National media needs to get the Trillbillies on the horn
National media needs to get the Trillbillies on the horn
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
"As someone who has worked as a housing case manager, I can assure you that these magical solutions don’t exist. Shelter beds are full. Case managers are overworked... Waitlists for housing are months long." www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
I don't even have words for this sort of devilry
Reparations for documented systemic racism are considered such a ridiculous proposition that people assumed asking Bernie Sanders to consider it was some nefarious disqualifying stunt. Meanwhile, rioters who were looking to lynch lawmakers are getting after that paper.
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
My sister’s friend is the one who made the melted Eras poster
Every two to three month or so I have to google if a public figure is alive or not. Usually it is OJ Simpson
15 years ago today I took an incredibly on-the-nose photo
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
my dad has taken up baking in retirement and, realizing he didn’t know his neighbors, started going door to door with fresh bread. he’s made tons of friends. a music producer who now invites him over to listen to old records. a guy in the final stages of a terminal illness who isn’t alone anymore.
Toad walked faster. Many drops of melting ice cream flew through the air. They fell down on Toad’s head. “I must hurry back to Frog!” he cried.
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
Lmao
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
i was just making pottery and i felt donald trump's tiny hands on mine. probably nothing
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
I think the right is very aware that statistically mass shooters are not trans. They just also know that they’ve created an environment where they can attack anyone regardless of basis in reality, and in this case trans people already don’t have enough defenders.
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
this survey took less than two minutes yes, it's inane. do it anyway
I can’t get over that the republicans got power and immediately made both q anon and the satanic panic real lol
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Fuck you, dude.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
I like that his shoes look like beans
Given recent news I have decided to become a Gaylor
I like to imagine that these little guys are making plastic explosives.
If you’re as tired seeing the boarded up and fenced off CVS at University and Snelling as I am you have vote YES on Administrative Citations.
People are misreading him when they say he’s going to appeal Trump voters by *avoiding* “culture war” issues. He just doesn’t want to debate them because, to him, there’s no debate.
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago today, with numbers that still stagger and tell the story of its catastrophic impact on New Orleans. bit.ly/3VpFjQ8
Even with the Roof Depot demolition called off, East Phillips still faces many toxic threats from companies polluting their neighborhood. Residents called for the Smith Foundry iron-casting facility to close after the EPA found it was violating regulations: unicornriot.ninja/2024/protest...
I think you maybe got an unusually sad fawaffle because the one I got was the most amazing thing I ate at the fair. Certified snarf!
This is performative nonsense. There’s no reason to believe Minneapolis schools are in any greater danger from guns tomorrow than literally any other city in the state. This speaks volumes, though. We’ve given up on gun proliferation, so all we have are symbolic acts.
Good thread. A term I once read someone (I no longer recall who) use and found appealing is "collaborative disagreement." The goal should be to leverage viewpoint diversity to produce a common good, not just to score points against each other or to be respectful for its own sake.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
He absolutely LOVES the #WorldBollardAssociation
Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful
The Annunciation murderer did not have a message to send or an ideology. They were a broken suicidal thing craving recognition. They died without anyone knowing their name and only leaving misery. Fuck them. Hell is not hot enough.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Minnesota remains undefeated, the llama costume contest is next level 🦙
The shooting today was horrific enough. The shooter’s identity and some of their statements are already going into the propaganda machine
Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children — ages 8 and 10 — have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."
Thinking of all you parents today. What an impossible set of dangers and fears this country has given you to bear.
My general way of parenting in a country that is systemically unwilling to prevent school shootings has been to realize that I have zero agency over whether my actual kid will experience such a thing; the only thing I could ever do is support things that would make it less likely for any kid.
please God don't ever let anybody talk about me like this
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
I need to recruit him for September for a Boricua immersion week with Y7. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #MFLBluesky
“The howls of Frey representatives in the final hour of deliberations, without waiting to be recognized by the chair, screaming from the convention floor in clear violation of the DFL Code of Conduct, still echoes in my mind. It seems the state DFL has listened to them.” - in today’s Strib
Here in Colorado, legislators from both parties are trying to grant AI companies immunity from consumer protection lawsuits. Like immunity for gun manufacturers. Politicians will be bought off by all these tech bros as their products continue to kill us.
One reason why sycophantic LLMs are such a particular danger is that they hit at a vulnerability point that our technologies and our laws don’t really like to grapple with— human egos are insatiable, and we can drive ourselves to mania or self-harm if our egos are continually fed.
I don’t even think our brains are properly set up for Social Media let alone AI. I’d see both fed to a gigantic magnet at the earliest convenience.
Sure, it's spiritual poison, but a survey of 18 hiring managers by Glup Shitto Consulting shows it's a Valuable Skill in the job market, and therefore we must treat it with the soft reverence previously reserved for a porcelain baby.
i like how some tech companies will be like "hmm what are the potential unattended consequences of letting users create their own custom fields in our CRM" and then other tech companies are like "this is the Assisted Suicide Machine, let's ship it"
I have fantastic news for you about Taiwan: www.theguardian.com/world/2022/d...
My neighbors bring out their two year old every trash day because he loves watching the garbage trucks. Spiritually aligned
People keep telling me to wait for the next election & I genuinely think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening. What we are experiencing is fascist state capture by a fascist political party, one destroying institutions, civil liberties, & the rule of law.
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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.
Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting
In general “bimodal but not binary” is something that seems to break brains a lot. Like a specific type of personality really dislikes the idea that something is neither a neat continuous distribution nor a on/off. It’s a type of complexity that just drives some people nuts, not just on gender stuff
Alright folks, its the work week again! Call your reps and demand they oppose these bills! Additionally, try to mention the ongoing paypro situation and express how its wrong that big corpos get to decide what kind of speech is truly free or not!
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“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
Pritzker, Newsom, and to some extent Hochul get it. Pritzker communicates the reality of the situation without any weird “bipartisan solutions” framing that the Dems are so addicted to.
Mine would be teaching Americans the difference between goldenrod (left,) which is NOT RAGWEED and which no one is allergic to; and ragweed (right,) which EVERYONE IS ALLERGIC TO AND WHICH IS PROBABLY ALL OVER YOUR FUCKIN' LAWN RIGHT NOW.
Back in mid October 2023, less than two weeks after the invasion began, all the smart people were doing OSINT and being like "umm actually the evidence shows Israel didn't bomb the hospital" like photo #1 and now every day it's just like photo #2 and people are like "whelp there's another one"
anyway i’m much more encouraged by the footage of small groups of neighbors banding together to try to defuse ICE situations than i would be by a big, permitted parade that looks good on tv
This summer Twin Cities DSA members have talked with thousands Mpls residents about the need for a $20 minimum wage, halting rent hikes and an end to MPD assisting ICE. It's clear our neighbors want a Mpls that's affordable and accountable to us. Join us: actionnetwork.org/forms/twin-c...
cool!
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US. Using the US Military against the American public.
he literally stole an election and then passed a massive surveillance bill and set up gitmo and other black sites to disappear people into. ICE and the DHS were both created by him. literally every tool trump is now using was created or massively expanded by the bush admin.
OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school
the thing about Third Way's list is that people love to focus on language to distract from actually doing anything to address the problems the language aims to solve
The original is still the best. youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...
once again returning to Chris Hooks medium.com/@cd_hooks/st...
a big question i think that is increasingly relevant in almost every aspect of american life, from politics to the workplace to art to even just everyday social settings Are We Ever Going To Get Sick Of Being Bullshitted
March for Palestine rally over Brisbane's Victoria Bridge is absolutely huge. Thank you to all Australians in Brisbane & around the country marching today against Israel’s genocide. Anyone not standing with Palestine at this point in time is clearly on the fringe. #FreePalestine
precipitated the crisis by taking on too much debt to finance (non-humanities-related) expansion and lost a good deal of money on bad bets in the crypto market (you can't make this stuff up) Anyone who has been following American higher ed over the past 16/ stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
Seeking electricians, carpenters or DIY builders to join in the construction of a Solar Panel refrigerator and phone charging station for local encampments. TCDSA will procure necessary supplies and schematics, BUT WE NEED YOUR expertise and labor power! See link in bio!
Gavin Newsom dated a 19 year old when he was a 39 year old mayor.
that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move
A bunch of these reviews run very contrary to The Racket’s ratings, redeeming a few things I’ve written off. Thank you
🫡 Let's make this a beloved fortress until the rest of the country comes around.
That’s MY representative
Our elected officials couldn't do this if we had a full-time legislature.
Interactions from the last few days show ICE officers running their mouths at witnesses of their lawlessness. Now they’re directing violence at them, too.
When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. It’s not about the kids. It’s about all of us
Really good read, without intrusive ads to make your eyes bleed. Check it out and toss them a couple bucks if you can.
Lumbering hits so good when your an Oaf
