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this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be

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sometimes i feel like the republican party is a big tornado that is coming to kill me. and the democratic party is the rickety shed that i'm hiding in. and i say "we should really fix this shed, because it's not doing much." and people say "what? why aren't you criticizing the tornado instead?!"

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

In serious countries that are actual democracies, strong mainstream parties force members who do stuff like this to resign, & far right authoritarian parties that do this are shunned from government. Here in 🇺🇸, one of our two parties has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. So neither happens.

submitted 5 hours ago • 116 comments

A thing people can do if they want to is listen to the 2003 Fillmore recording of Fruits of My Labor by Lucinda Williams

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You can vote for Zohran even if you don’t live here or are registered to vote. Just write “vote = Zohran” in sharpie on a piece of paper and mail it to the Empire State Building. It shouldn’t work but they legally have to count it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 13 hours ago • 146 comments

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 13 hours ago • 66 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 10 hours ago • 243 comments

Donald Trump has never cleared 50% in a presidential election. Wouldn’t know it by the media coverage.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Kind of funny that a million tanks being rolled into DC on train tracks gave people an ominous feeling but then the actual parade ended up looking like a cobbled-together pisspoor display of creaky equipment and soldiers who looked like ragtag conscripts who dont know how to march

submitted 12 hours ago • 163 comments

If you protested today make sure to download the SorosCash™ app from the app store and get paid in full!

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

A chance to reminisce about the time Musk bit on the right wing conspiracy theory about Pelosi's husband and a Twitter employee called him a halfwit to his face. He's only gotten worse since then

submitted 14 hours ago • 39 comments

Pacific Sea Nettle - Photographed September 27, 2017, in Manteo, North Carolina. 📷

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to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Trump keeps it succinct, that thing he’s known to do when something goes really well for him.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

Shi Yi (史一) (Shanghai) : A Morning Song, 1997

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(and the democratic party seems intent on pretending like neither is happening)

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ikea is immersive themed entertainment where the theme is "having a house"

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Another thing about both of these movies: they MOVE. Not a wasted scene. And I would gladly waste a scene with these characters

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I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 1 day ago • 2120 comments

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

submitted 1 day ago • 589 comments

The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

"defund the police" was so obviously correct. I really don't care if it doesn't poll well. it's like telling me that I should stop saying I like vaccines if they stopped polling well.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

lmao get her

submitted 3 days ago • 149 comments

I’ve rewatched Royal Tenenbaums and Get Shorty this week. As often and as capably as he brought comic timing to his roles, it’s wild how few of them Gene Hackman took that were full on comedic. Because he was amazing at them

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it’s crazy how life for everyone has just gotten noticably worse immediately as trump became president again

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

i have decided to 'live by the coin'

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‘He said that he tried to work with Mr. Cuomo as mayor. “I tried respect. I tried compromise,” he said. “And what I found was he didn’t keep his word, he didn’t tell the truth, and he put his political interests ahead of New York City’s needs.”’

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anyone who works for ICE is a bad person imagine clocking in at the child traumatization factory every morning and thinking that’s an acceptable thing to do as a human being just unconscionable

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

they were always like this. the thing that changed is that the circle of people they felt to have to be respectful to used to include powerful democrats and it no longer does.

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My addendum to @mtsw.bsky.social’s refrain is that billionaires who own media achieve their goal of helping Trump by hiring people like this. This isn’t a journalism problem. Reporters making $18/hr at my local paper don’t have this problem. No, this is the talent that gets you hired at the bigs.

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I'm literally NEVER concerned about the Proud Boys showing up in LA. Every single time the Proud Boys have shown up in LA they've gotten their shit kicked in, bear sprayed, stabbed, and run over.

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I can think of no better endorsement of the call screening feature than a Threads sales guy saying he’s not sure if he likes it

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CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers | WIRED www.wired.com/story/cfpb-q...

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hate the phrase "asshat" but do like the concept of a little hat for one's ass

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If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

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