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John Calvin is not going to make you his special little boy in heaven for helping Mastercard censor gay porn
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
John Calvin is not going to make you his special little boy in heaven for helping Mastercard censor gay porn
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There's officially been more accountability for corporate extramarital affairs at Coldplay concerts than there's been for the sitting president covering up a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.
“Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met.”
Astronomer CEO resigns after viral Coldplay incident | CNN Business
Andy Byron, the chief executive of New York-based tech company Astronomer, has resigned from his role after he was spotted embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert, according to a LinkedIn post fro...
www.cnn.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
There's officially been more accountability for corporate extramarital affairs at Coldplay concerts than there's been for the sitting president covering up a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.
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there's no significant or structural change in the party. Over 100 of them just voted for the crypto scam bill.
July 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
there's no significant or structural change in the party. Over 100 of them just voted for the crypto scam bill.
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The House voted 308 to 122 for the GENIUS Act, the corrupt crypto industry bill to set the stage for the next financial crisis, encourage money laundering, and bless Trump's corruption.
102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.
102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.
July 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The House voted 308 to 122 for the GENIUS Act, the corrupt crypto industry bill to set the stage for the next financial crisis, encourage money laundering, and bless Trump's corruption.
102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.
102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.
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“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
truthout.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
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We’ve had a week of mainstream press asking a NY mayoral candidate to disavow antisemitic slogans THAT HE NEVER SAID. Meanwhile the current president uses a Jewish slur and the press OMITS IT.
July 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
We’ve had a week of mainstream press asking a NY mayoral candidate to disavow antisemitic slogans THAT HE NEVER SAID. Meanwhile the current president uses a Jewish slur and the press OMITS IT.
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Thread about watching ‘Cabaret’
One of the characters just asked- if all the Jews are bankers, how can they be communists too?
And that feels strangely relevant today.
And that feels strangely relevant today.
July 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thread about watching ‘Cabaret’
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Sorry, but Independence Day will now be referred to as the Juneteenth Afterparty. This will remain in place until the American government stops acting a whole ass.
July 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sorry, but Independence Day will now be referred to as the Juneteenth Afterparty. This will remain in place until the American government stops acting a whole ass.
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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The Paramount deal proves just how weak Trump's lawsuit was. It's hard to claim $20 billion in damages, then settle for 0.08% of that and call it a win. But Team Trump is declaring victory anyway – and this chest-puffing statement is exactly why CBS reporters did not want the company to settle:
July 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Paramount deal proves just how weak Trump's lawsuit was. It's hard to claim $20 billion in damages, then settle for 0.08% of that and call it a win. But Team Trump is declaring victory anyway – and this chest-puffing statement is exactly why CBS reporters did not want the company to settle:
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I don't think a lot of people in politics over the age of 40 understand that young people aren't scared of words like socialism or communism.
They're watching every bad propaganda thing they've ever heard about socialism play out in real life under capitalism. And the socialists have health care.
They're watching every bad propaganda thing they've ever heard about socialism play out in real life under capitalism. And the socialists have health care.
July 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I don't think a lot of people in politics over the age of 40 understand that young people aren't scared of words like socialism or communism.
They're watching every bad propaganda thing they've ever heard about socialism play out in real life under capitalism. And the socialists have health care.
They're watching every bad propaganda thing they've ever heard about socialism play out in real life under capitalism. And the socialists have health care.
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The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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We knew this about this Supreme Court. I guess everyone is on the same page now that the courts will not "save" us. The question is really how to save ourselves. On that, we need a lot more people doing a lot of different things for many years.
A column I wish I never had to write: The SCOTUS has washed its hands of its duty to be a check against tyrannical actions of the executive. As someone who has dedicated my career to protecting the rule of law, I’m profoundly shaken. Heaven help our nation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/o...
The courts will not save us from tyranny - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court just washed its hands of its role in upholding the rule of law, the foundational principle that laws are meant to be followed by everyone, the government included, if we are to have ...
www.bostonglobe.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We knew this about this Supreme Court. I guess everyone is on the same page now that the courts will not "save" us. The question is really how to save ourselves. On that, we need a lot more people doing a lot of different things for many years.
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Sotomayor issues a blistering dissent that states plainly that this decision renders constitutional protections meaningless.
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Sotomayor issues a blistering dissent that states plainly that this decision renders constitutional protections meaningless.
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The court’s ruling could now mean that once a child born to noncitizen parents leaves certain states, they won’t be considered a U.S. citizen.
Supreme Court Rules With Trump On Birthright Citizenship Challenge
The court’s ruling could now mean that once a child born to noncitizen parents leaves certain states, they won’t be considered a U.S. citizen.
www.huffpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The court’s ruling could now mean that once a child born to noncitizen parents leaves certain states, they won’t be considered a U.S. citizen.
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this is deliberate, it’s not vance being clumsily racist and vance served with him for two years, he’s deliberately invoking josé padilla because he’s a troll piece of shit
June 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
this is deliberate, it’s not vance being clumsily racist and vance served with him for two years, he’s deliberately invoking josé padilla because he’s a troll piece of shit
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So are you going to stop attacking trans kids on your podcast nearly every episode and stop defunding HIV and trans healthcare?
Seventeen years ago as Mayor of San Francisco, I had the incredible honor of marrying Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin in what became California’s first legal same-sex union.
That day, their love reaffirmed what I've always known to be true: LGBTQ rights are human rights.
That day, their love reaffirmed what I've always known to be true: LGBTQ rights are human rights.
June 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
So are you going to stop attacking trans kids on your podcast nearly every episode and stop defunding HIV and trans healthcare?
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The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban.
Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.
Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.
June 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban.
Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.
Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.
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I’m watching the Panama v Guadeloupe Gold Cup game on TV as we speak. It is being played in Los Angeles. And the stadium is almost completely empty.
A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.
A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.
FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post
FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium
Tickets to the opening match that were once $349 (and up) could be had for just $4.
www.huffpost.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I’m watching the Panama v Guadeloupe Gold Cup game on TV as we speak. It is being played in Los Angeles. And the stadium is almost completely empty.
A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.
A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.
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LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Marines and ICE team up in a show of force, turning a community swap meet into a surveillance operation.
Witnesses say people were cornered, forced to identify themselves, and had their photos taken — without suspicion or a warrant.
This is a police state.
Witnesses say people were cornered, forced to identify themselves, and had their photos taken — without suspicion or a warrant.
This is a police state.
June 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Marines and ICE team up in a show of force, turning a community swap meet into a surveillance operation.
Witnesses say people were cornered, forced to identify themselves, and had their photos taken — without suspicion or a warrant.
This is a police state.
Witnesses say people were cornered, forced to identify themselves, and had their photos taken — without suspicion or a warrant.
This is a police state.
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“Does the US President’s social media post mean people should evacuate Tehran in a serious, bombs-are-imminent sort of way or a silly, he’ll forget about it in the morning sort of way?” is an insane, nightmarish situation to be in
June 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Does the US President’s social media post mean people should evacuate Tehran in a serious, bombs-are-imminent sort of way or a silly, he’ll forget about it in the morning sort of way?” is an insane, nightmarish situation to be in
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True!💥
Can’t successfully push back on ICE without rejecting the criminalization that makes it possible.
June 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
True!💥
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"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."
June 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."