I’m HOWLING at him holding a newspaper like he’s a hostage and they need proof of life

Crime scene tape at the executive building because we’re not done with heavy handed metaphors yet

Lmaoooo I discovered I’m listed in my daughter’s phone as Spawnpoint

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When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

a very insightful take I saw on the antisemitism/antizionism thing is that it is not sufficient for your antizionism to not be antisemitic, you have to be actively opposed to antisemitism because it is the most effective argument for zionism

Pretty important to give American Jews an off-ramp from Zionism, and "actualizing the most deranged gut-level fear in the Jewish psyche" is uhhhhh a pretty horrible way to go about that.

Working hard at education and experience has become per se contemptible to a broad section of our media voices. Not ambition itself, which is awesome from the right people, not insider connections, which is just playing the game smart, but it is responsibility which is suspicious and repugnant.

I'm convinced ICE used the same lie every time just to rub in how little they care about the truth

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Eyes on this

Change is hard. The US is pickled in media where a troubled hero has One Clear Moment of revelation and turns his life around on the spot. And that mythology is built on a deep foundation of evangelical belief in a pivotal binary of Getting Saved after which your life is transformed ever after.

Well, Platner’s suspending his campaign, but making his closing message that a nefarious “they” are taking his victory away and that the accusations are a tool of the “political establishment” feels like he’s poisoning the well for whoever replaces him.

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

One thing about the whole "we have to run rough-hewn manly dudebros to beat them at their own game" theory is this describes, to within a rounding error, zero notable Republican politicians.

Hey @ryangrim.bsky.social, I hear you're extremely concerned about ethics in journalism. While we're on that subject, remember when you laundered lies from a Nazi blog to claim Platner's wife was Jewish?

Probably going to get torn up for this, but I’m not sure anyone w a history of getting blackout levels of drunk should be running for leadership positions without the same levels of scrutiny that we bring to security clearances applications.

ask yourself how often we see the reverse when social liberalism behaves badly (say the worst excesses of woke 1), is that ever reacast as a failure of the political right to listen?

This is grotesquely evil.

Thread that collects a lot in one place.

everybody who looked the other way on dealbreaker after dealbreaker because they were so stoked on their great white populist hope deserves the humiliation she’s going to be forced to bear instead. yall made her into a sin eater because you wanted a slur-saying left so badly

A quantum-compressed Cursed Tome of Knowledge right there

Who possibly could predicted:

Headchot

ok but what if some of them don’t have reflections?

If you told me that was the cover to a Left Behind novel, I’d believe you.

When someone else is chosen to take GP’s place, and that person struggles due to the impossible position he or she is in and the lack of funds or hype to turn it around, I guarantee you that all of these fuckers will point to that as proof they were right about how exceptional GP was.

If corncobbing was an audio file.

👇🎯 So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

Beautiful gesture from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, illuminating the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv in Stars & Stripes of the American flag. May the world continue to stand firmly alongside the resilient, courageous people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom & liberty. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🕊️ #4thOfJuly

The Vatican’s response should be a children’s book titled If You Give A Heretic An Egg

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

Useful primers on what’s going on with the Catholic Church right now.

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

LOL Boston airport is now selling ranch dressing after security for departing European passengers!

I'll also note that Ross, while wanting forgiveness for DSA's idiotic USAID position because they changed it, was just a couple of days ago saying that Scott Wiener's recent change in position on Israel/Palestine cannot be trusted.

Subtle

the legislative history is utterly forgotten. We got the aca because of a republican senator switching parties and an unexpected death that gave dems an extremely narrow super majority for liek 60 days in session. It passed on New Year’s Eve quite literally the very last moment it could have passed

Mr Trump the liberals don't want you to know that the key to sounding strong and powerful during a long speech is to lock your knees Just park yourself up there, lock those knees, and you will be so strong, and plwerful

BlueSky blesses small accounts like mine with ADHD accommodation in the form of a secret edit feature that I take advantage of frequently. * post comment and immediately see your error * select the post and hit copy * delete since no one’s going to see it that fast. * paste into new post and fix 😮‍💨

I've talked AT LENGTH about how US public schools are incredibly underfunded because white people are mad that their kids have to share a school with Black kids. And you think public schools are going to scrape up the money for cheek swabs? Or make parents pay, when we can barely afford groceries?

Kind of F’d up that the Supreme Court decision on trans athletes came during Pride month.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

One thing I genuinely thought would cause more pushback/resistance to the Trump administration was their repeatedly demonstrated efforts to get every American spy killed.

Obviously, the Antifa terrorist who sliced a 350+ foot gash in the bottom of the reflecting pool has scared off all the crowds. Who knows what such a powerful and devious maniac could be capable of!

I mean, this just isn't true. The transatlantic slave trade was abolished in 1808, but people still imported slaves after that. Everyone involved in the 14th amendment fully understood that the descendants of those trafficked after 1808 were still citizens.