The level at which it is openly permissable to be Islamophobic in this country continues to amaze me

Mike Elk simply one of the craziest lunatics to ever do it, I don't recommend boosting anything he writes unless you want to be asked to give him $20 until he threatens to kill you

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This is, to be clear, the comment of a sociopath that believes that whether people have rights is entirely contingent on whether they’re the “right” people.

catching up with stuff and i’ll just say that if this report is to be believed then this campaign was more grift than actual effort to win a senate seat

Andor season 1: yeah okay I get why everyone was nuts about this Andor season 2: If the people over at Disney had any brains, they’d have kicked Filoni and Favreau to the curb and let the Gilroy brothers name their price to take over Star Wars

The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.”

The District must stop putting @pft.org members in the position of organizing to secure Philly's fair share of state/local funding while suffering the consequences of their administrative incompetence www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p... #PhlEd

lol you really thought you had something here huh

Running attack ads from punchbowl news is so funny.

Chris Rabb is who the white dudes wanted Platner to be. I don't see them lusting after Rabb though.

well, we got into this because we fucked up just arbitrarily drawing maps on lines before, but if we just try it AGAIN…

To be very clear, the idea I’m blaming democratic socialists and not specifically blaming political consultants who *undermine the left* is asinine along with every other part of this post.

old enough to remember a few years back, when a book called Elite Capture came out, and a few people asked its author incredulously why it went so hard in emphasizing that elite capture was not a special problem of identity politics in particular

They saw a candidate they could sell and make money off of. That’s it. They saw a product and an opportunity to profit, and everyone else got screwed. Every shred of talk about a movement was branding.

Need to be super clear to folks that there is a growing class of “progressive” political consultants with elite backgrounds that are cashing in on antiestablishment sentiment amongst voters, and their payday isn’t at all about your concerns. slate.com/news-and-pol...

in fairness, Dodger Stadium was built by forcibly dislocating a working-class Hispanic community in Chavez Ravine and eradicating their homes to appease a rich New Yorker, so the Dodgers aren't entirely wrong about following tradition

HE’S RIGHT EGYPT WAS ROBBED

Hats off to nearly 1,000 @seiuhcpa.org hospital workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center who are ready to go ON STRIKE for the first time in over two decades for wages that keep up with inflation! The health system’s $400 million expansions are evidence it can invest more in staff. #CareIsEssential

if historical precedent holds, Norway beating England means that Haaland wins the Clacton by-election and becomes PM

most hilarious game of the wc so far. thank you usmnt

a king leopold-level of belgium murderousness

Buffalo remains 🤌

The diehards are going BlueAnon

it once again bears repeating: that platner is even a candidate is because this guy, who was run out of Pittsburgh for recruiting/managing multiple candidates accused of DV/SA, who himself has allegations against him, recruited platner he should be blacklisted until the end of time

on a journalistic note it’s worth observing that the NYTimes fucked up an incredibly difficult story so badly that a survivor of sexual assault felt compelled to go to a completely different publication to have her story actually told

“purity tests are killing the left” - some guy who spent all of 2024 yelling at people for doing GOTV for Kamala Harris because of her genocidal policies when you say credible rape allegations against a Senate candidate are disqualifying

absolutely this the worst elements of the left are the loudest online and are completely absent in doing any kind of organizing or work of any meaningful sort

if the “purity test” of “not a rapist” is “killing the left” I’m cool with letting it fucking die, actually. I think what it actually does is sort out the small but vocal minority of people who claim to be on the “left” but think racism is over/will be solved by raising minimum wage.

Platner should lose endorsements from the @aflcio.org at every level along with every affiliated or unaffiliated labor union and if that isn’t in the works as we speak, it’s an absolute disgrace

The consultants who bailed him out after his original team left should take a big old break from politics, too. No vetting, gaslighting supporters, trashing other staff and trying to walk the line on SA denial while sounding progressive. Gross.

once again worth mentioning that this is the asshole that recruited the other asshole platner

Reminder: there is no excuse for smearing women who come forward about sexual assault. It doesn’t make you righteous because you agree politically with the abuser.

graham platner is an asshole, the people that recruited him are assholes, the people that defend him are assholes, and the people playing politics instead of saying this asshole needs to go away are assholes

I stand by the wisdom of the pit

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

Some people got so anti-establishment-democratic-party that it led them to defending absolute shitheads instead of questioning the entire system of stanning politicians

who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'

The appeal is under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium) Each of the 23 sui iuris churches will weigh in on the suspension before it is sent to the bishop of Rome for a final signature. All proceedings are in Latin, the court language of Greek Byzantium

i truly have difficulty seeing why some Americans can’t understand why the fifa thing is kind of annoying for everyone else?

pretty sure that being proprietary about English language vernacular is both silly on the face of it and also kind of doing a little bit of nationalism

the funny thing is that even the most rabid marxist academic would probably spend a not-insubstantial time grumbling about other marxists instead of engaging in this level of absolute glazing

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

sure, it’s AI and not the steep decline in Xbox sales and revenue losses

Thousands turned out to protest AfD in Germany this weekend at their annual conference — www.reuters.com/world/thousa...

Elon Musk backs AfD in Germany fyi - they are pro Russian oil & gas, against climate or environmental regulation & for “remigration” — large-scale deportations of migrants, including some people with legal residence or citizenship… www.dw.com/en/far-right...

“our core voters are looking for a particular kind of candidate, so naturally we should be convinced that a completely different type of candidate would in fact be better”

You're the preeminent print news outlet in America, if not the entire world. So it's crucial that, on a routine basis, you report on the actions and feelings of "some"

there are a small number of writers I will repost before I’ve had a chance to read what they’ve written based on absolute trust that what they have to say will be worth considering, and @ashihipar.bsky.social is one of them