AdmiralPaco
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AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
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This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
This is an "Amazing, every word that you said is wrong" moment. First sentence on common culture: India has been standing strong as a multicultural and religious project (though Hindu nationalists have been challenging that). Second sentence: NATO exists and people have died for it.
"American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for."
Has he not heard any American popular music?
Has he not heard any American popular music?
February 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
This is an "Amazing, every word that you said is wrong" moment. First sentence on common culture: India has been standing strong as a multicultural and religious project (though Hindu nationalists have been challenging that). Second sentence: NATO exists and people have died for it.
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I think kids growing up in the Trump era should be told clearly that they are being raised under a regime that espouses white supremacy as if it is a legitimate politics, the same as any other.
Denny Carter on talking to your children about the president's racism, which becomes more normalized all the time:
https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/
https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/
Tell Your Kids This Shit Is Racist
American children deserve to know they're being raised under a white supremacist regime.
badfaithtimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I think kids growing up in the Trump era should be told clearly that they are being raised under a regime that espouses white supremacy as if it is a legitimate politics, the same as any other.
Great paragraph out of this article but the whole piece is fantastic. (Originally written in Nov 2016 after Trump's first presidential victory)
February 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Great paragraph out of this article but the whole piece is fantastic. (Originally written in Nov 2016 after Trump's first presidential victory)
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Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.
This is a really good thread to explain what's going on, worth the read (it's only like 10 posts long)
As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
February 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
This is a really good thread to explain what's going on, worth the read (it's only like 10 posts long)
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February 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.
February 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.
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Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
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This particular Holocaust survivor testimony tells of Nazi guards at Ravensbrück deliberately throwing an apple into the air and catching it in front of starving Jewish inmates, taunting them by reminding them that the guards had food and they did not. kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/szczercow/Sh...
February 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This particular Holocaust survivor testimony tells of Nazi guards at Ravensbrück deliberately throwing an apple into the air and catching it in front of starving Jewish inmates, taunting them by reminding them that the guards had food and they did not. kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/szczercow/Sh...
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One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
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This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
In the leftist sphere's I'm in, on the chance Newsom were to be the candidate in 2028 I have made the case for voting for him over Vance (assuming Vance as the candidate) on the basis of Newsom being the less harmful option. But that argument is on the assumption Newsom is the less harmful option
i think nominating Gavin Newsom will lose the White House again for Democrats. The party's left flank will stay home again because he's an empty corporate shell. The age of Democrats punching left to appeal to the center is over and it's now a matter of if the party as a whole realizes that or not.
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
In the leftist sphere's I'm in, on the chance Newsom were to be the candidate in 2028 I have made the case for voting for him over Vance (assuming Vance as the candidate) on the basis of Newsom being the less harmful option. But that argument is on the assumption Newsom is the less harmful option
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Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
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I simply wouldn't put the edgelord Nazi failson up front.
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I simply wouldn't put the edgelord Nazi failson up front.
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you hate to agree with the republican party of minnesota on amy klobuchar
February 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
you hate to agree with the republican party of minnesota on amy klobuchar
The anti trans panic in the US (imo) is a direct response to the legalization of gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. Conservatives in the US had to find a new target so they moved to the T of LGBT. If they could "win" there, they could push back against progressive progress on LGBT rights
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The anti trans panic in the US (imo) is a direct response to the legalization of gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. Conservatives in the US had to find a new target so they moved to the T of LGBT. If they could "win" there, they could push back against progressive progress on LGBT rights
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I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.
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In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a moron.
how about with the average american voter
aye, I could do that.
how about with the average american voter
aye, I could do that.
Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
February 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a moron.
how about with the average american voter
aye, I could do that.
how about with the average american voter
aye, I could do that.
From 2008 presidential first election at $16 million to 2024 presidential election of $2.6 billion, that is a 16,150% increase in billionaire election spending in just 16 years. The GOP and Trump have been the major beneficiaries of this billionaire funding.
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
From 2008 presidential first election at $16 million to 2024 presidential election of $2.6 billion, that is a 16,150% increase in billionaire election spending in just 16 years. The GOP and Trump have been the major beneficiaries of this billionaire funding.
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This is really important to me. So many Minnesotans have been activated by this experience. We've been a very politically engaged place, but I think we're about to see actual civic activity go off the charts. We (the local politics sickos) need to bring people in with grace.
And I know lots of people have very strong views they are not willing to flex, but if there's a way you can welcome us not-perfect newcomers to walk with you, we're willing to learn and keep helping.
February 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is really important to me. So many Minnesotans have been activated by this experience. We've been a very politically engaged place, but I think we're about to see actual civic activity go off the charts. We (the local politics sickos) need to bring people in with grace.