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Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
Why I Broke Up with LA by Lena Dunham:
Coyotes kept eating my rescue dogs, and a neighbor asked how many dogs I have, and I said I just go to the shelter and get a new dog afterwards, so they said it sounds like I'm just feeding shelter dogs to coyotes, and then I started crying and moved to London.
55 years ago today, 4 students at Kent State University were killed for protesting the Vietnam war.
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Knox Schroeder, 19
We must stand against war, militarism, and government attacks on protest.
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theres no better feeling than when your vibes based hating turns into facts based hating
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Everything I said about Fetterman was true, and I have no sympathy for him. Get him out of there.
Every now and then you see an outlet post something that you know will end up in a museum about how we as a society let it happen
NPR did a 30-minute interview with Steve Bannon in his podcast studio that aired just yesterday. PBS had on Chris Rufo tonight. Cozying up to these fucks won’t save you.
the report’s actual contents do not matter
it exists solely as an object to point to in order to justify absolute control over certain classes of people, like the Cass Review or the Bible
The first major outlet to call Gamergate bullshit and hold the line. An unfortunate loss.
I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.
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you can change your name under 21 with parental permission if you’re cis, but trans folks aren’t mature enough.
trans people are ~1.3% of the US, with no community wealth or institutional power.
they’ll take as much from trans folks as the rest of you decide not to stand in the way of them taking.
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joe rogan is not david brooks and bret stephens and sarah palin
joe rogan is more akin to alex jones
like, if you’re agreeing with a smol bean thing he says out of context,
that’s his trick to bring you in. it is not an ideological shift on his part. at all.
For the second time today: the NYT is fucking evil
"For Perry’s class of people, nothing is at stake and nothing ever has to change, so concepts like empowerment, hope, and resilience have no material reality... The money spent on launching the missile into space has no other possible use because the issues women face on Earth are an afterthought."
In Space, No One Can Hear You Girlboss
Strapped in next to Gayle King and an all-women crew aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket, the pop star set a record for the most feminist publicity stunt in history as she smashed through the glass ceiling of E...
REMINDER
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one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
lmao
the autistic curse of seeing the iceberg coming, being called hyperbolic and having everyone get mad at you when you point it out, and then watching them be shocked! when we crash into it.
who could possibly have seen this coming?! no one predicted it except those people we don’t take seriously
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the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
Baseball participation and poems are down because of vaccines is a new one
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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One of my big fears is that there would be a new Kent State massacre and people would be so brainwashed that they wouldn’t even be horrified because we’ve fallen so far but that is pretty much actually what happened at Kent State
republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
shut up dipshit
Bluesky needs more ideological diversity, a thread:
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
What if left wing politics is actually popular and its “unelectability” is just a right wing propaganda campaign propped up by a media largely owned by right wing billionaires?
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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“I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”
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We are very far over the cliff here, folks
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Never in my decade of filing FOIA requests have I gotten a response like this. Customs and Border Protection denies my request, saying "Due to law enforcement sensitivities we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records." No exemption cited, no name of who wrote this.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
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