Two-piece Advocate

It’s easy to forget because we spent 20 years sending National Guardsmen to Iraq and Afghanistan but these people are not real professional soldiers. They’re a bunch of unfit, poorly trained dork ass losers

Unless it’s Newsom

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice

Strongly agree. They’re also way too low on the injury-prone guys like Embiid, Zion and AD.

If we get Joel Embiid at 75%, playing 65 games, that’s still a top 10 player.

Absolutely absurd to think that eight players, including Anthony Edwards, Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson and Cade Cunningham will be better than Wemby this season.

The notion that a Venezuelan gang could take over an entire building in a P Stone neighborhood, without gang warfare was absurd on face

It should be noted that the DOJ also has a 99% conviction rate, largely for the same reason that Japan does; they don’t just charge people with a bunch of bullshit and hope it sticks

Wait, Magic City from Atlanta just did a pop-up in Tokyo? THIS is the cultural exchange we need

The combination of the internet and “zero tolerance” fighting policies have created a world where all it takes is ill-intent to be a bully. You don’t need physical might or even social capital. You just have to be loud and nasty. It’s a society of middle-school mean girls.

It has also conditioned us to think it’s normal for people to use what used to be considered “fighting words”. There was a whole legal principle built around saying wildly offensive shit and getting popped in the mouth. Now you’re “triggered” if you respond the way reasonable adults have always done

I don’t like that she goes by Jay. It speaks volumes

How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.

The Trump administration is about to come for VA disability, and is using its media arm to sturup concerns of rampant fraud so it doesn’t look like they are targeting veterans www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Hot take: liberals in the media class made Bari Weiss a thing because they wouldn’t. stop. talking. about. her.

She was such a minor figure in the media landscape and they hated her into dominance

I just want a walkable neighborhood: an Ohio transplant living in Brooklyn who never considered Cincinnati

There are neighborhoods in like 40 US cities where you can walk to your daily needs, yet every day, boring people who don’t appreciate what New York offers move to New York because living in New York makes them feel superior

A black child just developed asthma for this

“Shut your bitch ass up.”

The feds want us to believe there was a whole Venezuelan gang posted up in the middle of the Moe’s territory and there was no gang war.

Grown ass men and women standing on the left side of the excalator will never not be infuriating

well ACTtually

many ARE outside doing the work & are on here...just like y'all be at work work & on here

I think they’re a combination of, in order of percentage:

1. bots
2. FBA/ADOS xenophobes
3. Cowards
4. K-Hive

And I’m telling you for every actual person you encounter with these beliefs, there’s probably 10 bots. Two things can be true

With all we know about the use of bot farms to prevent left-of-center coalition building, I don’t know why one would be so incredulous that they are impersonating Black people to inspire inaction in the face of fascism. We are not a monolith, but that line of thinking is in the minority.

Oh, I know these people exist in their numbers aren’t small, but I also think there is a LOT of bot activity because the messaging is too similar

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Black people didn’t justify stop-and-frisk because the cops let the innocent ones go. Pulling grandmothers out of bed and zip-tying babies is 1000 times worse

I posted a video on TikTok asking the “not our fight” people how they feel about black Chicagoans being dragged out of their beds, and got dozens of replies from “Black people” insisting it was okay because no Black people were detained, and THAT’S JUST NOT HOW WE TALK OR THINK

Yes, there are quite a few cowards and defeated people, but I think the majority of the “not our fight“ and sit this one out voices are bots

I’ve been yelling this since the Lennon Lacy case

YouTube video by NBA on ESPN YEAR 3 WEMBY 📈🤯 (via @spurs/TT)

God help us youtube.com/shorts/1JiiJ...