people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic. Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Government by internet troll. Absolutely pathetic.

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

One thing that has become crystal clear to me over the course of co-teaching the vaccine course with @bachynski.bsky.social is just how hard thousands of people have worked since the time of Edward Jenner to improve vaccine technology & safety. It's a crime that we are just throwing all of this away

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

"Don't do it" is a good first step to "learn why not to do it" and "learn how not to do it" and eventually "learn how to safely do it" and "learn when it might be appropriate, good, or helpful to do it." The eventual end state is, "there are no rules; only impacts for which you are responsible."

Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

congrat's to ya'll

Prison rape is wrong. Jokes about prison rape are wrong. Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong. If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity. BUT A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

"“We don’t have to be so stringent in supporting people,” Johnson said. “Sometimes you can just give people money, and we can trust and respect that they will make the decisions they need to in order to live.”" !!!! THAT PART !!!!

Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates." newrepublic.com/article/2039...

I want to go live in a cave in the woods

i will only be voting for candidates promising to execute everyone in this regime on day one

i think cnn sucks but its funny how unprepared republicans are for even light touch questions outside of the fox news bubble

it's very easy. parents who won't give their kids vaccines care more about their own feelings than their children's safety. they assume everyone is like this. that's why they say 'if you were a parent you'd understand', short for 'i'm an emotionally stunted wreck who cannot regulate my feelings'

Trying to imagine how I'd recoil if my local Ford dealership was posting like this on Twitter.

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

The sooner we get to collectively acknowledging this the sooner we can have an opposition party that believes in something beyond "okay maybe we can reach a compromise where you only destroy a little bit of everyone's happiness as a treat"

At risk of stating the obvious the key to all of this is understanding right-wingers just enjoy hurting people and think it's fun to destroy stuff people like. The Trump Press Office hates journalism. The Supreme Court hates laws. Your racist/transphobic parents hate that you're young and healthy.

Thanks to @pbump.com for pointing it out. Are they Nazis? Maybe, but there is a much closer parallel that carries just as much weight and is much closer to home:

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

the democrats have done more donation soliciting based on the admin going after mark kelly than they have done actual messaging, and that kind of gives the jig up about the party's priorities. they have the high ground and a winning message and all they can think about is squeezing donors for bucks

The Führer has given his orders to his propaganda agency, and they’re off and running.

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

The decision to delay the vote came abruptly yesterday afternoon when the panel realized it still did not understand the topic or what it was voting on.

Why the fuck are we all so violently allergic to proven and successful policy, why do we insist on punching ourselves in the face over and over and calling it success It could all be so much BETTER www.boston.com/news/busines...

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The richest country in the world could easily house, feed, & care for everyone who needs it There’s no reason for an epidemic of homelessness There’s no reason people should be going without food or healthcare 50% of Americans can’t afford a basic standard of living Poverty is a political choice

"Meta plans to shift spending from the metaverse to artificial-intelligence wearables" i can't believe anyone who sees that doesn't immediately see it as an excellent reason never to invest in AI

Fuck @stop_antisemitism for going after Ms Rachel. Pretty clear they care more about defending Israel genocide than combating actual antisemitism. Fucking ghouls.

Even Staten Fucking Island hates these fucking guys enough to commit active resistance. Someone tell Chuck Schumer he needs to update his imaginary friends.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it

It just seems weird to me that you can engage in an extraordinary mid-decade re-redistricting to alter the status quo, then say the courts can’t enjoin it because everyone’s relied on the new maps that have never been used & can’t handle using the existing districts.

It’s not “nationalism” in any American sense, loyal to the Constitution or values it embodies. It’s a white internationale intent on drawing a cordon blanc, you might say — and coldly willing to place democratic multiracial societies with long ties of loyalty to the U.S. outside of it.

Stop appearing on far-right propaganda networks. Stop posting on their trash sites. Stop sitting on panels with them. Stop being friends with them. Don't shake their hands. Don't try to meet them halfway. Don't gotta hand it to them. Ever. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Living in Maryland and having a portrait of Pinochet in your house is weird as hell. Complete freak behavior.

I was radicalized on the issue of the Supreme Court 25 years ago this month. I’ve spent more than half of my life now waiting for the Democrats and liberalism to get there. They still aren’t. It’s sickening.

The democratic establishment, people like Joe Biden, won’t even consider SCOTUS reform let alone push for it. So why wouldn’t SCOTUS kick sand in their faces? All Democrats ever do is take it.

But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang

Knowing her family history of grifting + attention seeking, the fact that the account that reported on this was created just days before the incident, + how off-rubric the essay was, I believe Samantha Fulnecky failed on purpose to create a lucrative media cycle based on manufactured outrage

Chef's kiss to @ryanjreilly.com and NBC for this sequence of paragraphs in this story about the pipe bomber www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

WE ARE NOT AT WAR DRUG SMUGGLING IS NOT "NARCOTERRORISM" can you all PLEASE stop rebutting excuses that depend on accepting GOP lies the victims were not "in the fight," they were illegally attacked the legal action would have been interdiction

dude was so all about the metaverse that he renamed the whole company, only to burn billions on a venture that anybody with sense knew was destined to fail. it is laughable that he remains in charge. merit simply does not exist

it turns out that when you join a white christian nationalist project you are going to be in a white christian nationalist project

Whenever Democrats say “we can’t” about some BS norm, our response must be “ok, YOU can’t, we’re now replacing you with someone who can.”