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America's biggest issue after racism is confusing selfishness with individualism

we’ve all been to this talk

With the reveal that post-Fox Tucker Carlson has 7.3k subscribers, reminder that *all* rightwing media is a miserable enormously unpopular and wildly unprofitable failure, only kept aloft via the largesse of a handful of billionaire pedophiles pumping them with endless amounts of cash.

This is so personal to cyclists because you're seeing what your own death would look like from the outside. People would mutter "so sad." A few would make snide comments about at least there being one less of us - some publicly; more privately. There would be no accountability. Nothing would change.

A foreign country that gets billions of US tax dollars committed open piracy in the middle of the ocean, abducting Americans trying to bring aid to a desperate population. Instead of going after the kidnappers, the Trump admin is looking to punish anyone supporting the victims.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

We could be racing to transition to renewable energy but we prefer to be trailblazers in nonconsensual pornography

Chuck Schumer should step down from leadership. People on the Dem side of the Senate should be demanding it and are not. So they should all go too.

I know we got trained during the ZIRP years to say this isn't a problem and government debt isn't real, but now that interest rates are higher, this is a big fucking problem. We pay more annually on interest on the debt than we do for the fucking Pentagon.

UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

This is shameful. “Kristi Miller, was one of the first scientists to find that fish farms in B.C. were infecting wild fish populations…back in 2012. Her research was kept from public release for 10 years” #Canada 🧪 #Aquaculture thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

I want to be sure folks understand this headass argument Federal courts held that Louisiana enacted a racist gerrymander, so Louisiana finally passed a fair map instead Now the Supreme Court says Replacing a racist map w/ a not-racist map is ALSO illegal racism ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Alito flatly ignoring congressional intent in Callais — Congress specifically clarified that you do not need to prove racial intent when bringing a racial vote dilution claim because it's so hard to do. If the effects of the map are discriminatory, that used to be enough. No longer

Good! The NFL fined him $11,593 for putting STOP THE GENOCIDE on his eye black.for the Texans' wild card game against the Steelers. Weird fine amount. Also weird is the NFL not doing anything about Steve Tisch. A team owner in the Epstein files is worse for the NFL brand than an anti-genocide player

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

An excerpt from my forthcoming book: Why is that when a white person says their house is haunted b/c it was built on “sacred Native American burial grounds" they never admit the truth? “Well, my house is haunted b/c my great grandparents murdered a bunch of Natives & just left them right here.”

They frame it around Black redistricting because they correctly assess folks won’t care They depend on people not knowing that TRADITIONALLY DEM DISTRICTS diversify fastest. Now racists in those states can SWEAR it’s “party” when it will be race

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.

Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Are the diner dwellers developing sentience?

‘Disappointed’ ‘Surprised’ ‘Betrayed’: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told ‘It’s Time for Your Bath’

this court fight (and surrounding, mostly terrible journalism) is fascinating to me because neither of these two gentlemen care about anything outside of their own wealth and power but that's buried under conflicting mythologies that they are both trying to build a better tomorrow in different ways

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

Virtually every day we are waking up to more evidence that white folks in the US are choosing extinction over adapting to a world that is moving away from whiteness. The primary social project of white people is to take us with them into oblivion. There is nothing else to talk about.

The only logical conclusion one can reach based on the political and social direction of white people in the US for the last 7 decades is that they do not want to survive in a world where they have to respect the autonomy of other people. They are committing suicide to retain the power to oppress

So in case it's not clear, the supreme court just told you why you need to fight like hell to pack every state legislature, judicial bench, governorship, & congressional house & senate seat with people who Actually a) Give A Shit and b) plan to Do Something About their, SCOTUS', massive depredations

Israel has killed 2,576 people in Lebanon since early March:

If you have any kind of modern car, it is sharing data about you with your government and data brokers. This includes conversations, weight, passenger info, as well as driving telemetry. The FBI told me the data was so useful to them that they didn’t care about privacy or tech abuse risks. So…

Daydreaming of a congressional body refusing to seat members from states violating sec 2 of the VRA on the basis of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible.

nobody hates black people the way clarence thomas does. the day he is off the court the court will be down an anti-black racist.

As it turns out!!! Car batteries that don't explode can also be charged super fast!!!! It's almost like a better world is not just possible but available in select locations, must be everyone but American to apply, see your bipartisan US federal government officials for more details

When caring for your community is trumped by violence, I FULLY support bringing in the bees Just so we’re clear… Eviction is choosing violence in most cases. This is next level violence Imagine they showed up & helped him Bee like the bees - helpers and effectively directed by a queen. No king

CA Gubernatorial Debate… How can I listen to this debate with this unbelievably annoying cross wearing “moderator?” This is unserious

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

democrats: we're waiting for our good friends the republicans to wake up and turn on trump republicans: we're indicting james comey for an instagram pic and trying to get disney thrown off air cause jimmy kimmel talked shit about us

armed, grown men stalking daycares and we’re supposed go about our day like that’s ok

Some of you have never been soft canceled and it shows