The current leader of the Kuomintang party (KMT), Taiwan's current opposition party, Cheng Li-wun, raises a good point as to why Taiwan’s wellbeing is not in the interest of the US, and why she’s currently pushing for peaceful relations with China. She's currently on a visit to China.

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Human beings aren't eggs and societies aren't omelets. You don't get to make other people acceptable losses in your society building. That's not how it works.

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

Scottish tour of the Louvre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 youtube.com/shorts/z0SnX...

Free Chiitan!

it makes me think of an argument i got in with a georgist once, all "it's not that i think what you're asking for is bad. it's just that to get what you want would require massive radical efforts. and nobody doing that wants to fight and die on the street for a 33 percent land value tax."

To recap: •Just 8% of Americans support Dark PAC money in politics •Just 14% of Democrats have a positive view of Israel •Just 28% of Democrats have a positive view of Democratic Party So—Establishment Dems attacked a streamer while DNC rejected a resolution to condem pro-Israel AIPAC in politics.🤦🏽‍♂️

I keep hearing people say that Democrats can't push away A or B or C but I never hear them say "A needs to include trans people; have we considered NOT selling them out?" or "B is the peaceniks, so let's go for that?" It's always group C, Liz Cheney voters, and Liz Cheney lost her election.

I have this edit of Union Dixie on basically all of my focus and hype-up playlists. Lincoln’s greatest mistake was telling Sherman to stop killing traitors.

The antebellum United States was an absolutely wretched, racist, and evil country. Somehow, the Confederacy was even worse. And on this day in 1865, it died. Happy Confederate Surrender Day. Rest in Piss to one of the most evil regimes in history.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Absolutely not. Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score. Police don't kill too many Black kids." Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿‍♂️ "Police kill too many Black kids. Score: 80.28% toxic.😮

This is the fundamentally false premise that people believe, despite all evidence to the contrary.🤷🏿‍♂️ The truth is: 1) Negative, divisive content, is not the most engaging content. It's not close. 2) Algorithms reward negative, divisive content, because billionaires buy platforms and make it so.

If your world building doesn't include a detailed description of water plants and how they taste, I am not interested.

Taking donations with one hand while actively targeting passengers with the other.

Criticism of the "Left" in the US rarely acknowledges that activists have been routinely arrested or murdered for decades.

The way he grabs my shirt and pulls me in for a kiss would be hot if he wasn't a cat.

"nobody wants to work anymore" is a long tradition in this country threadreaderapp.com/thread/16817...

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they want civility and respect and general pleasantries while reserving the right to sneer and tell your extended family to "go back to where they came from" after their third shot. They want deference while they don their "fuck your feelings" t-shirt.

it's true, especially if you spend enough time for them to let their guards down and forget their talking points about "cheap gas and eggs". The problem is that they still, on the individual level, want you to be nice to them regardless of their anti-social worldviews aimed generally at you.

I have nothing useful to add on the general state of things right now, but I can offer a thread of canine portraits by 18th-century French painter Jean-Jacques Bachelier, who was also director of the famed Sèvres porcelain factory. First up: Mimi, the favorite dog of Madame de Pompadour, 1762

Rally at the White House tonight

one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Gallows humor, but I'm not even exaggerating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Anytime I talk about racism, white leftist men show up to tell me there is ‘no war but the class war’ and all I hear is “okay but race works in my favour and wealth doesn’t so wealth must go, but race can stay.”

“We have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. And so we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village…”

I think it’s hard for most people to come to terms with real evil super villains being mundane, transparently evil, and so normalized. “Surely a real super villain wouldn’t just hang out with presidents, testify to congress, or go on TV all the time. They’d need to hide in a volcano lair, right?”

Also, non-Black people, this is the part where you realize your No Kings parades need to be upgraded to rioting. Thanks. Even MLK, the man y’all cherry pick the most, knew that violence becomes the answer when all other methods of resistance bear no fruit.

My prediction: it's not going to be a nuclear strike. It's going to be a massive and futile conventional bombing campaign against civilian infrastructure. Hitler's V2 campaign, 2026 version. Because Trump knows what the IRGC knows: that Trump is running out of time, ammo, and en route oil tankers.

Every time he demands a deal I’m reminded of the fact Iran agreed to all the terms he asked for and that same day he decided to attack them. We had a deal, he broke it. We had a new deal, he bombed them. Still he threatens genocide.

Yes, it’s a real map. 30 day departure from normal max temperature www.drought.gov

it's a neat trick Democrats in power: the GOP won't let us do anything good 🥺 Democrats out of power: you expect us to fight the GOP?? we're the minority 🥺

Still time to register !

If you're in Illinois and you are arrested protesting Trump's illegal war and threats of genocide, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

It’s not about protecting children from porn or social media. They’re using it for censorship and surveillance of everyone.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

That was a multi-day story. The story where the former top general who served as Trump's chief of staff warned he was an insane fascist got buried on A14 and never mentioned again. In retrospect, perhaps more important than the Walz thing idk.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

I need y’all to stand up and have some self respect. It’s more of us than them. And they are aware of that. They are aware of what we are capable of with collective power. We just to have to believe it and demand better. We also have to know who are true enemies are. Our lives depend on it.

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

“you simply cannot achieve economic success as a company while sustaining your original ethical and safety commitments, the markets won’t let you” is the biggest argument for anticapitalism i’ve ever heard

Sometimes I take dinosaurs mushroom hunting because I am a mature and serious adult

These unserious people are running on tax cuts and supply side economics and wondering why they keep losing.

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