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“It is cruel jest to tell a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” - MLK World's southernmost capital city, NZ/Aotearoa
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“No Kings Day”: A compilation

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The really amazing thing is, this position which is furiously being pushed by The 'Daily Rowling' Times and the EHRC is just wrong in law. Toilets are not mentioned in the Equality Act - and are subject to separate legislation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

"Gee wrote seriously for children: his worldbuilding is vibrant, startling, textured but it is also deeply enmeshed with the realities of oppressive and violent societies. Like the best children’s writers, Gee never underestimated his reader’s capacity to walk with him into these dangers" Yes. Yes.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The assassin 1) had ties to New Apostolic Reformation & 2) allegedly had hit list In 2022 I went to New Apostolic Reformation conference (where Trump Jr & Roger Stone spoke) A speaker projected this image, prophesying “Angel of death” would visit these Dem political opponents. It was a hit list

submitted 9 hours ago • 45 comments

Rule of thumb: if there’s more people in the parade than there are people watching the parade, it’s not a successful parade.

submitted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

I'd forgotten that, back in 2019, I adapted the shot of 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square. It feels even more relevant now. #nokings #nokingsday #protests

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Huge crowds. Huge. Only fake news says otherwise.

submitted 8 hours ago • 94 comments

Millions

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Vance Boelter and his wife attended the Assembly of God church in Gaylord, MN, where their children attended weekly Bible studies

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

UPDATE: Minnesota authorities have identified Vance Boelter (57) as the alleged murderer. The kill list recovered from his car also targets Gov Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, several Democratic lawmakers, & abortion-care providers. If you know where Boelter is call MN state tip line at (651) 555-TIPS.

submitted 21 hours ago • 44 comments

1. BREAKING The Associated Press has confirmed that 57-year-old Vance Boelter is the suspect in the assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses.

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

“Two people familiar with the matter identified the suspect being sought as 57-year-old Vance Boelter.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

So Vance Luther Boelter was CEO of a private military company in the Democratic Republic of Congo? You do not say?

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Not surprisingly the Minnesota gunman is Vance Luther Boelter, a former military, anti-abortion Christian nationalist.

submitted 23 hours ago • 28 comments

In some sermons that we reviewed, Vance Boelter can be heard railing against the LGBTQ community and abortion www.wired.com/story/shooti... story with @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

The Minnesota assassin has been identified as Vance Luther Boelter, a known MAGA and Trump regime loyalist according to the people closest to him. Investigation still underway.

submitted 17 hours ago • 80 comments

The FBI is offering “a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Vance L. Boelter.” Boelter is a suspect in the targeted shooting of Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota.

submitted 17 hours ago • 65 comments

BREAKING: Suspect in “targeted” Minnesota shootings has been identified as Vance Boelter. A manhunt is ongoing.

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

KARE 11 TV in the Twin Cities reports that Vance Boelter's best friend says Boelter voted for Trump and is "a strong supporter"

submitted 18 hours ago • 255 comments

“Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs.”

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Original post is locked, so here's the @waybackmachine.bsky.social copy: web.archive.org/web/20201027...

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Republican senators freaked out when asked about Trump's military parade costing $45 million. Some hid in elevators. Some stared off into space. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped: “I answered the question I wanted to answer!” www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-se...

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

Trump goes to the G7 in Canada. #G7summit #ElbowsUp

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

submitted 3 days ago • 691 comments

As the sayings go: There are no atheists in foxholes. There are no libertarians in a pandemic/ bank run. There are no conservatives in waist-deep water. www.ajc.com/blog/politic...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Michigan has canceled its undercover surveillance contracts after The Guardian published a story revealing private investigators trailing and recording pro-Palestinian campus groups. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Holly Crap

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I have a wee chuckle thinking about how the current US apparatus would react to an average French regional farmer protest. Like, all of them. Repubs and dems, cops, feds, the entire fourth estate. They’d all just totally lose their minds.

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That's the stuff.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

my latest: Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting back up into two companies, just three years after its multibillion-dollar merger. it's a disaster entirely of David Zaslav's making—yet he gets to keep Warner and HBO for himself, in an arrangement that promises to be disastrous for American culture:

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

The DOJ just charged a Russian national with moving hundreds of millions through the system—mostly using a foreign stablecoin called Tether. The GENIUS Act includes a massive loophole that allows Tether to evade basic safeguards. It must not move forward without real fixes.

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

Anecdotally, I can say that since the Cybertruck released, it has almost entirely consumed the overflow lot of the south Charlotte, NC, Tesla dealership. This dealership has never once had a full lot. They're hiding them there so it doesn't look like there's a problem.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

New Zealand sanctions two top Israeli ministers

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

In the latest chapter of Wellington’s zoning war, the airport could be handed expansive control to approve or block housing projects across much of the city. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Cripes, she is brilliant. No wonder she annoys the hell out of the mendacious right wing bigots

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Two Israeli government ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, have been sanctioned by the UK

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

In London, you don’t just find stability and certainty.   You find a city which stands strong as a bastion against hate.   And a city which shines bright as a beacon of hope, progress and possibility.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments