It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

There is a lot of traumatic shit that happened to Gen X that led to disillusionment and bitterness. It’s a drawn out and not particularly sexy story, so I doubt people will care enough to intelligently discuss it.

This whole thing was a setup for TV and that any news organization takes this even remotely at face value is going to turn me into the Joker.

Oppositional binaries are created and maintained by human beings.

Everything is so demonic (christofascist) lol can't stand it

It's been a long century, the past year

This is so sad for a 70s kid!!! He really created a world that was totally out there, wacky, and wonderful. Glad I followed him on IG to see him doing stuff and getting flowers these past few years.

They concentrate funding for public services in the areas where people have social power and send the police to the areas where people don’t.

When is that 'summit' with China (about trade, lol) gonna happen again? They already postponed once...

OHHHH MYYYY GODDDDDDDD

For 35 years, I have been locked out of my birth records. And for 35 years it seemed that would never change. THANK YOU, Governor Spanberger. THANK YOU, VA Adoptee Rights Alliance. THANK YOU, fellow adoptee advocates. One more state down. Today is a damn good day for VA adoptees. 🥚

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The US isn’t as as bad as Hungary of course but it’s very very obvious that the media environment shapes how people think about political issues! It would be weird to deny it in Hungary and it’s weird when people do it here about trans rights or vaccine hesitancy or anything else.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

Persistent assumption that propaganda is what other countries have. USA media are not just describing politics, they are participants in it. Professional ideology of neutrality is lie used to avoid scrutiny of class position, ownership,elite sources dependancy, advertiser pressure, career incentives

Religion news reporting on a 'feud' cross-purposes? What are we doing here? Is this a cage match, ufc, or serious issue. But the piece de resistance has to be the heavy lifting & obfuscation that 'stinging response' is doing here

Representatives of the Trump administration are pressuring their counterterrorism partners to focus more on left-wing organizing, including the transgender community. That and two more stories to start your week in trans news here: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Again it's time to revisit what we call a riot, and what is an actual uprising.

equal time means NYT Opinion must be now host a discussion on whether it's possible to annoy someone into a woke Marxist papacy

I come from a religious culture where I grew up around a lot of large families. (mine was considered somewhere in the middle of size as I had three younger siblings.) People who talk about how great large families are were obviously not an oldest sister, or an ignored middle kid.

"That's heretical!" I think, incensed, and then doubly incensed realising how much I usually enjoy heresy

Dear all Baltimoreans, PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!! As I was on the bus on my way to work, me and the rest of the passengers witnessed 3 ICE Agents pull over a random car and stopped the bus to observe all passengers!! Please proceed with caution and protect each other AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!!!🤬🤬🤬😢😢😢😢

Pokymarket and Kalshi may, though 😝😝😝

I. AM. SCREAMING!!!!

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They’ve buried the history of the anti capitalist movement from the early 1900s. It was brutal. Bombings, shootings, violent attacks by police and counterattacks from strikers. Wall Street was bombed. Look up the bonus army after WWI. They don’t want you to get any ideas about your power.

The Bonus Army!!!!!!! ding*ding*ding And then ponder how the people who beat the fascist in Europe, practiced on their own people to quell the bonus army!!!!! Yeah I'm giving the stink eye to Patton and the bastard McArthur!!! 😡🤬😠☹️🙁🫤😕

The Triangle Waistcoat factory was political violence. The Haymarket uprising was political violence. But the writers of our history books don't want us to remember that because it's communist, gay, or soft. Hence, the history is rewritten.

Leavened Bread!!!! (?) Father, but not the son!!! (?) Or First among equals? Nope. Something far more insidious.

A timeless classic that I somehow discovered at 7 years old, on 8track. Truly shaped my musical tastes for years to come

Working my last nerve. And if I say it out loud everyone in my house will put me in a quiet room with snacks and a fan.

I love not using AI. I love looking at art made by human beings, sculpting kaleidoscopic mushrooms out of clay, learning a new skill from a real person, playing with cats, spotting bats silhouetted in a crepuscular sky. Not using AI is very fun.

“…brands seem to think that because powerful executives at Google and OpenAI won’t stop trying to shove AI down the population’s collective throat, it must actually be popular. So popular, photographers will cheer as the temperature of the water slowly increases as they’re boiled alive.”

See?? Reheating this stale ass nothingburger for a few new clicks. AI is ruining your internet, and mine too. 😒

The writers for this season of America have lost the entirety of the plot, because why is the audience asking this question:

Am watching this Chinese drama series, and I just can't get over how many times in these 30 episodes they have gotten into bed with their outside clothes on!!!!!!!!! This last time I swear he had his shoes on too!! It's just not believable.

but can he throw it in a circle?

So, get this ... "the great power game" Annoys me, infuriates me, and baffles me that everything the press reports on is a manichean debate. Both-sideism to the hilt.

My crim professor had to end class early the day we went over sexual assault bc the men in a large lecture hall which was mostly men kept asking the most horrific questions indicating they were just realizing they’d committed sexual assault under the law and deciding the problem was the law not them

Where is my T-shirt and bumper sticker? ‘Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life.’

Open TikTok right now and try to find a single video that isn't selling you something. A political identity. A digital product. A lifestyle. A personal brand. A course. An affiliate link. A substack. There is always a funnel. It's next to impossible. The latest daily vlog: youtu.be/JM8Ig4f0E50

This has been my real struggle with Artemis II. I'm not trying to harsh anyone's mellow. But it's really hard for me to divorce the mission itself from the large ambitions of the space program/privatized space.

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The hyper scaling of AI data centers and the building of fossil fuel powered power plants IS THE REAL WORLD VIOLENCE!

Why was some woman chasing me with a drill in my dream during my nap, and I was ready to fight her? What was that about subconscious?

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

FYI: schismatic is one of my favorite words

Can we add sports teams/players in this too? Because... 🤔

If I’m ever “too much”? Go find less.