kyrsten sinema the second

everyone is lying to you about the origin of "sweet summer child." only i know the truth:

while learning about the "was 'sweet summer child' invented by Game of Thrones" debate (it definitely was), i stumbled onto something interesting that i think i might be the first one to notice 🧵

Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

this guy seems alright

🚨ERIC ADAMS IS ALBANIAN🚨 albaniandailynews.com/news/former-...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club "Nonprofits ostensibly focused on ensuring First Amendment protections also turned their backs. (To this day, the ACLU of Texas has yet to comment.)" https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-state-vs-the-emma-goldman-book-club/

Liberalism is exactly this: a constant set of musing hypotheticals, terms and conditions, ending with supporting fascists authorizing the torture of children.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

honored to have recommended this topic!

the blatant lebensraum shit aside, this is a direct admission of israel's policy of using its own civilian populations as a weapon of war, as human shields

just spitballing here: what if we didn't bsky.app/profile/nyti...

hey do any of my mutuals have wechat? i'm going to china in a few days, just made an account and immediately got restricted. serious, not a scam, please dm!

i will never forgive the jewish community i grew up in for teaching me that my culture and identity is inseparable from this suicidal fascist death cult

Now would be a good time for Mark Carney or any other politician or journalist who remarked on his declaration of the end of the rules-based international order to substantiate that assertion by condemning this lawless aggression by the U.S. and Israel, but personally, I won’t be holding my breath.

Jesus fucking christ the settler colony must fall it cannot be allowed to wage more war Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Learning from the resistance and fortitude of our incarcerated comrades, who have long operated under authoritarianism, offers us both strategies and hope theintercept.com/2026/02/16/d...

The fact that not one gubernatorial candidate in MI has the sense to oppose data centers shows how wildly every one of them, center, right, and coo coo banana pants fashy right, are misreading where normal Michiganders stand on them.

Less than 6 months ago @discord.com had a data breach exposing ID’s of 70,000 + of its users but …apparently hasn’t learned anything? ID checks don’t make the internet safer, they make us all more vulnerable. www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

New documents unsealed as a result of litigation from The Intercept and other media outlets, shows that Marco Rubio and the State Department targeted students for speaking out on Palestine -- and that they had internal concerns about free speech infringement. theintercept.com/2026/01/23/m...

Department of Homeland Security spending bill just passed 220-207 with the support of the following Democrats: • Henry Cuellar • Tom Suozzi • Vicente Gonzalez • Laura Gilles • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez • Jared Golden • Don Davis

After the failure of negotiations in Damascus, a general mobilization has begun in Rojava. Youth from northern Kurdistan appear To have crossed the border to join the defence. it feels like 2014 again, complete with horrific executions of SDF prisoners.

RACHEL MADDOW SHARED CRIMETHINC

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

listen to @bloodwork.show

It is worth remembering that the RICO charges brought up against #StopCopCity activists helped pave the way for this authoritarian govt trying to criminalize activists now. These attacks do not come from nowhere.

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech. This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights. This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

listen to @bloodwork.show

NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Watching the public comment for Houghton County’s meeting tonight. Three arguments against the resolution, about how they lost a transgender kid, or want places to be more welcoming, or how it just doesn’t matter and it’s a distraction.

defeated 1-4! good work houghton county 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It's been a while. But somehow, I always knew AltNPS would get back to their roots. They could only resist the LARP for so long.

"...and it was the US Navy who dumped his wretched corpse off the decks of the Carl Vinson, to sink into the dark abyss."

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms over 200,000 killed in Gaza. Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Raab... says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed. “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”"

Gaza West Bank Lebanon Yemen Syria Iran Iraq Tunisia Qatar All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year. Insane. Rogue state.

"debate" gamifies politic conversation and replaces the actual stakes of the subject being debated with interpersonal stakes of clout and such. the demand for the version of civility that features in these conversations amounts to trying to water down even the interpersonal stakes

🚨NEW STUDY: Large media outlets systematically omitted mention of data showing corporate profits helped drive inflation, instead citing industry talking points. Lawmakers then cited those media narratives to justify ending aid to the working class. www.levernews.com/greedflation...

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

the "Gaza aid pier" is now in Antarctica

genuinely fun 1968 article about how to enjoy your time in Havana if your plane got hijacked content.time.com/time/subscri...