Fully half of the very committed leftists and activists I have met in my life started as garden variety democrats because they assumed the democrats were actually what the republicans claimed they were.

Cute of all those weird centrists to assume 1. Leftists are mad at the idea of solidarity with “wine moms.” 2. That the “wine moms” themselves aren’t moving further left based on new data and experiences, a thing normal people do all the time if they aren’t committed to an untenable middle ground

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Saw another "but how could Biden have done [literally anything] when he didn't have Senate votes?" post, and now that we're deep into "fascism is when the tools of imperialism are used domestically," I bet a little extraordinary rendition to get Manchin & Sinema in line isn't looking so bad anymore.

maybe posting a video of yourself in a crown calling yourself king and dumping shit on half the country and then physically tearing down the White House the day after the largest protests of the century is a political masterstroke. I guess we'll see

get his ass kenny

I think what we're missing here was that Tupperware Parties were bad. It was a predatory MLM. And ChatGPT doesn't even have a product. Which would just make it a straight pyramid or ponzi scheme, if it really is like that. But I'm not clicking and you shouldn't either.

👇🎯 It's incredible how THE explanation for Why Democrats Lost in 2024 - the one the pundits were certain about (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) a year ago, & which was the nonstop centerpiece of the National Conversation™️ for <3 straight years> - has now been completely cast aside as if it never happened.

Richest man on the planet owns two-thirds of the satellites is the beginning of a not happy movie

folks is it good when your AWS bill is 100% of your estimated revenue

what are these white liberals marching for when it turns out—after we talk to them—the president is utterly powerless

Googling “how to maximize the amount of fiber and capsaicin in a meal.”

Democrats think they are "too good" to participate in pro-Nazi group texts. But their closed-mindedness may cost them at the midterms. --Tomorrow in @washingtonpost.com

i personally don’t think it’s a good thing that every republican staffer sees themselves as a would-be heydrich to trump’s hitler

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:

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Oy vey

What gets me the most isnt that these things are happening — it’s that people still bother believing him and are still taking him at face value.

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

It's like the War of 1812 but this time the President is doing it himself

This part blacksky.community/profile/did:...

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Withhold your vote for any Democrat unless they commit to holding the fascists accountable. "Not being a literal Nazi" is too low of a standard to hold politicians to. If we don't hold them to a higher standard, the right will continue to win in the long run. Demand change.

Republicans: "You really need to stop calling us Nazis." Republicans in private: "Yeah, I'm a Nazi."

I am so angry on their behalf. So many evil assholes worked to make this happen.

Disabled people should be allowed to get married without losing our healthcare. We shouldn’t have to choose between weddings and staying alive. In 2025 we still have no marriage rights or property rights. We never have, and it’s total shit. Fuck Eugenics, we deserve so much better.

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE should be such a simple headline to write and yet no western news outlet seems capable of it.

I don't dislike The Infamous, Scandalous Scene in It because it's kids having sex, I get that it's about them becoming adults, my problem is that the gift of adulthood is bestowed upon the boys by the girl's sacrificial gift of vagina, there is NO HOMO, and she only enjoys it with Ben.

🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games. Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk. 💡It’s time to choose alternatives. #GoEuropean #DigitalSovereignty #AWS #Outage

There also used to be a lifetime limit on insurance. So your policy could literally say 'We will only cover a life time limit of $200k and then you're cancelled and we will not insure you'. Obamacare eliminated that.

Feels like, I dunno, maybe it might be a good plan if we associated this obviously bad and increasingly unpopular idea with the politician whose entire career has been telling us it would be a good idea

Donald Trump shelled J.D. Vance's security detail.

doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙

And then put a marginalized creative team on it like it's a gift. Well, it IS a gift. Just not to US. It's a gift to the bigot who gets to see their character completely rebuilt into a money machine. It's a gift to the company who will turn around to find a white man to make their next superstar.

It is frustrating to know that the most notable Latino/a characters in comics were created by white men who currently campion ICE on social media. When they appear in a cartoon, those men get paid. When they appear in a movie, those men get tickets to the premiere. Every year a royalty check.

Creators of color are often brought in to "fix" characters of color that were created during very segregated times in the industry when POC writers were rarely hired by the "Big Two." I'm not talking the 70s. I'm talking the AUGHTS. The TENS. When I could count black industry writers on MY NOSE.

Bane is a great character. He's a great character who started as a mish-mash of stereotypes from people who clearly could not tell Latin cultures apart. His look and history pull from places as far apart as Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Like if Banshee wore a beret and bullfighter's outfit.

Chuck Dixon created Bane. I don't bring this up to argue that creating that character somehow negates his current behavior, but to talk about a problem very prevalent in comics. And that is bigoted people making bank off the very marginalized groups they later demonize and discredit.

This does a lot to explain why Trump is always talking about how toilets don't flush like they used to.

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

i was at the zoo & the tour guide said something like “horses are the only domesticated animals that can poop without breaking stride” & i was like “that can’t be true, i bet i could do it” but i was never gonna test that—until now, in your hallway, if i visit your home & you have one of these.

Fucking hell, yes.

“No DMs” in the profile is rapidly becoming one of my red flags for blocking. You can turn off DMs either entirely or from people you don’t follow, so either a) you didn’t look at your settings, or b) you’re following everyone in some sort of number-chasing facebook nonsense. Either way, no thanks.

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration: