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organizer. queens native, currently oakland. willing to fight for someone i don't know. i hate the senate. he/him.
family member asked me if I thought aoc had a shot in 2028. said I didn't know, but the two dem presidents this century have collectively fostered genocide and mass deportation and I legitimately think the base of the party is coming to terms with that.
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
trump is obsessed with obama and obama barely thinks about trump and it's an indictment of both men
BREAKING: Madman President Promotes Racist Video of the Obamas as Apes

Trump’s policies and actions are fueled by explicit racism and election denial. The Obama-ape video encompasses both, writes @swin24.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-obam...
BREAKING: Madman President Promotes Racist Video of the Obamas as Apes
Trump’s policies and actions are fueled by explicit racism and election denial. The Obama-ape video encompasses both.
zeteo.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
gotta retire the "worst person you know" meme, can't top this
Jeffrey Epstein relays to Ehud Barak a private question from Noam Chomsky— “how long and how far will Israel proceed on the course to self-destruction”
February 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM
I get this impulse but....he did it because he is *boring*. All these billionaires are boring. If it wasn't for the death and destruction it'd be their worst trait.
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
crybully
February 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
they made a show about people who help people so they figured audiences would like a change
February 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Comedian: Thanks everyone you've been great. Remember, under no circumstances should you tip your waitress.
Cow waitress: [mouths] thank you
January 17, 2024 at 1:14 AM
if you took this administrations concerns about antisemitism seriously you're a mark
Breaking News: The Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino mocked the Jewish faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota during a call with lawyers, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.
nyti.ms
January 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM
San Francisco ride for Alex Pretti kicking off at Embarcadeo
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 PM
not an original thought but every day ordinary people show a hundred times more courage than the nominal leaders of the democratic party
I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
very funny to be told to get off the sidelines from the guy who spent trump 1 being a netflix producer
Here’s a podcast that does a good job of laying out what’s at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.
Opinion | Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is Going
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
now you fucked up
now you fucked up
now you fucked up
now you have fucked up
Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)
January 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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my man she named the black kid "Shacklebolt"
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Speaking of covering up state-sanctioned murders
Rahm Emanuel's “combination of policy talk, moral reflection and candid critiques of recent Democratic fixations is distinctive, and there’s impressive political savvy in what he foregrounds and how he frames it,” argues Frank Bruni.
Opinion | Will Rahm Emanuel Run for President in 2028?
A Democratic insider with an outside chance at the White House
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Looking at the tidal wave of reaction that threatens to drown the world in a darkness deeper than any Egyptian night, I would have to say in hindsight it was a mistake for me to write that article about the Oberlin cafeteria banh mi, that one’s my bad.
January 26, 2026 at 12:45 AM
appreciate the refs blowing their whistles in solidarity with minneapolis
January 25, 2026 at 11:50 PM
if you're on line to borrow heated rivalry ZOHRAN SAID THE LINE DOES NOT EXIST
this small drop of good news could not be better timed: heated rivalry ebooks are now open to anyone with an NYPL card, no waitlists

happy snowstorm eve from the library 💕

www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
meanwhile here in oakland nazis are as emboldened and as fucking stupid as ever
January 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
may his memory be a blessing
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
can't stop thinking about how there was a real chance to stop this, but joe biden decided that running for reelection was the more important.
January 24, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
the trump administration will stop detaining 5 year olds by making sure they all die first
January 23, 2026 at 6:14 PM