The idea "Americans won't care until it affects gas prices" is perpetuated not through actual experience, but because PEOPLE LIKE US REPEAT IT ENDLESSLY WHILE OTHER PEOPLE LIKE US SIGH IN CONTEMPT AND NOD OUR HEADS.
It is NOT TRUE IN ANY EMPIRICALLY OBSERVABLE WAY.
Another open-book test of spine and moral backbone that will be failed en masse by the people who are supposed to be watchdogs of democracy.
You turn down invites from Nazis, kids. It’s the easiest call to make. Imagine if Trump walked into a room empty aside from ten Fox News clowns.
There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana
(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
UPDATE — The Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is calling for the immediate release of Lemon and Fort, and for all charges against them to be withdrawn.
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Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.
The poise of this woman in the face of these masked thugs is something I do not think I could summon.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota
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Former MLB OF Kole Calhoun speaks out. “What this administration is doing is blatantly racist…I’ve been silent because that is easy. I don’t care what side you’re on or who you voted for, this is wrong… Wake up! Speak out!”
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
Per his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.
Bluesky is a sports app now. I don't make the rules.
Of all the competitive authoritarian developments of the past year I think the fall of CBS News is among the most chilling. That this can happen to easily and so quickly freaks me the fuck out.
I feel like I’m going insane, there is, like, an actual Venezuelan government that still exists
WTF are we doing here, BBC?
Happy Birthday Ann! What a treat that he was able to do that for you 😍
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
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This is new FDA CDER Director with a father who believes his son was killed by COVID vaccine. She is in front of FDA sign and smiling while pointing to his vest which has Pfizer's logo and a bloody handprint on it.
Perhaps apropos. In a 1939 internal note, NBC regretted *not* censoring announcer Walter Winchell after he called Hitler a "madman".
I know: he’s a racist authoritarian who’s running a militantly racist government constantly doing and saying racist things, carrying out a highly militarized campaign of ethnic cleansing and also doing anti diversity crackdown all over the place. And yet…his racist rhetoric IS getting worse, somehow
Can't think of a single perverse incentive here. Sounds great! Should definitely be partnering with news organizations!
North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
"It's difficult to think in celebratory terms when I have spent two years seeing what shrapnel does to a child's body. It's difficult to think in celebratory terms when I know that my tax money is doing this."
- Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
On TV shows, we love to arc a villian — force the bad guy to team up with the good guys and follow that character on a path to redemption. It’s fun, but it’s fiction.
In real life, villains rarely arc. Racists stay racist. Monsters stay monsters. If someone says they’ve changed, be real suspicious.
