Not just any trans writer. A trans wtiter who had to flee Russia.

3 months ago, Senator Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their golden retriever were shot and killed in their home in a politically motivated attack by a conservative Christian disguised as a police officer. Not only was Trump golfing during her services, he doesn't even recognize her name.

On a per capita basis, Portugal comes in at #2, with 27 dogs per 100 people.

Read this (even though it's on Substack). "What we're witnessing represents an evolution of archival weaponization, strategically resurrecting outdated official content to legitimize contemporary political narratives, now adapted for algorithmic systems and AI training data."

"Income and wealth taxes help combat inequality" "Portugal is poorly positioned: it sits alongside the United States of America and is among the countries where nearly 40% of income inequality is attributable to factors beyond the individual's control."

"In the lessons the OECD aims to draw for reducing inequality, Portugal is cited as one example for its income and wealth taxes. Taxes on the wealthy and progressive income taxes are valued as a way to reduce disparities..."

“Por dentro do Chega” de Miguel Carvalho – uma leitura essencial

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Something tells me these people might not actually be sincere about being against doin a violence 😑

Portugal formally recognises Palestinian state, foreign minister says

Oh. My. God. I died so many times.

Parasocial identification with leaders is a fundamental element of fascism. Ordinary people who can barely pay their bills live and die vicariously through them. The function of their Nuremberg rallies is to convey that the life of one sycophant is worth more than all of our lives combined.

(Sound on)Just a little purr to recharge your spirit 🐈‍⬛🤍

[Timmy praying meme] Please God, I see what you're doing for Germany and I want that for Portugal

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

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I am reminded of how much humanity is still guided by our lizard brains. This is such magical thinking.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

Oh, we're retconning Charlie Kirk, too? Ok! "Palestine will be free." ✊️ 🇵🇸 -Charlie Kirk

More news to brighten up your day. Very cool!

Here's some news to brighten up your day.

What actually IS #hopepunk? How do we define #solarpunk, and what are some good examples? Let's talk about it! There have been several relevant discussion threads here on Bluesky before. bsky.app/profile/tanz...

As someone who has led things like the scripting, casting, and production of DOE and corporate training videos, this has me cracking up. In 30 years, will some of the videos I've helped create seem as cringe as this found footage?

Hahahah amazing. Billions in imaginary money and real finite resources thrown at this egomaniacal cult project instead of using those resources, OUR RESOURCES, for the mutual benefit of people and planet. They have committed untold environmental and social harm to make a Dishonesty Engine.

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

"The misleadingly named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), led by an evangelical Christian with close ties to the White House, reportedly drafted a 38-page document detailing the various steps for implementing [the] plan" to turn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East."

The United Kingdom and Portugal to announce recognition of Palestinian state

hands continue to hurt. shoulders are joining bc of hypermobility strain. it's been a month. im sandwiched between projects, no savings, and a vague idea how to balance rest with the fact that im forced to work while i should be resting. any pennie helps.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Bracing myself for whatever dipshit thing this incompetent regime will say about autism tomorrow 🙄

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

March 2024: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

What is that now... 6 Eurovision countries? 7?

Heck yeah! Go Portugal! 🇵🇹 🇵🇸

nixon going on laugh in and saying "by god, you go get those bastards and you do it tonight!" to an aide before turning to the camera and saying "oh, uhh. sock it. to me?"

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

I am looking for a comforter for the guest bedroom and I'm sorry what monster did this

please tell people about Blacksky and Northsky bluesky users can migrate there without losing their followers, posts, lists, etc... and can still talk on the open ATProto (bluesky's foundation) Network! northskysocial.com/join

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

You know what didn’t happen? Pundits going on Gab, Parler, Gettr, or Truth Social to repeatedly say “no one cares about this site, you’re in a bubble, you forfeited your influence, things are awesome on the site you don’t use anymore, so awesome that I come here to tell you you’re dumb unlike me.”

Look at academia giving me a little hope

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

It’s oddly comforting when people who push deeply immoral public policy are shown to be horrible people generally. Like, it would be unsettling if Homan were a straight arrow who paid for operations for orphans.

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration..."

God how Earth shaking would it be if he walked because the Trump admin is a corrupt bunch of fascist assholes who, instead of using the law as intended to prosecute what is, seemingly a slam dunk of a case, they fuck it all up in their North Korean rush to politicize the case?

BREAKING: Luigi Mangione's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss his case on constitutional grounds. Some arguments are specific to his case, involving AG Bondi's actions, while others are more generally applicable. Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...