@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social Sorry, the Harvard essay questions were not about: "Are you an activist?" The frame IS, "Are you civically engaged?" What is more important than that at this moment, @thefireorg.bsky.social ?

.@thebrianlehrershow Sorry, the Harvard essay questions were not about: "Are you an activist?" The frame IS, "Are you civically engaged?" What is more important than that at this moment, @thefireorg.bsky.social?

Unpersuaded by @thefireorg.bsky.social. Students aren't backed by "powerful corporations." Students in the last year have been expelled and lost job prospects. The few professors who faced accountability all ran to the Far Right and have even more lucrative-paying jobs.

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social Where was @thefireorg.bsky.social during the attacks on student protestors at Columbia and across America?

Sorry, caller. Corporations ARE NOT people. They don’t have free speech rights. Despite what Mitt Romney said. Yes, it was the correct way to do it. Stand up for Free Speech. Period. JFC. Civics is ACTION.

Could have seen this coming a mile off: “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

somebody just posted that we need more discussion on bsky that isn’t politics and then a white supremacist just shot three people who were in ICE custody

Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.

That's how you approach a headline. It could be stronger. They're Disproven. "Spreading Disinformation & Fear..."

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

We should demand divestiture of all earthly belongings for anyone who claims be in on this mass delusion.

I find it really disturbing that 45%of Canadian Conservatives approve of trumps action. Canada was so close to not having a liberal government and letting Maple Maga run Canada. We have to stay vigilant against Maga. MAGA has NO place in MY Canada!

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

When the New York Post is praising Gov. Kathy Hochul for re-institutionalizing the mentally ill, that's probably not a good sign for those concerned about humane treatment of people with mental illness. nypost.com/2025/09/21/o...

But Mamdani has moved from (pragmatic) abolitionist politics to reformist politics. He now calls for keeping NYPD headcount at its budgeted 35,000 – which would entail hiring more officers, since the current headcount is ~33,740 – while eliminating overtime and investing in alternatives to police.

In 2022, Zohran Mamdani called for reducing the NYPD headcount through attrition, eliminating overtime and a hiring freeze – saving billions of dollars, which could then be redirected to social programs. That's a pragmatic, "non-reformist" reform consistent with abolitionist politics.

So the recording show Tom Homan rejecting the money? Wow, I bet they're going to rush to show that to all of us and we're all going to look *pretty* stupid for believing the FBI statement that he took the money as soon as they show that to us, which -- again -- I am certain will happen *very* soon.

oh. it’s a shakedown

If you are one of the rapture people… you should be GIVING your stuff away…. Why are you selling your stuff? You don’t need money where you are going

What we’re doing currently where we act as if this is all a given and just background noise removes a friction that’s necessary to signal to people this isn’t okay which frankly I think would turn more people off but people should at least be public about why they don’t think that’s the case.

This is why I find “we all know Trump is racist” to be a very unhelpful response. It takes as a given something we should be much more critical about and signals that addressing it isn’t a particularly urgent task. If people believe Trump is popular because of racism they should just say that.

Maybe a member of the press?

Dönitz resisted Hitler’s orders to repudiate the Geneva Convention, something Pete Hegseth has said he wants to do! bsky.app/profile/saba...

Also I appreciate Max directly saying "civilian vessels" I noticed article headlines say "suspected drug boat" and thought, you can just say boat. You know that to be true, and you know the administration lies constantly, so your headline doesn't need to even suggest there's a reasonable suspicion

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

There's a reason they chose this spot: it's in rural North Louisiana, one of the poorest places in the country, a place national media barely knows exists, a place with essentially no local journalism, where people and resources can be exploited (and lied to) with no consequence

Somebody got the memo that every single rural hospital was going to have to shut down

Trying to make fetch* happen. *In this case, fascism.

@allofitwnyc.bsky.social It's not just that people are reading less: They are SWIPING. Chandler Burr was on staff as a perfume reporter for the Times. He using olfactory as a jumping off point to other worlds. I wager he's... been reassigned.

"we should always look out for the other," says @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social. and then talks about the danger of people using our otherness to oppress others.

BIG NEW YORKERS AGAINST ICE rally at 6 pm, Thursday, 9/25 at Foley Square in NYC, friends! Please do come through! If you've never been to a rally, why not start here? It's 2025 and it's time. We all gotta stand up for all of us.

A moment of joy when @resistrevchorus.bsky.social members turn to see Mahmoud Khalil joining them on stage at the end of the event.

The People Have The Power. @resistrevchorus.bsky.social led by Jessi Olsen and Shaina Taub, singing "No Kings in the USA" by Ole! No Kings. #NoKingsNYC #NoKings @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @indivisibleguide.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social

Classifying a demo as domestic terrorists should be rightly be called out as fascist. @itsyourgov.bsky.social can have no defense for its own policy paper, which is clearly an echo back to the Nazi's. The only violence we see here is the 60 yrs of mass shootings data that is over 55% white male.

He needs a therapist. The most powerful person on the planet cannot stop complaining about being the most unpopular.

I’ve advised Helsinki, Finland a few times in the past, and among the many conversations I’ve had with the Finns, we’ve talked about what it’s like to live right next to an aggressive dictatorship like Russia. I’m not the first one to say it, but Canada needs to be vigorously learning from Finland.

Yes. Seems that @chrismurphyct.bsky.social groks this. And should run point. @schumer.senate.gov needs to cede power. There are ten good Senators who can run circles around him for this moment.

This here: Put it ALL on the record

Absolutely. Look towards those with common sense: @aoc.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov and take their lead.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social I blame his editor. When I was an acquisitions editors I quashed FAR bigger divas when they submitted execrable copy.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social Somehow white Bill DeBlasio spoke about how George Floyd affected his family - including his Black son, Dante. It was a campaign ad. There was some pushback. But NOTHING like Obama's Beer Summit. TCW is a plague. He's part of that HALF of the Atlantic which I detest.

(First Amendment protections are as valid in the above reasoning as Fourth Amendment ones)

There is actually a Supreme Court case, United States v. United States District Court (a.k.a. the Keith Case, 1972) which held that the government could not conduct warrantless electronic surveillance on domestic orgs *even for nat sec purposes*. Here is what the Court said:

"To designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs."

Antifa is not an organization, it's an orientation. Anyone can be antifascist. Everyone should be.

I look forward to Mayor Mamdani echoing this in four months. And seeking a humanitarian solution - as much as there can be.