Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric. So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket! And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?

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Tl;dr: America is directly responsible for most of Iran’s problems and they hate us for very good reason.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

There are goatses everywhere for those with eyes to see

Thread. This is the anti-war, anti-authoritarian leadership we need in congress. Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social.

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

Took my ebike out for the first time in like 2 years today. They let the shirtless volleyball dudes out early this year.

And the generals and majors are all “yes sir! How many more of our brave and loyal troops shall we kill in this utterly manufactured war of choice, sir?”

More and more, at least in the anglosphere, politics seems completely unmoored from the public will. Like, yes, duh, but it feels completely crazy how little impact what people actually want or don't want seems to impact the people in charge. There's not even fig leaves anymore.

look how handsome he is

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I dunno man, it seems to me that a hostile foreign power martyring him right in the middle of the country’s biggest uprisings against his government might backfire, but what do I know.

One of these weeks I’m gonna have to actually start cleaning and decluttering this place. Obviously it’s a manifestation of long term low level depression but I suspect it’s creating a feedback loop of self-fulfillment.

I'm also going to suggest a compare and contrast the softly-softly treatment of Graham Platner with the microscopic scrutiny Zohran Mamdani was subject to when from the nano-second he became a serious contender for a high-profile local government post.

As a veteran, you can kiss my ass with that shit. I’m sick of it. This kind of propaganda has been getting people killed my entire life. And the thing I hate about myself the most is that I bought it at one point. Civilian lives, especially children, matter more than any soldiers “sacrifice”.

This is what the Democratic Party now has to reckon with: they looked at Trump’s success over the last decade, inhaled deeply and said “we have to win the psychos out there voting for him back over to our side”. Hence the “popularity” and “inevitability” of guys like Newsom and Platner

Grow up. #WorldBollardAssociation

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

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Thank you, Troops, for pushing the button that eliminated those terrible Iranian schoolgirls. The USA is safer already. 🙏🇺🇸🫡

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history: The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

Multiple times I’ve talked to Normal People about Kirk or TPUSA and get the blank stare until I remind them it’s the guy whose neck blew out on their screen about 6 months ago and then they basically go “Ohhhhhhh didn’t his wife do it or something?”

The puppy’s best friend is our neighbor dog, Bentley, and he may be the most patient animal I’ve ever met because Sophie is much more rough and likes to wrestle and Bentley is like “absolutely not” so you can see here where they had a conversation and she went “ah shit okay my bad and laid down.”

uhhh oh my god

“Trump went to war on a whim, solely on his order, alone and imperial." @joecirin.bsky.social writes in a new piece for the Bulletin.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade." So why do it? "A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..." Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It’s a shame we don’t live in a system in which the asshole who lied his way into power can be removed.

Young people listen to me: they will promise you valour and honor and healthcare and instead leave you a monster who cannot live with the crimes you committed. If you come back broken instead of in a body bag even the people who "support the troops" will spit on you.

“Excuse me, camera… I need to inspect if you smell like treats.” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

" ever since he was a little boy his dream was to die bleeding in the mud for the host of Celebrity Apprentice"

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

Crying rn

FUCK ICE chant after the moment of silence for Renee Good and Alex Perretti. #mnufc

My entire adult life

A handful of billionaires are behind all the ills of the world right now and I’m so tired of it

And the US military blindly following his every illegal and unconstitutional order.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

This is in fact an extremely different statement than Schumer's tepid complaint that an otherwise very morally justified war should have been put through the proper channels.

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

I realize Trump officials don't resign over being criminal, pedophiles or hypocrites, but in a sane world, Stephen Miller and Tulsi Gabbard would resign over the contradiction between their past statements and what they're supporting today.

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Lenore, in case you need her today