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most dogs seem to like me. twin cities, minnesota.
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You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

submitted 17 hours ago • 237 comments

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about Meta's defense of training its AI on millions of pirated books, including: they didn't read the pirated copies, it would be annoying to license them, and they don't think the books are individually worth anything to them, anyway. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

submitted 19 hours ago • 313 comments

My take on the “we need to hear more right wing opinions” thing is the people saying it believes that everyone is as right wing as they are but they just don’t say it because they’re afraid people will get mad, but if we hit a saturation point everyone will suddenly drop the mask and agree with them

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Rowling, like Musk, demonstrates why the ultra-wealthy cannot be allowed to be so: because they use their wealth to buy the world they want to live in

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when something made after 2000 breaks, i sing, “they built this shitty, they built this shitty for cost control, built this shitty — they built this shitty for cost controoooOOOOOOLLL”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

At least two protesters were tased by police officers at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall in Acworth, Georgia, on Tuesday. Several others were removed from the room for interrupting the congresswoman.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Old enough to remember when 30 campus speaker disinvitation attempts were a grave threat to free speech

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

“Not a provocative thinker.” — Matt Yglesias on Matt Yglesias 🤌

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his *entire career* to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments

“what would you have done?” is no longer a hypothetical thought exercise. if you’re not doing anything, there’s your answer.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1338 comments

when my parents and their friends turned 40, they got Over the Hill YOU WILL DIE SOON🪦 stuff and now i’m turning 40 this year and it’s all like “oh, so marathons or birding or gardening?”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Tapping the sign

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's as American as chattel slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, and Indian Boarding Schools. Project 2025 really isn't relying on any other history than America's. I need y'all to tap into what has been happening here all along.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Fight for your moral center.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I don’t think enough people know that Russia currently defines “the international queer movement” as a terrorist movement and criminalizes accordingly. So, you know, when Trump mentions criminals, if you are queer/Black/poor/someone who’s ever criticized him, HE MEANS YOU.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I really do not think people outside America comprehend the depth of poverty and inequality that exists here, in the richest nation to ever exist.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation? Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

I learned a few things from this piece by Zak Cheney-Rice about the way the American Nazis have been studying and promoting Bukele’s governance style nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

the core of tech bro fascism is a bunch of dudes who simultaneously hate artists and the creative process more than anything and lack the ability to interpret reality outside of what they've been taught by movies and TV

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

it is interesting how this was totally an elite fabrication. trans rights were on the path to general acceptance on the gay marriage coattails but nearly our entire elite culture including elite liberals decided to run a multi-year op against a tiny minority

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Mentioning a huge animus behind the Lavender Scare/Gutting of the State Department and New Deal capacity was a collective masculine freak out that YOUR SONS would do OFFICE WORK and not OWN A RANCH like some kind of FAGG-

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

we live in hell today.yougov.com/politics/art...

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Sociologist Orlando Patterson introduced the idea of “social death” to describe how enslaved people were stripped of all rights and social ties. Now Trump’s trying to enact ”social security death.”

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

klob thinks minnesotans are idiots

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

two years ago, silicon valley bank collapsed, threatening to wipe out large swathes of the fortunes of peter thiel and his cronies. so joe biden stepped in to cover their losses through the fdic. they were made whole. then they bankrolled trump. and now no one else will ever be made whole again.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

very real, from @maris.bsky.social lithub.com/what-does-it...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

America started doing this in a very public way with Muslims in Guantanamo. Everyone should have been very very afraid then. What we are seeing at this next stage is No Going Back Now.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

A second kid just died of measles.

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Yesterday I shared w/ my students their rights should ICE come on campus. "Of course," I said, "that's just the law." Here's a woman who knew her rights. They protected her twice, because she knew they needed a warrant. The third time ICE came, the agent said, "“I don’t need to show you the order."

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

submitted 8 days ago • 167 comments

I’m just gonna keep dropping this here because every time some new dumb shit happens people who voted for it act surprised

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

when I say it's abuse at scale 👇🏽

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

For everyone panic-buying new iPhones today, the footage from the Savadorean hell prison suggests that the administration won’t let you keep your phones in the camps.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Unfortunately for a large number of americans their ideal existence is being a plantation owner in 1820s mississippi and they feel a deep personal void that they were born in a time that denied them the opportunity bsky.app/profile/mari...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 287 comments

Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d...

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:

submitted 9 days ago • 87 comments

1. Happening now: Montana is hearing a bill that would charge parents of transgender kids with felony child endangerment. It is one of the most extreme bills of the year, and the vote is TODAY. It's already passed the MT Senate. Watch live with me: sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmon...

submitted 9 days ago • 366 comments

Oh my god that’s exactly what all this “de-extinction” stuff is. It’s way sexier and more scifi to pretend like we can bring back mammoths (we can’t) than actual wildlife conservation, which is a lot of unsexy hard work but actually gets results.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments