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Your attention please, thank you. As long as black man hates brown man and brown man hates red man and red man hates yellow man and yellow man hates gay people, inclusive of every compounded combination therein, the wealthy and the ruling class win. Refer to Nov 5, 2024, accordingly.
January 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Your attention please, thank you. As long as black man hates brown man and brown man hates red man and red man hates yellow man and yellow man hates gay people, inclusive of every compounded combination therein, the wealthy and the ruling class win. Refer to Nov 5, 2024, accordingly.
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Reminder that we didn't win the similar long fight over seatbelt usage by gently persuading skeptical anti seatbelt people with empathetic outreach, or by having cops write tickets, but by having manufacturers make cars do a little annoying beep if you didn't wear it.
I don’t think his confirmation is inevitable but it’s not just about RFK because he represents a lot of people - MAHA isn’t going away if he’s rejected. If maximizing vaccine uptake is the ultimate goal (as it should be), is the best strategy to browbeat or build bridges? bsky.app/profile/dave...
And why are we starting with the assumption of his confirmation being inevitable?
January 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reminder that we didn't win the similar long fight over seatbelt usage by gently persuading skeptical anti seatbelt people with empathetic outreach, or by having cops write tickets, but by having manufacturers make cars do a little annoying beep if you didn't wear it.
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The World’s richest man spent $277 million and got trump elected, is going to be head of an agency which will grab Social Security money. At the same time, in addition to running Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, he’s going to interfere in upcoming elections in Canada and Germany. He is openly shovelling
January 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The World’s richest man spent $277 million and got trump elected, is going to be head of an agency which will grab Social Security money. At the same time, in addition to running Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, he’s going to interfere in upcoming elections in Canada and Germany. He is openly shovelling
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The Democrats who are pretending like DOGE could ever be a legitimate exercise in government reform are playing a mug's game. This is a smash and grab, nothing more or less.
so i missed this… cnn reported vivek saying they’re going to take a $6.6 billion dollar loan package away from rivian, a direct competitor to tesla
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...
Ramaswamy’s threats to claw back Rivian loan spark criticism of Elon Musk’s DOGE role | CNN Politics
Vivek Ramaswamy, the incoming co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump’s commission to cut government spending, has set his sights on money the Biden administration is dispersing in its final days in ...
amp.cnn.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Democrats who are pretending like DOGE could ever be a legitimate exercise in government reform are playing a mug's game. This is a smash and grab, nothing more or less.
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We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”
January 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”
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So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/
January 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/
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The key to understanding all the nonsensical pro-tariff arguments from billionaires is that they're not supposed to make sense. They're just noise to cover yet another round of huge tax cuts for billionaires. (Same's true of "DOGE," it's just noise for cutting social services.) Standard Reaganism.
January 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The key to understanding all the nonsensical pro-tariff arguments from billionaires is that they're not supposed to make sense. They're just noise to cover yet another round of huge tax cuts for billionaires. (Same's true of "DOGE," it's just noise for cutting social services.) Standard Reaganism.
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So, a dude with an ISIS flag is immediately considered to be a member of ISIS, but when Elon Musk adopts multiple right-wing white nationalist symbols overnight for his name/avatar, there is media handwringing and bothsidesing over what these symbols mean.
January 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So, a dude with an ISIS flag is immediately considered to be a member of ISIS, but when Elon Musk adopts multiple right-wing white nationalist symbols overnight for his name/avatar, there is media handwringing and bothsidesing over what these symbols mean.
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ABC: In New Orleans last night, a man intentionally drove a pickup at high speed into New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street, shooting as he went. 10 dead, over 30 injured or wounded, 2 cops wounded, shooter killed.
January 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ABC: In New Orleans last night, a man intentionally drove a pickup at high speed into New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street, shooting as he went. 10 dead, over 30 injured or wounded, 2 cops wounded, shooter killed.
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January 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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WAVY: FBI seizes the largest cache of IED’s & homemade bomb making materials in its history, including a loaded explosives vest, from known right wing extremist & political assassination advocate, in VA, so unstable they had to be detonated in situ. Judge sets bond at $25,000. 🤷♂️
January 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WAVY: FBI seizes the largest cache of IED’s & homemade bomb making materials in its history, including a loaded explosives vest, from known right wing extremist & political assassination advocate, in VA, so unstable they had to be detonated in situ. Judge sets bond at $25,000. 🤷♂️
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You know what, screw the niceties of calling fascists, “the far-right.”
Call them what they are. Nazis.
And force them into surrender.
Call them what they are. Nazis.
And force them into surrender.
a soldier in a helmet is holding a white flag in front of a destroyed building .
Alt: a soldier in a helmet is holding a white flag in front of a destroyed building .
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2024 at 12:44 PM
You know what, screw the niceties of calling fascists, “the far-right.”
Call them what they are. Nazis.
And force them into surrender.
Call them what they are. Nazis.
And force them into surrender.
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Remember that Pete was a failure as a junior infantry officer. Like so many people in their movement who never actually stood up, he's got the fantasy that this time he can make everything work right and bend the enemy, whatever enemy that may be, to his will. By the way, that shit never works.
Trump Defense nominee Pete Hegseth wants the U.S. military to “be the world’s sheriff.”
December 30, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Remember that Pete was a failure as a junior infantry officer. Like so many people in their movement who never actually stood up, he's got the fantasy that this time he can make everything work right and bend the enemy, whatever enemy that may be, to his will. By the way, that shit never works.
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In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
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I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.
December 30, 2024 at 4:48 PM
I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.
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I think we often forget the most important thig we can do for sustainability is to buy products for their longevity.
Buying a well made cast iron pan that can be used for multiple generations vs the newest "green" cookware is by far and wide more sustainable.
Buying the used fuel efficient car
Buying a well made cast iron pan that can be used for multiple generations vs the newest "green" cookware is by far and wide more sustainable.
Buying the used fuel efficient car
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I think we often forget the most important thig we can do for sustainability is to buy products for their longevity.
Buying a well made cast iron pan that can be used for multiple generations vs the newest "green" cookware is by far and wide more sustainable.
Buying the used fuel efficient car
Buying a well made cast iron pan that can be used for multiple generations vs the newest "green" cookware is by far and wide more sustainable.
Buying the used fuel efficient car
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I keep wondering whether the fact that there are entire cable channels that air nothing but fantastical crime and murder shows 24/7 is behind this wild paranoia.
When I wrote for Law & Order, we fake-murdered more people on all three shows than were actually murdered in NYC that year. And that was just three shows on one network.
Murder mysteries make good stories. But they’re just stories.
You’re safer than you think.
Murder mysteries make good stories. But they’re just stories.
You’re safer than you think.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u.... The right continues to create false narratives to further divide us.
December 30, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I keep wondering whether the fact that there are entire cable channels that air nothing but fantastical crime and murder shows 24/7 is behind this wild paranoia.
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NEW: a federal appeals court panel upheld a jury’s verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and ordering him to pay $5 million.
womp womp.
womp womp.
December 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
NEW: a federal appeals court panel upheld a jury’s verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and ordering him to pay $5 million.
womp womp.
womp womp.
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Right-wing support was increasingly framed in terms of anticommunism rather than overt white supremacy by the mid-1980s. Reagan used that framework when he vetoed sanctions against South Africa in 1986; the House overrode the veto with plenty of Republican votes.
December 30, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Right-wing support was increasingly framed in terms of anticommunism rather than overt white supremacy by the mid-1980s. Reagan used that framework when he vetoed sanctions against South Africa in 1986; the House overrode the veto with plenty of Republican votes.
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But when it came to Africa, especially the apartheid regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa, the argument for whites supremacy remained: apartheid must remain in those countries because, as Russell Kirk wrote in 1965, only the white race was “civilized.”
December 30, 2024 at 1:12 AM
But when it came to Africa, especially the apartheid regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa, the argument for whites supremacy remained: apartheid must remain in those countries because, as Russell Kirk wrote in 1965, only the white race was “civilized.”
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National Review, for instance, published openly racist articles about the US South in the 1950s, arguing that white rule was necessary because white people were “the advanced race.” In subsequent years, they swapped openly white supremacist arguments for the coded language of states’ rights.
December 30, 2024 at 1:12 AM
National Review, for instance, published openly racist articles about the US South in the 1950s, arguing that white rule was necessary because white people were “the advanced race.” In subsequent years, they swapped openly white supremacist arguments for the coded language of states’ rights.
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Excellent thread on the long tradition of American rightwing leaders supporting apartheid in South Africa as the manifestation of a “natural” racial hierarchy - a way for them to affirm and communicate their preferred vision of societal order at home and abroad.
I’ve always been fascinated by how conservatives turned to South Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s to project racist attitudes and fantasies that had become less welcome in polite white society.
i think this is pretty much right. not a shock that the political economy of apartheid south africa produced a bunch of reactionaries who hope to replicate that political economy for the 21st century www.ft.com/content/cfbf...
December 30, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Excellent thread on the long tradition of American rightwing leaders supporting apartheid in South Africa as the manifestation of a “natural” racial hierarchy - a way for them to affirm and communicate their preferred vision of societal order at home and abroad.