they want you to freak out about mamdani repealing the ihra definition of antisemitism which its own author says is being abused to silence criticism of israel

Yep, the level of vicious bigotry is extreme and we can cannot give an inch. There is a movement on the far right, supported by billionaires and powerful people in the White House, who want to ethnically cleanse Somalis from the U.S., and we must describe it as such and treat it as such.

I’m a native Minnesotan who currently lives in Columbus, OH so I have connections to the two metro areas with the largest Somali populations in the United States. Let me state this unequivocally: the racist and Xenophobic garbage being spewed about Somalians must be condemned by everyone. Now.

US warns Americans to urgently leave Russia, advising those who stay to make a will and avoid social media (per Fox News). Ukrainian intel claims Russia may stage a deadly provocation Jan 6–7 to blame Ukraine and derail talks.

Artists, Cosplayers, Animators over on Twitter. you might wanna head over to privacy and safety and flip those switches if you haven’t yet

tech has always been terrible about guarding against the abusive use cases of its products, but now those use cases have become the selling point and it is leading to an extraordinarily dark place

Those especially harmed by unmitigated illness include people who are BIPOC, trans, queer, disabled, immigrants, children, elderly, women, and/or poor. Those who benefit from illness harming the aforementioned: fascists, colonizers, the ultra wealthy, bigots. Refuse to be weaponized. Mask up.

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

It's just wild how when it comes to racial discrimination, conservatives use the most narrow and exacting parameters, but when it comes to anti-conservative (or anti-white and anti-male) discrimination, the parameters are as wide and encompassing as possible.

We got the February oral argument calendar for the Supreme Court today. It's a relatively low-key sitting, compared to the others this term. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Very suspicious. There’s no verifiable evidence from authoritative sources (e.g., official film databases, production notes) that Erika Kirk was originally chosen by Patrea Patrick to narrate in the Black Start documentary. Did a third-party upload with added narration?

Can we please stop acting like Grok is a sentient being?

my theory of Jan 6 is that nobody (except for a few weirdos) likes to think about it. from 2021-2025, the investigations/prosecutions meant that Biden was the guy who was making people think about it (which they hated). now Trump is the guy making them think about it and they also hate that

I think people weren’t really ready to come to terms with what it meant. A lot of the policy response after (e.g., suggestions to add a domestic terrorism statute) missed the forest for the trees. These weren’t rogue extremists — it was key members of one of two major political parties here.

“It's time to limit the First Amendment” says Shlomo Kramer. Kramer is an Israeli, a veteran of the IDF's Unit 8200 (its clandestine counterintel and cyber warfare operation), a multi-billionaire, and co-founder of cyber-security companies, including Check Point, which is used by the US government.

My Jewish relatives were also killed in the Holocaust, and I approve Mayor Mamdani message ‼️ Zionism is the new Nazism and should be treated as such, The revolution already started ✊🕎🍉

I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime. share.inquirer.com/gjgwFN

Congratulations @teslatakedown.com

The genocide in Cambodia killed around 2 million people. The U.S. -- and Henry Kissinger in particular -- helped facilitate genocides in there, in East Timor, and also Bangladesh theintercept.com/2023/05/23/h...

you can see why these people got so mad about the phrase "rape culture"

The Sask Party government has also saddled each household with government debt equivalent to a second mortgage. While simultaneously cutting public services. Saskatchewan families will NOT benefit from the lowest taxes in Canada. This is not journalism. This is propaganda.

The Christian right in the US got started as a rebellion against the Christian left and its religious program of taking Jesus seriously about helping "the least of these." @genezubovich.bsky.social has a great book about this origin story. Lots more about it: plus.flux.community/p/to-underst...

My simple dream is a $200 tent to shelter my kids, Elif, Joan, Jude, Ahmed, and Jamil, and my wife who suffers from a heart valve condition. The rain and wind swept away our tent and flooded it. We urgently appeal to you before it's too late Vetted @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1574...

