Setsuna Khan

Wonder if this is the first time this happened because it’s the first time someone asked Grok about it since no one still on Twitter (Nazis, libs, celebrities) cares about Palestinians.

"Again, I have no reason except to tell you anything other than the truth." When you accidentally confess to lying in your own fake deposition

But why are the transformations better than the transformations in the 90's Animorphs show?

I deserve good things and so do you 💜

It's telling that her solution isn't, "shouldn't be allowed to (exist,)" it's "should lose tax breaks."

YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac - Topic Dreams (2004 Remaster)

Sometimes, especially when I hear "Dreams," I'm nostalgic for the time I spent in rehab, which I think is strange.

Not the song, I know why that makes me think of rehab; the hot redhead sung it every Friday at the talent show, just the being nostalgic for rehab at all is strange.

Agreed. It can be both.

What’s very clear in both the rise of Jim Crow and mass incarceration is that the defining change was not the racism of segregationists but the mass acceptance of liberals.

Even if they wanted to, there will be too much resistance from the Courts, it will take too long (politically) to rebuild, and especially with regards to dismantling or reducing ICE, you'd have a lot of suddenly unemployed angry (white) men whose only skill is violence against minorities. Bad.

There's a problem with the way we teach history as a series of subsequent events that make things seem neat, orderly, and deliberate.

It makes it seem like our current situation is less worrisome because our fascists are idiotic buffoons when, in reality, they're always idiotic buffoons.

My most extreme, pie-in-the-sky, dream for how to fix the US government is a near-unitary parliamentary system with local powers being vested at the county level and the complete abolition of states and state governments.

if you had the political will to do it you could defang the senate just by passing a set of rules that holds that everything passed by the House is deemed as passed by the Senate. (i might add an option for the Senate to take up legislation if supported by 60 senators)

Personally, I'd rather just build a parliamentary system from the ground up, but this is a much more realistic framework for fixing the US government.

A lot of the grinding and gnashing and confusion in US politics is just 'getting cloture is hard and frustrating and takes too many votes'

"you can abstain if you live in a blue state" just isn't true when you recognize the *legitimating purpose* of the national popular vote

people are mad about this but it's just on-its-face true. trump won the popular vote and because of a few decades of the media priming people to believe that only conservatives can truly represent The People, that popular vote victory was treated as a defacto enabling act

I am really fascinated by this fantasy theory that liberals and the legacy media will be the heros who drive a wedge between Trump and his liberal-hating supporters, or will remove him from power.

Would love to know when this approached has ever worked with Trump, backed up by facts and data.

I like the fact that the sequel trilogy made the prequel trilogy better by comparison.

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

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welp,

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Plus, you can convince yourself that the dead deserved it or were in unfortunate locations. Kinda hard to convince yourself that *anyone* deserves to be starved to death.

Massacre is quick, starvation is slow.

When you see the dead, they're already dead, nothing more can be done (ignore that something can be done to prevent future deaths, that's not relevant).

When you see the starving, well that's ongoing. That can be stopped right now.

That's my theory.

And on some Sundays, I remember I am not hard to love, I'm just not here to be mishandled...my softness is a privilege, not proof.

"my softness is a privilege"

a girl with long green hair is holding a sword in her hand ALT: a girl with long green hair is holding a sword in her hand

Garnet Rod ftw!

addressing fascism with economic programs doesn't fucking work.

economic progressivism is good in itself. but if you want to fight fascism, you need to fight fascism.

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

They were already, but every single one of these idiots is revealing why they're not qualified to be in power at this moment in American and world history.

Fantastic!