...unless it's committed by the state. then it's a-ok!

hmm where have i heard "i was just following orders" before....

they say new york city is the jewish wizard robe of america

let's not skip past the fact that he's saying this as a denial of climate change

Carly has never put out a bad album, and some of her addendum releases have been better then the main drop.

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

fascist talking points 101

are they trying to kill me

does tylenol have the epstein files or something?

lmao we live in the dumbest fucking country

The antifa thing is a smoke screen. There is no "central antifa leadership." JD Vance gave the game away last week when he said this was about George Soros and Ford Foundation. The far right influencers will simply fill the narrative vacuum with propaganda and lies to justify the crackdown.

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

*sad firework noises*

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsome's strategy of appeasement is what leads to the far right. Folding on reproductive or trans rights to try and win elections normalizes those positions as moderate rather than extreme

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

for an outfit that claims to care about free speech more than anything else, it's pretty hilarious that the free press is barely even talking about how the govt got a dude suspended for his completely vanilla speech

and this is where it always ends: targeting the most vulnerable people with the full weight of the state under the guise of fighting "extremism" or "violence" www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

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the fact that ezra klein platformed ben shapiro as the right was weaponizing a tragedy tells you all you need to know about him and "abundance"

Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.

the left used free speech to pressure advertisers to stop sponsoring hateful bigots whose rhetoric we knew would lead us to exactly where we're at right now the right is strongarming corporations into firing comedians for criticizing the head of the federal government

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

this is exactly how the punishment bureaucracy capitalizes on tragedy: steer anger/fear into censorship/policing. no amount of policing or criminalizing the internet on the user side will solve online radicalization. radicalizing algorithms are too PROFITABLE.

it was dumb when it came out and it's still dumb today

this is my roman empire but, like, one i did not ask for

It literally doesn’t matter what liberals or those on the left say about Kirk’s death. It doesn’t matter how much they fall over themselves to call it a tragedy or to condemn Hamas — I mean violence This is what the American Right is always going to do

Oh man, that table full of stupid looking knives in the latest @skipintroyt.bsky.social really puts some of the stupid knife stuff that @iwriteok.bsky.social talked about in the Tate episodes into context re: UK knife crime.

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

yeet me into space. i don't condone vigilante justice or extrajudicial murder. but kirk has certainly peddling in the language of political violence for years. he called for derek chauvin to be pardoned. he called daniel penny a hero. he turned kyle rittenhouse into a conservative martyr.

In case you missed it in the news churn yesterday, I have a new video out about Adolescence, the Online Safety Act, and how the police thrive on moral panics Huge thanks to @katejsim.bsky.social and Peter Squires for lending me their expertise!!

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.” They bend the knee without even being asked.

they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though

🚨🚨 NEW VIDEO 🚨🚨 Netflix's Adolescence has taken the UK by storm, shining a light on the impact of internet misogyny on young boys. But Adolescence and the discourse around it mirror moral panics of the past, from online predators to knife crime to mugging www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLc...

hey gang the penis inspector is here. no no he says it’s not weird

The protest march in Chicago - the second in only four days staged in opposition to the Trump admin's targeteting of Chicagoland for an immigration blitz - has stepped off from Congress Plaza and is heading north down Michigan Avenue. Hundreds of people have joined the march so far.

this is also true of cable news and local police news too. social media did not invent moral panics

show your faces cowards

not to diminish the seriousness of this whole thing, but why did he write it like a screenplay? like is this trump's attempt at art??

scotus and elon have not "gone insane" for the same reason as your uncle. elon has always been a racist and a capitalist, and there's more money in oppression than liberation. scotus is bribed by actual fans of the nazis, and have been committed to rolling back civil rights since they were passed

CBS apparently thought they weren’t right wing enough once Blue Bloods ended and now have hired Bari Weiss to compensate

yeah we're all looking for the guy who did this

Steve Ballmer thinks he can avoid the NBA luxury tax the same way he avoids personal income tax

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

i'm starting to think rfk is full of roadkill and has no beliefs or values at all

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.