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I am fed up to my back teeth with this whiny "[white cishet] teen boys simply have no CHOICE but to idolize amoral violent misogynist criminals like Tate, because modern life is so confusing now!!" excuse-making. Fuck off. Sack up. What you got, as the fellow said in the thing, ain't nothin' new.

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1/2 Those who have stood up and said HELL NO in court have won nearly all their cases, and in many have made Trump back down. (See also: China, vs Trump tariffs.) Those who surrendered in advance found Trump asking for more. (See also: Paul, Weiss; general history of appeasement.) /cont

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

I miss dvd commentary tracks

submitted 1 day ago • 216 comments

They literally did the Onion article. Agents posted up outside her hospital room.

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HHS says its new report on gender-affirming care proves that science doesn't support the care & that its risks are too great. But the report doesn't really support that blanket statement. It found “sparse” to no evidence of harm and evidence about the benefits of gender-affirming care.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It’s just more Calvinist isolationist bullshit. If you starve, that’s on you for not putting in a vertical garden and taking advantage of that wasted space. Bird flu? Should have planned for that. Your self made bra stabs you with your makeshift underwire? Probably didn’t spend enough time on it.

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The autopen was invented in the 1930s

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Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from ICE detention. Video Credit: Riley Livermore Read: zeteo.com/p/breaking-m...

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A lawless government wants us to believe we live in a lawless country. If we buy that lie, we start to think it can do whatever it wants—just because it says so. The rule of law is on life support, but it’s not dead yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

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Really doesn’t matter what point an ally is trying to make if they use the “biological” language they’re doing more harm than good cause they have already ceded the fundamentals

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AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

submitted 4 days ago • 567 comments

honorary gay status revoked

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One part of NY's 2019 criminal justice reforms that hasn't gotten clawed back yet is a law that says cops can't arrest and lock people up on low-level charges—they have to give them an appearance ticket. The NYPD response, it seems, has been to simply ignore the law. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-unlawfu...

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At the risk of stating the obvious: these raids are deliberately designed to facilitate and legitimise vigilante violence They show up masked and unidentified and when you ask for ID they charge you with a crime. That's not ordinary powertripping, it's a deliberate tactic

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I've never understood the jokes about "underwater basket weaving" by people against post secondary education like, sure it would be pointless, but it would also take insane amounts of skill to weave a basket underwater. people do more pointless shit in stupider places every fuckin day

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

submitted 6 days ago • 286 comments

a BABY. they deported a TODDLER. who was a CITIZEN. The people who did this are soulless and we’d have to build Hell 2 to contain them

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

By the way this isn't an obscure act; it was the one used to justify the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the one never overturned by the Supreme Court or US District Court, even when Fred Korematsu's case was appealed in the 1980s.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Reportedly, ICE showed up with an unsigned administrative warrant rather than the full-fledged warrant the judge demanded, the judge reportedly sent them to work it out with the chief judge and let the defendant leave.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Empire threatens and intimidates because it wants us to be afraid, small, and alone. It wants us to withdraw and isolate so that we lose our capacity to build power and organize. So let us be together. Let us find each other.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

When I was young I remember thinking how could European society have collapsed so much in the Middle Ages, how could people let art and science die, and now I’m like oh lol I get it

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None of you in queer adjacent, leftist discords dare give them the scan of your ID or your face so you can view "mature content"; doing so would be extremely fucking stupid and endanger you and everyone else on the server.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

wish i knew the artist to credit, but this badger has some damn good advice

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Maybe people should pay close attention to the fact that Gavin Newsom's political instincts actually SUCK. Keep that in mind if/when folks start to tell you that you HAVE to vote for this person.

submitted 13 days ago • 54 comments

Asked why he was so good at defensive game-planning, Bill Belichick explained that many try to find a weakness and exploit it, while he finds a strength and takes it away. Democrats ducking the immigration issue, as if they should compete only where they’re already winning, is bad strategy.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

everyone signing on to be a part of the new HBO Max Harry Potter series is endorsing this and should be treated accordingly

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

You have to read this article. "The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 16 days ago • 36 comments

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

This is why it makes NO SENSE to talk about "the country" voted for x, y, or z.

submitted 15 days ago • 48 comments