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easy test of one's moral reasoning is the ability to see that the situations in Ukraine and Gaza/West Bank are very similar. a lot of people failed

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

"You never said 'Thank you.'"

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The damage Trump is doing to the international reputation of the United States will take a decade to recover from. We will still be feeling the effects of this well in to the second Mr. Beast administration.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Saw a man lifting weights in a “Who is John Galt?” shirt today. Like spotting a Tasmanian tiger.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

hey everybody guess what

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

i keep seeing the right argue that the nazi salutes are "trolling." i think there's some truth to that, but know what exactly is being mocked. they aren't mocking the idea that they could be nazis, they're mocking the idea that they should care one way or the other.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

A defiant Mayor Eric Adams, standing in front of a dozen elderly members of the clergy, gives a speech to the assembled media in which it gradually becomes clear that he believes all of the events that happen in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats "really happened, right here in New York."

submitted 9 days ago • 69 comments

You hold the arsonist(s) accountable AFTER the fire is out. But listen to me. Look at me: You Have To Hold The Arsonists Accountable.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

The Busy World of Doctor Who

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

New post: blocklist for AI music on youtube #text https://surasshu.com/blocklist-for-ai-music-on-youtube

submitted 15 days ago • 114 comments

It's horrific that JD Vance would go to Dachau yesterday, talk about being "deeply moved," then spend today telling Germans to welcome into government the Holocaust-minimizing, far-right AfD. But it also needs to be the final nail in the coffin of "Holocaust museum as ritual penance for bigotry."

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

On the one hand, military history has a more even political balance than most history (that is, there are more conservatives there), but on the other hand, every military historian I know, even the conservatives (especially the conservatives), pretty much despises Pete Hegseth.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Abolish the family is not a goal we negotiate or compromise on.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I am an atheist and this offends me on behalf of Christ.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I think I speak for all New Yorkers when I say that I think Mayor Eric Adams is good again. He can now refocus on being afraid of, disgusted by, and confused about the city he governs, and most importantly inspiring all New Yorkers with the power of whatever it is that makes him act like this.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

So much for the big rift or falling out that many are falling over themselves to divine in the tealeaves...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 22 days ago • 762 comments

Where were these people a year ago? What billionaire was burying their work before?

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

The parents of all those children need to be sent directly to hell

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

In this exchange, @andycraig.bsky.social does a nice job in explaining just how lawless Elon Musk's autocratic power grab has truly become. Read these four screen caps: newrepublic.com/article/1911...

submitted 24 days ago • 28 comments

What if Kyrsten Sinema looked like Shrek?

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Did you hear Yancy Street’s been gentrified and they’re putting up luxury condos? What a revoltin’ development.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

These fucking cowards. These votes shouldn't even be close calls. These are deeply dangerous demagogues. And people like Cassidy know it. Just an utterly betrayal of everything they claim to value.

submitted 25 days ago • 24 comments

Someone powerful and influential in the Democratic party listen to this man.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

submitted 26 days ago • 239 comments

Whew! That is pure concentrated racism! If competent white men had been honest with their mid-to-loser brethren about their unqualified status from the beginning instead of blaming "diversity initiatives," we wouldn't have this problem.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

is anyone tracking the timestamps on musk tweets? it doesn't look like he's sleeping at all. surely that's not improving his judgment.

submitted 26 days ago • 74 comments

I should probably butt out and let the kids handle things but I'm concerned that some of them still don't fully understand about Monetary Expression of Labour Time...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Alt-right memes from 2015 have now officially entered the mainstream, evidence number a million.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Jacobin PitchBot: “sorry, we checked Gramsci’s prison notebooks and it turns out that this is still isn’t fascism yet”

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Langston Hughes

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

"Donald Trump's Black History Month Proclamation Reads As If It Was Written by the United Daughters of the Confederacy" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

MAGA has launched what amounts to a political purge of the FBI. You don't have to like the FBI to see how dangerous this is. The Weimar German police forces were bad. Of course. ACAB, yes. The new Nazi regime's political takeover and reorganisation of them was catastrophic.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Who are you talking to right now? Me? Am I supposed to go handle things? What the fuck do you actually do?

submitted 28 days ago • 67 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 29 days ago • 328 comments

not to downplay the ugliness of this but this is the equivalent of busywork. they are giving him executive orders to sign so that it feels like he’s doing something.

submitted 29 days ago • 1234 comments

Later in the book, Buck-Morss walks this line back, but damn if it isn’t memorable.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

New Public Bonus episode of IDSG: Estranged Parents, with special guest @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/public-bonus...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments