Anoosh, organizer

This might be controversial, but I don't think people should be allowed to bet on things like war

They’re scared of children with crayons.

I like this man and his food looks amazing and even more so because he knows American history, knows the USA is being led by a fool, and that being deported is a crime on top of a crime for refugees.

The population-reduction death drive of these people, which puts the lie to their prattle about natalism and birth rates, is truly immense.

I would like to personally smack every single person who said in 2024, “It can’t get worse.”

James Baldwin said, “We are a racist society, racist to the very marrow, and we are fighting a racist war... My own condition, as a black man in America, tells me what Americans really feel and really want, and tells me who they really are. And, therefore, every bombed village is my hometown.”

“Force the rich to do whatever Dolly tells them to” is currently the only alternative I will accept to “eat the rich.”

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Insider trading for war crimes is nasty work. Looking forward to Murphy's legislation

"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Our support for dictators and human rights abusers—in the name of anti-communism or the War on Terror or whatever—has undermined the idea of America as the indispensable nation.

Mississippi's Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout - Bolts Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their ...

NEW: Black voters in Mississippi are on the brink of a major victory — a federal judge ordered the state to redraw its state supreme court districts to ensure greater Black representation.

But GOP lawmakers are dragging their feet for now, looking toward SCOTUS & its Callais order to "save" them:

Trump’s State of the Union Struggled to Land its Points Trump struggled to find a coherent message or tone, and spent much of the speech attacking and sneering at Democrats

"As Trump was finishing his speech, Democratic candidates in three more special elections won in Pennsylvania and Maine."
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This intersectional perspective from Jumaane Williams, who is Black and has Tourette and coprolalia, is crucial as we think about what happened at BAFTA.

It’s easy to play Oppression Olympics when two marginalized communities conflict, but we need to LISTEN to people who live at the intersection.

I have 0 authority over my own kids’ reproductive choices.

Opining about the fertility of kids who are NOT YOUR OWN is WAY out of pocket. The way our local Mom for Liberty, Beth Bourne, talks about MY kids’ fertility is disturbing and gross.

But ofc, the right doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy.

I have 0 authority over my own kids’ reproductive choices.

Opining about the fertility of kids who are NOT YOUR OWN is WAY out of pocket. The way our local Mom for Liberty, Beth Bourne, talks about MY kids’ fertility is disturbing and gross.

But ofc, the right doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy.

I want to thank The Pitt for telling me this story for the first time.

Additional example: strawberries.

Supermarket strawberries taste like water that has been sitting in a plastic bottle.

An Alpine strawberry off the bush in my backyard pot is exquisite: sweet, fruity, and floral simultaneously. A whole journey.

This is true, and I’ll take it further:

All the papaya I’ve had in the US has a bizarre, off-putting underlying savory flavor. It makes my skin crawl.

In Fiji, however, the papayas are small, a gorgeous rosy pink, and unfailingly delicious.

Same fruit, opposite experiences.

It’s entirely possible that I’ve never had a fresh, ripe honeydew melon. But every single one I’ve had has been a disappointment.

I don’t know why some people have a hard time grasping this.

Ha ha ha, I literally said to a Senegalese friend once that mangoes are proof that God loves us, and he’s never forgotten it.

Courtesy of people who would rather have this than bear the thought that Black lives matter, welcome to the No Lives Matter presidency.

Been reading Rest Is Resistance, and it’s important for people to understand that extreme work environments are actively evil and not merely exhausting

I hate the way slurs generally seem to be lumped in with “offensive language,” like swears.

THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.

WTAH?!?

1) I have friends with Tourette’s. Their verbal tics do not include slurs.

2) I understand the broadcast is delayed? WHY was the slur not bleeped out?

These two actors are owed serious repair. Slurs FEEL like physical violence. And on a world stage?

This is a massive screw-up.

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life for leading insurrection The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection. "It i

Wild how some countries are able to sentence their corrupt, wannabe-authoritarian, insurrection-inciting presidents to life in prison and some aren't

*in Meryl Streep voice* NOW open for public comment?!

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

so cool that Democrats haven't had functional media reform policies any time in the last 50 years. Some of this might have been preventable.