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hand her the Puskas right this second what the actual fuck

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 10 days ago • 440 comments

A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”.

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social A f**king book tour?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

An election that may not even happen.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

As always @kylec.bsky.social doesn’t miss.

submitted 17 days ago • 249 comments

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

"Trump’s campaign was intended to make Latino men feel 'a sense of being cared for and thought valuable.' It was meant to be directly pitched to their sense of status threat." Interesting from @aselrod.bsky.social: Status anxiety, not economic anxiety, is a better explanation for support for Trump:

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

If you know me, you know I volunteered hundreds of hours trying to get Ds elected last year. But I'm hard pressed to find anything I disagree with here.

submitted 39 days ago • 28 comments

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

submitted 44 days ago • 54 comments

This is real (at least in the US). It's not one of those stupid things where you put an idiotic statement on your FB page declaring something illegal. I just checked it on FB settings and it had a list of every website I visited recently. Fucking weird. The future kind of sucks.

submitted 44 days ago • 41 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 50 days ago • 379 comments

My definition of Trumpism: The need to obsessively punish the most vulnerable among us to distract from how we’re allowing a few of the richest humans ever to live to pillage us into constant distress.

submitted 53 days ago • 15 comments

Video: What Is Evolution? Philomena Cunk’s Moments of Wonder #blogpost

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

submitted 60 days ago • 188 comments

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

submitted 59 days ago • 212 comments

So much respect for Fannie Lou Hamer who today wins a posthumous Medal of Freedom. As she unforgettably once said, “Sometimes it seems today that to tell the truth is to risk getting killed. But if I fall, I fall 5 feet 4 inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing down.”

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.

submitted 68 days ago • 78 comments

"This should be written in red ink, red ink that smudges, so that all of us who peep at death for amusement from our warm safe beds should find our hands stained red by the end."

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten

submitted 71 days ago • 99 comments

To the “high road” Democratic leaders who say Biden should pardon Trump, knock it off. What the hell kind of a message do you think that would send? We need to fight autocracy, not flirt with it.

submitted 86 days ago • 530 comments

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

It feels like America is a Nazi bar

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

That's the best thing I've seen today!

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

By the great Mike Luckovich

submitted 124 days ago • 45 comments

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Me to

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

still cant get over how perfectly this describes vance. from harpers, 1941 "who goes nazi?"

submitted 154 days ago • 29 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #105,006!

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

pencils down

submitted 210 days ago • 69 comments

“My son is taking part in a social experiment. He has to wear a "Trump 2024" t-shirt for 2 weeks and see how people react. So far he's been spit on, punched and had a bottle thrown at him! I'm curious to see what happens when he goes outside.” -Author unknown

submitted 221 days ago • 4 comments

With all this stress I bet JD Vance is desperate to unload on his therapist's couch

submitted 224 days ago • 26 comments

I think the Bluesky version of annoying is you call some Nazi a douchebag and someone replies how a douche is an important hygenic product. The Twitter version of that annoying reply is a neo-Nazi seeing one of your posts and driving to your house and killing you.

submitted 226 days ago • 5 comments

In the many years of teaching kids a unit on either slavery or the Civil Rights, I never had a white kid feel bad because they identified with the racists. They all thought they'd be part of the Underground Railroad, they all thought they'd be best friends with Ruby Bridges.

submitted 237 days ago • 8 comments

In an 11-6 decision, the Tennessee Historical Commission has, once again, voted down a request from Middle Tennessee State University to rename a campus building that honors Nathan Bedford Forrest.--a slave trader, Confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the KKK. 🗃️ wpln.org/post/for-a-s...

submitted 246 days ago • 6 comments

It’s like the @washingtonpost.com heard everyone mocking Politico as “Tiger Beat on the Potomac” and got jealous

submitted 276 days ago • 11 comments

12 random citizens just risked their lives and the safety of their families to stand up for democracy. if you don't think that's even a little inspiring, I don't really know what to say.

submitted 279 days ago • 19 comments

At this point, I just assume every dude aggressively pushing AI has at least one restraining order against him.

submitted 288 days ago • 16 comments

Imagine being a billionaire who spends his time crying on the Internet instead of cruising the Mediterranean on a luxury yacht with a pet leopard

submitted 300 days ago • 57 comments

My spouse, @sirosenbaum.bsky.social, wrote an amazing story for The Atlantic about transness, surgery, and the recently deceased Schappell twins It's a landmark for The Atlantic, in that it's pro-trans Please read and share so the magazine sees that there are clicks in this Gift link:

submitted 302 days ago • 24 comments

other people have pointed this out but among NYPD lies about the Columbia protesters, none is more heartrending than the claim that nobody comes to school knowing how to fortify a position against an armed aggressor when in fact, there's no better test of whether someone is under the age of 30.

submitted 306 days ago • 10 comments

I hope folks remember this next time people start agitating for stronger hate crimes laws. The people who are a part of the system will decide if, when, and how those laws are enforced - and the system will (almost) always favor the advantaged over the disadvantaged.

submitted 307 days ago • 6 comments