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Just a ridiculous person. Still gonna fight. He/him. Here since 2023. My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/1OugN
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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

submitted 15 hours ago • 230 comments

25 years ago today, “American Skin (41 Shots)” debuted in Atlanta — towards the end of the Reunion Tour — in response to the tragic killing of Amadou Diallo. It has since been performed in dedication to other victims of brutality, including Trayvon Martin and George Floyd.

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

Incredible. Reads like a conversation with a complete sociopath who is also really, really lazy. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

happy pride month to bluesky, a platform that is successful today because of the trans and queer users who made it a cool place to be. love y’all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

We cannot and will not let hate win.

submitted 3 days ago • 257 comments

Happy Pride to all except those trying to say it's not for all.

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submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

7th District Congressman Eric Burlison won’t bother to engage with his constituents, but I will. I drove fours hours for this meeting and it was standing room only in Joplin, Missouri. #LFG

submitted 4 days ago • 269 comments

This will be in textbooks. Ukraine secretly delivered FPV drones and wooden mobile cabins into Russia. The drones were hidden under the roofs of the cabins, which were later mounted on trucks. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

The bad news is Bluesky's daily unique liker count is down over a three-month period. The good news is you can just use whatever websites you want to without caring about that kind of stuff for any reason

submitted 9 days ago • 108 comments

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

Peter David really elevated his field. R.I.P.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a lot of nonsense about George Floyd out there this weekend. If you’re looking for a place to send people who need a correction, here’s my (very long) series addressing all the false claims about his death. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

I simply do not tire of looking at this

submitted 14 days ago • 76 comments

my column/essay this week is on the administration's war on the future, what that means, and the obligation anti-trump americans have to articulate a robust vision of an egalitarian future in response. read/share/etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

submitted 17 days ago • 516 comments

the guy who couldn't make a profit on an Atlantic City casino is going after the man who wrote Atlantic City the song. truly a clash for the ages.

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

"But this is disaster season prep under the Trump administration. It takes the usual ingredients... and sends it all through a kaleidoscopic blender, outputting some unholy approximation of what had been built up over decades into a reasonably good system aimed at minimizing death and loss."

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

submitted 21 days ago • 450 comments