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We are going to explain to people that Times Square used to be a place where two same-direction 6-lane avenues… simply merged And then they changed it. And it worked much better. And people *fought this*

the dummymander strikes!

people are *starving* for someone - anyone - fighting for positive material change. It cuts across party or ideological lines to some degree - people need a positive (in the sense of "defining something by what it is, not what it is not") vision of the future.

after they do this, you'll explain to newcomers to the city that they used to just pile trash on the sidewalk and they'll think you're fucking with them and telling an obviously made-up tall-tale

it’s crazy that Trump just straight up lost a war to Iran and no one really knows what to say or do about it

there's probably no term in contemporary political life that obscures and distorts quite like "populism."

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

a while ago, Bolsonaro was fearing for his imprisonment he sneaked into the Hungary Embassy near his home and spent a couple of days there hiding. so this has sweet taste to us in Brazil.

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary. The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister. What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.

JD Vance is like a walking Death Note that writes down everything Trump wants to happen

your sound, your air, your electrical grid, your money, your future, all things these take away from people

can't stop thinking about how casually these monsters are dismantling everything good and useful the government does in a year and a half and comparing it to Joe Biden who couldn't even manage to fire Louis DeJoy in four

Another thing people don’t talk about when talking about people’s happiness - beyond inequality - is the level of alienation and anti sociality that has, in my view, gotten worse. I don’t think it’s just phones causing that. People are more surveilled, more lonely, more public space is policed etc

low key what is a peptide

It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.

Someone printed me a sticker of a photo of luigi mangione a while back and i left it on my counter and my housekeeper hung it on my fridge bc she thought he was my boyfriend

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

now if only debbie was able to admit where else there are concentration camps

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Friend of mine got publicly harassed on a panel by a comics writer everyone knew was a creeper—to the extent that older female editors would carefully make sure no young women sat next to him in meetings. When she wrote about her experience, even without naming the guy, she got death threats

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This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.

watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

It strikes me that even in things like the Matrix where they're all in simulation, it's a shared simulation. One horror of the chatbot is that everyone is isolated into their own reality with the amplifying social permission of a group, and none of the friction

AI Data centers are swiftly becoming the dominant signposts for late-stage capitalist rot. @jael.bsky.social is right. It will only get worse.

I watch things like this and I really really wish that more people were helping folks to connect the dots about why/how this is all happening.

Quite often they haven't! A lot of sports have only been segregated relatively recently (like since the 80s or 90s) and they often brought in segregation after women beat men in mixed events

Israel successfully assassinated a retired diplomat, whose job was solely diplomacy. Kharazi was also a reformist politician to boot. This is, again, more evidence for the indisputable fact that Israel's actual ambition is to cripple the very ability for an Iranian state to exist.

Even if it were true that campus advocacy has stopped- it didn’t convince the democrats to stop genocide. They didn’t even stop so they could beat Trump. Why would students think the same thing would be effective against Trump

The Accepted American Discourse on Israel™ is this carefully formalized dance of standard statements and mantras, deployed in carefully-constructed formulas according to unstated but ironclad assumptions, and the second you start to question it the whole thing just implodes.

Brutal

they can’t even say the name of the state that is violating the ceasefire, it’s really unbelievable.

That's Olivia Reingold. He bodyslammed her (figuratively) real hard before that.

Zionists don't even try to answer follow-up questions about their slogans anymore they just look at you like this

senator shaheen wants us to more efficiently wage a bloody and illegal war against iran. the problem isn’t that we’re there, it’s that we’re not meeting our goals. with an opposition party like this…

It's hard to imagine a worse outcome for Trump. Both his threat to target civilian infrastructure and his claim to have negotiated a ceasefire have been discredited—neither the Iranian nor Israeli governments listen to him—and he's forced into strife with Netanyahu while economic pressure continues.

NEW: Today I’m announcing plans to deliver at least one new late-night youth club in every London borough - the biggest investment in youth clubs ever made by a Mayor. We’re bringing youth clubs back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

every single democrat could write their own articles of impeachment and demand a privileged vote and gum up all of congress with impeachment articles from here til eternity but are too busy worrying about how they're going to bring home "wins" (pork) for their district

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

This is absolutely insane.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.