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If you don’t know what happened to the professor described as “an expert on antifa” who was on TPUSA’s list and the Trump admin accused of BEING antifa, please read this thread.

He and his family finally escaped the US yesterday. They had been getting death threats for years.

Among other weird things about this Tilly Norwood situation, it’s surreal being a trans woman and watching anti-trans conservatives defend the use of an AI-generated “actress” that would take away work from women in Hollywood. It’s almost as though they never really cared about women.

Signal can only be as secure as the person using it

Every kid being in a garage band with their friends

As a burgeoning young wannabe, even before Prince did it, everyone trying to make it was always talking about how you needed to own your masters, and that the compromise wouldn’t be worth it in the end, but how do you make it if you don’t compromise with the machine, etc etc. we need to bring back

Yes it’s basically one step removed from a dog whistle, because there’s a legit reason to be upset, but that legit reason gives plausible cover to the Racism That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

I mean also you can watch it here, people just don't want to believe that the Hollywood patriotic movie ideal of America isn't true

you know historically Rome didn't consider itself an Empire instead of the Republic until about a century after Julius Caesar's death, so I'd give it a few decades at least

Moral principles aren’t principles if you change them based on what 30% of the country thinks. Actions, sure we can talk about actions but the principles aren’t up for political convenience

Spectacularly bad readings of Revelation, just another item in the long list of evidence that these guys, but this guy in particular, are just lucky fucks and not the soi-disant next steps in the evolution of humanity

Justice for Dave

Man I wish anyone would actually RTFR (read the f-ing Revelation)

Automotive, insurance, legal; and then the political ad years make the rain fall

For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors - Bolts Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across the political spectrum that have adopted such reforms.

NEW: California was on track to pass a law this year that'd bring a path out of prison for some survivors of domestic violence who've been convicted of harming their abuser.

But the bill ended up dying in the state Senate as the session drew to a close this summer. Bolts reviews what happened:

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

if you follow that thread of the story, yeah, it's 144k selected from the Tribes of Israel, so gentiles don't even count, really

Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all When you have power, your commitment to principle is tested. Trumpers are failing.

"When the right doesn't have power, they turn to appeals on principle. But when they do have it, those principles become an impediment, so they are discarded. How many Republicans have you heard talking about corruption or an independent judiciary or due process lately?" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

why is anyone still reporting on this place that is deathly empty all the time except for a couple Teslas using the chargers in the parking lot?

I do not recall. I bet BQTP does

Hot Tuna

Wait are they really trying to push the idea that the right wing hasn't been trying to cancel everyone for as long as I've been alive? gtfoh with "cancel culture comes to the right", they whine so hard about getting a taste of their own medicine that they pretend they've never done anything before

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

The fundamental assumption and necessity of capitalism is scarcity. When scarcity becomes mitigated by technology or circumstance, power moves to create artificial scarcity, usually in ways with very limited foresight and a disregard for moral principle and humanity. Bc that’s not the game

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

I read that too fast and I was like Batman Op118?

The ideology is "do unto other as you would have them do unto you"

when did they ever play clean?

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

This is a very important point. We need principles, we need proportionality, we need Disney to set an example here and maybe start the tide turning in another direction.