FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states
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FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states
this, too, is political violence
I don't think announcing this days after a huge cyber attack took out Heathrow and several other major European airports is really a bright idea. That said he never was the most political astute people
The Cass Freight Index, a key measure of freight volumes, hit its lowest since the Great Financial Crisis, excluding 2020. This shows weakening demand for shipping and goods movement, and a slower economy. #EconSky
We're +570%.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has called on farmers to 'be ready to take up arms' against the US, amid escalating tensions following deadly US strikes on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean which President Trump says were smuggling drugs.
Looking forward to finding out in 3-5 years what the name for this op actually is I bet it's something like Project Slimelord
1. Telling trans people that even if Democrats won't protect us we should be selfless and vote for them to protect other people is a shitty thing to say. Asking for our rights and calling out Dems when they won't support us doesn't help fascists. Tell Democrats to support and defend us instead.
Lol she ignored trans people completely, leading voters to think she was hiding something. The consultant class Dems currently use is just rancid at politics.
No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder
This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....
whoever is running the most effective “PRIMARY ALL OF THEM. YES, ALL. I SAID ALL. I MEAN ALL” campaign can have literally all my money, time, and social media followers. Congressional fire sale, everything must go, no substitutions, all sales final. I’m so serious. this is irredeemable
Unanimous senate vote to honor a guy who said Black women are subhuman & that gay people should be killed with rocks. Man. It’s almost a shame I won’t even get a chance to never support this party again.
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I would rather plaster tape over every part of the screen that's not needed to unlock the fridge than be blasted by even more ads every time I'm in the kitchen.
I would rather plaster tape over every part of the screen that's not needed to unlock the fridge than be blasted by even more ads every time I'm in the kitchen.
Don’t stop talking about Palestine Don’t stop talking about Gaza
fuck. this hurts my heart. what utter monsters, these people.
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
I love how they still refuse to acknowledge why and how Walz gave her a boost beyond using it as grounds to gag him and let her tank what little good will she had.
“First they came for the Palestinians and Palestinian activists, and I said nothing because I was neither a Palestinian nor an activist for their right to exist. “Then they came for the comedians and…”
Weren't you cheering on the crackdown on college students exercising their First Amendment rights by speaking out against the genocide in Gaza? You literally normalized this, you fucking moron. "It may be someone else today. But it will be you tomorrow."
this should not be at the very end
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I know people sometimes dismiss posts about how Trump “can’t do this” by arguing that Trump will just ignore the law and do whatever he wants, but I think the fact that there’s no legal infrastructure in place to enable this kind of thing really does matter.
[Updates total number of Dems I've seen make statements in support of trans people in the past week to... 1]
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
It’s so naive to still think it’s possible to lower the temperature with conservatives. All of their grievances have been entirely made up and they have absolutely turned themselves into nazis over them. They’ve been rewarded for it so why would they stop now?
Kimmel was right.
*LOUD ENGLISH YELLING!*
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First ever panel on intersex people’s human rights at the UN Human Rights Council ❤️ www.oiieurope.org/first-ever-p...
"Celebrate our extremist troll's commitment to free speech the way we tell you to or we'll throw you in prison."
Hey Brian Kilmeade, Check to see if your hands have blood on them. This is the second mass shooting on a homeless people within 12 hours.
Michigan's porn ban specifically bans being openly transgender as being pornographic. Don't let this one slide. It is a ban on being publicly transgender on the Internet.
I hope justice is found for Trey Reed and Cory Zukatis. We need to protect our black neighbors as racialized violence rises. Please be safe everyone. CW // racially motivated lynchings, hangings, klan cops x.com/__RiseAbove_...
I super respect indie and small news groups but gods I wish they didn’t insult their own work by forcing subscriptions on people. News should be free and accessible, not require money or forking over data to stay informed.
WHAT THE HELL
They want to kill any information source the oligarchs don't control. Free access to information not filtered through their brainwashing algorithms is a threat to their control over their hyperreal simulacrum, even in the limited audience that Bluesky has.
Grateful to independent journalists outside of Chicago who are talking about what's happening here. God knows we can't rely on the legacy media to report on or even amplify the truth. Also grateful for our local folks who've been running themselves ragged on the ground. I know people are exhausted.
NEW: Lawyers for four people the Trump administration sent to Ghana say their internet access — used to communicate with counsel — has been cut off and that transfer to countries where the U.S. could not directly send them is imminent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I'd list all the things Jack Posobiec is known for, but I think it would get me banned on Bluesky in the current environment of automated moderation. Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.
Hey @jay.bsky.team, y’all gonna fix the moderation system so people can report news on here?
I abhor political violence, but the gaslighting the right is engaging in is also abhorrent. I stand with Evan & the full trans community with my whole cis, white woman chest & say #TransRightsAreHumanRights & we will not rest or be quiet until the hate & violence against the community stops.
I'm heavily considering sewing "Immunocompromised" into my mask.
Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.
this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!
my brain hurts
These times are going to make strange bedfellows of us all.
