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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

We @protectdemocracy.org have been saying for years “in the modern era, authoritarianism doesn’t come with tanks in the streets. It’s harder to see coming than that.” Well, we were wrong. Trump’s tanks are here. We are frogs in the water, and it’s already boiling.

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 6 days ago • 2421 comments

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 5 days ago • 1024 comments

Thrilled to be featured in this weekend's edition of the @timesunion.com Thank you @jackrightmyer.bsky.social!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still a fucking asshole.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

As opposed to a non-disgusting abomination.

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submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one. Shocking, despicable:

submitted 13 days ago • 138 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

ME AT 7:30: gonna be a good day today! I can feel it! Gonna ride this positivity wave all the way to the bank! Nothing but deep chest breaths and gratitude today! Yes, sir! Nothing but… ME AT 7:33 READING THE NEWS: this motherf…

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

In the most embarrassing collection of humans alive, how did the US entrant somehow manage to be especially embarrassing

submitted 16 days ago • 70 comments

BREAKING: The Tate brothers have been charged in the UK with rape, bodily harm, human trafficking, & controlling prostitution for gain. A European arrest warrant was issued for the two last year and Romanian courts have issued an order to extradite the two to the U.K. apnews.com/article/tate...

submitted 16 days ago • 351 comments

Blocking universities from selling their product to foreigners will drive up the cost of tuition for Americans. More and more student debt for Americans.

submitted 17 days ago • 106 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 18 days ago • 1149 comments

Trump left West Point after his speech instead of staying to shake the hand of every graduating cadet, as is longstanding tradition. If Obama or Biden had done that, we would never the hear the end of it. But it's Trump, so reporters don't care.

submitted 19 days ago • 89 comments

"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.

submitted 19 days ago • 313 comments

"Visits to the imperial palace were historically dull affairs. But not under the reign of Caligula."

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

submitted 20 days ago • 95 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

submitted 23 days ago • 422 comments

If you call yourself a writer but you are using AI to complete yr story you aren't writing you're playing MadLibs And dnt compare AI to Spellcheck That's like comparing a Terminator to a dictionary. You're playing semantics But u probably dont know what that word means cuz u ain't really a writer

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Another reason so many authors on your feed are furious about that A.I. generated summer reading article, is that in a media landscape where coverage for books is shrinking absolutely everywhere… this is what we get.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 24 days ago • 793 comments

Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!

submitted 25 days ago • 628 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My God. I never had the slightest hope this could happen. It seemed impossible. Romania votes against populism, rejects the far-right. An incredible result www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

submitted 26 days ago • 92 comments

I have very little patience for Biden discourse. The entire point of it is to tie up the opposition while Republicans kill people, and if you fall for it, you are one of their useful idiots.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I wish the media had worked as hard to not get Trump re-elected in 2024 as they are currently working to not get Biden re-elected in 2028.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

If @msnbc is going to have random physicians who have never treated Biden speculating about him, maybe they can find some to speculate about Trump’s apparent medical issues.

submitted 25 days ago • 194 comments

Just listened to the Hur interview tape and I’m utterly appalled at all the incoherent and crazy things Biden said about Revolutionary War airports, injecting bleach, people eating cats and dogs, Hannibal Lecter, and Arnold Palmer’s penis. Simply unbelievable that he ran for president again.

submitted 26 days ago • 293 comments

We know. They gave you immunity.

submitted 28 days ago • 714 comments

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

submitted 28 days ago • 3968 comments

While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

submitted 29 days ago • 56 comments

I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

submitted 29 days ago • 1484 comments

The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.

submitted 30 days ago • 214 comments

Hyphens MATTER people

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

Coming June 17! When Stella and Nick join their friends for a wedding getaway in Mexico, it seems like every day is Day of the Dead . . . 💙📚 #booksky

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

We didn’t forget about journalist Jamal Khashoggi, did we? Murdered inside a Saudi consulate. Dismembered. Then a full-on coverup, sanctioned at the highest levels.

submitted 31 days ago • 767 comments

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

submitted 31 days ago • 113 comments

This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

submitted 41 days ago • 131 comments

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

submitted 32 days ago • 474 comments

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

submitted 32 days ago • 1526 comments

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

submitted 33 days ago • 412 comments

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

submitted 36 days ago • 572 comments

Navarro doesn't understand the deal they signed. The text reads: "The United Kingdom and the United States affirm that imported food and agricultural goods must comply with the importing country’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards and other mutually agreed standards."

submitted 35 days ago • 134 comments

Hmmm. Why oh why fire her... Oh wait. Female and black. Never mind. Please fight this. They may destroy important and irreplaceable documents www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment