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Darkwave/post-punk project from Brooklyn with left-leaning with political opinions. Gavin Dunaway’s little getaway. https://linktr.ee/libeltheband
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BREAKING: Texas Republicans just passed a major book banning bill. They say it’s about protecting kids from “filth.” But when I questioned the bill author, he admitted that it could ban classics like Romeo and Juliet, Catcher in the Rye, and Lonesome Dove.

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Hmm. I had a feeling.

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Yes.

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I think I just narrowly averted a head-on collision with some ICE storm troopers in pickup trucks zooming through Bed-Stuy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don't see the problem

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

This is government storm troopers attacking civilians on city streets.

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The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits U.S. military from serving as law enforcement, but what else do you call this?

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Ummm… this was not the title of this article yesterday. That’s a… choice. I’d complain if I was the author.

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You can be a marvelous writer and not have an original or interesting thought to share. Prose skills and great critical thinking ability are not necessarily connected. Just putting that out there.

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21CP is the consulting firm cops hire when they need an "independent investigation" to whitewash their misconduct. Same firm hired by UCLA PD after the encampment attacks last year

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Today's newsletter is about the study Republicans in Utah ordered about trans youth... that they're now ignoring. www.readtpa.com/p/the-study-...

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When I decided to have a child, I referenced a Kurt Vonnegut story in which children have the right to sue their parents at age 21 for fucking them up. Every child sues. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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It was the economy, stupid.

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[Staring at a pile of vomit a family of performers have just deposited on the office floor] “So, what’s the name of this act?” “THE MERITOCRATS!”

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been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

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Huh.

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I think this points up some of the failures of coverage of Trump's lawlessness: You could've read dozens of articles on Trump's tariff policy with no inkling of how unprecedented & legally dubious was the legal authority he claimed to impose them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Elon as “Ross Perot on crack” — thanks @lioneltrolling.bsky.social . I didn’t know I needed that.

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Holy hell — how is this not a massive scandal?!? RFK’s people are *literally* making stuff up.

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