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I’m sorry, but all these guys in camouflage and this many armored vehicles all rolled out for one taco shop? The armored trucks w military cops hanging off them look like they should be rolling up the beaches of Normandy, not downtown Minneapolis. (Pics from the linked article.)

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"A US senator is apparently calling for a government... to bomb a boat carrying food to a starving population." @premthakker.bsky.social reports on Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham seemingly threatening activist Greta Thunberg who's currently on a boat filled with aid heading toward Gaza.

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Fascists love to be scary. Being called a fascist or dictator makes them proud. What they can't handle is being mocked and laughed at. Being the butt of jokes is the one thing that will consistently make Trump melt down and lash out. It's our most effective weapon outside the courts.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Rather than requiring our students to learn obscure foreign vocabulary, we should have a plain and simple English word for the practice of dipping people in chocolate and filling them with pastry cream.

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Science research — health, space, weather, agriculture, energy, materials, and more — is a perfect example of a common good which is most effectively funded by the public sector. Cutting these investments will result in lasting harms for everyone on earth, and its impact will continue for decades.

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He may very well be antisemitic and we may see more overt examples once more info comes in, but in this entire piece the totality of evidence given for this prejudice is his hatred of...Zionism

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This post from Senator ‪@chrismurphyct.bsky.social‬ is awful — it comes across as an attempt to get to the right of Trump on immigration, which seems unlikely to win any votes — and erodes any trust I might have been accumulating for him in recent weeks.

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This is Minnesota. I get the sense these guys are going to keep rolling out the most ridiculous equipment they have as an intimidation tactic. They've seen the videos from San Diego last week being told to fuck off.

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City Council Member Vickie Paladino is a far-right politician who frequently tweets insane things about progressives, but this attack is notable because it suggests MAGA is starting to call for the deportation of Democratic politicians who are naturalized citizens:

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In the face of unprecedented attacks on science in America, have at least the courage of a South Florida weatherman.

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this is something I’ve been thinking about a lot we are not, as a country, the kind of place where armed goons in masks kidnapping people in broad daylight is a common experience and I don’t think most people are going to like it very much when it becomes significantly more common

submitted 23 hours ago • 59 comments

Bigot surprised at SCA’s reaction to anti-Pride post ACROSS THE KNOWNE WORLD – As numerous Society for Creative Anachronism groups ramp up social media posts for Pride, numerous still were complaints from medieval enthusiasts hoping to find a group that would accommodate their rather medieval ways…

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Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

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Fun read by @jeetheer.bsky.social with an interesting modern history of political drug use/abuse by the far right.

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These bright-yellow oleander aphids are growing fat and plentiful on the sap of a dogbane plant. Aphids are a pest in agricultural settings, but I'm pleased to see them here, because they're a favorite food for ladybugs and other insectivores whose numbers will be growing in the coming weeks.

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I'm really pleased with the way the grapevines and little trees soften the edges of the otherwise-drab fence and stairs in front of our buildings.

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This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation

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Killing civilians for their politics is monstrous no matter who does it or why

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I think these might be ready to eat by tomorrow...

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you say you didn't vote for this and I don't know what the fuck you thought you were voting for

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It’s better than even odds that Trump shared this dumb post because he didn’t have his glasses on and he liked the photo and now the White House press secretary will have to be like “Experts agree that it’s quite possible cyborgs walk among us, no matter what the fake news claims.”

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

the big disconnect that happens here is between the correct message for D politicians (especially in red states), which is “you’re right, this isn’t who you are, you’re better than that, vote differently next time” and the actual truth, which is yes you did, fuck you

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

Yeah, it doesn’t actually matter what rhetorical path it takes to pry people out of their maga fever, we have to give folks cultural permission to walk out and save face or hold onto their sense of self while unplugging from the death cult. idgaf about any party, claiming any of them is whatever.

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HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Notice that “protestors” and “rioters” are being used interchangeably.

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wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

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i didn’t predict this with data or sources. i predicted it by being extremely online

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The State Department is using Substack to post a lightly-veiled rewrite of the fourteen words: “On both sides of the Atlantic, we must preserve… our common culture, ensuring that Western civilization remains a source of virtue, freedom, and human flourishing for generations to come.”

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Might be time to repost this oldie of mine from the bad site (originally written in response to arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/17/l... )

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Ohh please.

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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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been trying to figure out the feeling of the forced march to AI, a thing that no one wants or needs and will almost certainly make the world worse—the way it's being imposed from every direction, like someone just flipped a switch without asking—and I think I've settled on the leadup to the Iraq War

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If the next few years see Jake Tapper moving over to Fox "News," I will not be surprised in the slightest... he's well on his way already!

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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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I am reluctant to criticize people with substance abuse problems... but I would seriously have to think twice before putting this guy in charge of anything more complicated than ordering a pizza.

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Trump to NYC: Drop Dead. (Weekly roundup of multiple separate ways the administration is trying to make life here more difficult: housing, transit, food aid, health, immigration.)

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Former police officer takes Email Job and immediately crumbles, describing the mere act of going to an office every day as a Herculean act of strength and discipline.

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it's cool that we managed to put machines on mars that can take and send pictures and i support space exploration as a public endeavor and public good, but holy fuck everything we've seen out there is so much uglier and less cool than our own planet

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New York GDP per capita: $117.3K Florida GDP per capita: $73.8K Republicans want you to be poor

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You may be shocked to learn that the answer to people's utter lack of faith in democratic institutions is not an esoteric conversation about building and zoning codes

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The only ppl who think this is normal are the terminally online across the political spectrum who are no longer capable of understanding the fact that the most maladjusted people that they encounter online are not actually representative of the offline world writ large

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Mother Jones was a fearless fighter for workers’ rights, responsible for organizing miners across the US. We visited her birthplace in Cork, Ireland, to honor her tireless struggle with the working poor. Solidarity forever.

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New Yorkers — you can give the first-place spot on your ballot to anyone who strikes your fancy... but if you don't include Mamdani on your ballot (even in fifth place!), you'll be helping to elect a corrupt carpetbagger with a history of harassing women — keep the DREAM alive, and say no to Cuomo.

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The idea that the guy who ran the Silk Road online drug market might not just be pardoned, but then go on to share a stage with the Vice President... it would have been unimaginable under any normal regime, but apparently this is the world we live in now.

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