“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

It would be such a flex if Iran simplified the demand for reopening the strait on one single condition: regime change in the USA

Idk if it’s the funniest but it always makes me giggle out loud so

You'll Never Find Me (2023)

Right-wing Translation Guide: "western civilization" = white people "meritocracy" = white people get everything "common sense" = stuff white people think "farmers" = white landowners "working class" = white people who pay taxes "job creators" = white people who don't pay taxes

This probably isn't going to change people's minds, but sometimes it is easier to evoke sympathy for dogs than it is to evoke sympathy for trans folks. Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people.

Jeff: That's not the way to win. Kathie: Is there a way to win? Jeff: There's a way to lose more slowly.

"out of 192 people arrested by immigration officials in late January, just 12 had criminal convictions." As a reminder they called this "catch of the day" . Article gifted. Please share widely. #MEpolitics #ICEOUT #NEWMAINERS www.pressherald.com?p=7617234&uu...

We don't want better "AI." We want no AI. There is no aspect of the Bluesky experience that it would improve. btw, if you haven't already, please block @attie.ai .

We had literal years of coverage of the "tea party" which had a fraction of #NoKings support and was entirely astroturfed by rightwing moneyed interests. Seriously, fuck The New York Times. Fucking trash rag.

Get us back to the famously harmonious and united America of Richard Nixon's first term.

People are really upset about the war my political opponents just launched, I know I’ll kind of hazily suggest a military draft is cool.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Because oil will be above $100/barrel for the foreseeable future, it is pretty funny that everyone who bought one of these Gender Affirming Vehicles has basically ruined themselves financially.

Hey New York Times: Here's the Merriam Webster definition of "primal scream" the phrase you used in the headline for your "think piece" on the #NoKings protests (and in the piece itself). In fact, the 3,100+ well organized protests 1) were explicitly NON-violent; 2) were based not on raw emotion 🧵

As an (non-legal) academic, this is what has always troubled me about legal academia: its seemingly infinite willingness to let money and power decide what is and is not legitimate scholarly conduct.

Or Mondale or John Glenn or Gephardt or Buttigieg or Kasich or Scott Walker... Barack Obama is the only resident of a Midwestern state to win the presidency in the last sixty years. And Obama is not what Midwestern fetishists have in mind when they think of Midwesterners.

I think one can say that Hammett, Chandler, and the other hardboiled writers of the 1930s reinvented detective fiction. Maybe Show Boat reinvented musical theater?

The Mountain Goats (though ask me another day and I may give you another answer) youtu.be/3nVEJoibyso?...

There are many reasons why I have absolutely no time for Ezra Klein, but his repeatedly platforming fascists in order to let them present a sanitized view of their beliefs is among them.

There is no part of this country we abandon to the fascists. Our fate is your fate.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Information Security Administration

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

Like I wrote in 2024, America's actual publication of record, for people who want to understand the Republican Party's ratchet into authoritarianism over the last twenty- five years, is Taking Points Memo. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Democrats need to hear from us today. Demand that your Members of Congress refuse to accept any deal that gives ICE and Border Patrol more money to terrorize our communities, or fails to implement serious reforms. Senate: indivisible.org/actions/dem-... House: indivisible.org/actions/dem-...

Politics is about action, not "conviction." What matters is how you vote. Period. For all their faults, I have the sense that most members of the House understand this. But far too many Senators don't. No good comes from maintaining comity with fascists.

Absolutely this. Expanding and reforming the federal courts is necessary for Democrats to accomplish anything legislatively. And it's essentially the only way to save our constitutional order (assuming that's a priority...and it seems to be for the Democrats).

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Earthworm Jim

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

The idea that a pro-Israel group perniciously bent Hollywood to its will with a takedown campaign is a serious claim, and one that reinforces some bad stereotypes. There is no evidence that happened here. If anything, the movie was a surprise nominee, powered by voters saying "You HAVE to see this."

This.

Hmmm. This is a lot closer to my ideal. Sitting alone in a theater a sign of the industry failing. More importantly, going to the movies is, at its best, a collective experience.

I don't know how to speak about being Jewish right now. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-pr...

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

Kinda feels like the people who wouldn’t vote for Kamala are now realizing on some level that there WAS a lesser of two evils. So of course they have no choice but to blame the Jews for their mistake.

@moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app you guys gotta go on a purge of antisemites here. This shit is spreading like wildfire among the seedier corners of this app. If they want to post shit like this, they should go back to X/Twitter.

If you are not Jewish and you are telling Jewish people what is and isn’t antisemitic you need to take a time out. I don’t care if it ‘doesn’t look antisemitic’ to you.

In regard to this latest round of media consolidation, there has not been enough discussion of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Passed by a Republican Congress, with broad bipartisan support, and signed into law by Pres. Clinton, it dramatically eased restrictions on media ownership.

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

it's time to tap the sign again -- understanding the origins + history of classical antisemitism tropes means that you can be clear on what legitimate critiques of a state you might want to critique might be & what might be promulgating 2000 year-old scapegoating conspiracy theories

Even more broadly, not all evil things are the same thing nor are they all equally evil. And some political choices involve weighing two evils against each other and choosing the lesser one.

Noticing a motte-and-bailey thing going on, where as soon as you point out that "Israel sock-puppeted the United States into war against Iran" is an antisemitic conspiracy theory, people act as if you're arguing against the obviously true assertion that Israel wanted the US to go to war with Iran.

Well...

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.