i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

very curious who qualifies as a "typical american"

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

by this definition, aprtheid south africa — which had elections that the ruling party could at least in theory lose — was not an authoritarian state either

my 2 hour video on Yellowstone has received a copyright claim (I'm disputing) for a 5-second snippet of Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" i guess that's what i get for cussing out cops

a mamdani crossover with JOHN WILSON???? it must be my birthday

i think the kidnapping and murder has been harder to watch personally but to each their own

Really great video from @skipintroyt.bsky.social about the most popular TV show in America and its politics, with a surprise dip into my own research interests (folk music). A great, informative watch. youtu.be/jFEVQwiSyjI?...

this would give taylor sheridan an aneurysm. let's do it!

This is such a good video

I did not know that Costner's TV family murders ranch hands to keep them from talking about all the murders the family and hands commit.

If you like my video, please check out @ubupamplemousse.bsky.social's piece on Settler Colonial Realism that expands on a ton of the ideas he lays out in my video!! alexanderbillet.substack.com/p/settler-co...

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Not sure where Nate's getting the idea that Dave Portnoy, Russia Today, Barstool Sports, and the Polymarket account are politically "neutral" voices, but ok

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they're calling it the night of stupid knives

I am quite confident that the primary reason for the sustained institutional campaign of backlash and smears against Hasan Piker is because he is currently the most successful leftist streamer in the country

The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

but childcare is too expensive

why is this so funny

When they came for trans kids, history will ask, did you speak up or did you stand by? On this Trans Day of Visibility, let us reaffirm that trans rights are not up for debate. (1/3)

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

Back in the 70s, there was a group of radical anarchic drag performers in San Francisco called The Cockettes who ran around the city doing weird art. This line from a documentary about them goes a long way toward explaining why something like that was possible back then.

how is your reaction to low info voters to create literacy tests instead of...idk, educating people?

It's even worse, these kind of laws will lead to queer people's ID being leaked for fascist online to harvest and used for violence. bsky.app/profile/desd...

passing surveillance and censorship laws under the guise of "protecting children" isn't just an American past time, it's an honest to goodness American value dollars to donuts this will target LGBTQ education and chill pro-Palestine speech just like it has in the UK

NYT: young people at CPAC are "J-pilled," defined as slang for "skepticism of Israeli influence" Then a few grafs later they quote a groyper who says "at least 60 percent of the young people here" are fans of Nick Fuentes, who wants to deport all Jews from America www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...

Wilson says ICE is already picking people up with their own automated license readers; they don't really need local surveillance cameras. "I don't htink we have concerns about overall data security. It's more about like, could the federal government—she gets cut off with boos.

"We could decide the risks [of camera footage being misused are too great and turn the cameras off," Wilson says. But as many opponents have pointed out, it's much harder to turn cameras off than to not build the surveillance state in the first place.

Davila brings up a point I've made ad nauseam: Why shouldn't SPD be held to a higher standard when they want to expand surveillance, given that they have abused their power in the past? Wilson says "this is why oversight is important."

When footage gets used in a policing action (such as tracking a suspect or investigating a crime), it gets uploaded to evidence.com servers in other states, which are potentially vulnerable to whatever laws there are in those states, which may share it with federal agents (at least that's the fear).

this looks like the poster for whatever the next yellowstone spinoff is going to be

More on the history they never taught you. Showdown in Seattle (1999) 5 days that shook the WTO (World Trade Organization) What we didn’t know back then? We didn’t have the Panama, Pandora and Paradise papers yet. We didn’t know about Epstein yet.

something this piece doesn't mention is that the NYPD have used this defense in lawsuits before and won (Lozito v. New York City 2013) hell, SCOTUS has said the police have no duty to protect anyone (Castle Rock v Gonzales 2005) This is far from an isolated incident

Shocker of shocks; Gavin Newsom is a coward and continues to suck.

Hello, I stand for absolutely nothing. My name is Gavin Newsom.

Less than half a single day of the VPD's budget

i love how the dem strategy is to try to win the votes of these numbskulls instead of trying to bring disenfranchised people into the political system

BREAKING: Starbucks is closing stores (non-union & union) in Seattle. They told the public they would look to transfer impacted baristas to other stores... but they’re doing the exact opposite. Now, workers across Seattle are walking out on ULP strike in solidarity! Do the right thing, Starbucks!

New episode is out now! 💜 This week on Dot Femme, we’re diving into the Lavender Scare — a chapter of Cold War history where the U.S. turned “security concerns” into a purge of queer federal employees. Huge thanks to @skipintroyt.bsky.social for lending your voice! dotfemmepodcast.com

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

Latest from me and @juliapowles.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social on the social media ban and age-checks: It's not just that this proposal is faulty, unreliable, and unfit for purpose. It's actively harmful. www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...

You're happy about the oil supply shock because you think it will win us the election. I'm happy because of the impetus to decarbonize. We are not the same

"The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranian [children and civilians] who think they're going to live"

what universe is the atlantic living in that they publish this drivel? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.