@leachjus.bsky.social
Mandatory follow-up reminder that “I’m too smart to get fooled by the propaganda” is the way 80% of people get fooled by propaganda.
Take steps to learn and educate others, but make time to ground yourself a bit and make sure you’re not falling in the traps yourself.
Take steps to learn and educate others, but make time to ground yourself a bit and make sure you’re not falling in the traps yourself.
it's so easy to scam at scale, or flood the zone with shit, or stoke tribalism, and while we can educate, i don't know if there's a way to Stop entire societies from Being Stupid. so please, don't *you* be stupid. recognize the exploits, call them out, and show others. i think that's all we got.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Mandatory follow-up reminder that “I’m too smart to get fooled by the propaganda” is the way 80% of people get fooled by propaganda.
Take steps to learn and educate others, but make time to ground yourself a bit and make sure you’re not falling in the traps yourself.
Take steps to learn and educate others, but make time to ground yourself a bit and make sure you’re not falling in the traps yourself.
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Added some Artist Proof booster packs to my shop. 5 aps and art cards. All are signed and there 6 booster packs of the 100 that contain APs with art on them. www.bad-king.com/artist-proof...
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Added some Artist Proof booster packs to my shop. 5 aps and art cards. All are signed and there 6 booster packs of the 100 that contain APs with art on them. www.bad-king.com/artist-proof...
The corollary here is that practically none of those voters have ever considered how *intentionally difficult* it has become to immigrate to the US over the last several generations.
“They can come but they should do it legally” is a refrain that shows an ignorance of the state of the system.
“They can come but they should do it legally” is a refrain that shows an ignorance of the state of the system.
Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The corollary here is that practically none of those voters have ever considered how *intentionally difficult* it has become to immigrate to the US over the last several generations.
“They can come but they should do it legally” is a refrain that shows an ignorance of the state of the system.
“They can come but they should do it legally” is a refrain that shows an ignorance of the state of the system.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
While I’m excited to boot out Youngkin and I’ll be riding the high of a Mamdani win for the rest of the week, I’d love it if the DNC could stop being greedy little shits for like A DAY
Hey, what are you planning to do with that $25 before the polls close? Is that really gonna get you over the line?
Hey, what are you planning to do with that $25 before the polls close? Is that really gonna get you over the line?
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
While I’m excited to boot out Youngkin and I’ll be riding the high of a Mamdani win for the rest of the week, I’d love it if the DNC could stop being greedy little shits for like A DAY
Hey, what are you planning to do with that $25 before the polls close? Is that really gonna get you over the line?
Hey, what are you planning to do with that $25 before the polls close? Is that really gonna get you over the line?
The corollary to this is that we just never get the opportunity to test the inverse - I’ve never had a Mamdani on the gubernatorial ballot in VA so there’s no telling how he’d perform here.
Maybe he’d beat Earle-Sears this year too, but whether we’re likely to win or lose, we always run a Centrist.
Maybe he’d beat Earle-Sears this year too, but whether we’re likely to win or lose, we always run a Centrist.
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The corollary to this is that we just never get the opportunity to test the inverse - I’ve never had a Mamdani on the gubernatorial ballot in VA so there’s no telling how he’d perform here.
Maybe he’d beat Earle-Sears this year too, but whether we’re likely to win or lose, we always run a Centrist.
Maybe he’d beat Earle-Sears this year too, but whether we’re likely to win or lose, we always run a Centrist.
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dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
As someone who grew up merely sports-adjacent and is now an invested fan, it sucks that I took for granted the chances I had to watch Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky play.
It’s why I never hated watching Tom Brady, why I could never hate watching Shohei Ohtani — I’m happy to see greatness live.
It’s why I never hated watching Tom Brady, why I could never hate watching Shohei Ohtani — I’m happy to see greatness live.
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As someone who grew up merely sports-adjacent and is now an invested fan, it sucks that I took for granted the chances I had to watch Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky play.
It’s why I never hated watching Tom Brady, why I could never hate watching Shohei Ohtani — I’m happy to see greatness live.
It’s why I never hated watching Tom Brady, why I could never hate watching Shohei Ohtani — I’m happy to see greatness live.
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This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
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democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
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This mf destroyed homeless' camps with his own hands.
Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.
October 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This mf destroyed homeless' camps with his own hands.
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one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans
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I am simply not fucking okay with yet another liberal plea to sacrifice the lives of trans people on the same day we find the Trump regime caused another one of our sister's death and is blaming us for 42 million people losing SNAP benefits.
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I am simply not fucking okay with yet another liberal plea to sacrifice the lives of trans people on the same day we find the Trump regime caused another one of our sister's death and is blaming us for 42 million people losing SNAP benefits.
The reason “cozy game discourse” can never find purchase in my brain is because it’s got such a nebulous definition and it even changes *within a single game*
Sure, some parts of Silksong can be cozy to steep yourself in, but others make me feel like I need to take a shower immediately
Sure, some parts of Silksong can be cozy to steep yourself in, but others make me feel like I need to take a shower immediately
Murder mysteries are fun BECAUSE murder is horrible. That doesn't mean the characters must always be having a lovely time. Silksong is the cosiest game I've played in a while, because of the way it offers you pockets of safety full of delightful characters, surrounded by conflict and gloom.
October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The reason “cozy game discourse” can never find purchase in my brain is because it’s got such a nebulous definition and it even changes *within a single game*
Sure, some parts of Silksong can be cozy to steep yourself in, but others make me feel like I need to take a shower immediately
Sure, some parts of Silksong can be cozy to steep yourself in, but others make me feel like I need to take a shower immediately
Okay, so we’ve gotta talk about SNAP and what it represents to the modern Republican.
This is also a story about 2020.
This is also a story about 2020.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Okay, so we’ve gotta talk about SNAP and what it represents to the modern Republican.
This is also a story about 2020.
This is also a story about 2020.
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"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
This is the good shit
The kind of move you can make in your workplace that makes a difference to someone when it feels like the 8-10 hours spent grinding that day most certainly DID NOT
The perfect “this cost me nothing extra but made your meal that much tastier” seasoning we need to use liberally
The kind of move you can make in your workplace that makes a difference to someone when it feels like the 8-10 hours spent grinding that day most certainly DID NOT
The perfect “this cost me nothing extra but made your meal that much tastier” seasoning we need to use liberally
Powerful move of kindness you can do at work almost every day is when someone junior or outside your department goes “I have a dumb question” and then asks a totally reasonable question, hit em with a “not at all a stupid question” or “actually great question” and then answering it.
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is the good shit
The kind of move you can make in your workplace that makes a difference to someone when it feels like the 8-10 hours spent grinding that day most certainly DID NOT
The perfect “this cost me nothing extra but made your meal that much tastier” seasoning we need to use liberally
The kind of move you can make in your workplace that makes a difference to someone when it feels like the 8-10 hours spent grinding that day most certainly DID NOT
The perfect “this cost me nothing extra but made your meal that much tastier” seasoning we need to use liberally
Co-sign, unless “talk to” also includes “yell at” — because I will never not yell at my computer.
I will never fucking talk to my computer.
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Co-sign, unless “talk to” also includes “yell at” — because I will never not yell at my computer.
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"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"
Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"
Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
College has always been the turning point for Conservative control fantasists.
When the kids leave a Father-led Churchgoing Household™️ to go to college it’s the loosening of that jar — the first whiff of possibilities outside of that control.
How do you expand your influence? Control the schools.
When the kids leave a Father-led Churchgoing Household™️ to go to college it’s the loosening of that jar — the first whiff of possibilities outside of that control.
How do you expand your influence? Control the schools.
It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.
And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
College has always been the turning point for Conservative control fantasists.
When the kids leave a Father-led Churchgoing Household™️ to go to college it’s the loosening of that jar — the first whiff of possibilities outside of that control.
How do you expand your influence? Control the schools.
When the kids leave a Father-led Churchgoing Household™️ to go to college it’s the loosening of that jar — the first whiff of possibilities outside of that control.
How do you expand your influence? Control the schools.
Call your reps right now and get REAL LOUD about how you don’t want to be held hostage by a senile pumpkin who thinks breaking the law is fun
👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Call your reps right now and get REAL LOUD about how you don’t want to be held hostage by a senile pumpkin who thinks breaking the law is fun
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I’m genuinely asking, if you read a single review of mine this year, make it this one
September 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I’m genuinely asking, if you read a single review of mine this year, make it this one
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The whole, "they're using the same bathroom as little girls!" thing is so weird. Yeah man you use the same bathroom as little boys.
September 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The whole, "they're using the same bathroom as little girls!" thing is so weird. Yeah man you use the same bathroom as little boys.
Each time a Democratic candidate or elected official falls for the trap of using the Right’s shorthand for whatever Good Idea™️ they’re trying to make poisonous to the general public, we need to bop them on the nose with a rolled newspaper and tell them “NO”
More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Each time a Democratic candidate or elected official falls for the trap of using the Right’s shorthand for whatever Good Idea™️ they’re trying to make poisonous to the general public, we need to bop them on the nose with a rolled newspaper and tell them “NO”