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The International Association of Genocide Scholars has made a decision according to which Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide. 86% of the body voted for it
1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
The thing is, every time you defend Newsom as a great candidate and what “we” need, you’re telling trans people that you’re willing to throw them under the bus You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
My daughter is trans. I'm not going to enthusiastically endorse someone who wants to have charlie kirk be a leading voice on trans policy. 1
They're stupid enough to think that they'll magically be the successful billionaires if only those pesky Other People would stop taking their chances away! They can't possibly be doomed to mediocrity between their own failures and the setup of the system. It's much easier to point at your neighbor.
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
Defeating Susan Collins is going to be hard. If you're inclined to do anything and have money to spare, I urge you to consider donating to *COMPETITIVE* races rather than safe-state heroes with national ambition. Here's one: Graham Platner in Maine, against Susan Collins. www.grahamforsenate.com
As one of my students put it, “maybe those rich kids are just cheaters.”
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
If you can't handle the Gillian Anderson fan account posting Gillian Anderson photos without retreating into the position that no one should ever be happy around you ever again, you may just benefit from some time spent offline!
I am begging a certain demographic of people to understand that they personally can be criticized on the internet without their critics being supporters of Donald Trump. Yes, I know there aren't many people arguing in good faith on Facebook, but this is not Facebook! Adjust or accept that you won't.
Step 1. Have a crisis over Gillian Anderson photos on the Gillian Anderson fan account Step 2. Bluesky stares at you in horror, and someone suggests you take some time offline to feel better. Step 3. Reply with nine Facebook "memes" about Donald Trump's depravity as a gotcha Step 4. Block anyway?
He's a fascist pedophile and I voted for Kamala Harris, I've even got a photo of my ballot on here. You will feel better with less time online, I promise.
Words don't mean anything, and no whimsy or joy is allowed ever. Everyone must be miserable as the fascists want us to be because I personally need a break from social media. Also, every social media app is Facebook. I'd laugh if this wasn't all so cliché. If you are this miserable, go offline.
Poor coherence and a general lack of understanding of the world from people who sat glued to the TV regularly for decades? Yeah, it turns out that wasn't just Republicans with Fox News. I'm even inclined to consider TikTok less harmful for many people due to its algorithm showing you what you like.
I’ve spent two weeks thinking carefully about this, and I’m going to do my best to explain the theory of change for RFK’s removal, as I see it. That includes where impeachment fits, what to ask from House vs Senate, etc.
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Multiple anti-AI posts on the timeline in a row from unrelated conversations! You truly love to see it
I sometimes see people (correctly!) say that foreign policy is a low salience issue only to see those very same people go on to say that Democrats can't afford to upend the consensus on Israel because it would blow back on them.....What they leave out is that it'd be an elite revolt, not voter.
"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."
Opening TikTok "The Democratic Party hasn't won an election in 30 years" Now come on, I was just thinking how long ago 2020 is now, but 30 years doesn't sound quite right!
the effective altruism stuff is really weird to me. excuse me for thinking that maybe you aren't following the same kind of ethical veganism as I am when you share a space with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and SBF It's also the exact kind of movement I would've bought into if I was a teen in the 2020s.
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Fear not! Party leadership will hand millions to a couple bros who are very friendly with Silicon Valley eugenicists, and they'll again soothe Dem leadership with the advice that they do nothing.
The conservative carnivore diet weirdos are already one day going to find themselves like their vaccine denier friends who suddenly believed in science when they were on ventilators. Honestly, I bet they already don't drink enough water.
The gap between the average Democratic voter and average Democratic politician on Palestine is almost incomprehensible at this point— to the extent that I really don't know what will finally break this dynamic
As cursed as this is, I might actually have an easier time getting a vaccine than I did in June (pharmacy didn't like that I wanted another dose of last fall's vaccine without being totally IC) Depression!!!! If RFK Jr. goons want to send me to a camp, oh sorry guys the Covid vaccine cured me!
You can very easily make a case for yourself as being someone who qualifies for Covid vax on this list. Physical inactivity, former/current smoker, depression, ETC - these are extremely broad and wide ranging categories. *You can also just lie* and say you’re depressed. Do what you need to do!!!
The Spanberger ads are utterly horrid and uninspiring. And I do regret to report that any attempt to change what Amendment 1 did to redistricting in Virginia will be quite hard, with it being in our Constitution thanks to many Democrats. We get RCP Guy maps until heaven and earth are moved.
Trump genuinely won, and that is a terrifying indictment of the memory of the plurality of American voters
Trump's victory was powered by voters who barely follow the news and who are not very engaged with politics generally. Democrats are excited to vote and angry at the way things are going, many Trump voters are slumbering and don't even know there are elections going on. So no, it's not a conspiracy.
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
Quod erat demonstrandum, I am smarter than the entire British media (I know that "AI" isn't actually "intelligent," and I know that trans people are awesome) Seriously, though, is a question really unsettling if you knew the answer the first time you used the autocomplete on your phone?
