DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
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My video of the Luis Suarez incident. #suarez #intermiami #leaguescup
Slamasaurus (1/2)
Access Hollywood
I bet this was written by a dead guy
Silly me, starting SSRIs this morning. Off to the camps I go!
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
Yeah, our state gov kinda doesn’t need the feds’ help terrorizing its blue cities 🤷🏻♂️
Heard there’s real competition to be Tua’s primary backup. Is that true or just content creation? Is Wilson washed? Could Ewers be legit?
It’s also about the size of ten San Franciscos
Very important to understand that reports of people pretending to be ICE agents in order to terrorize communities is very much the point and the strategy in the first place. The bedrock white conservative ideal is that white people can do whatever they want to whoever they want for any reason.
I’m not on this page but I went to prom with bootus
I’m worried about Cam Ward. Is there a reason not to be? I don’t wanna see the man get hurt
Of course Wesley bell - that’s who bought him his seat
Leaders who are sympathetic to the call of bigotry and exclusion do not have my support, and that’s just all there is to it. Some things are complex. This one is simple.
i’m in this post and I don’t like it
What’s welfare mean
Unfortunately he persisted another day, so too must we.
The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance
Say we're working at the top of a tall building. If I burst into your office and say "the building is on fire!" you'll be thinking of evacuation, of raising the alarm, calling the fire department—and understandably so. A building on fire is very bad news. www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-...
even down here on good ol planet earth, the number of people who are gonna hear you scream is statistically insignificant
What’s the best thing you’ve seen on or learned from Hard Knocks?
Shout out @ncprnews.bsky.social
If you’re supporting NPR/PBS today, please don’t forget about the stations in your shitty hometown. They’ll need it the most.
Imagine being pale gaunt supremacy -sméagol Richard Hanania, looking like a dried-out washcloth left out on the kitchen counter and just as thirsty, and trying to substack your way into a booty call. lmao
Nobody hates a team quite like its biggest fans
A new friend has a suite at the superdome and invited me to any one Saints game this season. Which one should I go to?
What is answers
This makes me miss the city
Arguably if NYT wanted to get ahead they could have written that story, about Nazis trying to start a race controversy with hacked data. But as it turns out, they wanted to be the Nazis.
Short list of things wrong: This is not a scoop; who gives a fuck about scoops in the year of our lord 2025; it's not possible to be scooped by Christopher Rufo because he is not a legitimate journalist; you can't be scooped on a non-story; factual is below the floor, newsworthy is the floor.
Tbh I can be a little more cold-blooded on sourcing questions than most, but the core journalistic issue here is the NYT story heavily suggested in its opening paragraphs Mamdani was doing some sort of Dolezal situation, which was unsupported by its own reporting. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
Legitimate reporting and illegitimate reporting both engender conversation and debate. But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"
Hey fuck you ron
Pastor at the top of his game this morning
They couldn't verify the data with the source, but ran it anyhow for a story that insinuates Mamdani tried unsuccesfully to "Soul Man" his way into Columbia when he was 18. People should be fired over this.
Fascists talk about feminism to destroy trans people. They talk about equality to destroy diversity. They talk about fairness to destroy justice. Stop extending to fascists any benefit of the doubt, and withdraw it from any who insist on extending it. They are just two arms of the same beast.
Oh do the camps have showers.
Luis Suarez
Amy Kobluchar *being devoured by zombie mutants* voters didn’t send us to Washington to relitigate the mutant cannibal zombie culture wars, what’s needed is common sense crypto deregulation
when this was new it was so completely of the moment. it's hard to communicate how hard it hit
Ehh, yeah
One truth we truly need to rally around is the uncomfortable but undeniable fact that Republican Party is best described as a hate group.
Fuck yeah freestyle hot dog
but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
“Unprecedented pre-announced live-streamed genocide”
When he dies Democrats will be blubbering on about his great legacy and not the fact he’s ending his life as a war criminal
Our Support for La Brigada De Oro www.losverdesatx.org/blog/our-sup...
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Dems in Congress's fun reward for not expelling all the disqualified insurrectionists who voted to overturn the 2020 election (as the United States Constitution requires) is that Republicans in Congress are now demanding their arrest.
So if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
#8 on the Star Ledger’s list of the top 51 New Jersey movies of all time!
*get a load 💀
Our paper ran that ad. We put it in the middle of a “get a kid of this asshole” op-ed. Paid for the whole print run
Yale seeks to curry favor with Nazis by selectively banning a student group for protesting a war criminal.
This is the first step they are taking into changing the meaning of the words "due process." Any essential phrase or idea for American democracy, from "free speech" to "antisemitism" has been turned inside out to serve fascism. We can't let that happen here. We have to take back language.
Oh shit there was history lol
"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
They aren’t “making a good point” when they offer their rationales. They are using things decent people desire as a cover and pretext for demolishing those very things. Do not agree with American fascists on anything. Give them the one thing they hate most: understand them for what they are.
I heard they’re beginning to purge the intellectuals, Is That Good?
Maybe it was a good idea to be polarized against people who would like to kill you for speaking in favor of due process. Maybe it was the people who saved their first tears for the fact of our political division while ignoring the causes of the division who were abetting the division.
I was told I was a "polarized individual" when I would say that Republicans were Nazis, well now we have death camps and gangs of uniformed thugs disappearing people; maybe the people who said they wanted to do this really meant it, huh? Maybe they and not "polarization" were the real danger.
Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them. 🧵
They shot medics that were tied up. They flattened their ambulances and fire trucks, then buried them in the sand! Why does the US fund & arm this?
Asking my kids if they really think they deserve to leave Dayton when they come home from school without their jacket and water bottle.
No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.
Taking this unique opportunity to tell you Stagger Lee is my favorite 500 Songs ep so far (I’m up to People Get Ready). Carry on! 🧡
In case anyone’s collecting names for the modern day Nuremberg Trials
We should think about what comes next, and the messages for a team that actually wants to play—and not only to play, but to play to win. I'd like to think about that team now. www.the-reframe.com/the-beached-...
When you're watching sports, often you'll choose a team to root for. You expect your team to play to win, or at least to play. If they don't, you will probably stop rooting for them. www.the-reframe.com/the-beached-...
The Republican Party is a hate group, and belonging to it should be considered on the exact same moral level as belong to say the KKK.
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
ATX, y'all up?
"The incompetence is a feature of the evil, not an unaccountable departure from it. These evil fuckers didn't just happen upon the worst possible candidates for each job; the job they want done requires hugely important positions to be held by the world's worst people." www.the-reframe.com/the/
If the president can ignore court orders and illegally circumvent, Congress, there is no Constitution. It’s gone. There’s no enumerated right that the president can’t take from you, no law Congress can pass that is binding, and no court that can protect you from any of it. It’s the whole ballgame.
We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵
Had me in the first half. That city has voodoo and vampires you can’t say stuff like that when you’re there 💀
Shout out @dieselfuelprints.bsky.social for consistently doing a killer job on our sticker orders and just being rad folks in general. Looking forward to redecorating various flat surfaces around McKalla soon!
Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
Federal employees have received a copy of the deferred resignation agreement. Contains a lot of brow-raising lines such as, "Employee waives any claim that could be brought on Employee’s behalf by another entity, including Employee’s labor union." Full text shared with me:
![Deferred Resignation Agreement This agreement is between [AGENCY] and the Employee identified below. WHEREAS, on or about January 28, 2025, OPM circulated a memorandum to all [AGENCY] employees (Fork in the Road Memo) offering them a voluntary deferred resignation option. The offer allows those employees who accept the offer by February 6, 2025 to retain all pay and benefits and exempts them from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30, 2025, or earlier if they choose to accelerate the resignation date for any reason (Deferred Resignation Program); and WHEREAS, [AGENCY] has received Employee’s voluntary request to be included in the Deferred Resignation Program; and WHEREAS, [AGENCY] accepts Employee’s request to be included in the Deferred Resignation Program; and WHEREAS, the parties wish to express the terms and conditions of the agreement between the parties concerning Employee’s participation in the Deferred Resignation Program. WHEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows: Employee is accepted into the Deferred Resignation Program. Employee agrees to continue working through February 28, 2025, in an effort to ensure a smooth transition of Employee’s duties, responsibilities and work assignments to other staff. Employee is exempt from all in-person work requirements. Employee agrees to turn in all [AGENCY] equipment and property on or before February 28, 2025, as directed by Employee’s supervisor.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreigyjx7ee7ylajigg7e7judfiwf74nnnyz44plwn6ly5yoqolg63na@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![By signing this agreement, the parties acknowledge that they have entered the agreement knowingly, voluntarily, and free from improper influence, coercion, or duress. Employee understands that this agreement cannot be rescinded, except in the sole discretion of the [AGENCY HEAD], which shall not be subject to review at the Merit Systems Protection Board or otherwise. Employee acknowledges that [AGENCY], in conjunction with all other federal departments, agencies and units, will immediately rely on the terms of this agreement in consolidating and reassigning roles and otherwise taking steps to reform the agency workforce. Consequently, Employee understands that this agreement is final and Employee’s decision to resign effective September 30, 2025, unless Employee resigns or retires earlier as set forth above, is final. [AGENCY] shall comply with all terms of this agreement even if Employee’s position is eliminated or reassigned prior to September 30, 2025. Employee shall not be subject to furlough, termination, reduction –in force or layoff as a result of an OPM or federal government reorganization or reduction –in force. Employee agrees to cooperate with steps taken by [AGENCY] (such as reassignment to a different component) to exempt Employee from any reduction in force. If there is a lapse in appropriations during the term of this agreement that requires Employee to be placed on furlough status, Employee shall be placed on furlough status during the lapse. Once the lapse is over, Employee shall be taken off furlough and shall receive back pay under the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreib2hqyhxv6qqfgjjq764ye5qhmcwbevyjnyr2e3bldjaycpediyce@jpeg "Click to view full size")
We find ourselves with a Democratic party suffering from a chronic and fatal failure of imagination. Clinging to the forms of institutions no longer up to the task of stopping fascism, while using what little remaining power they do have to suppress those whose eyes are open to the danger. 12/
Me too?
Juan Valdez do you like alternative rock
The jets game is blacked out in my area too ☹️
the thing most people, and most notably white people but this applies across the board, is that resistance to oppression is neither a marathon nor a sprint but a diverse and multi-faceted effort, much of which will result in no victories whatsoever but you do it anyway, the little things
Please resign
I wrote about the fascist party that's taking power, the deepest natural laws that they oppose, the ways that this opposition renders them fundamentally, illegitimate no matter what power they hold, and what that means for all of us. www.the-reframe.com/the-moon-is-...
All Republicans, Yes, Are Nazis.
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