The leadership in New York’s press and the White House are openly working with rich businessmen to try and strong arm the city of New York out of electing the person they most support.
just got a new top tier Aimee and Billy picture
No, I've just been on the internet long enough to tell when someone's trying to get others to fed post so they can call the cops on common schadenfreude. You're just not slick fam. Try harder.
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Fed poster spotted
Here it is. Please share it widely. I didn't do this because I wanted to be safe, but because I am determined not to lose my freedoms without a fight. I'm doing this for you, America. Long live the bill of rights and fuck Charlie Kirk.
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
you seem to have zero interest in protecting trans and palestinian people on this website yet go batting for a nazi with rule enforcements on jokes that didn't result in moderation just a few months ago when other famous, widely hated political figures died.
I love being threatened every day and then scolded for minor push back
Why is this post still up? bsky.app/profile/nypo...
Yeah, Kirk was constantly saying children needed to die because guns were more important so it makes sense his violent rhetoric came home to roost. He had no interest in good, only hurting people and inciting lynchings and shooters.
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
In general: Somebody who's replying to me saying stuff like this, please go read a book or two by a trans man. It'll help, I promise. I love Thomas Page McBee. Even Elliot Page's memoir is a place to start. And: PLEASE, watch Disclosure on Netflix. Read Susan Stryker's Transgender History ...
…..I have found something that somehow still surprises me from this inept government…..
the democratic party spent two days eulogizing a nazi and condemning his murder and then shut the entire fuck up when it came out that the murderer was another nazi. i can't imagine anyone still trusting them who aren't themselves knowing fascist collaborators
I'm not a jk poster at all but when I see her say shit like this, openly and in public, and then see ppl still try to defend that entire franchise, it just makes me laugh b/c it can't get more clearer than this. it really just can not lmfao.
Oop.
You know, as much as the usual Jay and moderation stuff pisses me off, I’m not very surprised. Tech moguls and the teams they pick always have a right wing tint and utterly despise enacting safety measures. They so desperately want to make money while neglecting their own job description.
Since you just replied to this one @jay.bsky.team , you wanna answer an actually marginalized person for once? bsky.app/profile/diam...
“If you don’t like it then leave” is the kind of response that attracts Nazis, Jay. You’re telling Nazis you won’t moderate them because you’re lazy. This behavior should at least be embarrassing to show publicly.
"We knew it would be hard to do it right, as ethically and equitable as possible, so we decided not to really try. We made a door though, so you can leave if our lack of responsibility as platform operators isn't to your liking."
Moderation doesn't have to that difficult. You've been offered help by professionals on here, by those who know what they're talking about in this regard, but you've continually shut them down/ignored them. From here, it just looks like you stand for nothing and don't care.
Oh, and we're critical of your actions, words, and Blueksy becssue we do care. We want you and Bluesky to be better. And if you do improve instead of doubling down on the BS--then we all benefit and can have a more trusting and open dialogue. But you have to do the work, Jay. No matter how hard.
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this is a legit crazy thing to post when your company hasn't even created a tool that helps people migrate and haven't created any user-friendly documentation on what atproto decentralization looks like you're putting the ownus on non-tech users to learn advanced tech concepts without assistance
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One less-highlighted reason that criticism of Charlie Kirk is taken by conservatives as clear desire for/intention to enact political violence is that when conservatives criticize their targets, it is usually with the desire for and intent of enacting violence. So we see: they know words can kill.
It literally changes your brain chemistry. It can be observed under MRI how being made to feel frightened or intimidated daily will shape and alter your nervous system. This is not a 'well stop thinking about it' issue, this is a 'we need to stop Othering the Trans community'. Its a form of violence
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for linking Charlie Kirk's murder to Kirk's hateful rhetoric, even though Dowd later apologized. Fox has taken no public action against Brian Kilmeade, who said mentally ill people who commit crimes should be killed by lethal injection – "Just kill them." No apology either.
Precisely why I didn’t pursue the career
I wish they would
i think the @wsj.com should pay every trans person's rent this month
Sometimes I feel bad about having wanted to be a journalist when I was younger but at least the journalists back then pretended to care.
My paycheck still isn’t covering basic groceries month to month. If anyone could spare a few dollars, I’d be majorly thankful. #MutualAid
The amount of layoffs that we're going to get now that the Economy is stalling... As there is already a surplus of applicants to jobs... Right before the Holidays... Just as prices are going to spike on everything... It's going to get real fucking ugly, real fucking fast out there folks.
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I need those who were not previously aware of Charlie Kirk to understand why so many have been apathetic about his death. Charlie Kirk was a stochastic terrorist. He curated the very culture of violence & harm that eventually took his life as well. He was not a peaceful moderate. He was a fascist.
Black trauma is the US norm and after today it’s more than obvious that no one but us sees it, hears it, or cares about it or us regardless of how far and how regularly we fight against it. The US has effectively told us that they’re done and we do not matter. But they’ve always told us that, tbh.
all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
When the Nuremberg Trials come around....
Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.
Christ… stay safe out there fam
No one should be sad that a Nazi is dead tbh
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