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He / him, yes I'm still doing that. Not going to invest in bitcoin or nfts or whatever forex is I love comic books, especially from the Bronze Age (70s, 80s) A Trekkie...d'uh
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Concerning Trump‘s press conference today… In light of the Epstein survivor testimony expected this week, take whatever you’d expect Trump to say, raise it to the stupidest exponent imaginable… Then double it.
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
The Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust has made a generous grant for the second year in a row to support our front-line reporting. The new grant will cover a full year of salary for the Kyiv Independent's front-line reporter, Francis Farrell, and videographer Olena Zashko for 2025–2026.
Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can we vaccinate our rarest species before bird flu gets to them?
warm and cosy
White House reporters have all seen Trumps bruised hands. It’s an active choice not to make an issue of it while these same people spent years freaking out about Biden.
A group of journalists gathered at Lebanon's Martyrs’ Square in Beirut to express support for their Palestinian colleagues reporting in Gaza, holding the pictures of some of the 274 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since it began its war on the enclave.
Life was turbulent for Patrick Furlong after his parents divorced when he was in 8th grade. His father left, so he needed to navigate daily routines without a paternal influence in his life.
To be fair, everyone has disappeared how much of a fuckup HRC and Kerry and Biden made by voting for Bush’s war. People see no connection between their wrongness on the biggest issue of the 21st century and the party’s presidential losses. I do.
New York City !
When this moment passes and they feel less secure in their position they’ll say they “overcorrected” for Trump and you can’t let them.
Told ya... Cracker Barrell's kerfuffle was ONE activist investor crying on the Twitter machine bc he didn't like the new CEO putting mimosas on the menu or the store refreshes so he pitched a fit but only got the old logo back so he's still mad. Good. www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...
The thing is @semaforben.bsky.social truly believes that modern politics is merely entertainment fodder. That’s what he learned back at politico with his buddies Maggie Haberman and GlennThrush. It’s why he hired Benny Johnson at Buzzfeed and stuck with him when the plagiarism first surfaced.
Trans boxer Nolan Hanson tells The Advocate about his fight to get his mentor, Talap Mamyrkanov, out of ICE detention.
The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.
Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
When they start saying it out loud, it's bess we start listening #nokings #nopedophiles #nonzis #nobillionaires #defenddemocracy
After Kissinger's winning it's become meaningless, & this is the kind of pettiness I enjoy
LOSS: The 5th Circuit upholds parts of a Texas voter suppression law that restrict how people can assist voters in casting ballots, reversing a lower court decision that found the provisions violated Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.
Russians have likely caused a new environmental disaster in the Black Sea: a massive oil slick is currently drifting toward Crimea following a Russian tanker accident and an oil spill near Novorossiysk. According to the latest data, the slick covers approximately 350 square kilometers.
You will almost never see the mainstream media criticize each other. They barely even criticize right wing media like Fox. At a certain point it begins to resemble the mafia.
Literal Nazis: We are very concerned about antisemitism on college campuses Media: We'll keep it on A1 for years Progressives: The President of the United States has vanished, can you look into that? Media: GFY partisan extremists
Christian group drowned out by LGBTQ+ protesters playing Chappell Roan on the kazoo https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/let-us-worship-lgbtq-protesters-chappell-roan-kazoo-seattle/?utm_content=1756815600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
This Day in Labor History: September 2, 1885. White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town’s entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre. Let's talk about one of our great problems--the racism of the white working class!
"I hope this little bit of chain-restaurant window-dressing is enough for you, because cheap performative pandering is all you’re ever gonna get, whether it’s from the C-Suite or the tattered stack of old pancakes you elected as your king."
Just call it the "Genital Inspection Movement"
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Washington, D.C., delayed enforcing its decision, which is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
This is insanely ahistorical. The Department of Defense was an all new creation in 1947, specially to bring together the disparate armed services. The “Department of War” was really just the army. I hate how stupid Trump’s most performative actions are.
#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
We have 3 days left to pay this or we will be without power. Please just repost if you aren’t able to send anything. $25/214
#OtD 2 Sep 1945 Japan surrendered, ending WWII. Viewed as a victory of democracy over fascism, the Allies maintained dictatorships afterwards. For example, the US restored Japanese officials to power in Korea and killed thousands of protestors stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9237...
New York City's GMC is expanding its definition as a queer arts and advocacy organization, and the newly-founded Euphoria affinity group for trans and nonbinary members showcases what a modern queer-inclusive singing organization can strive to be.
She's so beautiful 😍
No idea what Trump is announcing but I would bet it’s this dumb idea to change the Department of Defense to the Department of War www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
NEW: ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as the journalism community more broadly, while ensuring equal opportunities for all. Each year we publish a report on those efforts. This is the report for 2025.
Good boy !
Tuesday's announcement from Trump
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
The Trump family’s historic, obscene corruption continues. The right wing freaked out over Hunter for allegedly making a fraction of this, meanwhile the Trumps are doing this all out in the open and they are silent. 🦗 🦗 www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Elon Musk is a Nazi sympathizer with a breeding cult and it says a lot that the mainstream media works so hard to cover this up
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Orleans residents reflect on rebuilding their lives 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.
Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says
Prison chaplain at ICE facility in Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee #abolishICE www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Looking at this masterpiece and wondering about the garbage you'd get if you typed "wally wood parody comics of ernie bushmiller nancy done in style of carl barks, dick tracy, al capp, and then milton caniff" into Midjourney
The World Travel and Tourism Council underscored that the United States is the only country among 184 analyzed economies expected to record such a decline.
Sky, BBC, GB News not to mention the filthy rags called newspapers. You own this.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
www.theguardian A motorcycle rider out on a shopping trip was arrested and detained for a month as part of a high-profile government crackdown on undocumented migrants working for food delivery apps. FFS! Tramps America has arrived on the shores of the UK!🤬🤬🤬
Dragon House in York was defaced with racist graffiti last week, targeting a family who’ve been part of their community for over ten years. One window cleaner from Crystal Clean Services stepped up to clear the abuse.
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
www.theguardian Named the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust – or Great. 🤦♂️🤬
Mental health affects everyone, but women often carry the heaviest burden, especially when it comes to anxiety and depression. We must 🧠 Value mental health 📣 Address determinants 💪 Strengthen support #MentalHealth matters 🔗 bit.ly/3Vr2mtR
Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on
Google Play Games is about to show people what you play
#OtD 2 Sep 2005 after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police shot in the back and killed Henry Glover, an unarmed African-American. Police physically attacked people trying to help Glover. Another officer drove Glover away, then set the car on fire stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9239...
#OtD 2 Sep 1962 Oswald Mosley and his fascist blackshirts tried to hold a meeting in east London while the British National Party attempted to assemble nearby. Both were attacked by anti-fascist locals. Mosley's meeting collapsed and he fled www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...
Marlon Wayans’ reps confirm star’s viral response to Snoop Dogg’s LGBTQ+ representation remarks is ‘fake’ https://bit.ly/465oIpS
An 81-year-old woman is among 47 more people charged for allegedly showing support for the proscribed group Palestine Action during protests this summer. More than half are over 60, according to details released by the Metropolitan police. The overall number of people charged now stands at 114.🤦♂️
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
#OtD 2 Sep 1945 Vietnam declared itself independent from France. Its declaration was modelled by that of the US, established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and set the scene for years of war with the French and later the US. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/tag/vietnam-...
President Donald Trump went into a long and confused rant about "crazy" women who spit on "good-looking" men while describing his plan for expanding the use of state mental institutions to lock up homeless people.
Blame migrants, or blame the rich? That’s the populist divide in Britain’s politics now | Gaby Hinsliff
‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture
In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment reut.rs/4newN2y
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Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up on.ft.com/46g7Iyd
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
Belgium to recognise Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly #EuropeNews
We were promised flying cars. We got this shitty CyberJunk thing that looks like a dumpster. Not even a futuristic dumpster—just one that rolled out of a Walmart parking lot after a hurricane. It’s like someone asked a five-year-old to draw a truck from memory while blindfolded.
The fact that hundreds of people are RTing me calling me insane or radicalized for… fighting back against Heritage Foundation tech policy that is being used to censor LGBTQ people, repro justice activists, and Palestinian rights advocates shows how deeply ignorant most leftists are on this issue.
One thing I really hope we can leave behind in the 2010s/early 2020s is the idea that being cynical = being wise. If you want to have an impact on the world, that involves being sincere. Yes people will sneer, but sneering has no impact. Genuine sincerity breaks barriers and moves mountains.
Tens of thousands of people gather in Hanoi to celebrate declaration of independence from French colonial rule.
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
"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...
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
and a Saturday morning cartoon
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
Israeli forces have killed a pregnant Palestinian and her unborn baby near Shati refugee camp amid their ongoing large-scale attacks on Gaza City aje.io/3ndkh8
It’s also clear from the video that Prince Andrew is annoyed at Meat Loaf’s poor competitive showing, and subsequently it came out that Andrew accused Meat Loaf of ogling Fergie and shoved him into a moat, and when Meat Loaf hit him back Andrew screamed “you can’t touch me, I’m royal!” /15e
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Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
The president’s military occupation of the capital has escalated in recent days into something not seen since British troops marched the streets of colonial Boston.
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...
As the nation reels from last week’s horrific school shooting in Minnesota, authorities in Florida seem to be doing everything in their power to re-traumatize a community victimized by a different mass attack.
Star Trek celebrates Labor Day
Never underestimate the crucial effects of expressive lettering, or the polish that a great logo can give to a book! Happy afterlife-birthday, Gaspar Saladino, one of the most brilliant and prolific we’ve ever had!
1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but they come with restrictions. NPR wants to know your questions about the new guidance.
#MAFS’ first out bisexual contestant announces engagement to another series star https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/28/mafs-first-out-bisexual-contestant-announces-engagement/?utm_content=1756714800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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