Francisco Corral

Time to cancel my paramount Plus subscription.

keith urban and nicole kidman announce their split and then the government shuts down. makes u think…….

To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.

The Emperor was once out in the provinces, when he saw a peasant who looked remarkably like him. Summoning the man over, he asked if his mother had ever worked in the palace. "No, sir," the peasant replied, "But my father did."

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama

I wrote a story @theguardian.com about Zhang Yadi, a London-bound Chinese student and Tibetan rights advocate who was arrested over the summer on suspicion of “inciting separatism.”

If found guilty, she faces a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

Read the story, with comments from @hrw.org, below:

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Did you get ChatGPT to write this?
‘Write a post for all social media platforms that critiques the presidents invasion of blue cities but doesn’t alienate all those centrists and Haley Republican voters who think the blue cities actually do deserve it. Make sure not to mention fascist overreach.’

so weak. so so weak. and so sad for the rest of us how profoundly you aren’t the person for this moment.

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.

Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”

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The United States is simply not politically stable enough, nor sufficiently committed to democratic and international principles, to host the UN.

El valiente grupo propalestino que no le tiene miedo a Spotify ni a la industria musical Artistas como Paramore o Björk abrazan la campaña No Music for Genocide, apoyada también por una banda de música electrónica que siempre le ha plantado cara a Israel: Massive Attack....

Artistas como Paramore o Björk abrazan la campaña No Music for Genocide, apoyada también por una banda de música electrónica que siempre le ha plantado cara a Israel: Massive Attack. El boicot fue clave para poner fin al Apartheid en Sudáfrica. www.publico.es/culturas/mus...

A school in Kentucky banned phones. Remarkable things started happening. After Ballard High School banned phones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books.

I dunno man maybe the phones are just bad.

"After Ballard High School banned phones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books." www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

@radiofreetom.bsky.social What happened to your friend Hugh Hewitt? This era has revealed him to be a hollow man with no morals nor integrity. He's a GOP apparatchik; a Trump apologist.

@psychedelicshrooms.bsky.social long live shrooms

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

The weakest president in US history. We are an absolute joke to the world. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

the real press

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal & logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the J of the American Philosophical Assoc. They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity & open-mindedness theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philsky

I mean this sincerely—Malcolm X tried to tell us something deeper about violence in our society in November 1963, as did MLK when he spoke out against the Vietnam War at Riverside in 1967. And folks got mad at them for their analysis…

And despite the fact both of them were gunned down, many folks living here never wanted to take what they said about living in an incredibly violent society seriously. Then, and now.

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

every brown/arab/muslim person for the past two decades

Gavin Newsom would sell out every last constituent for a pat on the head from his conservative peers. He has no inner light, no guiding ethical beliefs. He's just an empty receptacle for donors and clingers-on.

Voters really do just go with whoever has the best hair, though, so here he is.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence