Gypsy/Roma/Sinti is an ethnicity or you have been adopted by a vitsa who claims you. That's the only way to be gypsy. You do not get to declare yourself one. It'd be like me deciding I'm Russian. I'm not Russian. Learn, please.

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I read a lot of books I admired this year-- but this one was the one I loved the most. Reminded me of Ursula K. Le Guin's "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight," which is perhaps my all time favorite novella.

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

Olivia Nuzzi: yes, she helped endanger every child in America, but at least she isn't sorry about it

Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)

Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

procrastinators are changing tomorrow!

I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda. Days later, they did exactly that. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Legendary architect Frank Gehry dead aged 96 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is legitimately fucking outrageous. Offensive from any angle.

TODD YOU'RE BREAKING MY FUCKING HEART, TODD

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the irony of hegseth saying this the same day trump stood inside an institute that he renamed for himself and declared world peace

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This - and it's not just a ~ bad four years~. What they're doing now is inherently changing our political infrastructure, and a lot of it's going to be locked in for a decade or more.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, THIS IS MY FAVORITE QUESTION

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

In my journalism degree we got taught there were three reasons to do verbatim quotes like this: 1. Journalistic laziness 2. Filling column inches 3. Astonishing and unexpected insight from your subject which can only be communicated through straight transcript it’s 3 maybe four times a decade

Bring back the 1980s Honda Civic Hatchback I learned to drive on that could go from DeKalb, IL to Paducah, KY on just over 10 gallons of gas.

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS (hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

we need to shame people who want this out of our society. simple as

whether hegseth gets away with it remains to be seen but it is interesting to see that he thought trump handed him a license to murder with this job, no questions asked, and now questions are definitely being asked.

subscribe to the handbasket, a one-person operation that produced both of these stories in one day. www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

✨none of this is new ✨ the oligarchy incredulously deny their sins because they've always been able to before w/o consequence but internet & intense increased transparency & information challenges all their cognitive distortions & power, so they double down over & over & they NEED to be stopped

Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...

There’s a certain cutthroat elegance in finding and posting Hegseth saying exactly the same thing he’s attacking you for.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

In a district gerrymandered to fuck to be sure that a double digit shift would never happen. Lotta folks out there don't grasp what TN07 did today and how shook up the GOP is gonna be about it. They did the unthinkable there, my heart is so full.

Give 👏🏻 UNRESTRICTED 👏🏻 dollars. This goes for when you donate, too - don't restrict a gift to a specific fund. If the non-profit has an option for "wherever it's most needed," choose that. That goes into gen ops which means it pays for the unsexy shit like Keeping the Lights On and Paying the Admin.

JFC they’ve lost Newsmax

No need to be disappointed in Tennessee. The Democratic challenger defied the odds against her by closing to within 9 percentage points of the 22-point GQP incumbent's advantage. (FYI, years ago I lived in Johnson City, TN in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.)

Important, take note at how close these results are. @aftynbehn.bsky.social pulled such a narrow margin out of fucking Tennessee of all goddamned places. Previously, Republicans have won these seats by landslides. Now, the district is pink. Everything is swinging to the left. Do not give up.

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

The death of Flash basically killing an entire segment of independent and free game development overnight is one of those things that never really gets spoken about, which is a real shame because a lot of that first generation of Newgrounds talent did break into the animation and games industries.

If I see one single person from a blue state being weird if the Dems don't win in spite of a near 20 point swing, I'm gonna sweep the leg I swear to God. Y'all leave TN alone they are causing apocalyptic damage to the GOP tonight no matter WHAT happens