It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Just the review I'd wanted to read, also felt behind watching it the first time, and as if 'into motion because the script called for it'. Seems I was too quick to set it aside. Can't wait to revisit now.

On Body and Soul: The Evolution of Bruno Dumont Exploring the slapstick dimensions of the French filmmaker’s past decade.

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look at the jim crow south: corrupt, impoverished, deprived of all but the most basic services. and yet, southern elites — backed by movement conservatives like buckley — fought tooth and nail to preserve segregation because it embodied their ideal moral order of hierarchy and domination

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

very excited to see what this does to the lives and livelhoods of my friends and family. also excited to live through, what, the third economic collapse that is the direct product of republican governance?

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico.

Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.

This is insanity.

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Should go without saying but the point of diversity in hiring is to find _better_-qualified candidates outside of stagnant social networks that don't reward merit, like the kind of network that would put an MTV personality with a marketing degree in charge of the Department of Transportation

A warning for workers: The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies. Tens of thousands of workers were put on notice that officials will not tolerate efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.”

The Snitch State: inform on your colleagues if they think of hiring people who aren’t white

Roadmap for the Heads: Thoughts on Bob Dylan and the Border - Southwest Review: southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...

If Republicans want safer bathrooms “for the kids” introduce a bill to keep youth pastors out.

The funny thing about the whole “Dems spend too much time with Hollywood celebs” is that the GOP leader is a TV star packing his cabinet with other TV stars

Sanewashing RFK Jr. - Lawyers, Guns & Money It’s not just the op-eds — the Times is doing it in ostensibly straight news coverage now: Most child health experts are adamantly opposed to scaling back fluoridation or immunizations, saying such ch...

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Given all this, I don't have much patience for all the recriminations among Democrats. It's almost a miracle that they came as close as they did. The real mystery of US politics is how the GOP was taken over by such horrible people 5/

not me. it is not my job to say what a political party should or should not be doing. it is my job to tell the truth, and the truth is that a lot of people willingly abandoned their faculties to make a bad, destructive choice