That tweet about crop rotation, but it’s me setting religion back hundreds of years, being like, “lol, dude thinks a baby is god.”
When there are three girls and three boys somewhere, that's hanging out F•R•I•E•N•D•S style.
I don't have strong opinions abt @raskin.house.gov & think there're cases where he's good for the dems. But this is exemplary of a key issue they have! How're you trying to campaign w/o explaining your plans? Why do you think winning elections is distinct from governing? You can't just oppose Trump!
Both on Slate Political Gabfest and here, when Rep. Jamie Raskin is asked about what the Dems plan to do if they take back congress he gives a cute, "you guys in the media are thinking too far ahead, we in politics are focused on winning" youtu.be/iNGZXXowIvY?... This sucks!
Thank you for clarifying what was, to me, the most important part of this article.
@brandyjensen.bsky.social, I really want to know why you think Joachim Trier's work is uneven!!
Secondary to the physical injury they're inflicting, can you imagine if any of the property damage we're seeing constantly, casually happened to you under other circumstances? If even just my car window shattered it would be rough due to financial & logistical stress, even before the state terror.
Thank you for this generosity, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social!
The phrase has become a rallying cry for left-wing and progressive movements with versions in a bunch of different languages, its use puts protestors in community with those fighting oppression across time and geography. El pueblo estará unido para siempre y para todos.
Pinochet's junta regime disappeared or killed an estimated >3000 civilians. He interned & tortured tens of thousands, in particular going after leftists and his political critics. The US wanted him in power because he was willing to enact the free-market economic policies of the Chicago Boys.
"El pueblo unido jamás será vencido" (the people united will never be defeated) was popularized as a protest chant in support of socialist Chilean presidential candidate, later pres., Salvador Allende. Allende was coup-ed by the CIA to allow for the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
Body cams for ICE is such an inane demand. 5 different angles of citizen footage can tell you they’ll carry out state-sanctioned kidnapping & murder w/ eyes on them or not. So you’re going to add one more source, but this time they can selectively withhold and manipulate the footage? Cool, smart.
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
Everyone at this TurboTax presents Anderson .Paak event has nicer phones than I do, which is why I don’t have any pictures and they do, but I’m here, too. Me and TurboTax and Aaron Judge, we’re here.
The first time I went to a major city pride parade (very tame, extremely corporate,) a ~20yo, maybe 5' woman next to me started to step up on a barricade to see better and a cop screamed "GET THE FUCK BACK" and shoved her off.
Authoritarianism 🙂
Truly bonkers acronym-ing here. (fwiw, per the originating paper, it's Transparency In The reporting of Artificial iNtelligence.) Also, please don't worry, the paper only used AI for formatting, and organizing background information, and checking for language consistency.
Politically consequential/complicated things happen and I just want to consume as much context as possible, but you get to “most experts think X, but republicans say not-X with no substantiation or further call for action, so we’re going with not-X, no more leeway.”
One frustrating thing about the current American political landscape is that you reach the “no more useful information” point so fast.
Feeling a little shock doctrine-y around the air these days.
Anyone know how to predict what might happen when the US forcibly removes a South American governmental leader and announces open season for American oil companies to take over and privatize the sector? Anyone have a "the last half of the 20th century" to consult as reference?
This guy is so incredibly odious.
I'd rather not get into an argument about it because I don't really have an interest in defending the use of that word in particular, so it amounts to "I don't 100% agree with the reason you cited." "It feels sort of fasc." is not far enough off from "it means X in nazis."
I don't agree with its use because I think it's broadly carceral, but the nazis also called all those groups "inferior" and no one is taking that word to have only ID connotations.
I'm not sure how to phrase this, so asking for a little grace – the word is inherently derogatory & moralizing & nazis/facists coopted such language to describe groups the politicized as worthy of genocide. It's still a term that doesn't have exclusively identity-synonymous connotations.
(Sorry this is long, I don't know how to post, I just have thoughts) With that said, as a person who has been harmed, ya have a right to your feelings and to advocate for remediation as you see fit. I appreciate you humoring this hopefully-taken-in-good-faith take.
I feel like we have to think abt how reasonable it is to sacrifice the expansive connotation for the more constrictive deleterious connotation. Idk if I personally love calling anyone degenerate, but I do think "being trans is not degeneracy" has more utility over "stop saying "degenerate.""
I can understand why this term would feel activating when your most common association with it is with violence against your community. I'd guess that for most people, it's a widely invoked notion that they've seen applied to so many contexts, it's doesn't auto-invoke trans ID to them at all.
