Golden Öyster Cult
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For-profit healthcare is genocide
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Fav bands: Blue Öyster Cult, Golden Earring, Pearl Jam, The Beths, Frank Zappa, The Kinks
Fav films: Hot Fuzz, There Will Be Blood, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jaws, The Towering Inferno, The Great Escape
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An historian claps back at right-wing whiners complaining that the new Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution is overly “woke” because of it giving much-needed focus to the thirteen colonies’ ongoing conflict with the indigenous population.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoM...
We Need to Talk - Has Ken Burns gone WOKE with the American Revolution?
YouTube video by Vlogging Through History
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
An historian claps back at right-wing whiners complaining that the new Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution is overly “woke” because of it giving much-needed focus to the thirteen colonies’ ongoing conflict with the indigenous population.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoM...
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And let's not even get started on the absurdity of looking for a positive impact from a preventative measure, where the expected outcome is "not getting worse"
Puberty blockers had no measurable impact on divorce rates, therefore ineffective treatment.
Puberty blockers had no measurable impact on divorce rates, therefore ineffective treatment.
(Also the trial measures blockers’ impact on “gender dysphoria,” which some of us have been saying for years is an inherently pathologising diagnosis easily manipulated to curtail bodily autonomy, but ☕️🐸)
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Have we got it wrong on dysphoria? Abigail Thorn discusses trans healthcare - Trans Writes
I would prefer to centre desire and will when talking about transition. To me, transition is more than meeting a medical need, just like crossing the Rubicon was more than Caesar getting his feet wet....
transwrites.world
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
And let's not even get started on the absurdity of looking for a positive impact from a preventative measure, where the expected outcome is "not getting worse"
Puberty blockers had no measurable impact on divorce rates, therefore ineffective treatment.
Puberty blockers had no measurable impact on divorce rates, therefore ineffective treatment.
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Dare to dream
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Dare to dream
Episode 4 of Pluribus re-sold me on the show. I was a little worried with episode 3 wondering if it was going to be way too slow a burn but I’m back in.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Episode 4 of Pluribus re-sold me on the show. I was a little worried with episode 3 wondering if it was going to be way too slow a burn but I’m back in.
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i’m going to fuck your mom and finally give her something to be proud of
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
i’m going to fuck your mom and finally give her something to be proud of
He’ll be back to badmouthing him tomorrow. Anybody remember how cordial he was to Obama on his White House visit during his 2016 transition? His only consistency is his lack of consistency and he’s EASILY ensorcelled in the presence of a confident male. That’s it. It’s that simple.
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
He’ll be back to badmouthing him tomorrow. Anybody remember how cordial he was to Obama on his White House visit during his 2016 transition? His only consistency is his lack of consistency and he’s EASILY ensorcelled in the presence of a confident male. That’s it. It’s that simple.
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Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol
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Got death threats and just voted to condemn "socialism" instead of the fascist threatening his family.
How do you look your kids in the eye, coward?
How do you look your kids in the eye, coward?
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Got death threats and just voted to condemn "socialism" instead of the fascist threatening his family.
How do you look your kids in the eye, coward?
How do you look your kids in the eye, coward?
Why would you willingly walk into the Trump White House lol
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why would you willingly walk into the Trump White House lol
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
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Everything being done to combat climate change by capital is woefully inadequate based on what we need to be doing, trillions or not, and climate change continues apace, so you might have to seriously consider capital *does* want this, or at least is not equipped to deal with the problem it created
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Everything being done to combat climate change by capital is woefully inadequate based on what we need to be doing, trillions or not, and climate change continues apace, so you might have to seriously consider capital *does* want this, or at least is not equipped to deal with the problem it created
“We don’t hate the Jews, we just want them to convert or die”
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“We don’t hate the Jews, we just want them to convert or die”
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It is not lost on me the irony that the same people saying bombing mosques, hospitals, and schools is acceptable because Hamas purportedly hides there simultaneously say synagogues cannot be peacefully protested when hosting events illegally selling stolen Palestinian land.
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is not lost on me the irony that the same people saying bombing mosques, hospitals, and schools is acceptable because Hamas purportedly hides there simultaneously say synagogues cannot be peacefully protested when hosting events illegally selling stolen Palestinian land.
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dystopian
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
dystopian
Progressive tax rates and confiscatory wealth taxes don’t just help expand the middle class and help fund a robust social safety nest, they also crucially kneecap the outsize political power of people like these 100 parasites.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Progressive tax rates and confiscatory wealth taxes don’t just help expand the middle class and help fund a robust social safety nest, they also crucially kneecap the outsize political power of people like these 100 parasites.
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Took one in the bad apples
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Took one in the bad apples
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
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Or at least for the media to treat “the economy is worse by every metric both micro and macroeconomic” with the same overwrought mania that it treated “egg prices went up.”
I feel like the left more broadly wants economists to say that the economy is in shambles right now and the current "eh, I mean it is deteriorating but pretty slowly so far" is not satisfying
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Or at least for the media to treat “the economy is worse by every metric both micro and macroeconomic” with the same overwrought mania that it treated “egg prices went up.”
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Upset that Firefly got canceled?
It was the immigrants.
Halitosis?
It was immigrants.
Bald spot?
Yup, immigrants.
Spouse not that into you anymore?
Immigrants.
Is the mailman jerkin’ you ‘round? Did he put your million dollar check in someone else’s box?
Immigrants.
It was the immigrants.
Halitosis?
It was immigrants.
Bald spot?
Yup, immigrants.
Spouse not that into you anymore?
Immigrants.
Is the mailman jerkin’ you ‘round? Did he put your million dollar check in someone else’s box?
Immigrants.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Upset that Firefly got canceled?
It was the immigrants.
Halitosis?
It was immigrants.
Bald spot?
Yup, immigrants.
Spouse not that into you anymore?
Immigrants.
Is the mailman jerkin’ you ‘round? Did he put your million dollar check in someone else’s box?
Immigrants.
It was the immigrants.
Halitosis?
It was immigrants.
Bald spot?
Yup, immigrants.
Spouse not that into you anymore?
Immigrants.
Is the mailman jerkin’ you ‘round? Did he put your million dollar check in someone else’s box?
Immigrants.
The coast guard just made awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The coast guard just made awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.
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I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.
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Remember when Republicans and corporate media lost their minds over Charlie Kirk's murder, which was allegedly done by Tyler Robinson, and somehow blamed "the left" for their rhetoric?
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Remember when Republicans and corporate media lost their minds over Charlie Kirk's murder, which was allegedly done by Tyler Robinson, and somehow blamed "the left" for their rhetoric?
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
But Trump outright saying Democrats should be executed is fine.
Cool.
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers