The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who donāt care after all.
The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who donāt care after all.
Never thought I'd find someone stupider than Ezra
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and heād still have a job.
BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.
As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.
Yeah that's exactly the problem you dumbass
This is discourse without any understanding of power. Odious views are a durable feature of reactionaries throughout history but there are times when they say them in public and times when they keep them to private conversation. Pluralistic multiracial democracy requires they be kept to the latter.
my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
Dude how are you this fucking stupid
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The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.
Just to emphasise the point: The campaign to smear Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite that led to people describing his pronunication of 'Epstein' as a dogwhistle was spearheaded by a man who was Epstein's "best pal" and who defended him when he was jailed for soliciting minors for prostitution.
the thing about nazis is theyre perfectly capable of empathy. theyre not bogeymen crawling from the dark under your bed. theyre not a different species. the fact that you believe otherwise is why you keep getting stumped by "actually this guy had a dog and a family"
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
it's been pretty revelatory that in order to do Kirk the kindness of painting him in a wholesome light here on the hour of his death, one must go to gymnastic lengths to avoid any mention of his literal statements and beliefs which is pretty odd for a celebrated debater
Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
the same people calling this their reichstag fire moment are mad you're calling them nazis
āawful people donāt deserve to be killed, but they donāt deserve to be praised, eitherā is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
Charlie Kirk spent his lifeās work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and weāre now not supposed to mention that because itās not polite.
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
The fact that MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd was fired for accurately (and honestly being rather soft by simply calling him "divisive") describing Charlie Kirk's bigotry is actively concerning.
iām not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
He died shortly after blaming mass shootings on trans people you fucking ghoul
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
Raiding homeless encampments is a form of political violence, btw.
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Heās not saying this because of anyone making jokes or celebrating on the internet. The fascists are gonna do what they want regardless of how you act. donāt make it worse by giving the Feds an excuse to knock on your door, but donāt pretend the fascists will respect your humanity and restraint.
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump adminās takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
Michael Jordan
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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the StrĆøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued āno cars means no business,ā but the street has been a massive retail success, the cityās busiest shopping street.
A video on the hate campaign against Ms. Rachel for being pro-Palestinian children, but really a video about right-wing attacks on children's early education, but really a video about the importance of emotional literacy. Fantastic watch
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
The Italian Job (2003)
It always going to be wild to me that Iron Chef has better lighting than most 200+ million dollar Hollywood movies now.
If anything I would say modern bloated runtimes are a result of advancements in CGI than the success of any particular movie. Giant set-pieces that eat up tons of runtime became way easier and cheaper and also a necessary ingredient to attract audiences
What if "bicycle street, cars as guests" were the starting point for all streets?
Motherfucking wind farmsā¦
You dumb leftists donāt understand that the child only looks like he is on the verge of death because we are denying him medical care AND food, not just food. We await your apologies
I really hate the line that Epstein is the āthinking manās QAnonā. Itās smug, inaccurate, glib and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how the two entities interact with each other and with reality. The Epstein case involves is a real criminal conspiracy with dozens of actual victims!
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
New Data for Progress poll shows that Mandani's primary success was driven principally by his condemnation of Israel's genocide and support for Palestinians, as those positions were shared both by current Dem voters AND prospective new voters he brought into the fold. This is the way forward.
Your government has to be trustworthy. I'm not the first person to argue this, but when your government is regularly doing blatantly illegal and immoral things, lying about it, and then not enforcing consequences for that behavior, trust is quickly going to erode.
Every word of this thread
exact same pattern as the iraq war where the dirty hippie anti-war protesters being retroactively completely vindicated just makes the elites despise them more.
my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
The Times partnered with a transphobic Substacker who used a Nazi-adjacent Substacker to launder materials stolen by a regime-aligned neo-Nazi in an effort to sabotage a surging mayoral candidate of color whose politics they didnāt like. These are the kind of connections Iāve been banging on about!
By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.
In a sense, Trump forced progressives to mobilize and recommit to first principles of equity and justice. But in the context of BLM and 2020, following those first principles all the way through to where they ultimately lead scared a lot of people off.
as correct as michael is here this is the inverse of how it works in the world of elite commentary, where a willingness to entertain race science somehow makes you more credible for your "heterodoxy" (see: charles murray)
Reporting says Kash Patel was telling other administration officials about it so it could've come from him too
i gotta say tho if it turns out the biden/garland doj was sitting on damning evidence that trump fucked kids on pedo island, iām gonna be real mad that it never leaked
āthe party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitalsā is a true statement
Open AI accusing DeepSeek of using ChatGPT to generate training material.
Bret Stephens (and all the editors over there for that matter) has seen the same footage from Gaza that you and I have seenāskeletal babies and grown men collapsing from hunger and gaunt corpses. And he still writes that itās not a genocide. And the NYT still publishes it.
a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a ādisease of the Arab mindā and got hired by the Times AFTER that
Adding to the chorus screaming that West Side Story and The Fabelmans are great and among the best movies he's ever made
Especially embarrassing considering we actually have a decent metro system and it was specifically designed to get people in and out of the city
there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
I keep thinking about how the founder of āseriousā conservatism ā the kind we allegedly need to bring back ā was a dishonest, racist fraud. A life spent making the country irrevocably dumber and worse.
is there a more contemptible position in American politics than anti-communism?
WGA statement on Paramountās decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
there is a certain liberal anti-affirmative action scholar who has insisted, like a rube, that once racial preferences are gone we can build support for class-based affirmative action. but the people who oppose affirmative action also very obviously oppose redress for class inequality!
@ryangrim.bsky.social
I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity
i love fusion cuisine (new foods at the minnesota state fair dropped)
given that the entirety of conservative ideology is fundamentally oppositional defiance, i think we should start a new public safety campaign about the importance of seatbelts. let's start talking about how much we love how seatbelts keep us safe. we don't even have to say that they secure pronouns.
Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
similarly the numerous conservatives that NPR and PBS platformed and promoted did nothing to defend those institutions. if they are destroyed, the conservatives will move to sinecures at think tanks or right-wing funded media. they were placed there, in some sense TO destroy NPR/PBS.
this is an astounding news moment but itās even more astonishing to me that society at large seems to believe that biden was president in 2019 and 2020 and not trump. not sure whatās going on with that
This basically
The running presidents are way scarier than G-Wiz
Only listen to podcasts that support court reform
According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
"Premature anti-fascist" was a label used to describe individuals who opposed fascism before the United States officially entered World War II, particularly those who volunteered to fight against Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War
just smashing the "Americans actually hate the realities of mass deportation and we should be hitting R's on it, not running away from it" button again and again
You may not like it but this is the best economic system we can come up with
This isnāt even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
Itās always āLadies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwifeā and never āLadies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.ā
The DOJ released what it called ārawā footage from the prison where Epstein diedābut metadata shows it was stitched from multiple clips and processed by Adobe Premier before being made public. Experts say its unclear what was changed, but absent an explanation it will fuel conspiracies.
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
Where my popularists at?
Almost everything "illegal" I do on a bike is a direct result of the roads being designed for cars only. No bike lane on a busy road? Ride on the sidewalk. Stop signs on every block slowing your momentum? Treat them as yield signs. No way to make a left turn? Use the crosswalk to set up the left.
can you just say thereās a rule?
