What nobody wants to hear is that Democrats would have done a lot more progressive shit under Biden if there had just been more of them.

All time banger

"Our pilot brought us safely through some really horrible conditions, so she must be unqualified for the job."

watching people confidently assert tucker carlson is "making sense now" kills me

haven't learned a single fucking thing in ten years about right wing populist propaganda

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social touching interview with Ross McElwee. ~ I think what I’m bringing to people is a sense of solace. I can never make the pain go away, any more than they can make it go away from their own lives. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/r...

Age verification for social media is just a backdoor way of silencing progressives and members of disempowered groups. Just watch. Anything fascist meatheads don't like will magically become "pornography," even a link to an AMA report on gender affirming care discrimination in red states.

It’s been a minutes since I cried in a museum, but the Cheech got me. Astonishing exhibition of Chicano photography and an important show focusing on Chicano identity. What a museum

RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

I've been banging this drum for like 15 years now, a new WPA and CCC would fix so many problems. Give the people who serve in them the same GI benefits as for military service

my absolute favorite Post Office was a WPA project. it was on the corner of 9th and Chestnut/Market in Philly. the reliefs are magnificent❣️even as a girl i loved going there with my mom. www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/mail...

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

helllooooo from the San Diego Dyke March where I'm not crying you're crying shut up

not gonna lie. an Erica Kane John Oliver All My Children pairing would have been a match made in soap heaven. 🫧 ~ It rules in ways I have trouble putting into words how deeply John Oliver commits in these scenes, just buying in completely and going Full Soap in a way he didn’t really have to.

An old man is comatose, his wife fled the country, and someone else is removing the carpeting. This is like minute 53 of a Law & Order.

by the time they find out how they short sold their intelligence it will be too late. where do you even begin to rebuild the building blocks of your intellect. the talent you may have had. creativity lost? how far back does one begin? it's sad they do not see the implications.

Many answers are a formless mush of prompt phrases and keywords. If you ask anything challenging many answers are blank. These are smart students who have been “untaught” by ChatGPT and have forgotten how to think and compose thoughts.

For those outside academia who are curious: as someone who has taught for ~25 years, many of us now face an existential crisis in assessing student work. Anything you haven't viewed a student actually writing down with their own hand is basically suspect; it's a shitty feeling, to put it bluntly

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Oh, that anniversary's today, right?

Trans life expectancy being so low and getting even lower fast is a clear indicator of what one could call genosuicide

A US government official acting as viceroy of a foreign country where the US kidnapped the national leader is an... unusual situation. But even that doesn't sound bad to you on its own, @profsaunders.bsky.social makes a very good point that a Secretary of State doing it is dereliction of duty.

Rubio apparently did not voice his concerns about starting a war with Iran. He still has his eyes on Cuba, which the US is strangling at his enthusiastic behest. Marco Rubio is not the "sane," "better than the alternatives" cabinet member. He's an active part of the Trump foreign policy disaster. 4/

the nazi trolls on here are increasing.

Caroline Farrow, active user of fascist doxxing website KiwiFarms, is the UK head of global Catholic nationalist organisation Citizen Go. A while ago friends in Latin America did an exposé on their history of links to fascist religious networks.

If you're threatening to not vote for the new Dem nominee and get out Susan Collins, you absolutely deserve to be scolded. Grow the fuck up and stop with the narcissism.

I have a bit of sincere advice for some men on the far-left and in the progressive movement who need to hear this. It's not all men. It's not most men. But it's definitely some men who need to hear it. (thread)

That does not make you righteous or strong. It comes as weak, entitled, selfish, and uncaring. That's at minimum.

Many of us continued to have questions and concerns after every scandal popped up and were told by you, in so many words, to shut the fuck up. Some of us were harassed for expressing those concerns and asking those questions.

The second thing is that, whatever feelings you may continue to have, you should do everything in your power to defeat Susan Collins, and that includes supporting the new nominee.

And the last thing any of the folks in your life need is being told Platner, the man credibly accused of rape and who was already an increasingly weak candidate, should have stayed on the ballot. I don't offer that advice for the comfort of anyone else in your life or the people you're angry at.

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

At 250, America should be old enough to remember what it is made of, and who made it.

8/10 "Happy 250th Birthday, America. As a young Black man from Philadelphia, I have seen your contradictions up close. I have felt the weight of your unfinished promises…

Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

New dinosaur just dropped.

... you could, in theory, board a train in New York and arrive in London after 40-52 hours of non-stop travel at max speed? I'm just planning ahead for our Snowpiercer future, folks.

I’m not being smug or doing a victory lap I’m just fucking angry and tired and annoyed and frustrated because years of “don’t listen to these fucking people” was met constantly with disdain and think about what we could have avoided.

On Fridays We Dance! 💃🏼 🪩 🕺 Let’s see those moves! 🖤 hashtag... WishfulThinking www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0pX...

it’s telling how only the performative ‘progressive’ types on here, and especially the ones whose income relies on commentary, really bought in to platner and the rest of us have been red flagging him for months and months. it’s bcos they’re as fake as these ppl are.

Conventional wisdom, with which I agree: Trump is more narcissistic, self-absorbed, and megalomaniacal than ever. Conventional wisdom, with which I disagree: Oh c’mon, Trump understands he really can’t run again. My hunch: Trump “understands” no such thing. He wants to run. He’ll try to.

anyone who thinks that the fascist isn't going to try to fascist again has never met a living breathing narcissist in their life.

3. But crisis does not make a man. It reveals him. Graham Platner's crisis stripped away the masculine myth-making and it showed us a boy.

well. i'll be damned.

unconstitutional tyranny. intolerable

2) Makes arbitrary terminations easier. If program it no longer aligns w pres goals — Grant can be terminated immediately. Eliminated agency discretion on grant compliance. Eliminates fixed amt awards. Subjects govts to termination for “reputational harm” (whatever that is) done by sub awardees.

3) Converts 100 years of cooperative federalism into patronage system: —pre-issuance review by cronies that expands scope of review to include whatever Pres political interest is —applicants w history of “questionable practices” (undefined, but whatever RV wants) can be more easily rejected.

—New opportunities to go after states and city grantees for Vought-defined “viewpoint discrimination” —Requirements for EO compliance presumably even if statute plainly supersedes

It tells you everything you need to know about the state of British society when the Anne Frank Trust has to step in because of the dehumanising attacks on the LGBT community. What a disgrace we’ve become