IMO it's bad that people in the top echelons of government and business think ethics and integrity are Cringe and Woke because they're too dumb to understand why these things are important for political and economic stability- such stability itself perhaps a concept they're too dumb to care about

RIP 2025 2025-2025

I basically agree with this thread. As bad as things are, they wanted them to be worse. Much worse. They’ll keep trying to make them that way, and we’ll keep fighting to stop them. As @jeffsharlet.bsky.social says, there is so much still left to keep fighting for.

We 💚 Seattle/ Andrea Suarez has been riding the anti-Somali hate wave. Not only have they been hanging out with the right wing agitators who helped kick this off, but they seemingly agree with it. Everyone who is giving her org $$ is contributing to this.

no problems ever in peliccan mouth

If you spend five minutes in Trinidad, you will see (hear) signs of this everywhere: 'Mastering its formal cadences, its slightly archaic vocabulary, its rigid grammatical structures, was not just about passing an exam. It was a signal.'

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Having basic needs met is a huge factor in determining health If everyone had shelter, food, healthcare & a basic income…society would be healthier Instead the billionaires & corporations hoard wealth and blame us when we become disabled or homeless Poverty is a policy choice. Not a moral failing

Did US Special Forces just inadvertently confirm there was a CIA operation in Venezuela?

An attack in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution. Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

a general good rule of thumb for being a decent human is if you see someone doing something unusual and innocuous in public, assume they either have a perfectly good reason you're not privy to, or aren't having a great time and deserve compassion

today, on Christmas Eve, i am pleased to share with you my short story which won the local paper's holiday writing contest. alt text spread across two images. i didn't choose celeste age 6's illustration to go with this, but it's perfect. may all of you have long food and a merry christmas

“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here

Big social media platforms have become wired to spread bullshit. The people and organizations who worked to understand why, called out the bullshitters, and tried to push for platform changes to counteract manipulation and address harmful misinformation… have been silenced by an admin powered by bs.

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

Flock left a bunch of its cameras exposed to the internet, where we could watch them streaming live. Here's how that happened and what we saw: www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Truth is no longer truth, facts are no longer facts. It was always going to get here. This is the Birtherism Administration.

I think if you want to get into the "symbolism" of the east wing destruction it's mostly that if your institutions fail to prevent or punish extraordinary threats to the constitutional order they will literally, physically come in and destroy those institutions

solidarity with trans people and death to fascism

artists hold immeasurable storytelling power. well-educated artists are a genuine threat to the establishment, and that's why so much time and money is spent on dissuading people from pursuing a life among the arts

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

This 🧵 is important & I want to highlight: They are going to give kids in an Guinea-Bissau a placebo for Hep B even though it's already proven to be safe. These white supremacists are putting African children at risk to support a thesis we know is wrong. They do not value Black lives.

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Rep. Al Green spoke for ~20 minutes earlier this evening when he invoked Rule IX to force a vote on his resolution impeaching Trump for threatening members of Congress with death. At the end, the speaker pro tem absurdly chided him for "engaging in personalities toward the president."

So Al green is forcing a vote in the House on “Abuse of Presidential Power by Calling for the Execution of Members of Congress” And apparently no one noticed??

one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes

The pope said "eat a bowl of dick"

Even if you followed along the thread from yesterday I highly recommend reading this article to hear more directly from student voices. Every high school in the district participated in the walkout, including a middle school that suspended some of their kids for it. These students blew me away

If you've been to a national park lately you know people come in wonder and reverence from all over the world. Wild that the guy who ran on "other countries are laughing at us" is clamping down on the best possible advertising for America.

"According to the indictment, Uribe sexually assaulted and robbed two women while working in his capacity as a federal agent. One incident took place in Schaumburg, while another took place in Naperville."

...... huh.

Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would

It sounds classist and ridiculous, sure, but what baffles me most is that it not only comes from think tanks, it comes directly from city planners in Seattle too. They all believe this is a solution

Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.

The government is not and should not be run like a business because it is not a business, it is the government Hope this helps

The text generator generates text. If you ask it for persuasive text, it generates text that is more persuasive. The text generator cannot lie, or tell the truth—it just generates text. Every time we say “the bot lied” we are misleading ourselves.

It's a Hot Eel City kinda Friday, yo.

You'd hate to be gormless. Completely lacking any gorm. No fucking gorm at all. That's gotta suck

LOL, we’re giving a peace prize to someone in the process of literally committing war crimes. Kinda perfect.

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.