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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

even bigger moment for me personally

i know we have the convenient leopards eating faces concept, but what blows my mind about it is that every day we are seeing these stories of people who believed bad-faith arguments being shocked to discover the arguments were not made in good faith

is masculinity when you never stop fucking whining about everything? that seems to be the vance demo

just checked out @cred.blue for the first time and the analysis and viz is pretty cool but i imagine a decent cohort of us are feeling somehow judged for the sin heretofore unbeknownst of hosting our PDS on a Bluesky mushroom

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authoritarians love NPC-as-an-insult because it centers their experience as co-protagonists of reality alongside the beloved leader

as a new yorker, the administration's obvious focus on punishing and demonizing anything to do with the city and state makes the schumer/jeffries inability to counter effectively all the more galling and acute

friend: i thought you were younger me: i was

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

The people running the federal government hate New York City and want to punish people who live here for (by and large) having views and living lives that they dislike. Any gussied-up justification is working backwards from that desired result

pretty sure there is already a draft EO declaring eric adams to be the winner of the NYC mayoral primary with a blank space for which party

me singing along with kate bush sounds bonkers but it's very cathartic

bug report: weird spots on screen only in light mode resolution: NOTABUG, coffee splash

the idea of annexing canada should be so morally repellent as to quell any further thought experimentation, like "what will i have for dessert after i eat my family?"

amongst everything else, i am curiously fixated on the idea that "we really hate pronouns" is a self-contradiction

"example password" is a curious affordance

rapidly turning into the joker watching and listening to a bunch of other thirtysomething dudes blaring IG reels on the train like four year old boys

New from me — “What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”

this feels like i'm reading a friend's biography

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

i'm pretty the number one reason for promoting checkmarks to the top was so every post of his would have this slobbering horde of sycophants excitedly lapping it up in the replies

did y'all know that fountains of wayne are playing shows again cause i found out the other night and i think that makes me an @eve6.bsky.social fan too now??