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lol, me rage-quitting a 10 person signal chat, I am so soft-core 😅

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Anyone with epilepsy can imagine how their life could go so wrong

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I kind of feel like we have spent so long preparing for/joking about the zombie apocalypse, TEOTWAWKI, etc that we have manifested it 🫣

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Update those jokes tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eg...

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it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

submitted 18 days ago • 180 comments

"No one ever wanted this" in action

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something about this rubs me extra-wrong because it’s clear this leftist has never engaged in community organizing like, you go to a protest, meet others standing for a cause, and build community through direct contact, LIKE EATING TOGETHER!! post-protest brunch is a key revolutionary activity!!

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

almost all efforts to police gender stemming from trans panic end up hurting cis people as well and in greater numbers, because there's a lot more cis people than trans people. because the greatest policing is around women, cis women end up particularly endangered.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Honestly, I reposted this because a number of accounts that are journalists I trust had, but when someone asked me about it, I looked and I don't know any more about this Velodus guy than I do about Alt NPS, and I didn't find anything more substantial

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We need The Wayback Machine www.armytimes.com/news/your-mi...

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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 43 days ago • 629 comments

It's amazing when I hear music and feel like the music I like is coming back around

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so like a few years ago i had a panic attack at a music festival about being an out trans reporter at politico and my best friend @horsejeans.bsky.social convinced me to put all that energy into my band if you wanna listen to the product of all that energy, this album is eerily relevant right now

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 53 days ago • 812 comments

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

submitted 58 days ago • 134 comments

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

submitted 59 days ago • 444 comments

If you are a liberal in deep blue territory, one thing you could try doing right now is figuring out how to replace your Democratic member of Congress next year. With very few exceptions, the typical safe seat Dem is not meeting the moment. Find someone who will and help them.

submitted 60 days ago • 455 comments

People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

submitted 61 days ago • 99 comments

One of the core beliefs I've adopted in the last few years is that we generally underrate how goofy and stupid the American past was and that being attentive to that helps us see continuities with the present. It's actually not obvious we live in dumber times. Every day tests this belief anew.

submitted 61 days ago • 51 comments

Never Forget

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my favorite pansexual meme www.memedroid.com/memes/detail...

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omg, politics and geometry 🍆

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Does anyone have any data on twitter use among non English speakers? An Indian friend who mostly chats in Telugu but shitposts in Hindi said he hadn’t noticed anyone leaving and had no thoughts on Elon Musk. Was kind of confused why I would even ask about him lol

submitted 155 days ago • 9 comments

It’s very clear when people are working from a definition of identity politics that assumes white identity politics is not included bsky.app/profile/djla...

submitted 178 days ago • 56 comments

1. What if ... Jack Kirby created Norman Podhoretz? Is it possible that the greatest of all comic book artists had, in the early 1940s, a visionary insight into the future career of the godfather of neo-conservatism? A strange but true tale of upward-mobility & class betrayal.

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