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in hindsight i think the Covid-19 pandemic was ultimately helpful for the rise of fascism and the 2020 election result was a red herring

Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they aren’t wrong to want it. Tell them how you’re going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.

I've seen so many TikToks with this audio but I had no idea what it was supposed to mean or where it was from so thank you!

Even worse is when you invest more to upgrade your bed setup at home and then everywhere you stay when you travel, even semi nice places, feel worse than home

I still don't see how the disengagement plan helps here. What was the major importance of the plan from your point of view? "The disengagement plan is the preservative of the sequence principle. It is the bottle of formaldehyde within which you place the president's formula so that it will be preserved for a very lengthy period. The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that's necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians."

you're gonna see a lot of commentary this week about how israel withdrew from gaza (which was illegally occupied) in 2005 as a magnanimous act of peace, and that instead of a building a functional state, hamas spit in israel's face and waged war against them. fwiw, it's bullshit. archive.ph/JyhyU

ME: *reading the bad news website all day* we're doomed. there's no way to come back from this

ME: *11:10 pm two beers three tacos deep watching a 65 year old Black woman in a Sunday dress absolutely rock out to a dad band covering Queen Bitch* america is an idea. and a feeling in the heart.

Kamala’s husband is a partner at Wilkie Farr—a giant law firm that just cut a “deal” with Trump

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

The executive does not have plenary authority to set foreign policy under the Constitution. Why are you basically endorsing unitary executive theory?

By a vote of 27-17, Senate Democrats voted to stop sending arms shipments to a Netanyahu government which has waged a horrific, immoral and illegal war against the Palestinian people.

The tide is turning.

Americans don't want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza.

I appreciate this clarification. There is still a cruel irony in considering gestapo work as "public service" while actively trying to remove immigration legal aid from eligibility

Pete Buttigieg shouldn't throw trans people away.

Pete without the T is just Pee.

Initiative Would Criminalize Sleeping Outdoors in King County - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Saul Spady—Dick’s Burgers scion, anti-tax election activist (twice over), and KIRO radio fill-in host—has filed an…

Kurt Cobain must be rolling over in his grave about this dreadful ballot initiative backed by Krist Novoselic. DM me if anyone’s putting together an effort to fight this initiative. I’ll help.

I think so, it's the bin where you can toss your junk mail without having to bring it back to your unit first

I saw ballots in the recycling bin in my apartment building's mail room 😢 didn't even bring them back to their unit to recycle them

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” — Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed

i'm relieved to see some american leaders finally seeing reality but saying starvation is a bridge too far while drone striking schools and hospitals was not is just crazy

My dream would be @nathanrouse.bsky.social and Erika Evans advance to the general and Ann Davison gets the lowest share of votes

The entire Trek fandom should be pro-Palestine because it’s literally Bajor

Contractual obligation she made a long time ago?

Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane

Most of the published writing of judges these days is initially drafted by their clerks. Doesn't mean the judge isn't responsible for what they sign their name to but they most likely trusted their clerk to at least not make up quotes, and then edited the draft without feeling a need to check cites

I just reopened this app and saw there was some discussion after my reply and just want to thank you for this humility here. I'm glad I could contribute to this, and I'm also going to read all the replies and hopefully learn even more myself

Maybe try and work towards understanding that instead of stewing in your lack of understanding

More surveillance with no guardrails that creates data that can get in the hands of a fascist federal government makes everyone less safe. But as a queer Garfield alum this also feels personal, and similar to Israel doing evil shit in the name of "Jewish safety" that actually makes us less safe

uh…hunter biden for president?

Aww I didn't want to spoil it (although Nintendo fully spoiled this in the final trailer) but I like what the rock becomes afterwards

One of you is the singing purple rock! And you "shout" to shoot out floating words, cartoon style (like "BAM!") that can destroy things and in some cases are more powerful than DKs punches. You can also absorb lots of the materials you see around you to temporarily make the shouts that material

This game is both gayer and more fun than I expected. I've been loving co-op mode with my bf too, it doesn't feel like an afterthought at all and both players contribute towards the fun. We even switch back and forth

"Formulas of respect for constitutional safeguards cannot prevail over the facts of life which contradict them. They may not become a cloak for inquisitorial practices and make an empty form of the due process of law for which free men fought and died to obtain."

332 U.S. 596, 601 (1948).