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I've never seen so much fear and favor in my life, y'all.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The kidnapping and rendition of Abrego Garcia isn't the top of a slippery slope, it's a proof of concept. It's not a warning shot, it's a trial run. #abregogarcia #rendition #cecot #elsalvador #Trump

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I have seen some wild things on social media in my day, but British people trying to insult Southern cooking and elevate their own… uhhh…. food is the pinnacle. The levels of audacity and delulu!

submitted 21 days ago • 83 comments

Young voters have historically trusted Democrats to work against outdated policies and toward systemic change. But the shift in party dynamics has left many young voters increasingly disaffected by politics and disconnected from a party that once felt aligned with our values.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

I hate to rat out my generation, but #cursive sucks. It was awful to have to learn, we all hated it (except the couple of kids in the class with perfect handwriting), and the only thing we ever did with it was learn our signatures. To this day, none of us remember how to make a capital Q.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Things make a lot more sense when you realize that a lot of folks are willing to pay a steep price for punishing Black and brown folks, women, and LGBTQ folks just for existing. It's not that they don't understand the cost of their actions, they just value the "reward" of those actions a lot more.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Part of the utility of an empty signifier like #DEI for Republicans is that they can fit anything at all into that category and then denounce it without having to use any reference beyond the three letters. It's not racism, it's anti-DEI. It's not erasing history, it's anti-DEI. #Woke is the same.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

This seems perfectly legitimate. I didn’t even know I’d applied for a spouse. My wife will be very excited. #singapore #mailorderbride #seemslegit

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

It’s the MAGA movement in a nutshell. Non-rich idiots following rich idiots as an excuse to terrorize Black women.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

"When faced with two awful choices, pick the one that requires less courage." - The Art of Losing, by Chuck Schumer

submitted 56 days ago • 417 comments

Poor @normornstein.bsky.social is suggesting the most minimal, timid, polite steps by congressional Dems to resist Trump and they’re acting like he wants to firebomb a Tesla dealership.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a kid watching #LooneyTunes, I never imagined that freaking Cod Liver Oil was going to make a big comeback. What's next, #RFKJr, Ipecac?

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

If your political ideology is built on the exclusion and pain of trans people, you can go straight to hell.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Damn, the former hellsite is just riddled with hate bots.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Did #chatgpt pay for this cybersecurity training? Because the narrator will not stop talking about how perfect it is at doing stuff it definitely cannot do.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Most establishment journalists have stayed on Twitter, which is owned and controlled by a right-wing fanatic who is now the acting president of the country. Here's why we have to worry about liberal bias in the media.

submitted 65 days ago • 57 comments

I don't know why, but there's something incredibly comforting about watching anime characters talk about food.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever you think about Ukraine and Russia, you have to admit that Zelensky's refusal to fellate Trump and Vance on tv was a major diplomatic failure.

submitted 69 days ago • 107 comments

You know, I wasn't always happy with @mcbath.house.gov when she was my representative, but now I long for those days because my current congressional rep is Rich "Elementary School Kids Should Get Jobs If They Want Food" McCormick. I'm so embarrassed and angry that my neighbors voted for him.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Boy, I sure hope all these federal workers being fired weren’t doing, you know, jobs.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t want to know when my food is “best by.” I want to know at which point eating it will kill me

submitted 84 days ago • 310 comments

Celebrity fashion news comes in exactly two flavors: 1: Female star X wore a sexy outfit and it was amazing! 2: Female star X worse a sexy outfit and she's a filthy whore! I wonder if they all have coins they flip to decide which flavor they choose.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, the NFL is so deeply in the bag for the Chiefs that they [checks notes] made them lose by so much that no one is watching the second half of the Super Bowl

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Look, woodpecker who is currently pecking at the side of my house, this is not the time for a Poe metaphor.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen some folks say that we shouldn't be talking so loudly about how our Democratic representatives are failing us. They say that weakens us in our fight against fascism. Nonsense. Representative government only works if we push our representatives to do their jobs, not just issue statements.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

If your news outlet of choice is reporting on the tarriffs using the passive voice (i.e., "a trade war is breaking out" or "a dispute is evolving"), they're part of the problem. I'm looking at you, @npr.org

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Civility is going to get us all killed.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Way to bravely push back on Mark Kelly’s answers on Laken Riley, @chrislhayes.bsky.social. The cowardly silence at the end of that interview really inspired me as a progressive. 🙄

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

It's good to see @chrislhayes.bsky.social pointing out the hypocrisy of Trump on TikTok, but it's painful to watch him act like there's a real national security issue here. "I'm torn on the policy" is such utter nonsense. No one can explain how TikTok could ever be a national security threat.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not a big fan of the concept of logical fallacies. Many examples of fallacies aren't actually fallacious. And logic? Come on, man. But boy oh boy is the ad populum fallacy having its moment in the sun. Yes, my dude, I can indeed imagine that 40% of the public are idiots. Why is this a question?

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow I think this "white powder" song by Elton John on the "50 Songs for Snow" playlist I found on Spotify is not about, um, actual snow.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments