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Shame that in a critical moment when the US needs leadership the most, we get a reality tv actor who doesn't know who Neville Chamberlain is.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

@jonbois.bsky.social When you get asked to do the 30 for 30 about the Chiefs dynasty and its controversies, I've got some working titles for you to go with. 15 for 15: The Mahomes Story Roughing the Patrick The Kansas City Cheats

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about a key challenge of life under clownish authoritarianism: Resisting the temptation to constantly rage against Trump’s latest antics – while making sure the silliness and buffoonery of Trumpism doesn’t obscure how extreme and dangerous the situation is.

submitted 49 days ago • 13 comments

Indians, and the larger Asian MAGA community, are going through a real "First they came for the Mexicans, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a Mexican" moment.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

It was fine when they were doing it to black people, but now they’re doing it to ME! bsky.app/profile/ronf...

submitted 60 days ago • 174 comments

FUCK YOURSELF IN THE FACE RACISTS. But anyways, like I was saying, we need to deport all these Mexicans ASAP because they're destroying the country.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I remember growing up watching Bush stumble through his speeches as his incoherent Iraq war strategy played itself out, and thinking politics was just so unbelievably stupid. Little did I know that 2024 politics was gonna make him look like fuckin Carl Sagan.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

At least 75% of American punditry at this point is packaging the least challenging ideas imaginable as forbidden truths.

submitted 74 days ago • 38 comments

"Class war is only recognized as violence when waged by labor against capital; the everyday slow murder by prior authorization and wage theft waged by the latter against the former is viewed as the natural and civil order of things." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 78 days ago • 7 comments

The images coming out of Sednaya are too horrific to share. But they tell us what we already knew from countless testimony over the years. Never forgive those who defended and justified this regime. They have the blood of Sednaya on their hands.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Sednaya is a concentration camp or a death camp not a prison not a jail . Let’s describe it as what it actually is. Never forgive never forget those who supported and carried out this genocide

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

A solitary confinement cell inside Sednaya Prison.

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

Professional Kremlin-backed ghoul, grifter, & genocide-denying Assad propagandist Aaron Mate gets a richly deserved slapdown.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time to bring him home. #FreeAustinTice

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The % of Latino voters favoring deportation and other anti-immigrant policies jumped as Trump and right-wing media demagogued the issue -- and as Democrats retreated and refused to defend immigrants. Leadership sometimes means explaining why good and moral policies are good and moral.

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments