The narrative of the ICE shooting outside of the US is very much not "woman killed, but she was being dangerous and not following orders :( " it's simply "unarmed mother executed by masked government agent." Because much of the rest of the world doesn't think disobeying a cop forfeits your life

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

If you thought AI peaked with uncanny images of hands with seven fingers and Google telling you to eat rocks, here's another feather in its cap: it now allows companies to make 5000 spam calls in a five-minute period! Everyday I feel better about lighting the planet on fire for this tech revolution!

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

The US attack on a Venezuelan boat is grotesque, plainly illegal, and not in any way unprecedented. Kissinger's directive in Vietnam was "anything that flies on anything that moves." Madeline Albright said it was "worth it" when asked about 500,000 Iraqi children who were killed by US sanctions.

Pathological conflict avoidance has just never been an inspiring political philosophy and never will be.

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This is always how centrist critiques of the Left work, by avoiding substantive discussions of complex social issues in favour of abstract philosophical debates.

There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, a new survey shows. The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.

I think this is largely due to the right's success making 'political' a toxic term. 'Political' is a lot like 'elite' or 'politically correct,' terms only used in opposition and never self-applied. Hard to defend the necessity of doing politics when it's only something other people do!

I love how the argument for Newsom is basically, 'you can have a Dem who's good at shitposting, or you can have a Dem who doesn't hate trans folks and homeless people. Pick one!'

At our local grocery shop, a guy has been coming in every day to rant anti-immigrant nonsense, part of the 'Ireland is full' far right movement that's been active here for a few years.

Yet another chance to remind everyone that, in 2021, the Trailblazers had the chance to hire Becky Hammon (a 6x WNBA champion with 7 years' assistant coaching experience) as head coach, but instead went with Chauncey Billups, who had barely a year of assistant coaching experience.

It's genuinely depressing that there is really no one in either party in America arguing that immigration is actually a good thing. The differences between Dems and Repubs right now on this issue are only in how draconian the militarisation of the border should be.

The Attorney General of Texas just declared transgenderism a form of "leftist terrorism" while America's leading political pundits are mired in a conversation about why the Left needs to turn the temperature down in our political discourse.

My excitement when a new big band announces a tour is instantly dampened by my remembering what it's like to try and get tickets to big tours in 2025.

Why does "turning the temperature down" in our political discourse only ever involve lionising people who have spent their entire careers creating division and turning the temperature up?

It's pretty neat that we didn't even need to wait for Bluetooth to work properly for it to be the only way to listen to anything!

This is clearly serious and scary but also just so sad. I continue to be amazed at how pathetic the vision of masculinity at the core of the MAGA movement is. Just the most try hard, cartoonish, insecure take on manhood. As a parody of toxic masculinity this would be mocked as way too heavy handed.

Sometimes I start to see reasons for optimism for Democrats in future elections. Then I see one of these fundraising emails...

All those years spent listening to Terry Gross talk to Yo-Yo Ma about his childhood while my mom dropped me off at school, I had no idea I was being indoctrinated by Antifa the whole time.

The number of public figures saying "I didn't agree with most of his views" when the views in question included that broad swaths of the population should be excluded from society or just outright killed.

It's just not good enough for electeds on the left to say that they "disagreed with" Kirk's views. Saying gay people should be stoned to death and that air disasters are caused by Black pilots--these are not political disagreements. They are attacks on the basic humanity of our fellow human beings.

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

Vote blue no matter who!* *-some exclusions may apply

Today is the last day to fill out the EU survey on universal basic income for artists! ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Am I just old, or are albums way longer than they used to be? Anecdotally it really feels like most new albums I check out are 14-17 tracks long while 8-10 felt like the standard for CDs and the early digital era. But I haven't seen much reporting on it which makes me wonder if it's my imagination?

Loyal propagandists in the US press like Bret Stephens are bending over backwards to convince Americans that what they're witnessing is not genocide while Israel's government isn't even bothering with the pretense.

This seems accurate to me. If MAGAs want to eat each other over this, I'll grab the popcorn. But I question the political wisdom of Dems cosplaying as Epstein conspiracists thinking it will lead to some kind of gotcha for Trump's diehard supporters. That's not how any of this works.

I'm not sure I've ever seen someone look more repulsed by helping another human being than Cuomo does in this video.

Singer of famously still relevant band Disturbed tells Kneecap to enjoy their five minutes of fame.

LMAO what is the appeal of this? This video is 11 minutes long 😂

It will be memory-holed if it hasn't been already, but when the Left talked about defunding the police and abolishing ICE, no one threw more cold water on it than liberals/centrists for being too "radical."

"iF tHeY JuSt cAmE HEre LeGaLly..."

A few pathetic chud losers decided to invent from thin air a controversy over "DEI," reasonable, liberal centrists bought it hook, line, and sinker and helped launder the controversy into the mainstream, and now 400 vulnerable kids lost schooling over it.

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

Big contrast with Trump, a notably cerebral and unemotional candidate bsky.app/profile/pale...

democrats must fervently, and in absolute terms, oppose war with iran. the issue can’t just be framed as “trump didn’t go through the proper channels!” regardless of procedure or legality, it is an immoral, stupid, and disastrous outcome for millions. it must be opposed, NOW.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Could not possibly be less interested in the 'lack of Congressional authorisation' discourse over the attack on Iran. Congress ceded its war-making authority with the AUMF in 2001 and has never made a serious attempt to claim it back. The AUMF has since been cited for engagements in 14 countries.

Right wingers planned to kidnap the governor of Michigan and overthrow the state government because she issued a lockdown order during a global pandemic. But this is...fine I guess?

NYT 19 Jun 25 -- NYTimes once again invents a story about trans people & then covers it as news: "How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost" There are 3m trans ppl in US & none bet on five white evangelical jurists to protect our rights. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Political violence is on the rise not because the Right explicitly encourages targeted political assassinations to a population armed to the teeth but because liberals are no longer hectored by the most right wing guys in their office break rooms and bowling leagues. Incredible work, NYT. 😂

Spinal Tap had a more enthusiastic crowd

If we don't get answers we may have to go to the nuclear option and write a sternly worded letter!

Is she describing the LA demonstrations or the plot to a Buster Keaton film?

There's a large cohort of liberal pundits in the US who believe that: A) it is their solemn responsibility to criticise the tactics of the left B) it is counterproductive for the left to criticise the tactics of liberals C) there is no contradiction between A and B