as the prophecy foretold

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

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"Democrats don't run against Democrats" OH WHAT AN ODIOUS LIE When the party brass are sidelining Extremely Normal guys like BRAD LANDER, what can ANYBODY do to right this ship?

Never forget she gave Joe Kennedy III a donation to help him primary Ed Markey She's not stupid She knows exactly what she's doing

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Statistic Canada found more than 13,700 kilometres (!!!) of asbestos cement water pipes across the country. I asked doctors, concerned citizens, and govt about it for @nationalobserver.com:

2025 recapped

I wish the legacy media would talk about the fact that almost no one under 40 can buy a house, insurance premiums are set to skyrocket, and most Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck instead of *checks notes* the finer feelings of billionaires.

Voters who tried to pressure the democrats away from a course that was both heinously evil and electorally suicidal were morally and strategically correct

You’ve gotta be insanely racist to blame the election result on Arab Americans who wanted Joe Biden to stop sending bombs to murder Arabs

I'm sorry, but if your post-mortem of the 2024 election is "voters are stupid," and you still lost, then that just makes your party look Even More Ineffectual. If voters are so stupid, how come you can't reach and convince them? Shouldn't convincing a gullible electorate be EASIER, if anything?

Been saying for years that conservatives stab you in the front, liberals stab you in the back. People say "why are you mean to 'progressives'" and it's like??? Bc you're supposed to be fighting for minorities and you aren't?? I hate conservatives for hurting me, I hate you for letting them do it.

This seems significant for the whole “mailbox rule” in contract law - now not even the accepting party knows the date of their acceptance?

Second @jessiegender.bsky.social draws from grief to look at the concept of memory how fascists utilise this but also the massive pain and grief on being forgotten in a world that pushes to erase us in this brutally personal and profoundly moving piece-it reminds me why I want to create

@innuendostudios.bsky.social ends his Alt-Right Playbook series not with his usual charming but incisive breakdowns of fascism but a disquieting cry for action. This is probably one of the shorter vids on this list but it's some of the most important 8 minutes of the year

@fdsignifier.bsky.social looks at the success of Sinners more as an examination of what it means for Ryan Coogler being a blockbuster Black director and how this reflects on Black art in popular culture and what this can mean moving forward

@lily-is.online provides us with one of the most profound and sobering examinations of the state of trans rights at present and what trans people should do in this present moment-including the option of hiding. One of the best vids of the year that will get more prescient with time

These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart. Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.

This is a wild look into the Trump-adjacent billionaire group chats and How Things Work, and great investigative work—records here were under seal before the reporter, the excellent Brandon Thurston, challenged it.

I miss when $100 seemed like a lot of money.

A lady in her eighties who lives in my building asked me if she should see Marty Supreme, or as she put it, "the one about the pisher who thinks he's a big shot," and I don't think this movie has anything to teach her that she doesn't already know.

Help the Poss! Toss a dollar to the Poss. Toss $5 to the Poss. Give responsibly to the Poss for the Poss is a Poss in need, indeed. #HelpSky #MutualAid

This case is not about the core issue of whether or not it is legal for private immigration detention companies to force detainees to labor, but rather just about whether GEO, as a govt contractor, has so-called "derivative sovereign immunity" Based on oral argument it seems likely GEO will lose

Draw me like one of your Xarnaqui reptoids pose c/o @trueref.bsky.social

Because of my work w/ 50501, I tend to be in spaces with both leftists & median libs. I think @diplomatofnight.com is correct here: More & more, there has been a shift away from “Israel must be defended” to “hey, this looks like a genocide. Why aren’t we helping Gaza?” It’s definitely progress!

One of my favorite cultural things is the nearly universal 'container that's used as a container for other things so much that it's become a meme,' here's New Zealand's.

"Posted at 3:02AM"

The way that LLMs do not say no is wildly unhealthy for any relationship, but triply so for a "romantic" relationship.

What we call "recidivism", CoreCivic calls "repeat business"

...shit they're right.

With current RAM prices this might be the only option left

Man, I can't even imagine people (other than me) being this hyped for new public transit

It’s been an exciting few weeks for rail transit in the U.S., with the following openings: •Honolulu Skyline Phase 2🚝 •KC Streetcar extension🚉 •DART Silver Line🚆 Next up: Sound Transit’s Line 1 extension to Federal Way on December 6. 🚉

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I had a close friend explain this to me this summer as I sobbed into the phone. There is no pulling yourself up by yourself. You need others. You need help. We need community. We need compassion, and love, and to stop expecting everyone to just get back up after they’re forced down.

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Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything

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"When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The response Dems give should be simple: *Too bad. We have the power now.* A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored."

I'm sure the main goal is kneecapping mail-in voting, but all the other effects as mentioned are going to screw us over too, yay!

if i was part of a community that was just attacked and my premier’s plan to help me feel better was to instruct some people to walk around in public with big guns i would be *furious* like absolutely fuming

Pro-Palestine activists target UK Labour offices over hunger strikers https://aje.io/x3di90

Brix is one of the kindest people i have met online and she’s in an incredibly tough spot during a brutally cold winter. If anyone has the means to help her, please consider putting a few dollars her way.

the only weight you need to worry about losing in the new year is the dead weight of people who constantly try to dull your shine and bring no light or joy to your life you will be better and brighter for it ✨️

Government orders the genocidal removal of brown people and one member of congress who clapped and pushed for mass death didn't get their way on how much suffering torture the people should get on the way to being disappeared, quits the party and speaks out against it and the opposition cheers and

God spare the people of Gaza and all Palestinians from such ‘help’.

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