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You'll notice that the NYT's both sides "but" usually tees up RW talking points. Imagine if, instead, they reversed it:

"Critics say that [blah blah], but supporters claim his degree laid a foundation for his campaign message that is resonating with New Yorkers"

Very different effect!

AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED

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Hello everybody!

As some of you may know, my partner and I are planning a pretty big move. Without going into too much detail, this move will be the beginning of a much needed healing journey for both of us.

why are any game show audiences still "voting" by cheering progressively louder. announcing a candidate last is like you may as well just hand over the prize now. imagine an audience who is willing to get notably quieter for the successive candidate. it's never happened I don't believe it

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

THE TIDES ARE TURNING

61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 39 percent saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians

You’re gonna say this isn’t enough. You’re right. But these numbers were almost unthinkable a year ago.

The sunk cost fallacy is just that—a fallacy. It’s okay to change the things that aren’t working for you, from jobs, to partners, to gender.

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot.
Unions know better.
Happy Labor Day Weekend.

unironic use of the phrase "purity test" is the best way to signal to everyone that you're a selfish amoral piece of shit who would eagerly sacrifice any marginalized community you aren't part of in order to preserve your own comfort

in what way is "I will work tirelessly to rebuild the US military" a progressive position? the problem with US military overspending is not that it's being pocketed by the wrong people

I'm currently in Amsterdam and I went by the Anne Franke house. Her and her sister didn't die in a gas chamber, they died of typhus after being severely weakened and emaciated from starvation.

Even in the worst horrors, starvation doesn't directly kill, it's the diseases that kill them.

The Treachery of Images painting by René Magritte

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Transphobia rife among UK employers as 1 in 3 won't hire a transgender person 18th June 2018 Our shocking new report reveals a strong prejudice among UK employers towards transgender workers with 1 in 3 employers admitting they are ‘less likely’ to hire a transgender person and nearly half (43%) unsure if they would recruit a transgender worker. The survey identified the retail sector as having the highest number (47%) of businesses unlikely to employ a transgender person, followed by IT (45%), leisure and hospitality (35%) and manufacturing (34%). The financial services industry is most open to the idea of hiring transgender workers but with only a third (34%) agreeable to the idea, along with the legal sector (33%) and construction and engineering (25%).Just 3% of the 1,000 employers polled from a cross section of industries, have an equal opportunities policy that openly welcomes transgender people to apply for jobs, and out of the third of employers that would consider hiring a transgender person, just 8% think they should have the same rights to be hired for a job as everyone else. Few feel their workplace is liberal enough to tolerate transgender workers, with only 4% declaring their workplace culture diverse enough for transgender people to ‘fit in’.

anytime some asswipe says that actors need jobs and that’s why it’s understandable for them to do wizardshit, show them the graph of trans women’s pay vs everyone else’s, or this from 2018, before the craziness about us was so actively mainstreamed

trans people deserve jobs, too

This does not mean we shouldn’t refute fascist logic. But compare a claim and two responses.

Claim:
Young men are in crisis

Response A:
We need someone other than Joe Rogan to lead young men out of crisis!
Response B:
Can you show me evidence that young men are in crisis?

See the difference?

I grew up in central Pennsylvania coal country in the 1970s and 80s and I remember how my small town had more than one oxygen supply store because so many of my schoolmates’ grandpas were slowly dying in their living rooms from black lung.

Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful

The stupid past is dying and the stupid future struggles to be born. Now is the time of really dumb monsters.

thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires

I kill a kid, I go to prison. My company kills a kid, it pays a fine. And if the fine is less than the profit, then my company’s job is to kill kids.

No sane society would intentionally build that, but here we are. Actively repealing child labor laws, not that we’re not already exploiting kids. 2/x

The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief Our name is inspired by Zaynab bint Jahsh (RA) — wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, renowned for her extraordinary compassion and generosity.She was called the shelter for orphans, widows, and the needy....

A good friend of mine [who is Palestinian] swears by this group doing work directly in Gaza: chuffed.org/campaign/zay...

Few adults (8%) say the false claim that “more people have died from COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus” is “definitely true,” but levels of certainty vary widely by partisanship, and an increasing share of Republicans is open to endorsing this false claim. About four in ten adults (43%) recognize this claim as “definitely false,” including one in five Republicans (20%) and more than three times as many Democrats (65%). While most Republicans lean toward this claim being false, four in ten say it is “definitely true” (13%) or “probably true” (27%), an increase from one in four in June 2023, when 7% of Republicans said this was “definitely true” and 18% said it was “probably true.”

40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.

me and my coworkers are such prolific liars we're required to wear body cameras on the job. make $200k per year with overtime btw

Superhero comics will not have achieved true gender equality until I can crack open this week's issue and see a woman speaking in stentorian caps inexplicably rendered as lemon-yellow text against navy blue dialogue bubbles while wearing what appears to be a fully operational spacecraft on her head.

Stacey Sobelman staceysobelman ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary. I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters. It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.

"Losing hurts," says Andrew Cuomo. " I'm past the shock phase, halfway through the anger phase."

Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day

Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
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