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as students are being thrown into vans and deported for school paper op eds I can’t help but think about the years many of the most well compensated and secure intellectuals in the US had the courage to sign so many letters about the dangerous climate of left wing censoriousness

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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

I am an elder millennial. We were the last generation to drink from the hose. We played Nintendo and the loser would drink from the hose. We got summer jobs, earning $5 an hour drinking from the hose. We had no cell phones; if we were out late our parents had to trust we were drinking from the hose.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Gen X, finally roused from its ideological torpor, gathers outside the White House. the police are called, the fire hoses are turned on them but they start drinking it and only get stronger

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 2 days ago • 402 comments

Reminder

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liberals who think the left are uniquely hostile online should do a test post, say you think it was bad that obama killed so many people with drone strikes, something like that. if you think the left are mean, you aren't ready for the wrath of the scratched liberal

submitted 4 days ago • 232 comments

The Atlantic made Jesse Singal's transphobic article their cover story, published an article by Graeme Wood that suggested the death toll numbers are much lower than the UN suggests, and said that it is "possible" for Israel to "kill children legally" and their editor worked at Ketziot

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You'll get my full side-eye if you are an Elbows Up Canadian National and have nothing to say about spending 2% of GDP on NATO.

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The Liberals are going to win at the cost of a collective amnesia around the Love Guru.

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Israel just committed the largest child massacre in its history, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

submitted 10 days ago • 274 comments

The one thing I’ve been missing on this site is someone to explain how the things the trump administration is doing are bad, and, ideally, to make clear that they’ve been warning me about this for a long time, but I haven’t listened

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Trump Announces SEAL Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid

submitted 11 days ago • 209 comments

Canadian exceptionalism is just a different flavour of U.S. exceptionalism. Canadian history is as laced with injustice and human rights abuses as that in the U.S. - there is a reason Canadian mining companies are so hated globally. "We're better than the U.S." is not an identity, folks. Nor honest.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

It's March 2025 and the monstrous @schumer.senate.gov is still spewing the "human shields" lie on behalf of a military whose headquarters sits near hospitals and museums and whose soldiers have been caught on video repeatedly using Palestinians as human shields. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Terminator hands you a collection of Joan Didion's nonfiction writing "We tell ourselves stories in order to live if you want to live."

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

God dammit. Timing couldn’t be worse but here goes. Chuck Schumer and I are launching our new podcast “Soul Deep: A Weekly Deep Dive Into the Music of Collective Soul” tomorrow. I do NOT support his latest decision and want to make clear this is strictly a music podcast. Please check it out

submitted 17 days ago • 1135 comments

I left "the big three" social media platforms cold turkey in early January, and it finally looks like people "from there" are trickling in "over here." It's very yrev good to see you!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Now that they’re in charge of everything and getting their way entirely we got em right where we want em

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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

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NEW: Columbia University has launched a new office to secretly investigate students over Israel-Palestine protests using Title VI civil rights legislation that would deem protests against Israel as "discriminatory harassment" punishable by law. www.dropsitenews.com/p/columbia-u...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Just finished watching The Deer Hunter. I would have titled this The Dear Haunter, which is how I would have started a letter to director Michael Cimino expressing how much I am left haunted by this film.

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"how many more new yorkers? how many more new yorkers will you detain? how many more new yorkers without charge?" - Zohran, NY Assemblyman and Mayoral candidate, screams at Trump border czar Tom Homan

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

“Aligned to Hamas” isn’t any kind of legally operative standard. There’s “material support” but the govt is practically admitting it can’t meet that standard by concocting this new one

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Ontario: Yours to Discover (threatening)

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US politicians commonly claim that the US has been a "beacon of democracy" for the past 250 years, at home and abroad. Let's have a look a the evidence. 🧵 Links at the end.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: World angry U.S. not funding right war

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International Women’s Day is a Bolshevik holiday, as I never tire of reminding people

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible ratio here.

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Elbows up? Don't you guys remember how many guns Americans have!?!?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows www.theguardian.com/environment/... cc @sonaar.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Holding up a little sign that says “please stop” as the notorious serial killer, Illiterate Bob, stabs me to death

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

JUST FYI EVERYONE, IF YOU SEE A POST THAT SAYS IT LINKS TO LUIGI MANGIONE'S SEX TAPE DON'T CLICK ON IT!! THERE'S A VIRUS THAT PUTS EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS

submitted 26 days ago • 547 comments