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It’s “racial discrimination” only when minorities benefit; otherwise it is “sparkling gerrymandering.”

If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...

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Duncan is such an inspiration. And a badass.

things guys in the 1700s said right before a mob of angry colonists in blackface tarred and feathered the shit out of them

Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches

I do think about this a lot

it may be controversial but i seriously believe we’re at the point where we need to have NO KINGS demonstrations every goddamned day

Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book The Trump campaign attacked Harris over her positions on transgender rights. She says they were misconstrued.

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Hey you ever wonder why the histories of resistance to Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa are full of references to making and disseminating fake passports?

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Congressional Democrats can’t decide if they should cut a deal with the pedophile dictator who is trying to militarily invade their cities.

Seems like a fairly obvious choice to me, but what do I know.

the reason bosses oppose work from home so strenuously is not because they think it doesn't work but because they think it's an awesome privilege that should be reserved for awesome people (like bosses), not given away to their ingrate employees

It's not really inconsistent if the goal of the Constitution is seen as the violent maintenance of white supremacy.

which is clearly the view of the conservative majority on scotus.

The combination of shitty AI and PragerU is going to obliterate our children's brains.

wow what a surprise that what's ultimately a supply-side economics argument would turn out to be full of right-wingers

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

Yeah. It’s happening here.

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

He's gonna make kids go to work camps because he can atmospherically deduce chakra misalignment.

Weakly argued piece, blandly written. Mostly hand-waving: Maybe a president demanding more seats from his party will be good for "democracy" bc voters will say "I don't like this."

How can they register their disapproval? That's the point of a gerrymander, they can't!

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD