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The Power of Gurihiru Compels You! (art of Jeff and Ken below by @gurihiru.bsky.social) 1979semifinalist.substack.com/p/ken-nation...

Absolutely heinous.

I said what I said.

My mother called Speaker Johnson’s office this afternoon to talk about the shutdown and to tell them that her healthcare costs went up 125% as of this week — she was excited because a staffer answered; then they hung up on her.

Cavs season opens in 20 days.

We have really got to get rid of party leadership. This is... just embarrassing.

Fair play correcting the right wing journalist, but I have to confess it’s hard for me to enjoy a political culture whose main point of consensus is that it should be illegal to use federal funds to treat people who are injured or sick and happen to have the wrong immigration status.

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Welp, looks like I'm done posting on @bsky.app for the day. I didn't even realize the daily video limit was still a thing. Any help, @support.bsky.team?

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Not a fan of streaming. I want to own my media. Physical copies. New generations are being trained to only consume what giant corporations magnanimously gift them. That never ends well. Fuck em. I still have a couple hundred 45s. Maybe 50 vinyl LPs. I still buy CDs. Mostly boxsets.

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

We are so back

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

Just in: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438.217.0.pdf

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

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Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

Signing should be a career ender.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

😂😂😂

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

2 Bl*ck men hung in Mississippi yesterday. 1. Cory Zukatis - found around 10:30am hanging in Vicksburg MS. 2. Trey Reed - found hanging around 7:05am at Delta State 🚨 PLEASE stay safe and mindful on your surroundings‼️

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

Oh shit, for real? I had no idea

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

This is a time for *civility.* And if any of you repulsive maggots so much as *think* a single thought that is different from the ones I am shouting into this microphone you should be beaten and jailed and ruined and set upon by wild dogs who feast on your flesh, you miserable shitstains.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

Media discovering groypers for the first time reminds me of when they first encountered incels. Those of us who study misogyny or followed Gamergate had been screaming about incel culture and violence for years. Coverage of hate groups is far too reactive.

This is not even a question at this point

target CEO about to start wearing kente cloth

How about that.

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

Shameful to see a creator fired off a book and the whole series immediately cancelled on the same day because she was glib about the murder of someone who famously said that people like her should be stoned to death.

DC Comics Cancels “Fourth World” Line After Creator Jack Kirby Admits To Killing Nazis In WWII

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

i make art and give it away on a tree in front of my house

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

His work was calling for lynching of trans people. Political violence is wrong no matter what and he constantly called for it.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

it’s possible to 1) note that the shooting of charlie kirk is the direct result of a culture and politics that he spent every single day of his adult life cultivating, without 2) celebrating the act of violence itself. but some people are going to do 2, and also anyone doing 1 will be accused of 2.

/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.