I got a mask that covers the mouth (since I'm also a mouth breather sometimes). I can't comprehend that chin strap thing.
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I got a mask that covers the mouth (since I'm also a mouth breather sometimes). I can't comprehend that chin strap thing.
This idea of voting for the "lesser evil" means we'll get somewhere has been known problematic for decades, and yet it persists in US politics (and UK, and Canada, and...): bsky.app/profile/will...
majority against the genocide before the election, the only reason for her not to speak up was to try and get those imaginary "reasonable" GOP voters that have never materialized in any election.
Not voting for Harris does not equal a vote for Trump though. And Harris had her own agency. She could have done any number of things that she actively decided not to. Like allowing the speaker at the DNC for 2 minutes instead of telling them to fuck off. Democrat voters and independents were
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Simple idea for Democrats: Never do anything that would "delight Trump" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
this is going to sound stupid but it's entirely because we live in the era of postmodern fascism and because they wanted to post a video about them killing people for the base
They had zero impact on the election, regardless of how you question their motivations. But yes, some people do take the moral line that genocide should not be supported.
I live in a rabies endemic area. I had to take the corpse of a sick raccoon my dogs ate in to be tested. We routinely have local news stories on rabid foxes in my area. It's so dangerous not to vaccinate your pets.
Yet you're blaming the people who refused to support genocide in the parent thread, why?
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So glad I blocked him.
When the entire world is going to hell, you can always count on Billy Pencil for a good laugh.
Foot-dragging Ireland overtaken by Belgium. Maybe that was the plan. #otb #speirgorm.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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And once again, people who were against the genocide in Gaza did not cost Harris the election, but it sure is convenient for people to lay the blame there than actually address what did cost Harris the election. I will repeat: 2020 Biden would have *also* lost to Trump in 2024.
An excellent list of actionable measures which US critics of the bipartisan consensus ought to make cornerstone to their demands in 2026 and 2028:
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Israel: We're going to starve Gaza. The west: Israel is starving Gaza! Israel: It is antisemitic to say we are starving Gaza. The west: Okay sorry. Israel: We're going to starve Gaza some more. news.antiwar.com/2025/08/31/i...
"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
legitimately, for all the dunking and goofs, that guy is genuinely unhealthy levels of online and posting being his one true hobby obviously just makes it worse. he needs to get offline, for his own good. it is clearly not healthy for him and has not been for a long time.
this is what he lives for: posting. he lives for getting in online arguments and will bitch the entire time someone snaps back at him after he picked another fight. two factors exacerbating all this is 1. social media can't isolate him to a specific 'subforum' and 2. will doesn't have enough hobbies
i've had pencil boy on block for a grip now, but: any thoughts on bluesky culture based around his treatment needs to factor in that he is a former SA goon, a true to-the-death poster, and would act like this anywhere. you could dump him into a warrior cats RP forum and he'd do the same shit
In the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social, we interviewed some of the figures behind this campaign and asked them about the media strategy they're using here: clearly one to watch for people trying to make sense of politics in 21st century information environments
Israeli hum rts orgs: "We see no point in continuing a futile legal process that only serves the state: It allows it to continue exercizing unchecked power, starving innocent people, and denying them life-saving humanitarian aid — while presenting as if its hands are clean" gisha.org/en/human-rig...
It would be great if obscene wealth inspired people to help their communities where it's hurting most. Solve the housing crisis, get kids free school lunch, end food deserts, lower the barrier to entry to gainful employment, etc. Instead, we get "everyone I don't like MUST BE WATCHED"
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker continuing to have some faith in the MSM is sad. I know he has no choice but the MSM is actively rooting for an invasion, actually.
I live in a rabies infested area in the U.S. this is very alarming. It's not uncommon on the local news to see stories warning about rabid foxes.
Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!
Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...
A sitting US congressmen is openly saying this about trans people.
The discussions on the right are getting so openly genocidal.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.
he's talking a LOT about baltimore. a scary warning for the city. "they don't need housing, they need to get rid of the criminals"
I'm raising money for my friend Maha and her baby to move closer to Khan Yunis. If they can't make this move it's highly likely her son will die. Please help any way you can, sharing helps too ❤️ gofund.me/6e0e27c2
Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week
Because it never stops being relevant, I'm re-sharing this piece I wrote in Time Magazine in 2023 about how surveillance of immigrants and xenophobic fears of immigrant crime re-made US policing into something more repressive for all people.
LAPD sergeant Vazquez falsely claimed press are NOT exempt from dispersal orders — a direct violation of both California law (PC 409.7) as well as a federal restraining order. He said the federal restraining order “didnt matter right now.” He then refused to ID himself.
The birth rate discourse makes me snark in Black Gen X… they criminalized Black parents (teen & single) back when we were growing up. Reagan literally made our reproduction a campaign issue! (Read Professor Dorothy E. Roberts’ work!) Many of us Black late 1970s babies had kids late or not at all… 🤷🏾♀️
ICE was formed as part of the Homeland Security Act, with overwhelming support from both Democrats and Republicans. Fascism runs deep in both parties.
Fr. James Martin, a New York-based Jesuit author and editor, said Leo told him he intended to continue Pope Francis' policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy. bit.ly/421drFK
Go read Karen's work on this as well. The interwoven paths of oppression, control and hierarchy are ever present once you start to look at the reality of the “nuclear family” myth. bsky.app/profile/kare...
Go read The Role of Eugenics in the Restoration of The Nuclear Family Post-WWII Post-WWI by Jurczak Or Nuclear power: The family in decolonial perspective and ‘pro-family’ politics in Africa by Mcewen for academic looks at this. I will link lore authors on this as well.
This is the part where I urge my followers and others to understand the importance of truly understanding the intersectionality of oppression, hierarchy, capital and “the nuclear family” myth as well as a the eugenics involved with the nuclear family rightwing post war Mythos.
Just a reminder” the nuclear family” myth is an inherently rightwing, capitalist form of hierarchal control and social engineering.
Sucks Obama put the guy in charge of ICE that Trump uses. And gave him a medal for how effective he was at being a Nazi.
They live up to their handle name.
In NYC, employers now must list the salary ranges for open jobs. But a proposed City Council bill would go even further, allowing *current employees* to request the salary range for their position, to see if they're underpaid relative to their coworkers. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
So who IS endangered? It has to be white women. And white women who refuse to be white supremacy's enforcers are a danger to it. Case in point: The adoration for insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt vs. the silence re: Heather Heyer, murdered by a neo-Nazi at an anti-white supremacist protest. 2/2
🧵Saying it again, this time re: the Nazi at DOJ (bsky.app/profile/emil...) White supremacy depends on male supremacy. In the white supremacist construct, other races are weak AND brutish, wily AND stupid. Someone has to be endangered by that set of characteristics—but it sure can't be white men!
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
Do you people not understand that every time you cast a vote for a bad democrat you’re co-signing their behavior and telling them they don’t have to change? You’re telling them it doesn’t matter how bad they get you’re gonna keep voting for them anyway? THIS IS NOT HOW YOU CREATE PROGRESS
Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
well at least his handle is spot on in describing himself.
Anecdotal but: In my 30ish years riding the New York subway, there have been two occasions where I felt the need to intervene in a situation where it seemed like someone was in danger of physical harm. Once was in the 1990s, the other was in 2008.
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epstein’s victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
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👀 Bluesky bookmarks in the works!
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
You should read it. bsky.app/profile/kern...
Since you say you want to learn, here's something for you to learn today. The people opposed to genocide had zero to do with Harris' lost. In fact, 2020 Biden would also have lost to 2024 Trump. I have a thread on what post election analysis from groups such as Pew and Change Research have found.
Liberals are always screaming that the left demands "purity," but most of us are mutuals with a lot of folks that we might disagree with on major issues. We know what compromise and tolerance for disagreement looks like. What liberals really hate is that we have red lines and minimum standards.
Isn't David Shor the advisor that told the Harris/Walz campaign to stop talking about Trump and Vance being weird because it distracted from "kitchen table" shit or am I misremembering Either way, Zohran's massive success disproves all of these losers. People don't want "do nothing" dems.
Now that Rudy’s out of the hospital and everything, is it ok to start questioning his version about how that car crash went down? Anyone seen a statement from the young woman who was the other driver involved in the crash to get her side?
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
The other day, I asked google the number of days between May something and August something. But I typoed "how many" as "how mNy". This led to the correct result being returned. If I fixed the typo, it gave me the wrong result.
In a highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court of New York ruled on August 20 that CUNY must disclose its financial portfolio, specifically contracts with businesses supporting or benefiting from the genocide in Gaza, such as Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Northrup Grumman.
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
The strategy you're talking about directly leads to fascism, as we're seeing in the US and was noted as far back as 1937: bsky.app/profile/will...
The millionaire CEO who stole a hat from a child at the US Open is, ultimately, indicative of the whole ruling class. This is what we’re up against, a small number of people and a system that will gladly and unapologetically steal from children and from all of us. www.jphilll.com/p/who-steals...
the liberal talking heads either are intentionally trying to obscure why people are against Newsom or literally don’t understand that people with principles who believe in democracy and want to see a true multiracial pluralist democracy built in America won’t vote for a fascist adjacent corporatist
Gavin Newsom has and continues to platform literal fascists and Nazis while also personally taking part in sweeps to destroy homeless folks homes and belongings, is now deploying police across the state in an effort to flank the fascists and continues to push a corrupt corporate agenda.
DREAM is back and we need your help
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
INDIA RECORD HEAT September has just started and records are coming from allover the world,including India. Yesterday 39.6C at Silchar September high record Today Minimum 30.1C Patna September hottest night
Plea for help after landslide wipes out Sudan village, kills 1,000 - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Perhaps the reason Tlaib feels so free to say what she thinks is her constituency agrees with her and repeatedly reelects her, or in other words she's putting the idea of popularism into practice in relation to her local circumstances
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Old enough to remember the outrage in the United States when Serb forces killed Bosnian civilians fetching water during the siege of Sarajevo.
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Reality denial is all @schumer.senate.gov knows as democracy falls & he prepares to surrender AGAIN, in the face of occupied DC, ICE funded from D capitulation last time around (w/more 💰 than many countries) to engage in masked kidnapping, screw-due-process acts. #WakeUpJeffries #TossTheConsultants
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
go fash, lose cash
in case you missed it here's a member of Congress admitting I was right to mock them for normalizing DOGE and trying to bridge with fascists
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Yep! Even 2020 Biden would have lost to 2024 Trump. And the people protesting the genocide had ZERO to do with Trump's win. I have a thread on what post election analysis by Pew and Change Research show. Hell, Harris actually outperformed Biden in over half the battle ground states.
"Move fast and break things" but the things are kids and the people allowing tech bros to break them are educators.
found some of that crime people are talking about
I'll never forget when my movie screened at the film festival in Rome & this Palestinian flag popped up as the first frame. I started crying & thanking them...they said "oh we didn't do this for you...this flag comes up and stays up for one minute of silence before every movie we screen" ❤️ Italians
DSEI is one of the world’s largest arms fairs. It takes place in London every two years, and returns next week. This is where those who profit from war, repression and injustice do business. And this is where we can stop them. 1-12th Sept: stopthearmsfair.org.uk 9th Sept: thebigone.uk
lol they blocked me for showing they lied.
You literally said "NOT true" to the statement it was a genocide under Biden.