“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

The ridiculous way traditional media is fawning over Charlie Kirk just reinforces my belief that when Trump dies, NYT and WaPo will publish headlines like "Trump's complicated legacy" or "Trump forever changed the American experiment" or "Trump: the most honest president?" It'll be sickening.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Is there an app that's like Shazam but (instead of music) identifies national/regional accents for English speakers by just "listening" to a random audio snippet, and doesn't require you to read a very specific sentence?

I can't reply to this skeet, but when I was looking for an alternative, I found Mango Languages, and it's much better. Less gamified, more focused on learning. It's also cost-free through many local libraries.

Not trans women. Not drag queens.

Explain to me again why "defund the police" (which never happened, by the way) is a bad thing? They haven't shown to be using their overfunding well.

Afd in Germany. Japan First in Japan. Fascism on the rise in many countries, including the U.S. We also just had a global pandemic. Do we really need the 21st century to be a repeat of the 20th century? 😬

The "free speech" crowd that supposedly champions "intellectual diversity" and pretends to oppose "cancel culture" doesn't care that people rightly calling out Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza are losing jobs, losing degrees, being deported/disappeared. It was never about free speech.

A few kilometers from #Gaza, shops are full. But people in Gaza are being starved and fainting from severe hunger. “We have 6,000 trucks loaded with food, medicines, and supplies in Jordan and Egypt—waiting for the green light to reach Gaza,” UNRWA Juliette Touma tells @aljazeera.com.

This is going to make me sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but some of us were alive before the Internet was widely available. There were horrible things we had to deal with back then, but day-to-day life could be better. A handwritten letter will touch your heart in a way an email or text just can't.

This is the actual blog post, in case anyone's curious: jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/c...

It's 2025 and no primaries for 2028 have happened. Why are so many on Bluesky talking as if Gavin Newsom is the presumptive Democratic nominee? Bag on him. Call him out on his shit. But don't give him anything he didn't earn (like the presidential candidate nomination).

NPR will passive-voice a genocide, and then beg you for money to fund their "journalism."

Such a great deep dive on Epstein-Trump. Appreciate @bridgettodd.bsky.social not playing a clip of Trump, for those of us who can't stand to hear his voice any more. You can do great reporting on Trump without playing audio/video clips. pca.st/episode/1edf...

I know you all have seen the "Ever wonder what you'd be doing during [horrible time period in the past]? It's what you're doing right now" posts. Part of that is asking yourself "Would I be calling for the end of fascism? Or calling for the end of 'polarization'?"

The copaganda "logic" is If crime is down, police are effective and so should get more money If crime is up, police don't have enough resources and so should get more money Under no circumstances should police get less money or stay with their current budgets, for some reason

I know there were some jokes last night about "Where's the 'vote blue no matter who' crowd?" But, seriously, where are they? When progressive candidates lose the primary, Dem leadership pressures them to endorse the winner. No pressure for Cuomo to endorse Mamdani. Cuomo will probably go RFK, Jr.

Also, many of us knew back then those were all lies, just like we know now all the supposed justifications for war against Iran are also lies.

Never thought Johnny Dangerously would be suddenly relevant again, but here we are.

Questioning whether Trump/Musk rigged the election doesn't make you the same as QAnon. They didn't just question. They insisted after multiple investigations, audits, and court cases. It is okay to ask for an investigation into election results, when the "winner" of the election is a known cheat.

I need liberals to stop saying we're on the verge of a constitutional crisis. We're in a constitutional crisis. Now. Now. We've been in it. Trump has put us here. We're not on the verge. Wake up!

Dems, don't waste a single breath reminding protesters to be peaceful. All your energy should be reminding Republican fascists to stop being violent and murderous. A waymo car doesn't matter. A person's life matters. People's lives matter.

To every spineless politician condescendingly "reminding" protesters to be "peaceful," please watch as a police officer unprovoked shoots a reporter who's just reporting (and facing away from the bastard).

If Karen Bass is really angry, she can fire the LAPD police chief.

My mom's a boomer, and she said that, apart from the murders at Kent State, it wasn't as bad for college students protesting the Vietnam War as it currently is for college students protesting Israel's horrific ongoing massacre in Gaza.

Amazing when white feminists talk about sexism as if feminists of color don't exist or sexism is somehow worse than racism. Fuck the fuck off with that bullshit.

If you ever wonder why people cancel NYT subscriptions, here's a prime example of their shitty "reporting."

One cannot credibly insist gender roles are predetermined and immutable while also constantly policing gender roles to make sure people don't stray from the rigid binary.

It's so odd that when a Democrat is president, Democrats shrug their should and say "What can we do? The president isn't a dictator." But with Trump breaking every norm (and some laws) while constantly violating the constitution, these same folks also shrug their shoulders and say "What can we do?"

New Yorkers knew since forever that Trump was a racist, sexist, total douchebag fraud. But until he started his birtherism conspiracy theories about Obama, most U.S.-ians just thought of Trump as a semi-successful businessman. He could have just stayed with that perception instead of this shitshow.

Unpopular opinion: Pope Francis helped get Trump re-elected in 2024, so Francis can burn in hell.

8 years to convict Trump of crimes, with delayed sentencing for no good reason and for which he got no jail time, and yet Trump's regime can disappear non-criminals without due process. People defending Garland's slow ass: "the law takes time." Not for the poor innocent, only the rich guilty.

In ten years, there'll be current Israel supporters claiming they didn't know the atrocities Netanyahu was committing against the Palestinians. There'll be "land acknowledgements" before people have events on the new condos built over genocide.

If you say, "The U.S. has always been bad. You're just realizing this now?" what are you trying to accomplish? Just sounding smug and superior? You liked the cool band before it was cool? Authoritarianism isn't a binary yes-no. It can be present and GET WORSE. Fascism in the U.S. is getting worse!