
Yes pls
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I canāt help but feel frustrated that they didnāt do this last year when public health was on the ballotānor did NYT frame it that wayāwhen we had a chance to stop it.
9:25 AM, strange. Too clean a release time.
Latest photo of Trump leaving the White House to play golf.
What subreddit? Reddit has a mix of the most impressive investigators to ever post and then easily fooled cranks.
Hearing Irish boomers blatantly tell you how evil Israel obviously is so refreshing compared to the mouse trap tip toeing everyone expects in the States, UK, or Germany.
The total reasonable thing about Ireland is people of all ages think Israel is committing genocide instead drooling out complete propaganda and both side-isms out of the USA and and many places elsewhere in Europe.
senate dems made a deal to advance RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote within the first three weeks of the new administration & hold the vote on a thursday because a score of senators wanted to leave town on friday to attend a swanky european junket
So proud that Irish people have been putting their lives and bodies on the line next to Arabs this entire genocide. Also Germany just getting never again wrong (again) is so darkly tragic.
Alright Helldivers it's about to be a long weekend and if you're not out there killing terminids we are going to have a problem
it is a little weird to read stuff like āthis place used to be great onceā i mean itās only been a little over two years and a portion of that was just twenty people posting alf memes lol
Trump just ended the century-old "de minimis" exemption, which allowed items worth less than $800 to be shipped to the country duty-free, or without having to pay any tariffs. In response, postal services from around the world have begun suspending shipments to the US www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Unfortunately, this isn't limited to elites. Every Baby Boomer whom I know personally is opposed to everything that's happening right now, but not so opposed that they would do something unthinkable like be rude to their Republican nephews or friends or landscapers.
We canāt have an accurate conversation about trans identity
From a practical perspective as well: Dems aren't even going to *be* in a position to save rural hospitals from this collapse when it starts in earnest next year. If we see Dems sweep the midterms, they won't take office until early 2027. Legislation by EOY won't start rolling until 2028.
Rural people are also going to somehow blame Obamacare again a decade later and turn to Dems and ask why itās their fault their hospitals closed and their people keep dying from poor care.
Ed McGintyās stunning save helps Shamrock Rovers join Shelbourne in Conference League
I understand how people get so disgusted with guns they just say "ban them all", but that's not a workable policy proposal in the US. if you want regulation then you'd better have people writing those regulations who understand what a firearm is- in a technical and a legal sense.
You know how we keep saying the fascists are openly celebrating because they finally got a transfem mass shooter? Just to clarify, that wasn't hyperbolic or anything. In their own words: www.rawstory.com/owen-shroyer...
Jerry Jones has at long last authored his magnum opus world class, generational fumble
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
SB 8 is up #txlege
āDo you intend to run trans people out of the state of Texas?ā āNo. Just out of the bathroom.ā The cruelty is the point. #SB8 #txlege
In creating division on the left, they knew property damage is a hot button issue, so "broken windows." They also saw success w/ "Ambulances can't get through." They know they're relying on inherent biases, then providing visceral emotional arguments to inflame them. So, all of this is familiar 9/x
This is VERY LITERALLY why "Soros paid protesters" became a popular right wing talking point. They will essentially agree to test out a phrase/premise, deploy it consistently over a few weeks, and see if it takes hold. "Soros paid protesters" went from YT to Fox News in a few weeks. 7/x
Bots and rage bait posters are everywhere
Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
Gun control is not getting fixed at all in the next 5 years, maybe even 10 years. There is no light at the end of the tunnel with the current goverment arrangement in all 3 branches.
Almost 20 years ago I talked at Google about how privacy should be akin to a second amendment issue. Tl;dr given the scale of force available to the government, all the guns in the world are useless against an all-knowing tyrant and thus privacy is necessary for the security of a free state. Anyway:
They do it every time. Hell, they do it even when the shooter ISNāT trans -spread misinformation they were trans to vilify us. I know itās worth saying that all trans people are not to blame for the horrific actions of one, but theyāre just looking to justify their predetermined hate at every turn.
My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple: 1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented. 2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights. 3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
so thereās gonna potentially be a pod save america ādebateā on democrats future support for trans rights in the near future i had to back out because of scheduling conflicts, and for some reason they didnāt want my help finding a replacement on the other side of the ādebateā isā¦ matt yglesias
He thinks it will juice the real estate market. Heās not thinking so far as inflation. He thinks home owner voters will like the lower rates. His is real estate brain, tv brain, or facism brain. Nothing else up there.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
My organization spent the last 10 years sounding the alarm about woke censorship at American universities. Now that Trump has effectively ended free speech in the United States, I've decided to focus my attention on Chinese efforts to force censorship on an art gallery in Thailand.
Anyone still subscribed to the New York Times or Washington Post is just fundraising for boots on their own necks at this point.
I will literally never buy a phone that has GROK within 100 miles of its infrastructure.
They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris we'd become a socialist country, etc., etc.
Do they make you punch a trans person and a starving Palestinian to get hired?
we are the failsons of the comedians you couldn't cancel
First human case of flesh-eating screwworm parasite detected in the U.S. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Prior to the arrival of Paper and Scissors, Rock faced no opposition.
Better healthcare any time in the last decade? No, you get a police state instead.
technology is awesome, first we invented writing and had several thousand years of incredible monster sightings and ufo abductions then we invented cameras and they all went away then we invented ai deepfakes and the monsters and ufos have forgiven us and returned
This morning, the weekly Uvalde Leader-News ran a front page story on SB 15 at the #txlege that would make records about that incident secret for officers who were never disciplined, which is basically all of them. www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/bil...
Left wing constantly chasing the last battle from 2 hours, 2 weeks, 2 months, or 2 years ago, the right already lying about the current battle and the mainstream left media is trying to sane wash to keep up.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and weāre wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
Democrats should be doing press conferences every day with people hurt by Trump and his policies. Scientists, struggling people, the disabled, etc. Also with WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors who remember fascism. They should be telling peopleās stories to humanize the damage.
If you want people to internalize the message that we are seriously under threat of authoritarian rule, and that it could affect them someday soon, you need them to hear how it affects people similarly situation to them. This isnāt rocket science. Every single day outside of Congress, hold events.
I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
Like 6 Dems silently took donations to join Cinema and Manchin in tanking getting rid of the filibuster.
šØAlso if everyone missed it, there is a SkyCast for ISU - KSU on ESPNUšØ
people need to stop suggesting Ireland canāt handle mudbog football like this, the nationās entire history has prepared them for just such an experience
TIRED---Bluesky: Ugh, is it time for sportsball AGAIN?!? WHILE TRUMP IS TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY?!?! INSPIRED---Bluesky: making fun of Kansas State being unable to move the ball is ableist
I donāt see any way out now past new ownership or complete revolt from the NYTs staff to the editing team. The Drudge Report is becoming a more effective arbiter of calling out conservative misgivings by now. The journalists there are just in slow decaying or fast decaying carcass.
In my mind these sequels just donāt exist. Iām at peace that way.
Drudge Report calling Trumps facist bs better than the NYTs, a recurring theme.
And another one. Full throated declaration.
it is extremely alarming that so many of you think that posting AI generated memes on social media is somehow "fighting back" and that JB Pritzker's actual moves to protect the citizens of his state (and those of other states!!) makes him a "wet noodle"
Hegemonic enshittification watch www.wired.com/story/enshit...
"If trans people don't settle for 1930-1935 Germany, then they deserve 1935-1940s Germany"
Mussolini and facism divides the left, marches on Rome. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...