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Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

20.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 20410    🔁 7294    💬 1260    📌 462

Know your rights, #Chicago.

10.10.2025 21:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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24 hours outside ICE: What is really going on in Portland Starting Thursday, Oct. 9 at midnight, we will begin a 24-hour livestream outside of the Portland ICE Facility. Our aim is to show the public everything we see.

SPREAD THIS ONE FAR AND WIDE.

KATU, livestreaming outside of Portland's ICE facility.

09.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

... feels a bit like we might call it Gaza or the West Bank...

30.09.2025 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pretty sure we'd call it Gaza or the West Bank.

30.09.2025 03:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And Disney Weddings, which are ridiculously $$$$.

24.09.2025 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You are not wrong, my young Jedi...

18.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

18.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 45897    🔁 12530    💬 1744    📌 419

And once again, a whole raft of people is auditioning for "I can toady with the best of them" and/or "Please don't hire me".

And sadly, a few more people I respected are getting a "WTF" next to their names.

18.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's interesting - and fraught with peril - to see the Charlie Kirk debate slowly seep into more "professional" venues like LinkedIn. When those supposed third rails of the business world - politics & religion - are jettisoned in the hopes of getting eyeballs, we've entered a truly surreal time.

18.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Apparently, they don't have friends everywhere.

And if they do, they're gonna throw them under the bus as soon as the Empire gets annoyed *by the truth*.

18.09.2025 05:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Show me you don't understand Star Wars even though you own Star Wars.

18.09.2025 05:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What did Jimmy Kimmel say? See comments that led to ABC pulling show The late-night host's comments about Charlie Kirk's alleged killer during his Monday monologue led to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" being pulled off the air by ABC.

... spread this far and wide...

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What did Jimmy Kimmel say?

www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...

18.09.2025 05:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, David Brooks, maybe get better friends.

14.09.2025 18:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This. Many of us have discovered in the last few days is that there are two "Charlie Kirks": one is as pure as the driven snow Christian motivational speaker and the other, a white-as-a-Klan-rally sheet Christofacist. And we all know too many of the former suddenly. Educate them. If you can.

14.09.2025 18:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen.

The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.

14.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 7346    🔁 2293    💬 287    📌 81

Do it.

08.09.2025 19:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Totally! I had a similar idea when I saw this amazing video mash-up...

www.instagram.com/reel/DMgM4ex...

08.09.2025 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
These are instructions for posting videos to journalists of ICE and National Guards actions in Chicago.

These are instructions for posting videos to journalists of ICE and National Guards actions in Chicago.

Important for the people of Chicago and for the rest of us as witnesses. SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE.

08.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Yep. I saw it on TDS and had a heck of time processing it.

23.07.2025 04:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I personally am waiting for the Synod of the Interrobang to make its presence known.

16.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have never seen an ep but pretty guessed that, yes, this was going to be the case...

16.07.2025 21:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What will happen to PBS and NPR stations if the Senate votes to claw back funding? | CNN Business Public media stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. Here’s what that would look like.

What's at stake...

16.07.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story The paper reported that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee marked himself as both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on an admissions form.

FFS, NYT. You are complete garbage. COMPLETE.

07.07.2025 02:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why the fuck are you shilling for Bezos? JFC, NBC... grow a GD spine.

05.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@jaketapper.bsky.social

28.06.2025 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ye gods, Tapper. Pick a GD side. You excoriate Kegseth one day, prop up his homophobic BS the next (and during Pride, FFS).

No one doubts Peterson's heroism, but it's not a zero sum game. Milk was a Navy vet before he was an activist, and the Navy has other ships.

Stop supporting fascism.

28.06.2025 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Who ya gonna call?

27.06.2025 01:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To be clear, if The Impeached and his Administration claim they executed plans against Iran that have been in place for over a decade, those were plans created by the Obama Administration.

So, declare complete success. And give credit where credit is due: the Administration that killed Bin Laden.

27.06.2025 01:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FFS.

11.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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