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I second this as someone who has loves living in cities. But even if you have no personal tie to big cities, please recognize that valorizing small town/rural Americans over cities is a key element of fascist ideology. The volk of the land vs the foreign, rootless city types. It’s a BAD trope.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Today is a good day for everyone to learn about ADS-B Exchange (which includes aircraft that you won’t see on FlightAware: globe.adsbexchange.com

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

For a little context here: Christ Church put forward a zoning request to open a shelter for unhoused people - I think it was like 12 beds. The local government of Toms River is responding by trying to eminent domain the church and turn it into a pickleball court

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

It takes 1 minute to send a letter to all NYC Mayoral candidates demanding increased public library funding: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I love that the Pulitzer site is straight up like "Yeah, she won because she's so fearless that she quit her job over censorship," and WaPo is still like "Look! We won!" and just acting oblivious to how this makes them look.

submitted 42 days ago • 13 comments

“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist

submitted 42 days ago • 407 comments

NYC, please fill out this letter to Mayoral candidates demanding an increase in public library funding. It takes 1 minute: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema... - then please share the letter with others so they sign it too.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

props to the photo editor

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 56 days ago • 103 comments

I honestly can’t stop thinking about this RFK speech. A lot of the outrage around it is focused on pointing out that it’s not true. But so fucking what if it was? Do people whose bodies don’t work not deserve to exist in society? If all these things were true for a person are they less worthy?

submitted 60 days ago • 31 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake. Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back. If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe. Kilmar is all of us.

submitted 62 days ago • 138 comments

This story seems to be getting more attention.

submitted 62 days ago • 28 comments

Sen Van Hollen has announced that he will go to El Salvador to check on Mr Garcia and the other prisoners i’m calling my reps, including Sen Mark Kelly — an american hero — to tell them they should go too you should call yours: the capitol switchboard is at (202) 224-3121

submitted 62 days ago • 7 comments

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

submitted 62 days ago • 193 comments

Public Incelectuals

submitted 64 days ago • 28 comments

Imagine you were dealing with a person who would report that there was two and there was also this other two but didn't want to add them up to get to four, because getting all the way to four felt like making a statement and they didn't want to alarm anybody or be accused of making an accusation.

submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

I love this. Pls do more of this. Share unrelated NYC stories and end with Do Not Rank Andrew Cuomo 😂🧡✊☠️

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

NYC voters must also not forget how Cuomo worked tirelessly as governor to betray the legislative agenda of his fellow Democrats by helping Republicans maintain a NY State Senate majority from 2011 to 2018 through the IDC. #NoCuomo www.politico.com/states/new-y... cc: @lindseyboylan.bsky.social

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 72 days ago • 226 comments

Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.

submitted 66 days ago • 35 comments

There has never been and never will be a birthrate induced shortage of human beings on this planet. There are many reasons one might want children, as I do. It is simply not the case that anyone in particular has a responsibility to consider having children to perpetuate the existence of humanity.

submitted 65 days ago • 130 comments

#TRL

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

submitted 83 days ago • 1141 comments

Reminder this is how we win

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

For ten years, a serial rapist walked the streets of Wisconsin, while the rape kit that could have convicted him sat on shelves. His victims waited years for justice. All because of Brad Schimel. Wisconsin, a vote for Susan Crawford is a vote for safety.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

Will always repost this whenever I see it.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Note the gleeful acknowledgement that the point of sending people there is to be tortured

submitted 87 days ago • 44 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 91 days ago • 627 comments

Do you know why rural and working people are listening to Walz and AOC and Bernie? Because they tell the damn truth. Because they are passionate about people. Because they are authentic. Because they care. They are the new face of the opposition.

submitted 91 days ago • 878 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 91 days ago • 1028 comments

They want children to die of brain cancer because MAGA is a death cult.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 93 days ago • 2100 comments

they look at russia — a stagnant backwater — with envy

submitted 93 days ago • 223 comments

Are you ready to take the step to support your local library system by seeking appointment or running for a library board seat? For the People is here to help you: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

🎵Start spreading the news🎶

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

I do believe we’re facing a generational problem. We have Dems who’ve been in office so long that they think their job is just to get elected in the next cycle and not to govern and wield power. They worry too much about what Rs might weaponize and as a result they refuse to fight.

submitted 94 days ago • 255 comments

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

submitted 94 days ago • 84 comments

The reason I suggested you get them to cancel is because Schumer is a narcissist who loves attention. It's a joke that he only turns up at book talks and Brooklyn high school graduations. Bonus points if you get them to replace him with a more popular author who speaks to the moment

submitted 94 days ago • 12 comments

At this point, I think there needs to be a boycott of donations to all Senate Democrats until they force Chuck Schumer to step down as leader. Enough is enough.

submitted 94 days ago • 116 comments

1/ At ProPublica, we measure success by the impact our journalism has in the real world. Thanks to the support of our readers, our reporting has led to: 👇🏼

submitted 95 days ago • 10 comments

If you're a bright high school kid considering Columbia or the parent of one, I would suggest a rethink.

submitted 98 days ago • 10 comments

Non-white women are going to be accused of being masculine or gaining an edge, when they defeat white women who fit the western ideals of femininity. All that white women will need to do is accuse their non-white opponent of not being a woman. And men will come to destroy her to feel “protective”.

submitted 100 days ago • 41 comments