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just a guy, staring up at his phone, hoping it doesnt fall on his face
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Basically, but not exclusively. That's the % of people in the US that would support the white nationalism option, no matter what. No matter how bad it gets. At any cost.
It's slightly *less* than half of all US white folk, plus some Herman Cains and Kanyes and various other non-white folk.🤷🏿♂️
It's slightly *less* than half of all US white folk, plus some Herman Cains and Kanyes and various other non-white folk.🤷🏿♂️
August 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Basically, but not exclusively. That's the % of people in the US that would support the white nationalism option, no matter what. No matter how bad it gets. At any cost.
It's slightly *less* than half of all US white folk, plus some Herman Cains and Kanyes and various other non-white folk.🤷🏿♂️
It's slightly *less* than half of all US white folk, plus some Herman Cains and Kanyes and various other non-white folk.🤷🏿♂️
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This Week's Onion Magazine:
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This Week's Onion Magazine:
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
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counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
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A voice for our community from our generation. Rest Well MJW
July 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A voice for our community from our generation. Rest Well MJW
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I think Jackson understands her audience, and is writing to assure normal people that, no, you do not have to take a GOP-controlled Court protecting a GOP president seriously. This is grim, thankless work, but it's also the most important part of her job right now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
July 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think Jackson understands her audience, and is writing to assure normal people that, no, you do not have to take a GOP-controlled Court protecting a GOP president seriously. This is grim, thankless work, but it's also the most important part of her job right now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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ICE is also the fault of a complicit press.
How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?
It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.
How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?
It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.
June 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
ICE is also the fault of a complicit press.
How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?
It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.
How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?
It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.
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So important. This is America.
Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.
Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
June 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So important. This is America.
Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.
Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.
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I've now learned: there's one country where the commonsense reaction to wild edgelord speech is "well can't do anything (except maybe give them high ranking government positions or billions in government contracts)" and another country where the common sense is "no literally put that guy in prison"
June 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I've now learned: there's one country where the commonsense reaction to wild edgelord speech is "well can't do anything (except maybe give them high ranking government positions or billions in government contracts)" and another country where the common sense is "no literally put that guy in prison"
this seems quite relevant these days. not just them freaks in other states, ignorant minds all around for sure
People in the scientific community like Sagan often saw the decline in science literacy before we did because they were looking at it. He was a great science communicator. The Dunning-Kruger is strong in too many these days.
May 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
this seems quite relevant these days. not just them freaks in other states, ignorant minds all around for sure
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anyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
April 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
anyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality
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They have and are literally doing things in every box. This isn't just journalistic failure by the NYT, it is disinformation.
Currently on the front page of the New York Times.
April 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
They have and are literally doing things in every box. This isn't just journalistic failure by the NYT, it is disinformation.
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Whew white people wanted to fuck over Black people so badly that they fucked the entire global economy. We ain’t no finding peace or parity with them, shawty. That’s just the real of it all.
April 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Whew white people wanted to fuck over Black people so badly that they fucked the entire global economy. We ain’t no finding peace or parity with them, shawty. That’s just the real of it all.
we’ve been lost the info war and it’s depressing pretending nyt is not actively acting against the public. the fourth estate has failed us
April 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
we’ve been lost the info war and it’s depressing pretending nyt is not actively acting against the public. the fourth estate has failed us
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The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit
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Wonder what we’d find if we started scrutinizing the tattoos of ICE agents?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wonder what we’d find if we started scrutinizing the tattoos of ICE agents?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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Two free tips for anyone writing about Trump requiring people to do something
1) you can say purporting to require
2) no obligations have been imposed on people. The order tells agencies to take appropriate action to implement a policy; let's keep space between Trump's word & law as long as we can
1) you can say purporting to require
2) no obligations have been imposed on people. The order tells agencies to take appropriate action to implement a policy; let's keep space between Trump's word & law as long as we can
Breaking news: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring people to provide documents proving they are citizens when they register to vote, a mandate that could prevent millions of Americans from voting.
Trump orders states to require proof of citizenship in federal elections
Election experts said Trump was claiming power he does not have and said lawsuits over the measure were all but guaranteed.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Two free tips for anyone writing about Trump requiring people to do something
1) you can say purporting to require
2) no obligations have been imposed on people. The order tells agencies to take appropriate action to implement a policy; let's keep space between Trump's word & law as long as we can
1) you can say purporting to require
2) no obligations have been imposed on people. The order tells agencies to take appropriate action to implement a policy; let's keep space between Trump's word & law as long as we can
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One frustrating thing about the current moment is that a lot of interesting writers and thinkers really don't have all that much to say. Things are really fucked up, the future is unclear, and every decent person is back on their heels right now.
March 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
One frustrating thing about the current moment is that a lot of interesting writers and thinkers really don't have all that much to say. Things are really fucked up, the future is unclear, and every decent person is back on their heels right now.
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Dems prepared to do battle with the GOP.
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dems prepared to do battle with the GOP.
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Too many political journalists fall into this weird habit of compartmentalizing Stuff That Happened To Black People and you just can't do that.
It's braided into every part of the nation's history and identity and you can't just skip over it in understanding how we got here or how to respond
It's braided into every part of the nation's history and identity and you can't just skip over it in understanding how we got here or how to respond
March 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Too many political journalists fall into this weird habit of compartmentalizing Stuff That Happened To Black People and you just can't do that.
It's braided into every part of the nation's history and identity and you can't just skip over it in understanding how we got here or how to respond
It's braided into every part of the nation's history and identity and you can't just skip over it in understanding how we got here or how to respond
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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
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Like, we’re in a new Gilded Age, for sure - but instead of Carnegies and Rockefellers who at least patronized the arts and made major cultural contributions, our Robber Barons are brain-poisoned Silicon Valley dipshit aggro-philistines who want to replace human creative output with AI slop. Bleak.
February 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Like, we’re in a new Gilded Age, for sure - but instead of Carnegies and Rockefellers who at least patronized the arts and made major cultural contributions, our Robber Barons are brain-poisoned Silicon Valley dipshit aggro-philistines who want to replace human creative output with AI slop. Bleak.