The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

You know how a bunch of us said it was really bad, actually, that Tulsi Gabbard had no coherent narrative about how she went from running her father's religious right hate group to being a progressive, and now the whole country is paying for it? This is a post about Graham Platner.

Before the ACA was passed, my physician told me NOT to get genetic testing. For the cancer that killed my mom. They told me not to because if I did, I might not be able to get affordable health insurance. Or any health insurance.

Listen up, you alpha-numeric screw heads.

They are quite literally trampling the flag as they violate this woman's rights. Amazing stuff from those fascists

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

It’s worth noting that when he decided to speak out about his unconstitutional ICE detainment, DHS accused him of assault. They lie. They blame the victims. George did nothing wrong. He was just trying to get to work and was hit with chemical munitions and detained for three days.

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you." ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

I'm not going to argue about who is the best lyricist. I am going to say that Hayley Williams whose career trajectory is very similar to the person who kicked off this discussion released a song this summer with these lyrics

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

We're at the "secret police disappearing elected officials representing the opposition" stage of fascist gallop, fyi

History repeats.

The racists in the UK are not the ones attending pro-Palestine marches this weekend. The racists in the UK are the ones saying that you shouldn’t protest 53 Palestinians being murdered because two Jewish people were also murdered on the same day. Some of us can condemn both.

"EXCLUSIVE: Over 30 Human Rights Experts Demand UEFA Expel Israeli Soccer Teams" European soccer’s governing body reportedly paused a vote on suspending Israel after Trump released his 20-point 'peace plan' for Gaza, reports @premthakker.bsky.social

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

Tankie doesn't like it pointed out that they just want to oppress freedom and everything else is details. Fuckin tankies

Trump’s hated for Comey is so bizarre when you think about the fact that without Comey’s October 2016 intervention, Trump probably wouldn’t have won the 2016 election and wouldn’t be president today.

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

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shout out to the people who canceled disney+ and put that money towards a subscription to the handbasket :)

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Surprise!

I hate to say I told you so but… www.ynetnews.com/article/sjje...

US Citizen children hostages used against Guatemalan asylum seeker parents. Depravaties are unfolding faster & going lower. The atrocities will get worse before we have a chance to stop it.

So they're using people's kids as hostages? Great.

Abolish ICE

LOL

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Oh yes, Trump's precious bodily fluids, being sapped by a communist plot!!!

google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

"But, but throwing all this cargo in the harbor might be ILLEGAL! "

So Kimmel gets fired for supposedly misidentifying the shooter as MAGA (though that’s not quite what he said.) When do all the Fox hosts who misidentified the shooter as transgender get fired then?

We keep confusing the metrics for the goal. "Dem's should run pro-life candidates in those states" is a bad take not because those states had pro-abortion wins but because being pro-life kills people. What is the point of winning if you just become the opposition?

I get the political take but it's also an unethical take given the anti-abortion legislation kills pregnant people. We've gotten to a point where we've forgotten that the role of politics is to actually make society better. Just like the role of economics is to help socially allocate resources

Writing a book about antifascist and then putting stupid fascist symbols on the cover without defacing them is a really stupid choice and I won't buy your book.

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

International Women’s Media Foundation is reconsidering letting Bob Iger’s wife host their fundraiser 😭

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

My experience w/ the older than me journalists and editors is that they're conservative and hold a lot of discriminatory ideas mixed w/ base liberal ideas of freedom so they think they are center left. Ultra conservative voices give them permission structures to feel moderate when they aren't.

Italian football > Italian pop music