YOU 🫵 Post about Pritzker RIGHT NOW🐴🏹
States run the elections. We do not need to hallucinate extra tentacles of the fascist monster when we are already in the grip of others. It is counterproductive and ridiculous. Buying into the idea that *all* laws simply don't matter is just giving the mad king the power he craves. Loser behavior.
Got downvoted on r/Virginia for asking by what means Donald Trump could interfere in Virginia elections while clarifying that I think he's terrible and we have much, much worse things to worry about. I cannot stress enough that an executive order cannot just magically change election law.
Here's promoter of the "autogynephilia" pseudoscience concept J Michael Bailey, complaining that a science journal doesn't discuss the imagined sexuality of a 17 year-old in a paper about how she solved a math problem. Anyway, trans women are the perverts by the way.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
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)
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/
I remember this image well. Memories.
You know who DIDN'T have trouble registering voters or raising money this summer? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Whom the clowns in this photo haven't yet endorsed. The answer is RIGHT THERE but party leaders are pretending they can't see it.
There is a TikTok with 150k Likes claiming that the police are watching someone's house and their Google Doc was deleted after researching the "disappearances" in Virginia There's some good sides of TikTok, but wow, some people do not expect lying on the internet, I guess.
I knew something looked off! Wasn't quite sure how much you left out. I excuse what I do by trying to split as little as possible, I've never bothered to split the city. But that is good justice. Are these the 2020 numbers? My DRA is very broken, but I haven't seen 2024 out yet.
I find it immensely concerning that there are people who read and keep up with events and who somehow believe that David Brooks is smart. That is... an opinion that should be very hard to fall into.
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
It is deserved for what they keep doing to Roanoke. The fun part is when you can use Lynchburg as an anchor to a roughly similar district to keep it blue. Utter humiliation for the religious right.
I don't mean to interrupt all the Newsom glazing I see on the TL today, but you really need to remember that this is the guy who launched his Podcast with Charlie Kirk, Newt Gingrich, Dr Phil, and Steve Bannon as some of his first guests...
Yeah, so younger Black voters are very strongly for Zohran here, and he has a plurality, near-majority with all Black voters. So there's a massive gap by age, though yes, that's still less younger Black support than he has from the younger voters of other groups.
So this thing was precinct-level, yeah But there was also the polling of the general election against all the other major candidates that showed him way up, I'll find that again next bsky.app/profile/hyde...
Intifada globalizing
preventable illness rate plummets, number of traumatized children plummets, drug use plummets, teen pregnancy plummets, jail population plummets, I can go on and on. Simple, easy fixes to parents behaving out of unbelievable stupidity and cruelty.
Denial of a vaccine to a child without approval from a reasonable number of qualified doctors on vaccine science should result in child abuse and endangerment charges and the loss of custody. For corporal punishment: Similar charges with the addition of charges of sexual abuse and assault.
Almost certainly. Look at... basically, any US election in the last 60 years. It won't be particularly close either.
The data against this, though, would point to Zohran's commanding lead with younger Black voters. With the younger voters, he polled even with other groups of voters, if not slightly higher, from what I saw. It's older voters who are more conservative who he didn't win, conservative whites go to GOP
Them: But it's not fair to say they supported "white supremacy," that's just your woke spin on the past The Past:
I get the feeling that this writing was written by AI, as bad as it is.
There has been zero money from me to the bigot in chief for well over a decade, and that won't be changing. Orange man did not magically make me tolerate this garbage because he's in office, actually. It was never a fad or a trend for me.
Why am I seeing Harry Potter ads everywhere suddenly How much more loudly pro-trans and anti-fascist do I need to be to banish this stuff from my sight I truly don't know what possesses YouTube to think I'd want a Harry Potter Funko Pop or TikTok to think I want Harry Potter quilting patterns
Virginia has 3/10 metro regions w/ biggest rent ⬆️ in U.S. Austin TX permitted more homes than the entire state of VA in ‘23. The far majority of VA localities had >50% ⬆️ in average home sales price in last 5 yrs. 🏠We should build houses. It’s a crisis for working folks.🏠
Another thing: The Spanberger ads aren't for me. They're for people who voted for Bloomberg in 2020. I realize this, so I'll just gripe here instead of going and actually trying to change the election results. If I get a comment suggesting that the GOP is gonna win because of my critique here, lol.
no one wants to hear this, but Ralph would've been far better to bring back. or Guzmán, Hashmi, JCF, Aird, Rodgers... by no means are we in a dearth of excellent women especially. We got a radical centrist, and I fear that that really isn't good enough for the moment we are in, facing fascism.
me grimacing the more I see of Spanberger's campaign but also realizing that inertia and actually campaigning vaguely competently, unlike Terry McAuliffe, will easily carry her to the Governor's mansion but wow, I do not like the Spanberger ads. I would've loved to have another option, sigh
All our wonderful voting reforms, like permanent absentee voting, were passed in 2020! I have very little to complain about besides Amendment 1. This was after Northam's blackface was revealed, and he was in a great mood to pass good legislation with the brand new Dem legislative majority.
I’m also a gold star non-chatgptian
As I recall, the legislators who let this awful thing get out of committee didn't even read it first. It was incredibly shameful, and the campaign against it barely even tried. Most Dems said nothing, and I was finding high-profile Dems online defending it.
It will truly be so satisfying to watch the bubble burst. I'm sorry for the human losses in the processes, but the discrediting of generative AI is so obviously a net positive for society that I must applaud.
Amending the Virginia Constitution would likely require another election! And that's probably November 2026 at soonest, now. Nothing that can be done thanks to the stupidity shown by many leading Dems.
It's not so simple. Some very foolish Democrats supported Amendment 1 back in 2020, creating "independent" redistricting that was obviously going to be GOP-leaning. These elected officials knew better and supported it, and so it won. And the GOP got a gerrymander for their trouble.
No, the original was deleted. I happen to know that this is something the person who I replied to does regularly after a while.
Cracker Barrel was investigated by the George W. Bush admin DOJ and found to have engaged in a whole lot of racism. sanfordheisler.com/case/discrim...
I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law
Since the original post doesn't have alt text: it's the percentage of each US state that's trans according to a survey. Virginia is only at 0.6%, below West Virginia and Tennessee somehow, and below many other similar cesspools that we have no business being behind. More trans folks, fewer fascists!
Virginia is a relatively safe and welcoming state! Surely we can get our numbers up and take in some awesome folks trapped in bad places right now? There is no reason for us to have such a low percentage. We should have at least 1%! So few compared to fascist Tennessee, seriously??
Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."
One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.
I made the case for the left embracing Pritzker in 28. He's been a very progressive governor, but is also seen as a mainstream D by D voters...which I think means he has a real chance to win. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-left-s...
Yeah, Roanoke has been a pretty bad pollster for a while. I know there's not much for us to go on, but we can ask for better than that.
For comparison, Microsoft Office 365 has 345m paid subscribers worldwide. The idea that ChatGPT will conjure up five times that amount in just a few years isn't just hypothetical, it's fantasy. These people are delusional.
I apologize but I find the theology of the Warrior Cats books more compelling than any monotheistic religion.
Ugh. I was worried it was her whom you meant, I read her works in undergrad, and they were quite good. This is incredibly disappointing to learn.
Voter validated data from CES just came out, and it turns out that Gen Z white men actually moved *left* from 2020-2024.
Uh, hello, millennials??? Though that does seem to kinda make sense looking at how Gen Alpha and Beta are uh, being parented often very poorly and by conspiracists. Ugh. And yeah, there are some awful folks in Gen Z, but it's not most of us!
hey, so this is neat and all, but I've been to Europe since this post and still have never gotten Covid! I got a sinus infection because I couldn't pop my ear for over 30 hours after the flight back, but no covid! Masks are still working for me, and I see a lot of sick people around. Be careful!
My brain must be cooked because I seem to recall a bunch of DSA videos around the Zohran campaign with surprisingly high masking rates, considering it's 2025. I mean, yeah, awful thing to say, but I don't even think it's true on the DSA part.
Sam Altman's suggestion of a Dyson sphere of that size is about as in touch with reality as the idea that we're going to hit an ice wall before falling off the firmament. To be... fair to Theo Von? I don't think he knows what any of these words mean. Altman is acting like he does, though. Pathetic.
Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.
Let's not be in the business of inventing panic when there's actual threats going on, the actual "distraction" from fascism is assuming it has magical powers instead of it being constrained by reality. It's defeatism to suppose that a king is made because people think there is a king.
We play this game every time it's close to an election but I'm fascinated to hear about how Donald Trump is personally going to rip my mail ballot out of my hand in a state with robust mail voting laws and a Democratic legislature. There are so many awful, awful things he *can* do and is doing.
and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
Where can he actually do this, though? Republican officials in Republican-controlled states, yes, but each state runs its own elections. Those elections have been unfair and problematic already in those states! Little can be done to touch most of the swing states and the blue states.
while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
Not every voter will be able to articulate *why* they agree, but I really do believe that most people would have the same reaction. Zohran Mamdani sounding like a vaguely aware human being with charisma and having the reach to contact so many voters is probably what's needed to get a Senate seat.
Hakeem Jeffries has spent the last 4 days laser-focused on what really matters: making up lies about Zohran Mamdani to baselessly criticize him.
I know we're all desperate for anyone at all to fight back against trump, but Newsom's not a hero, here. He's not even a good person. He's a transphobe & actively, proudly destroying tent shelter encampments *With His Own Hands*. This is prime LetThemFight Dot Gif & we get to take down the winner.
I can hardly think of any others besides you, and this is coming from an undergrad history major with a sizable number of Classical history books I am familiar with or own. There's a lot of British authors on my shelves, though, now that I think about it.
I truly do think that every committed ideological centrist political and institution will reveal their inadequacies very publicly under the threat of fascism. The contradictions are too strong, the pro-Israeli Dems, the anti-gerrymandering folks, the transphobes, the pundits, all cooked. Onward!