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greatmuffin.bsky.social
28 | Queer, Leftist, Anti-Fascist. 🏳️‍🌈 From Germany, living in Australia.
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Bit of a recency bias, but I feel happy about this list.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Americans and Iranians have a lot in common, such as that in both countries supreme power actually rests with a small group of unaccountable theocrats appointed for life.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... "Vast amounts of gas are processed in WA from offshore fields & exported, making tens of billions of dollars every year for these companies," "I just cannot understand why the federal govt doesn't charge royalties on the vast majority of gas being exported from WA."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

repeating this! begging people to read even the most cursory history of the last 80 years! things are bad enough already, nobody (least of all you!) needs your doomposting making it worse

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 5 days ago • 167 comments

“Trump spent years campaigning against risky and expensive wars, and criticizing hawkish foreign policy decisions” is just straightforwardly false. It’s completely made up!

submitted 5 days ago • 143 comments

ruler who killed civilians (including his own citizens) with murder drones is here with a timely message about autocracy

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

submitted 6 days ago • 208 comments

why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

Andrew Cuomo sexually abused more than a dozen women. If that alone is not enough to disqualify him from ever again holding elected office—if the conversation even continues past that—the speaker (outlet) is saying it's OK to sexually abuse women.

submitted 8 days ago • 89 comments

Cuomo doesn’t just get to rehabilitate himself from sexual harassment because he’s rich and powerful. He gets to because he’s a man. It’s the same situation for everyday, ordinary men, while women from all walks of life are not just denied justice but punished for asking for it

submitted 8 days ago • 191 comments

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

submitted 10 days ago • 170 comments

in den nächsten tagen wird es viele takes dazu geben, dass rechtsextreme in den usa politiker ohne große folgen hinrichten können. darum hier kurz die erinnerung, dass das auch in deutschland passiert ist und unser innenminister (aus der schwesterpartei des opfers) das problem aktiv herunterspielt.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I find the comparisons to what Trump is doing to North Korea annoying one because it’s kinda racist and two because they’re just better at pageantry than us.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Was wir alle erleben, ist keine Sozialstaatskrise. Es ist eine Gerechtigkeitskrise. Und es ist eine Krise des politischen Mutes, sich mit den Privilegierten, Reichen und Mächtigen anzulegen: Armut ist kein Naturgesetz. Sie ist gemacht und gewollt. Dankesrede in der FR www.fr.de/wirtschaft/h...

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

2026 world cup and olympics are gonna be great, guys

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

you show signs of wanting to change the party for the better and they oust you, this party has learned absolutely nothing from 2016, from 2020, and from 2024 and never will

submitted 12 days ago • 280 comments

Steuerhinterziehungen kostet den Staat jährlich mindestens 100 Milliarden Euro! Aber es gibt keine Generaldebatte ßber strukturelle Kriminalität der Oberschicht. Keine Sanktionen. Keine Umerziehungskampagne. Danke @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social & @matthiasubl.bsky.social fßr das Gespräch.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Diese Forderung drĂźber finden, aber keine Luxussteuer seit 1992 vĂśllig ok finden.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

People ran pieces about how the discipline of the movement was actually proof of a disturbing and dangerous groupthink. We got whole columns of people complaining about having to speak with official spokesmen.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Es waren mehrere Menschen, die mit sehr nah stehen, auf dem CSD in #Wernigerode, darunter auch meine Mutter. Ich kann nicht in Worte fassen, wie wütend es mich macht, dass ein 20-Jähriger konkrete Anschlagsdrohungen ausspricht, dann findet die Polizei Munition - und er ist trotzdem auf freiem Fuß.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

submitted 14 days ago • 109 comments

do US liberals go into hibernation during democrat administrations or something. the ferguson protests happened under obama & last year under biden we saw police attacking student gaza protestors all the time

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments

Polizist schießt auf Journalistin. Das ist die Story über die wir heute reden sollten. Es zeigt uns nämlich einiges. Die Situation war völlig unstressig, die ist da nicht blöd in was rein geraten. Die Polizisten hatten wohl Zeit sich vorher kurz abzusprechen. Sie mussten wissen (Kamera), dass das…

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 15 days ago • 895 comments

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence." Why make shit up?

submitted 15 days ago • 85 comments

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 15 days ago • 118 comments

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

submitted 16 days ago • 117 comments

Decarbonized oil is not a thing. It is a buzzword term built around the idea of carbon credits. Which is all just a shell game to avoid actually doing anything good for the environment. Canada is still woefully behind our climate goals, and will get further behind with this stupidity.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Seems straightforward to me that more studios should open remote work. Aside from clear reasons on disability and ease of communication, getting to avoid men with behavior issues like this and sexual harassment also seem like another bonus idk. It’s 2025 and we’re still dealing with this shit.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

it’s insane that having empathy is becoming a political liability for so many americans

submitted 21 days ago • 173 comments

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

submitted 21 days ago • 291 comments