The bear would never

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

The easiest thing for Democrats to do would be to stop confirming Trump judges, but they can’t even be bothered to do that. Just failure all the way down. I really hate these people.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

hello, I am a human baby

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

"Being in trouble is a fake idea" applied to the entire US government

They understand the law isn't a Platonic ideal which we arrive at by chipping away at the surrounding marble. It's arbitrary. It's made up. Prior commitments, agreements, jurisprudence, none of those things really matter next to the exercise of power. They just use power for horrific ends.

i was in the top 0.02% of his listeners this year

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as always, remember how Nancy Pelosi rallied the entire democratic establishment to help this guy barely win his primary against pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros

Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know

Took my kid’s pet 🐀 to the nonprofit Odd Pet Vet. Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?” Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍

When are they bombing Wall Street?

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering? Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them? Why can't the right mind their own business? Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

I'm so tired of these spineless chucklefucks. Just change parties and get it over with. You're worse than useless if you can't figure out how to not do this and if you actually believe this quisling shit, you deserve to be unemployed, out of power and shunned from the party forever

this is why the biggest group of people who keep getting rolled by the right are the legal/academic types. "surely they have a legit argument here and they arent trying to undermine the fundamentals of american society. [beat] aw dang it i guess they are."

Why does what other people claim to “sincerely believe” matter to my rights and liberties??

[trans people fired from all federal jobs] [trans people fired from all military jobs] [trans people fired from jobs everywhere] [cis people fired for being accused of being trans] [cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist] [trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi] liberal:

theres a huge problem with academics who cant see the most obvious political attacks. the right uses this like a hacker exploits a bug. these people are never operating in good faith and they use the basic protections of our society to literally undermine the equal rights of others. wake the hell up

"I shit on trans people and got called out by a trans person here's why that is an unacceptable violation of the social contract" buddy, go fuck yourself inside out

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

EVERYBODY CONGRATULATE GUINNESS

Think about all the evil assholes in this administration. They *all* expect to die of old age, obscenely wealthy, surrounded by family, because that is how the US has allowed *every single previous evil asshole* to live after doing their atrocities. They learned they will never be punished.

This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.

If you want trusted with power and are asking people to vote for you, you have to promise to hold these criminal fucks accountable.

It is actually quite fascinating how many older cis white Jewish Zionists publicly deride antizionism, transness, queerness, intermarriage, and social justice, and then wonder why us younger generations aren't connecting with the spaces and congregations they run. It's not TikTok. It's you.

oh no

This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.

Biden, Reagan, and Nixon, put more people in prison than anyone in recorded history other than Stalin. It's not incumbent on the victims of the largest scale criminal justice racism that the world has ever seen, to find the right words to sugar coat justice, so that it's palatable to white folk.

People that pretend that Defund the Police is a bad slogan, usually turn out to be deeply uncomfortable with the idea that the police don't do what they think the police do, just like you've asked in this thread. But trying to focus on the slogan isn't as honest as just saying what you feel.

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

Just posted this to FedBook a few days ago: "It has become so much harder to do very basic things and that makes everything feel like a heavier lift." - So yes, I really agree with this.

This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.

I can’t believe I have to worry about journalism funding and these people don’t.

This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect. As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.

In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime

I don't know about you but the way my brain works is by analyzing the contents of the entire internet to make an educated guess about what word I should use next.

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

Well I'm convinced

maybe i am going insane

They must be stopped.

I wrote this six years ago and if anything we have to hear from this fucking guy *more* now. newrepublic.com/article/1565...

RFK Jr.'s looking rough