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Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.

submitted 3 days ago • 337 comments

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

"The beloved bard of Black America’s struggle against police violence," writes @dancharnas.bsky.social, "will take a stage erected by a partnership that effectively sidelined Mr. Kaepernick. Anything that he does or doesn’t do on that stage will either be undermined or underlined by this history."

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

As a listener of both this and Southlake, can confirm: he ain’t lyin’.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

“Biden will now be remembered as the champion of the working class who lost the support of the working class for his party,” writes Peter Coy.

submitted 49 days ago • 49 comments

This is being turned into inter-generational war, but really, I think the social pathology here is about social media. There's something about social media that causes people to try to spin basic human flaws (too lazy too cook) as if they're superheroic feats of superior logic.

submitted 55 days ago • 30 comments

Obama wins 53% of the popular vote and a statute that passed with a Senate supermajority is treated as some kind of illegitimate abuse of the legislative process. Trump wins 49% of the popular vote and Democrats gotta hand it to any ludicrously unqualified crank he nominates to a cabinet position

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submitted 98 days ago • 3826 comments

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

submitted 100 days ago • 327 comments

Trump’s campaign is almost entirely identity politics and it’s extremely effective!

submitted 119 days ago • 40 comments

these people hate children and want them to suffer. they target trans kids because they think can get away with it but they’ll destroy any child’s life if they believe it will serve some greater good www.yahoo.com/news/mom-tra...

submitted 254 days ago • 30 comments

even after all these years i still don’t really understand what trump supporters see when they look at trump www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/u...

submitted 299 days ago • 58 comments

i think there’s a decent chance that this supreme court elevates the old idea that the “right” of states to exercise broad police powers trumps the rights of actual human beings to live and exercise their freedoms slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 311 days ago • 16 comments

In fairness what some of those people actually mean by this is “if you prosecute trump we will kill you,” but this us also a small group of people bsky.app/profile/osit...

submitted 311 days ago • 4 comments

I love this kind of issue because it’s one of those things where it makes clear right wing “freedom” talk is just about church and capital imposing themselves on everyone bsky.app/profile/mmas...

submitted 311 days ago • 16 comments

Exceptionally warm March weather propelled Washington’s cherry blossoms to their second-earliest peak bloom in more than a century of records Sunday, reflecting the growing influence of human-caused climate change on the famed trees.

submitted 349 days ago • 5 comments

While in Boston in 1979, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey explained influence of Civil Rights movement on Irish Republicanism. "There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland to look towards Boston and see our people.. being used to oppress the black people of this city.."

submitted 349 days ago • 0 comments

for all the navel-gazing arguments about whether Trump was a fascist the first time around, Trump 2024 is increasingly hewing closer to "standard" fascist rhetoric and aesthetics

submitted 348 days ago • 4 comments

eg the "poisoning the blood" rhetoric, which is more straightforwardly eliminationist. last time around he was missing the redemptive violence and cult of youth aspects, but J6 fills the role of the first and (imo) the far-right tilt in Silicon Valley is coming to fulfill the latter

submitted 348 days ago • 1 comment

Jacob is right but the reason it’s phrased this way is that conservatives are not allowed to acknowledge something *Trump* said was bad because he is infallible, so the reasoning has to be, “the libs will use this against you,” not “why are you saying monstrous things” bsky.app/profile/jaco...

submitted 348 days ago • 4 comments

Aw shit, here we go again.

submitted 366 days ago • 0 comments

i’m watching this frontline documentary on the january 6 committee, and they are recounting and quoting and showing the testimony of trump aides, who all seem genuinely shocked that their boss didn’t try to stop the mob. and my only thought is: these people are buffoons and rubes.

submitted 392 days ago • 29 comments

To most, that price tag probably sounds absurd. But "in the minds of many, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale are analogous to Louis Vuitton, Ferrari, and Hermès." That's what these parents are buying for their kids--a luxury brand. (www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...)

submitted 396 days ago • 6 comments

I kind of think the Jordan Peterson types are right that there’s a deep hunger among some young men to explore their masculinity and it’s pretty unfortunate that they’ve been duped into thinking weeping beef Professor and homophobic UFC fighter are better options than “guy in town who is good dad”

submitted 407 days ago • 90 comments

I’m just begging you: When somebody posts something about “the media” isn’t covering something, please make sure, before you internalize that idea, that the person is saying something more than “this is the first I have personally heard of it.” Which is a very different thing.

submitted 406 days ago • 34 comments

Abortion ban "exceptions" don't exist. They never existed. Not for rape. Not for incest. Not for the life of the mother. The only people they're designed to protect is the politicians who tout them as a fraudulent defense of an inhumane policy. Exceptions are a talking point and nothing else.

submitted 445 days ago • 22 comments

“I think it’s the clearest message you could have possibly received from an anti-abortion state that they never meant the medical exemption to mean anything at all.” www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

submitted 445 days ago • 18 comments