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Bread and thorns.
Oakland-based Mutual Aid collective: https://instagram.com/bat_mac
https://linktr.ee/toddmeister
Apologies because we're in a crisis here, but this is very fun to read out loud emphasizing every inappropriately capitalized word and screaming out every all-caps word and phrase.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Apologies because we're in a crisis here, but this is very fun to read out loud emphasizing every inappropriately capitalized word and screaming out every all-caps word and phrase.
Seeing this thread today finally reminded me at just the right time (when I had a minute to spare and was in front of my computer) to make a shingles vax appointment for tomorrow. I've heard bad things about the side effects, but I have friends who've had shingles, and that sounds much, much worse.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Seeing this thread today finally reminded me at just the right time (when I had a minute to spare and was in front of my computer) to make a shingles vax appointment for tomorrow. I've heard bad things about the side effects, but I have friends who've had shingles, and that sounds much, much worse.
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This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
Thought-provoking thread. Way into the weeds of Catholicism and far from my wheelhouse, but I grew up within this American Heresy (which seems to differ from the 19th Century American Heresy) - within fundamentalism, surrounded by evangelicals. The bits about the city on a hill are worth it alone.
Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Thought-provoking thread. Way into the weeds of Catholicism and far from my wheelhouse, but I grew up within this American Heresy (which seems to differ from the 19th Century American Heresy) - within fundamentalism, surrounded by evangelicals. The bits about the city on a hill are worth it alone.
Good thread.
A lot of folks have spent time dunking on this and being angry in response; both are understandable because this view is wrong. But I also understand how people *arrive* at this mindset, because it's the cultural default that we're taught if we don't know any better. One of scarcity and vengeance...
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Good thread.
This is so f'ckin weird. I thought Newsmax was a specifically fascist organization created to uphold the new fascist state, but it turns out maybe they're sincere fools.
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is so f'ckin weird. I thought Newsmax was a specifically fascist organization created to uphold the new fascist state, but it turns out maybe they're sincere fools.
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the political take “actually, it is the progressive younger generation rejecting outdated beliefs to move their communities forward who are wrong” has never aged well even once and it is so maddening to hear it repeated by the same Boomer Dems who trade on their own 70s protest history for cred
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
the political take “actually, it is the progressive younger generation rejecting outdated beliefs to move their communities forward who are wrong” has never aged well even once and it is so maddening to hear it repeated by the same Boomer Dems who trade on their own 70s protest history for cred
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
This is the basic argument for anarchy.
“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?' Augustine made this suggestion in The City of God. In the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge."
www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...
www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...
Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes.
We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.
www.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is the basic argument for anarchy.
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thinking about kitty cats
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
thinking about kitty cats
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
I want these motherfucking nazis out of my motherfucking world.
After the alleged shooter was identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal — a 29-year-old Afghan national — Trump said he would permanently shut down immigration from impoverished countries. n.pr/4roPiE2
Trump vows 'permanent pause' on some immigration after National Guard shooting
After the alleged shooter was identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal — a 29-year-old Afghan national — Trump said he would permanently shut down immigration from impoverished countries.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I want these motherfucking nazis out of my motherfucking world.
Love it.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Love it.
Keeping in mind I am a petty, childish despot in this scenario, I would demand Peter Jackson reboot Krull, filmed on-site in NZ, with more than just a passing reference or two to his Bad Taste/Meet the Feebles period.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Keeping in mind I am a petty, childish despot in this scenario, I would demand Peter Jackson reboot Krull, filmed on-site in NZ, with more than just a passing reference or two to his Bad Taste/Meet the Feebles period.
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As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.
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Hey, since Patton Oswalt was reinstated, maybe Bluesky moderation can reinstate someone who was banned for doing the exact same thing.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hey, since Patton Oswalt was reinstated, maybe Bluesky moderation can reinstate someone who was banned for doing the exact same thing.
Raskin is thinking too small. Sure, MTG would be a huge win as a convert to the Dems, but what if they could coax Trump into the fold? Between the vote-blue-no-matter-who crowd and the MAGA movement the Dems would be unstoppable.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Raskin is thinking too small. Sure, MTG would be a huge win as a convert to the Dems, but what if they could coax Trump into the fold? Between the vote-blue-no-matter-who crowd and the MAGA movement the Dems would be unstoppable.
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
I saw Zohran down at the smaller of the two Unitarian churches in town and he had a big chisel and was scratching away at the foundation of the building and when I asked what he was doing he said there was a secret eighth principle and I asked what it was and he said it was loser says what and I sai
lol
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.
November 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.
I'm not an expert but in my experience, in Oakland you can pretty safely predict the votes by economic status - the hills vote reactionary, the flatlands vote progressive, and the less gentrified the flatland, the more progressive. It's not 100%, of course, but it's pretty prominent.
The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias
Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican
And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican
And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
October 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I'm not an expert but in my experience, in Oakland you can pretty safely predict the votes by economic status - the hills vote reactionary, the flatlands vote progressive, and the less gentrified the flatland, the more progressive. It's not 100%, of course, but it's pretty prominent.
This is quite the thread. Worth a read.
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is quite the thread. Worth a read.
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You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.