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I spotted @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in Belem, Brazil
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I spotted @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in Belem, Brazil
Elise Stefanik and Elissa Slotkin need to do a cage match that only one can emerge from. These names are too similar and confusing. (Alternatively, one could change their name)
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Elise Stefanik and Elissa Slotkin need to do a cage match that only one can emerge from. These names are too similar and confusing. (Alternatively, one could change their name)
"Elon Musk is poised to become the first trillionaire in world history."
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Elon Musk is poised to become the first trillionaire in world history."
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Canvassing is the third space.
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Canvassing is the third space.
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Responding to a question from @democracynow.org on Wednesday, during his first press conference as mayor-elect,
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration. "Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration. "Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Responding to a question from @democracynow.org on Wednesday, during his first press conference as mayor-elect,
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration. "Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration. "Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.
This is my question.
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is my question.
What's fucked up is that @teenvogue.com read this and fired all their political writers. Somebody needs to hire @leximcmenamin.com asap.
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What's fucked up is that @teenvogue.com read this and fired all their political writers. Somebody needs to hire @leximcmenamin.com asap.
Let those people sleep. They earned it.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Let those people sleep. They earned it.
Errol Louis just talking about the billionaire class's role in the Democratic Party.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Errol Louis just talking about the billionaire class's role in the Democratic Party.
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Horror movie villains.
In Chicago, DHS refused to pause the raids and arrests so kids could go trick-or-treating without the risk of getting tear-gassed or subjected to violence.
Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks.
Sadism as public policy.
Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks.
Sadism as public policy.
We Asked DHS if Federal Agents Wore Horror Masks on Raids. They Responded ‘Happy Halloween! ~ L.A. TACO
“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols, who snapped the photo of the ...
lataco.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Horror movie villains.
"New York City will elect a Muslim socialist mayor over my dead body" -Dick Cheney probably.
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"New York City will elect a Muslim socialist mayor over my dead body" -Dick Cheney probably.
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Trump ally Elon Musk endorses Andrew Cuomo
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trump ally Elon Musk endorses Andrew Cuomo
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I think people who write columns for big newspapers should be smart people who say intelligent things instead of the world's biggest morons who routinely say dumbass things that get them mocked by tens of thousands of people for days on end
September 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I think people who write columns for big newspapers should be smart people who say intelligent things instead of the world's biggest morons who routinely say dumbass things that get them mocked by tens of thousands of people for days on end
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On Saturday night I click to take a look - the piece has nothing to do with what I wrote.
This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/
This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
On Saturday night I click to take a look - the piece has nothing to do with what I wrote.
This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/
This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/
Politics aside, Zohran is running on fumes at this point, he's clearly exhausted and endearingly funny. The future of the Dems/anxiety clip and the "are you okay" clip where he explains touching the sidewalk by saying "new York city," Wednesday, this man needs to sleep.
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Politics aside, Zohran is running on fumes at this point, he's clearly exhausted and endearingly funny. The future of the Dems/anxiety clip and the "are you okay" clip where he explains touching the sidewalk by saying "new York city," Wednesday, this man needs to sleep.
You have to wonder if anyone at the Nobel committee is having any cognitive dissonance listening to their "peace" prize winner, before going to Oslo to accept the award, doing all but calling for a U.S. invasion of Venezuela.
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
You have to wonder if anyone at the Nobel committee is having any cognitive dissonance listening to their "peace" prize winner, before going to Oslo to accept the award, doing all but calling for a U.S. invasion of Venezuela.
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They tortured him to death.
New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
www.thebanner.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
They tortured him to death.
Springsteen just Temu Dylan
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Springsteen just Temu Dylan
I predict Plattner mimics Trump and Hegseth and just barrels through a few news cycles until the tattoo stiry fades. If his cover-up tat wasn't a dog but the phrase "I won't be a second Fetterman," it would be one less news cycle.
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I predict Plattner mimics Trump and Hegseth and just barrels through a few news cycles until the tattoo stiry fades. If his cover-up tat wasn't a dog but the phrase "I won't be a second Fetterman," it would be one less news cycle.
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A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.
www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...
www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.
www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...
www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...
I just read the New Yorker's funny piece about their history of fact-checking and I've recommended it to colleagues (we take it very seriously where I work) and then I got this and, if I had a magic wand, I'd ask every journalist in the country to read it: "House Arab." bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I just read the New Yorker's funny piece about their history of fact-checking and I've recommended it to colleagues (we take it very seriously where I work) and then I got this and, if I had a magic wand, I'd ask every journalist in the country to read it: "House Arab." bidoun.org/articles/hou...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social about to sell a lot more books.
September 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
@naomiaklein.bsky.social about to sell a lot more books.
So the NY Times headline is "NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland," but we're going to ignore Al Udeid Air Base, host of the US Air Force in Qatar, and why the U.S. military, hosted by an ally, didn't scramble shit.
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
So the NY Times headline is "NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland," but we're going to ignore Al Udeid Air Base, host of the US Air Force in Qatar, and why the U.S. military, hosted by an ally, didn't scramble shit.