The reason that Mamdani frames his answer the way he does is because things like Israeli law emphatically frame "Jewish state" as "non-Jewish citizens are second class"

I never imagined I’d beg strangers to save my child💔 My sick little boy is freezing in a fragile tent, with no warmth and no security. We are hungry, exhausted, and desperate to survive. Please don’t scroll past. Share. Help. This moment matters more than you know. 💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/155233

#WATCH | Palestinian journalist recounts rape and torture in Israeli prison: "They took of my pants, I felt like something was trying to enter my r**tum, I tried to stop it"

This is accurate. We have a patron who is notorious for this. It doubles staff workload, as they have to bill and then refund everything manually.

I am a chronic post liker. I will like your post. It will mean many things. 'This is good', 'I hear you', 'It gets better', 'This was funny', 'Yahoo', 'Throwing eggs'. You will deal with it. This is our social contract

TikTok’s favorite anti-ICE activist and immigration attorney, @michael-foote.bsky.social, provides tips to know should you yourself be detained by ICE on Season 2, Episode 31 of the podcast Dads and Daddies, ‘Brian and Judson hookup with Michael Foote.’ #gaypodcast #gays #queerpodcast #lgbtqpodcast

After first-term Trump ambassador Friedman was appointed chair of Pegasus-maker NSO as part of a takeover by a Hollywood producer, the CEO steps down amid a possible shift in U.S. spyware policy under Donald Trump www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

While most people don’t initially seek out deep engagement with an AI, argues psychologist Vaile Wright, many AIs are designed to keep us engaged for as long as possible to maximize the data we provide to their makers. “Your data is the profit."

This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.

starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited

Wealthy people created corporations to insulate themselves from having to face personal legal or financial consequences for the risks they took with their businesses. And in the process, they made so much money that they can now insulate their businesses from having to face accountability for harm.

Despite strong local support, the number of commercial blueberry farmers in Mississippi has fallen over the past two decades. Donald Van de Werken estimates commercial farms decreased from about 85 growers in 2004 to roughly 15 today. buff.ly/mjYPdzP

A senile Republican president has turned America into a disease-ridden, economically stagnant police state. But my liberal neighbor is having a Hamilton-themed birthday party for his nine-year-old. I have never felt more politically homeless.

“It’s important we push for impeachment of President Trump after 20-plus years of trying to find a resolution with our abuser and enablers.”

Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kid’s daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*. Find me one.

Recent research found that traffic stops by police in Hillsborough County, Florida reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.

We teamed up with Interfaith Alliance to uplift the faith community's efforts to push back against CBP and ICE's violent, repressive attacks on our neighbors. Watch and share this video calling out these authoritarian tactics & encouraging religious leaders to mobilize: https://youtu.be/eALKrOVaRGg

Stone is a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and director of its "Pronatalism Initiative," and he regularly gets quoted as an authoritative source by commentators across the political spectrum despite this kind of gutter racism and other undisguised bigotries. I find that baffling.

“By doing this, YouTube is being complicit in silencing the voices of Palestinian victims."

People are saying Israel is the first country to ban MSF. This isn’t true. Panama didn’t renew the msf permit to operate in the Darién for a period in 2024, which is analogous to what Israel has done. I have reported on this before. Msf later did get permission to work there.

uh holy SHIT?

the FBI says they foiled a terror plot in Charlotte, by which they probably mean they found some loser online, groomed him, and then suggested a terror plot in Charlotte that his dumb ass decided to go along with.

THIS!!! For many folks, long-distance coach services such as Greyhound, FlixBus, Megabus & Peter Pan are often the only way they can get around. Especially in regions that aren’t connected by rail. They’re also much more affordable than train tickets, especially when you need to book last-minute.

CBS has fallen. They’re promising news drive by the people & not by experts, academics or the “elite”. It won’t be news, it will be state sponsored propaganda. This isn’t how you do the news, this is how you ensure the public is placated, ill informed and unprepared to resist. This is fascism.

I think the federal government ceasing to provide federal funding to state run programs will weaken the federal government because in the long term it loses financial leverage over state governments. Also makes a state wealth tax more appealing to fill the funding void.

This incident encapsulates the current ruling party perfectly, in ways that go beyond Trump: (1) Government's agenda set by social media influencers. Ignore actual investigations and prosecutions. (2) Nationwide "fraud" is a plausible emergency (3) Families needing child care is not an emergency

lmaoooo this though