"Israeli demands in both these cases have focused again on the tactical and operational—rather than securing a political settlement or final victory, the goal is to maintain freedom of action for ongoing and open-ended military campaigns."

So annoying — getting William the Conqueror's emails again

it’s so funny seeing people post this as if it’s serious analysis when it’s literally a sponsored content goldbug scam finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

Poor and working men are meant to have women of their class to abuse and dominate as compensation for the exploitations and humiliations of capital. When you point out that allowing this is a violation of class solidarity working class women, you’re accused of siding with management’s interests.

This is a malignancy that is, unfortunately, not confined to discourse about transplants to major cities either.

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

I really cannot overstate the fact that we are governed by the worst YouTube commenters right now.

Genuinely crazy how she was able to do this. Bass is unpopular but she hasn't been credibly accused of sexual harassment the way Cuomo was and also Raman got no support from the organized left, which was split into wrecker (Huang endorsements) and controlled opposition (Bass endorsements) factions

It’s beneath contempt at this point. The desperation to stay outraged even when fascism’s on top speaks to how little else they have to offer the world. This is it. This is as far as their “talent” extends. There’ll be nothing for them to fall back on when the outrage mine’s been fully stripped.

the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in

Misogynist: Ah, I remember when I used to be accused of being a misogynist. *5 seconds later* Misogynist: *Says Misogynistic shit*

The puck is strange and mysterious. It has magic powers.

It’s code for woman with a college degree who won’t let you say slurs or fuck you

I have received video of Seth Moulton being loudly booed at Boston Pride.

Evergreen

Polly Farthingale—aka the Iron Gale—has forged Bamburgh's mercs and starving farmers into the Crosswinds Killers, hunting farmlords across the jungle, while fleeing Lanvan skyships. Yet far from the bloodshed, the murder ballads have turned to freewheeling joy. Nobody mourns a dead aristocrat.

🚨LA mayor update🚨 Nithya Raman now only trails Spencer Pratt by 7,000 votes —1% point behind, with 194,000 left to count. In today’s batch Nithya added 22k, Bass added 20k, and Pratt only added 10k. Nithya is on track to send Spencer Pratt packing by tomorrow. Bye bitch. 👋

The D-Day stuff has been effectively roasted by people who understand WWII history so, as a born-and-raised New Yorker, I'll go for the other Discourse du Jour: To be able to come from anywhere in the world and adopt the city as your own is essential to what it *means* to be a New Yorker.

*Spins the Wheel of Discourse* Alright folks, let's see what we got... *The Wheel ticks down, stops and the pointer splits in two* Huh, a twofer! We've got: "D-Day Was an Anti-Communist Conspiracy" and "Transplants to Major Cities are Settler-Colonialists."

Not the first time the US has surprised German defenders on June 6th...

Oh excellent, American children these days are far too coddled and cosseted, some traumatization will do well to prepare them for the coming century.

Baskeetball

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

I could only follow that game by refreshing the Google tracker and my sports peeps on here, and my heart was in my goddamn throat. What an unbelievable bit of b-balling. In short, the New York Knickerbockers.

This might be the best video ever

I hate hearing announcers do live reads for gambling sponsors so much, everything about the expansion of sports gambling has made the experience of watching sports immeasurably worse

I am not truly a basketball girlie, so I had to look up why so many people were both complimenting and misgendering me.

speaking of who gets to be “complicated” in public there appears never to be a good time for someone to disclose they were abused by a going-to-be-powerful person

It's a weird flex here to say "look how racist Graham Platner's ex is!" Fifield may be personally reprehensible, but if she's lying about the tattoo then this was a long con dating back to contemporaneous text messages! But also, is intimate partner violence okay if the target has bad politics?

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The ever-essential @polphilpod.bsky.social makes a solid case for how the structure of the anti-trans panic in the UK's establishment provides a template for going after other small minority groups, and shows how it's happening to British Sikhs. It's as eerie as it is infuriating.

Fascism is “an opportunistic predator. More scavenger than hunter, despite its ferocious self-image. At least in its early stages, it prefers to attack the weak, isolated, members of the herd. Safety lies in closing ranks against it, leaving no one behind.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascism-is-a...

Doomacrolling is a hell of a coinage. We should use it.

oh they’re doing one now. never mind

Oddly, I *loved* Rebellion. As an avid reader of the EU, I adored the integration of characters who (at the time) appeared only in the books. You could move the Rebel base around and in my games whenever I took over Coruscant, I'd move the base there, symbolising the founding of the New Republic.

Today in pride media bundles, Little Puss press has a pretty great deal with *all* of their ebooks for $15. Under 2 bucks a book. Honestly worth the price of admission for Violet Allen's Plastic, Prism Void & @quinnae.com's Log Off (which all us bsky sickos should read), then you get *even more*.

The right's vision of masculinity is a domination contest in which participants have to perform greater and greater acts of cruelty and vulgarity and deny themselves more and more pleasure and comfort in order to meet ever more outlandish demands for strength.

Sorry to everyone who is just now finding out that Leftist Media Men take all allegations of sexual harassment and violence incredibly seriously unless it's about someone they happen to like. This is not sarcastic. It's a fucking bummer and I wish people didn't have to keep finding it out.

I'm screenshotting this in case you run for senate

Some misogynists hate women in a rough-and-tumble, wrong side of the tracks, "I never knew any better" way. Others hate women in a New England prep school, "we can't let this allegation ruin his future," Brett Kavanaugh way. What the existence of Matt Stoller posits is: what if you could do both?

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

we gotta keep the DSA kids away from certain strains of "lefty" "news" sources. this is important, there are two primary visions of future leftism in America, one is hopeful and will help people and the other one is literally a paid op for a consortium of some of the worst people in the world

Rest in peace Marjane Satrapi. And thank you for your groundbreaking graphic novel/memoir Persepolis, a must read for everyone. The world is a smaller and colder place without you in it. 💔

Warfare is inherently Phoenician.

Livestream it.

If this man didn't exist, the marquis de sade would have had to invent him