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the clearest proof Jackie Robinson was one of the most consequential people in history is that nearly a century after he started playing baseball, cowards are still working tirelessly to shut him up

submitted 18 days ago • 36 comments

I love JCO, but this app desperately needs a feature to mute retweets from a specific user

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Every popular comment section on twitter is just: 15 inane comments from accounts without bluechecks 30 inane comments from bluechecks who didn’t pay enough to hide their bluechecks Followed by the actual replies from real people

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 65 days ago • 4379 comments

It’s a facile point but “gender ideology” is such a capacious and imprecise term—never actually defined, so it can mean anything. And it’s used almost exclusively by people advancing their own, highly specific and prescriptive ideology of gender.

submitted 64 days ago • 39 comments

Saquon Barkley is not human lol

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

this idea that journalists are not allowed to describe objective reality that they see but can only quote what other people believe about things is one of the stupid ideas that has basically destroyed a shared reality

submitted 76 days ago • 37 comments

Legitimately insane that they put all of the oligarchs on the dais right behind Trump and Vance. Not even pretending to hide it

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Secretary Blinken says "we assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost."

submitted 82 days ago • 276 comments

Thinking about this today

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so fucked up that progressive insurance just stole clay Aiken’s likeness for Flo’s little sidekick

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Beyond parody

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs

submitted 139 days ago • 134 comments

Refusing to legally admit guilt only matters in the courtroom imo. In the court of public opinion, it’s totally fine to view a settlement as the admission of guilt that it is, especially with an nda attached

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social was legitimately the only reason I was still on twitter. Easily one of the greatest posters of our time

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.

submitted 151 days ago • 402 comments

It's insane to me that people treat the current electoral college process as some sacred institution given to the founding fathers by divine inspiration that can never be altered or updated, when in reality the first competitive presidential election looked like this:

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Give the food scientists who invented Nerds gummy clusters a Nobel

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments