The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post
![r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreigd4ytwxolisa7hyct6pyoprf6vqdzvyevq44rtyv4zjeurlw3uii@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
They’ve stripped the dignity from asking for help Online. You’d never ask Jeeves if you should divorce your husband or to parse your complex inner life. It’s uncouth. You need boundaries between your soul and the ghost in the machine. Only appropriate.
Correction: the new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025 IN FRONT OF AN IMAGE OF A NAZI WARSHIP. Compare the pictures. Who would put the Bismarck on their wall? Can we finally talk about the actual Nazis in our government? (Flagged by @fitch64.bsky.social) 1/
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
People without homes have the same legal rights as anyone else in this country. They are protected from unlawful search and seizure by the government. Their property cannot be taken without due process. They have the right to travel, the right to choose which jurisdiction to live in.
The federal government does not have legal authority to disappear large groups of people because they cannot afford housing or because they are visibly homeless. They do not have the authority to force people to move out of the state or city they live in.
ICE agents chased a family into their home, tried to kick the door in, and forced them to barricade inside. Then, one agent dangled their house keys in front of their Ring camera. Incredibly disturbing to watch these agents’ unhinged behavior and the psychological terror they’re inflicting.
"you come upon me like a reproachful ghost" from david copperfield
i've had it happened multiple times where i'm at the front of the line waiting for the green light to turn right (since my car is small & i don't feel safe turning) & someone behind me freaks out i'm not going & whips around me using the oncoming lane. no WAY they had time to check for pedestrians.
oh my GOD 😭
It happened again
Imagine losing a popularity contest to the pedophiles building concentration camps
We build communities that are unsafe for kids to simply walk to the store and then we charge parents with a crime when a driver kills their kid. But we don't hold any of our leaders accountable for creating environments that are dangerous for anyone not in a car. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
some interesting salutes at the end of this clip too
If that 7% involves the human rights of my friends then yeah that 7% means an absolute fuck ton dude
“We’re gonna make college admissions strictly merit based from now — NO NOT LIKE THAT”
i can't resist talking about this whenever legos come up: there's mini legos one can buy online called micro/nano/mini blocks/bricks that are like 1/4 size and way more affordable. i love legos but they're so expensive
I have some thoughts on this but first I gotta bring in this cranberry harvest on Stardew Valley. It's gonna make me a ton of money exactly when it was supposed to.
i think they're so popular because they're resource management/organization games. farming just happens to be a straightforward concept to apply to that kind of game. there's several foraging games i play that scratch the same itch a farming sim does.
Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
the "drip coffee" makes me think of a restaurant trying too hard to return to tradition. like it's coming from the angle of "we're not a fancy latte shop, we have manly drip coffee" but it's so out of touch that it reads like a gas station sign that says "we have real coffee not instant! ◡̈"
it's currently featured on the homepage of the AP app. the article quotes one professor of marketing advising how to avoid criticism lol. they link to "the backlash" which i thought might be another article about .... the backlash .... but it's just a list of articles about discrimination
Phenomenal editors note in this interview with Tucker Carlson about Trump and Epstein www.politico.com/newsletters/...
![Does that sound realistic to you? It does. Whatever Trump’s sins, I have never gotten a creepy vibe off him at all. And you ask any woman who’s been around him — because women know, they get the creepy vibe way better than men do, or at least than I do. And I’ve asked a number of women, do you get a creepy vibe off of him? You could smell it if someone’s got weird sex shit going on underneath the surface. I’ve never gotten that vibe off Trump at all. And every woman I’ve ever asked didn’t get that at all [Ed note: over 25 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct.]. So I could be completely wrong, but I would be shocked.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7pkhmdnp4e542b2l4drqfmyc/bafkreiapukjs2d3duo4zs3k2icgltmi6h4avmrzab2pnzsm5f5wjvrd7tq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
New: Reps. Virginia Foxx (R, #NC05) and Josh Gottheimer (D, #NJ05) seek to squash university protests of Israel's war in Gaza by cutting off student aid and other federal funding. By @donnydonny.bsky.social:
It makes no sense to frame this as some sort of correction — adequate nutrition is more important for kids with health conditions, not less. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
i feel like it should be a national crisis that a foreign nation has kidnapped and tortured a U.S. citizen
So don't
honestly the overton window has shifted so far that i found myself last term questioning if the minority went too far on the 6/3 decision on whether homeless people have the right to sleep.
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that by shutting down even the most reasonable critique of the state of Israel, groups like AIPAC have ensured that anyone online upset about what is happening in Gaza now gets funneled to antisemitic cranks on social media almost immediately. Great work, everyone.
Anyone who has spent any time in the far-right sections of the internet can see that we are getting a vocal anti-Israel faction of the US right coming up right now. And unlike someone like Mamdani, they are not going to make any effort at all to separate their hatred of Israel from American Jews.
The atrocities the Israeli gov is committing in Gaza have created an audience for US politicians denouncing it. If orgs like the ADL were not so shortsighted, they would prefer that role to be filled by someone like Mamdani, who speaks out against antisemitism, than someone like MTG, who does not.
HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social
From left to right: VD Jance, VJ Dance, Jean Claude Van Djance, JD Vance, The Jizzler, VC Jande
Our colleague and longtime +972 Magazine contributor Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead in a settler attack on his village, Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta. Read Awdah's contributions to +972 Magazine through the link: www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...
I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see
Only on Bluesky can you end up debating if cyclists deserve to live with someone whose bio is like: Kitten Breeder ~ Xitter refugee ~ NO Crypto! ~ Single (not looking) ~ Unapologetically pro-democracy ~ Don’t blame me I voted Kamala ~ Local Public Library Trustee. Save the Bees 🐝 Go vegan 🍃
CUNY professor Jeffrey Lax, one of the subjects of this story, is freaking out about it on X and is furious at Jacqueline for reporting on what he’s been up to. He even tagged the head of the DOJ task force to combat antisemitism.
If you are donating to VCU or can leverage your voice in any way please contact the school and tell them that this is transparently anti-arab racism www.vpm.org/news/2025-07...
who wouldn't have a "level of passion" while speaking to the person withholding their degree?!
Is anyone in politics ever going to acknowledge or respond to the fact that the absolute most repugnant version of biological racism has been fully embraced by the most influential right-wingers in America? That literal neo-Nazi ideas are just standard claims on the right?
Just heard an NPR story about Gazans starving to death. It featured a long interview with a Gazan doctor, who described in detail the lack of nutrition impacting people in the strip. Then at the end there was a brief response from an Israeli official which was literally “Nuh uh.”
Where's my Breakfast? - Daniel Arthur Oil on Panel
i love an overpriced smiley sponge 😭 they're cute and make me feel like a tiktok cleaning account, which tricks me into keeping the sink and counter clean
the real victims are the Pod Save America guys
you're so right about how it feels good to figure things out. eg, i learned how to solve a rubiks cube as an adult & it's so much more satisfying and fun to figure it out intuitively via youtube teachers vs memorizing long algorithms.
Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt. www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
Breaking: The Department of Education has reversed course and is releasing all frozen funds – $6.8b nationally, $165m for North Carolina – after we filed suit last week. This ends weeks of uncertainty. Our schools can now plan and hire for a strong year ahead.
i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed
"Tens of thousands of our devastated people may have already entered the final stage of starvation…They are likely to leave this cruel world very soon. And yes, before I forget, most of them are children." - Dr. Fadi Alborai, Gaza 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... archive link: archive.is/Lv6q8
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
did the screenwriter of God's Not Dead start a substack
hell? yea, brother
this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”
The Nelk Boys had Netanyahu on their podcast, and in response to viewer demands to have the "other side," they also hosted Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes portraying himself as the "other side" from Netanyahu is at least in part a result of shutting down anti-Israel critiques from people like Mamdani.
Israel's war on Gaza is definitely only about ending Hamas rule and freeing the hostages. Okay? 🤡 That's why the Israeli parliament just passed, with a large coalition + opposition majority, a West Bank annexation declaration, the area where Hamas isn't in charge, and has no hostages 🤔
I mean it seems pretty methodical and deadly to me but if it's not quite brisk enough for you maybe it's because the conscript army is largely incompetent and fleetingly squeamish
if you look at gaza on google maps you can literally see tire tracks from IDF tanks methodically destroying fields.
Old news.
jubilee but it's one toddler who doesn't want to go to bed vs 20 adults
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
I bet you freaking communists of Bluesky have some second thoughts about releasing the Epstein lists now that you know it might include your favorite politician of all-time William Jefferson Clinton
Much of the country WAS enraged by videos like this - briefly. Then it was decided that this was “woke,” empathy was bad, due process was only to be dispensed at their discretion, & reading about fellow Americans who’ve been victimized by the systems that make this video possible is unlawful.
This analogy doesn’t even work because the early internet was distributed and chaotic, with a bunch of organic development, while LLMs run through a couple of specific gatekeepers with widely known ideological commitments, who are already facing political pressure.
the world stands idly by while a manmade famine takes the lives of thousands of people because they're either profiting from using gaza as a weapons testing lab or they're afraid to be called antisemitic/hamas' useful idiots if they demand israel stop starving gaza to death
atp i just tack on "reddit" to every search
Why would you fund ANYTHING a nation committing genocide is doing?
16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but it’s a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store
Israeli settlers attack young girl and her mother on there own property in the west bank village of fakhit. #freepalestine
Listening to “On The Media” and hearing in real time the goal posts move from “there’s nothing there with Epstein and Trump” to “there no pictures or videos showing Trump doing sex crimes” is a great demonstration of how the bias towards savvy corrupts our discourse.
I hate that they’re taking Republican fear mongering points wholesale. As an extremely stupid cis guy who hangs with queer people, the only times I’ve been corrected re: pronouns were simple, polite, and they always went out of their way to not embarrass me over it. This shit is so unnecessary
"independent social media influencer"
Newspaper: no one ever thought constant surveillance could have downsides but now that a rich guy has been denied a handjob to Viva La Vida we are forced to confront the grim dystopia of modern life
i feel like class should be tied into this, not just concerns over surveillance and privacy. i'm starting to see discourse here about it & you're the first person i saw who talked about how it matters that he's a CEO. someone smarter than me, please write about this+luigi?
He's 82. 82!
why do people get so upset about others criticizing their elected reps 😭 like i thought the whole point of this system was forcing politicians to earn our votes
It's Friday night baby
I finally made it www.foxnews.com/media/bluesk...
This is the scientific equivalent of knocking down the Washington Monument
All the fatuous bullshit aside: I used to work as a fact checker. I would have been fired immediately for writing or "verifying" this.
just super stuff
This kind of fundamentalist garbage used to be reserved for John Piper’s website and seeing it in the NYT makes me feel fucking insane.
"For almost all of these people, there’s no records whatsoever. No court records, nothing." What an immigration expert told us when we dug through the data for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...
![“We have this list of people that the U.S. government has not formally acknowledged in any real way and we pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else, or whether they received due process,” Michelle Brané, executive director of Together and Free, a group that has been working with families of deported people, told 404 Media. “I think this further demonstrates the callousness and lack of due process involved and is further evidence that the US government is disappearing people. These people were detained and no one knows where they are, and we don't know the circumstances […] For almost all of these people, there’s no records whatsoever. No court records, nothing.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vk7rduhvom3rq6dyluce5wzf/bafkreifa2pwqg74fjiww3ufncha7kgi37l4ycvrerp3ztqtraqqll76uyy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
why are people still on twitter
Flash flood risks continue today for much of central North Carolina, bringing more heavy rainfall to already saturated ground. Please watch for local emergency alerts and visit DriveNC.gov for real-time travel information.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats give a shit about a an American being beaten to death by a mob of extremists because he’s Palestinian and the murderers are Israeli settlers.
- books - rock & roll - violent video games - socialized healthcare - GenAI trained on a corpus of stolen work that has upended the basic building blocks of human communication, connection, creativity, and truth Yep, textbook moral panic!
cube in a cube ◡̈
Every mayoral candidate for any major metropolitan city should have to play Cities: Skylines w/the mass transit expansion for two months before the first debate and then answer questions about their best city and its layout/zoning/policies