Mikhail Gorbaechev
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Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
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about 2 months ago
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Naomi Kritzer
about 19 hours ago
This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather).
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE operation shows the difficulty of immigration arrests amid pushback in frigid Minnesota
NBC News was granted exclusive access to accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they tried to arrest targets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-operation-immigration-arrests-minnesota-rcna248609
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
about 8 hours ago
the appropriate response to Gaza is South Africa-level BDS and a no-fly zone. the appropriate response to El-Fasher is full-scale UN intervention
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Matthew Downhour
about 10 hours ago
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/africa/2025/12/05/at-least-60000-murdered-in-sudanese-city-which-resembles-a-slaughterhouse/
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Acyn
about 13 hours ago
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
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"Speed cameras and ignition interlocks are carceral" really emphasizes that for many people, carcerality is about whether laws are enforceable at all rather than whether they are enforced through prisons.
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about 11 hours ago
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Glonzo In Exile 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦
about 20 hours ago
I honestly don't think this is all that terrible of a poll for Talarico. It's definitely not a "Crockett entering ends the race" kind of lead for Crockett.
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Jim Costa's district is safe, there's no reason for him to be doing this.
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about 12 hours ago
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*most racist guy you've ever met voice* I am on the left and think it's bad when we focus on Palestine for purely tactical reasons
about 13 hours ago
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utopia deferred
about 14 hours ago
nobody is coming to save you, we can only build power together
act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm
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Listen I'm not going to front like I'm the best driver in the world. I absolutely have a lead foot. And this is a bad quality and if/when I get tickets, I deserve them.
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about 14 hours ago
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Nathan Goldwag
about 15 hours ago
No, Matty has actually been pretty consistent he doesn't just want people to compromise in candidate selection or in specific races, he wants to impose party discipline on anybody left-of-center to try and shift the entire range of acceptable popular opinion.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
about 16 hours ago
i'll say this, though, i think habitual speeding and reckless driving offenses should be treated with the same kind of seriousness that DUI/DWAI offenses are, because, as a pedestrian, i'm far more likely to be hit by someone not paying attention or speeding while stone sober than someone drunk
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Tina Smith
about 17 hours ago
Somali Minnesotans can speak to this xenophobia so clearly because they feel the consequences of his hateful words. Read what Faisa has to say:
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John Pfaff
about 17 hours ago
See also: debates about speed cameras. There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad." I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.
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Ned Resnikoff
about 17 hours ago
As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.
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about 16 hours ago
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William B. Fuckley
about 16 hours ago
Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
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axaxaxas lmao
1 day ago
It's been over a year and countless iterations but *finally* I can announce that my Masters thesis project, a historical strategy deckbuilder based on the Late Bronze Age is finally playable! Requires Tabletop Simulator to play as this is still just a prototype of the eventual game, but enjoy!
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The Jagged Time by Stephen Friedrich
Because
https://subrosagames.itch.io/the-jagged-time
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TBH there are circumstances you should probably be able to do this and keep your job, but none of those circumstances involve you also calling said customers a racial slur and saying "I'm a racist."
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about 18 hours ago
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jamelle
about 19 hours ago
there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
about 21 hours ago
Yeah people don't really realize it yet but in 2028 almost every single Democratic candidate for president is going to be attacked relentlessly by the pro-Israel lobby, even the most rightward flanking ones on the issue.
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Brad Lander
about 20 hours ago
If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did). But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
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jamelle
about 19 hours ago
honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.
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jamelle
about 19 hours ago
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
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Tiara Mack
about 19 hours ago
In a shock to absolutely no one, the spineless dem’s “plan” to reopen the government and force an ACA vote didn’t work and healthcare subsidies are gone. Healthy people will take the tax penalty. Sick people will go broke or die. Those are the options in 2026.
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rev. howard arson
about 20 hours ago
the thing that makes me angriest about arguments from Yglesias and Bazelon is the bland, placid insistence that it is not just imperative to vote for politicians with no principles, but that if you as a private citizen have principles then you may as well be turning on the gas chambers yourself.
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jamelle
about 19 hours ago
there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
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Sharon
about 24 hours ago
it's why left-YIMBYism is, imo, the correct position from a political economy point of view. the trade offs of rent control vs zoning + development reform really mean that the costs of the former are offset by the latter
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ryan cooper
about 23 hours ago
rereading this from four years ago, I was not nearly harsh enough about these people
theweek.com/politics/100...
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Dr. Oz's campaign and the hidden danger of woo woo cranks
Oprah's woo woo army tries to sneak into the Senate
https://theweek.com/politics/1007628/dr-ozs-campaign-and-the-hidden-danger-of-woo-woo-cranks
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Marxist-Tolkienist-Zelenskyist 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴
about 24 hours ago
yeah i'm not being funny but most arguments against rent controls, while they may be /economically/ sound, are bad from the perspective of /political/ economy
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Adam Serwer
about 22 hours ago
Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed
bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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jamelle
about 22 hours ago
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
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Testudo Aubrei
about 22 hours ago
Moreover the bosses are waging class war against you because your egalitarian values, self respect and knowledge threaten their power. This is the anti woke coalition - bosses and knuckle draggers united against the mass of the PMC.
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Testudo Aubrei
about 24 hours ago
These people are waging class war against you, my fellow college educated professionals, because your education threatens their ignorance. Your pluralism threatens their bigotry. Your civic mindedness shames their selfishness. They hate us because of our freedom.
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mtsw
about 22 hours ago
They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
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mtsw
about 22 hours ago
It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
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If we had tried a home birth my wife and daughter would probably both have died.
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about 21 hours ago
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post malone ergo propter malone
about 23 hours ago
please consider the significant upsides of giving birth in a hospital
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about 21 hours ago
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jamelle
about 22 hours ago
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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The AJ who issued this should be disbarred.
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about 23 hours ago
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
1 day ago
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
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No true bill
1 day ago
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
1 day ago
I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
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❄️ war on brit-mas ❄️
1 day ago
that’s right,
@whstancil.bsky.social
is oomf now
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I think it's the sworn duty of every Canadian to drown Quebec in a sea of immigrants.
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1 day ago
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Disgraziato
1 day ago
man are you fucking stupid? "legal experts say." enemies of the people indeed.
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Responses available when Republicans respond to denouncing ICE fascism with pogromist blather about immigrant rapists: 1) "The Rapist in Chief in the White House doesn't give a fuck about that; he's disappearing veterans and Green Card applicants and guys who just want a job building houses"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
1 day ago
basically every successful developmentalist polity has pursued an export-led strategy--aka competition on the global market--rather than an import-substitution strategy--aka tariffs--because even though developmentalism involves (often huge!) subsidies, it *needs* the discipline of competition
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lmao
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