@garbu.bsky.social
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.
March 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.
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Istanbul’s popular mayor was about to be anointed formally as the opposition candidate to challenge Erdoğan in the next election. So what happens? He gets detained.
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Istanbul’s popular mayor was about to be anointed formally as the opposition candidate to challenge Erdoğan in the next election. So what happens? He gets detained.
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this is a good way of capturing the appeal of what I’ve thought of as the New Right’s “hallucinations”
March 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this is a good way of capturing the appeal of what I’ve thought of as the New Right’s “hallucinations”
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“If the defining feeling of the start of the first Trump administration was chaos, its equivalent in this term is whiplash,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. “The president and his aides have been changing their minds and positions at nauseating speed.”
The Whiplash Presidency
The president and his aides are changing their minds at nauseating speed.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“If the defining feeling of the start of the first Trump administration was chaos, its equivalent in this term is whiplash,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. “The president and his aides have been changing their minds and positions at nauseating speed.”
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Quality work by this team of folks who clearly rose to their positions of power through merit and smarts.
The Pentagon flagged a photo of the Enola Gay in its DEI purge…
apnews.com/article/dei-...
apnews.com/article/dei-...
March 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Quality work by this team of folks who clearly rose to their positions of power through merit and smarts.
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"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
"The contention, overt or implied, is always that unlike white men, whose competence can be assumed, the non-white people with desirable jobs are undeserving."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@theatlantic.com @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@theatlantic.com @adamserwer.bsky.social
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"The contention, overt or implied, is always that unlike white men, whose competence can be assumed, the non-white people with desirable jobs are undeserving."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@theatlantic.com @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@theatlantic.com @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...
It’s Easy To Save Billions In Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up
Here’s a neat trick for saving taxpayers billions of dollars: just make stuff up! I mean, sure, you could do all the hard work of actually finding government waste and fixing inefficient proc…
www.techdirt.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...
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House Republicans ask AG Bondi to prosecute Code Pink and other organizations because they are "distributing information" about legal rights. dailycaller.com/2025/02/18/e...
February 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
House Republicans ask AG Bondi to prosecute Code Pink and other organizations because they are "distributing information" about legal rights. dailycaller.com/2025/02/18/e...
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This is perfect explanation
January 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is perfect explanation
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Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
January 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
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"Peter Thiel, longtime Trump supporter and billionaire master of the universe, published an op-ed in Financial Times that perfectly replicates the experience of being cornered by a sweaty cokehead at an Austin, Texas house party."
I Have No Idea What Peter Thiel Is Trying to Say and It’s Making Me Really Uncomfortable
In a rambling op-ed for the Financial Times, the master of the universe ranted about the JFK conspiracy, ‘The Decameron,’ immortal rulers from ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ and Jeffrey Epstein.
gizmodo.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"Peter Thiel, longtime Trump supporter and billionaire master of the universe, published an op-ed in Financial Times that perfectly replicates the experience of being cornered by a sweaty cokehead at an Austin, Texas house party."
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A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume
January 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume
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In his amicus brief on release of the special counsel report, Trump argues: “As the President-Elect and soon-to-be 47th President, President Trump has an interest in a smooth transition and efficacious vesting of executive power."
And irony is dead right there.
And irony is dead right there.
January 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In his amicus brief on release of the special counsel report, Trump argues: “As the President-Elect and soon-to-be 47th President, President Trump has an interest in a smooth transition and efficacious vesting of executive power."
And irony is dead right there.
And irony is dead right there.
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"There is a counter-media that exists because it is hard to know things, and whose business amounts to making them even harder to know" is a good summary of how the AI misinfo glurge will make actual information more valuable, the tactic has already been proven to work
I wrote about Car Brain, the people who cannot calm down about NYC's new congestion pricing toll, and the media that exists to make sure they never calm down about anything. defector.com/democracy-di...
Democracy Dies As Awful Man No Longer Able To Freely Drive 18 Blocks In Manhattan | Defector
It is not very difficult to learn true and useful things about the new congestion pricing toll system that New York City switched on last weekend, but it is much easier to learn untrue things about it...
defector.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"There is a counter-media that exists because it is hard to know things, and whose business amounts to making them even harder to know" is a good summary of how the AI misinfo glurge will make actual information more valuable, the tactic has already been proven to work
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Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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This is what segregationists said about media depicting blacks as normal or interracial relationships as ok
December 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
This is what segregationists said about media depicting blacks as normal or interracial relationships as ok
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⚡️Multiple explosions heard in Kyiv.
Multiple explosions were reported in Kyiv around 11:45 p.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.
The city's military administration said air defenses are currently active in the capital amid the threat of Russian drone attacks.
Multiple explosions were reported in Kyiv around 11:45 p.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.
The city's military administration said air defenses are currently active in the capital amid the threat of Russian drone attacks.
November 25, 2024 at 9:58 PM
⚡️Multiple explosions heard in Kyiv.
Multiple explosions were reported in Kyiv around 11:45 p.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.
The city's military administration said air defenses are currently active in the capital amid the threat of Russian drone attacks.
Multiple explosions were reported in Kyiv around 11:45 p.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.
The city's military administration said air defenses are currently active in the capital amid the threat of Russian drone attacks.
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How the Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz embodied Hamas hostage strategy
How the Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz embodied Hamas hostage strategy
The recent release of dozens of Israeli hostages is bringing new focus on the Hamas rampage through the kibbutz of Nir Oz.
apnews.com
December 6, 2023 at 11:40 AM
How the Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz embodied Hamas hostage strategy
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When Hillary Clinton called MAGA supporters “deplorables,” it was in the news forever. We still talk about it today. But when Trump called his political enemies “vermin”—actually invoking the words of Adolf Hitler—the press just moves on like it’s nothing. They are failing us.
November 29, 2023 at 10:21 PM
When Hillary Clinton called MAGA supporters “deplorables,” it was in the news forever. We still talk about it today. But when Trump called his political enemies “vermin”—actually invoking the words of Adolf Hitler—the press just moves on like it’s nothing. They are failing us.