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my longest held belief is that if you’re nearing your middle ages you need to get into a semi-social hobby or creative project quickly otherwise you are more susceptible to rightwing radicalization brain rot content

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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 28 days ago • 2163 comments

These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask

submitted 30 days ago • 985 comments

he’s so fast with it. now we wait for the relationship between the divas to deteriorate publicly. 😈

submitted 31 days ago • 42 comments

Just no words for this level of cruelty and enthusiasm for inflicting suffering on the poorest in our society

submitted 32 days ago • 281 comments

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

submitted 32 days ago • 3963 comments

Despicable

submitted 32 days ago • 358 comments

permission to lib out, sir

submitted 32 days ago • 110 comments

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

submitted 32 days ago • 1425 comments

Eyewitnesses Say Israel Appears to Be Dropping New Types of Munitions on Gaza

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I’m sure all the people who shared NYT’s ‘Screams Without Words’ and Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Screams Before Silence’ will be sharing this new UN report on Israel’s systematic sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian men and women, right? Right?

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Pills: Can We Get Some? We’re Really Hurting Right Now

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NEW: The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire, wide-reaching and deadly,” an advocate for Black veterans said. By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

submitted 62 days ago • 246 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 62 days ago • 291 comments

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

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I can’t stop staring at this tweet. It’s like the Mona Lisa.

submitted 67 days ago • 254 comments

Axiomatic: every time somebody compromises themselves by making excuses for their bosses' attempt to appease Trump, their bosses see the weakness and exploit further. Maddow, who pushed MSNBC's bullshit that Joy Reid "left", just let them fire her staff www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 67 days ago • 141 comments

You asked, we listened... Now you can share ProPublica stories directly to Bluesky! 🦋

submitted 67 days ago • 75 comments

I feel like a lot of people watch this show rooting for some and rooting against others. I guarantee you the best way to watch this show is to root for chaos and memorable moments and you can't go wrong. #TheTraitorsUS

submitted 72 days ago • 17 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

submitted 72 days ago • 1138 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 73 days ago • 1357 comments

We do not throw away perfectly good food in this house. We put it in Tupperware & wait for it to go bad & then we throw it away.

submitted 79 days ago • 472 comments

Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza has been their “final solution” to “the Palestinian Problem.” The explosive equivalent of six atomic bombs has annihilated a region less than half the size of Hiroshima. (1/?)

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submitted 81 days ago • 384 comments

A Friendly Guide to Deadnaming: TRANS PEOPLE: No! SOCIAL MEDIA SITES: Yes! GULFS: ¡Si!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

fight each other or fight together? #songwriter #lgbtq #politics #activism #music #humanrights #classconsciousness #eattherich

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Lock Clicks Behind Marco Rubio During Tour Of Salvadoran Prison Cell

submitted 82 days ago • 142 comments

i hope it’s clear that big tech is not an ally. it only was as much as it was profitable. textboon rainbow capitalism, and now when they saw the writing on the wall, they flopped back into fascisms arms

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In an interview with @cnn.com, MSF's Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim describes the horrific violence against civilians in #Sudan, worrying levels of malnutrition, and barriers for aid organizations. The freezing of US aid in this situation is 'effectively a death sentence'. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/T...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

i mean this so seriously. if you are transgender. please be safe. do not get caught commiting crimes. do not get caught by the state. do not sacrifice yourself, we will survive

submitted 87 days ago • 99 comments

white nationalists feel so comfortable they’re actively calling for race wars with their whole ass legal names. being “woke” might be cringe but i’m wokeness needs to make a comeback in a major way i’m not even joking

submitted 87 days ago • 42 comments

Oh

submitted 87 days ago • 168 comments

Beyond. Parody.

submitted 87 days ago • 281 comments

Trump is going to declare martial law with or without protestors. He’s already rounding up thousands of innocent people, dismantling the government, looting the treasury, and peacefully playing golf in between. It’s now or never.

submitted 88 days ago • 153 comments

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

submitted 89 days ago • 1523 comments

Good piece from @anandwrites.bsky.social

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