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hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

A reminder for my fellow asexual and aromantic peeps. You don't owe anyone sex, or sexelessness, or an explanation. You just have to be. Don't let anyone take that from you.

Some people didn't grow up being trained in youth group to tell the Columbine shooters they were Christian, and it shows

no honor, no dignity. a lifetime of trying to atone for the wrong they’re doing will not be enough. The appropriate posture for them all this morning is on their knees in the Minnesota cold begging the God of the universe, Who is against them, for forgiveness

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

doesn't this just mean nobody likes you. why is that good

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

lefty Catholic bluesky: I'm working on a cool writing thing that I'll be able to share on here in a couple weeks which has tangentially led me to the realization that I need to get into Father Daniel Berrigan (radical antiwar activist, first priest on the FBI most wanted list) who has book recs??

Woke 2 is teaching your cat what a Wife Guy is

“We simply must support the man who is making all the same mistakes as the last person who lost to Trump or we’ll get Trump again”

Here's some context (in Celsius) for why they're using super soakers and water balloons in Minneapolis today. Do *not* mess with Minnesota!

If you can't write a grad school application on your own, you absolutely should not go to grad school. That's actually a good sign that it's not for you. There are other things you can do with your life.

The post-Brexit UK economy is proof that you don’t play chicken with the EU. Too many here assumed that after giving them a political middle finger that we’d get to keep the nice EU tariffs. We didn’t.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I was fighting fascism with the power of my white skin and graying beard and honestly doing surprisingly well.

the only demographic whose opinions they care about!

The fact that Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi after she *admitted in her book* to helping RFK get a role in the Trump administration is one of the most damning indictments of elite media I've ever seen. Not only is VF sweeping it under the rug but no one else in elite media seems perturbed by it either!

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

Jake is from Florida & no doubt flew in for the photo ops. I spent a few winters in MN and WI and am very much enjoying the locals leverage their home field advantage.

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn

this is what the nail girlies are up to

reading interviews of rural minnesotans and reading gun forums made me very sad about all these boomers getting their info from fox news. then i saw what the nail girlies are up to and what's going on in roblox and lol ok yeah people really fucking hate ICE

randomly wanna plug this again: this stream on data east billiards games (e.g. side pocket) is actually a genuinely fascinating historical piece even if you don't give a shit about pool, with some well done research and shocking revelations! you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gbc...

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this is helpful to see. everyone was in on it.

Here’s a dirty little secret, according to studies - people usually turn in things they’ve found. For example, people usually return wallets and before you ask, rates of wallet return are actually higher ⬆️ when they have cash inside (going from about 51% return rate to about 60% return rate).

I understand that a lot of reactions are going to be along the lines of “well they’re just going to claim literally any protest is non-peaceful” and I’m sure they will do that in some cases but these kinds of TROs have actually made a difference in other places don’t hand it to them preemptively

you pull every lever you can and you keep pulling it and eventually they get tired enough to leave

@mynameisgrant.bsky.social This feels very in your wheelhouse

Hey you! Are you a TTRPG writer staring at discourse on bluesky??? Would you rather be writing for a game? I want to pay you (at $0.20/word) to write for a zine month project! I'm seeking folks interested in folk stories and examining power structures in storytelling!

it is true that Lizza is not an entirely good faith actor himself; it is also true that this is a massive journalistic scandal of the kind that gets no attention because it implicates the entire decision making process of the powerful. www.telos.news/p/part-9-cov...

Already taken out by one of my block lists. But just in case:

now THIS is POSTING

me to the Last Jedi haters

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

I clean up pretty nice-like

I would say it's not too late that the next election is already bought, but I will say it's never too early to criticize a potential presidential candidate. Especially one who will absolutely lose the general election and is unabashedly a snake. Newsom deserves non-stop scorn from here til 2028

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

Reminder that video game journalism cannot exist without functioning newsrooms that have the capacity to mentor and train new talent and the bandwidth to pursue long-form investigative pieces and break news—all while paying writers a living wage.

americans love replying to this post with their regionalisms and it makes me a little maudlin because it's such a display of americans loving being american in a time when america is not loving them back

GOOD: "Progressive effort to primary Sen. John Fetterman ramps up: The Working Families Party launched a website where, among other efforts, voters can request refunds from Fetterman’s campaign."

Note: Minnesota is full of great writers who need work. Stop putting your dudes on planes and start hiring local writers. I've now connected two folks. I can find you more. *I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

The company practiced racial discrimination under her, she treated the Knockouts terribly to their face and what she did to Jesse Sorensen was an all time shitty move.

Since time has gone by it's easy to start having sympathy for Dixie Carter, especially after the fans who wanted to rehabilitate Jarrett's time in TNA. Dixie saved TNA from Jarrett and lost tons of her family's money on it. But she is also an AWFUL person who did some truly awful things.

btw for my fellow Broadway junkies please be advised that the bassist on our new tune is the same guy who plays bass for Death Becomes Her www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5A...

Exactly. Dems keep trying to pivot the conversation back to affordability but what is their signature policy on this issue? Once we’re finally talking about it they have nothing to say.