karmagecko

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

One year ago

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@aoc.bsky.social from the top rope.

The Epstein Ballroom it is

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

Diversity of tactics has to include pressure from the outside and pressure from the inside, ethical pressure and economic pressure, reasoned arguments and shaming and mockery and expecting more.

Pick the zone you can manage and let others play their zones.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Can someone tell me why so many Republicans are working so hard to protect rich and powerful pedophiles? 🤨

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Everyone knew about Sean “Diddy” Combs. Everyone knew about R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Jeffrey Epstein. Everyone knew about Donald Trump. I’m so tired of people protecting rich perverts, keeping their dark secrets for decades. So damn tired.

Hegseth and Trump brought all our generals to DC, risking our national security and costing taxpayers millions, all so they could urge them to violate international law and betray the Constitution.

These are not patriots, they are un-American thugs. And we must stand up to them.

Sad, but true.

So exhausting..

Tylenol has just released a study connecting Donald Trump with adultery, lying, rape, and pedophilia.

There have always been trans people.

There will always be trans people.

The only "trans agenda" is to live authentically.

Removing trans rights, banning trans people from sports, taking away care for trans people puts you on the wrong side of history.

Trans rights are human rights 🩵💗🤍

Give Charlie his wish:

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Trump sucks

🎯

It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids.

This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version

This is marvellously weird. Doubt anything at the VMAs later will top it.

Trump on Truth Social: I love the smell of deportations in the morning... Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR

@krassenstein on X: Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime. @JDVance on X: I don't give a shit what you call it

I don't know what people think is about to happen, but history is pretty clear

Ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the United States…

But if it IS the PERSON... gotta go with the data.

"Cis men commit 98% of mass shootings and are 50% of the population. If you want to talk about a demographic that’s proven they can’t be trusted with an AR-15, it’s not trans folks. It’s straight white men."

bsky.app/profile/john...

I hate that I have to live through these times but this is it buddy, this is the show. You're either against the nazis or you're for them. No fucking middle ground here.

A drum I can't help but keep beating is the fact many Latinos are indigenous to the Americas and this country. White people generally are not.