Pinned
I’m sure this is fine.
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Protect this man
"In a time of darkness, New York must be the light." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social makes a 2-minute ad about transgender rights, while sitting at the Christopher Street Pier in NYC. And yes, I'm crying, too.
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You Have to See This Mamdani Ad
I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Protect this man
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we’re all connected
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
we’re all connected
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1. Resegregation
2. Rolling back basic protections against child abuse
3. Reinforcing rigid class distinctions
4. Destroying professions that have long been "feminized"
2. Rolling back basic protections against child abuse
3. Reinforcing rigid class distinctions
4. Destroying professions that have long been "feminized"
What is their end goal by dismantling the department of education?
July 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
1. Resegregation
2. Rolling back basic protections against child abuse
3. Reinforcing rigid class distinctions
4. Destroying professions that have long been "feminized"
2. Rolling back basic protections against child abuse
3. Reinforcing rigid class distinctions
4. Destroying professions that have long been "feminized"
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The core problem appears to be that the NYT decided to double down on "we must be perceived as objective" rather than "we must report the truth."
It's a losing game! The only way to be perceived as credible by the right is to amplify their lies and moral panics.
It's a losing game! The only way to be perceived as credible by the right is to amplify their lies and moral panics.
There is a certain pattern here:
-Gamed on WhiteWater
-Gamed on Iraq WMD
-Gamed on "but her emails"
-Bullied into dumping Public Editor
-Gamed on DEI etc by Rufo etc
-Gamed on this horrible latest piece, + rationalization.
Something seems really wrong at our most influential news institution.
-Gamed on WhiteWater
-Gamed on Iraq WMD
-Gamed on "but her emails"
-Bullied into dumping Public Editor
-Gamed on DEI etc by Rufo etc
-Gamed on this horrible latest piece, + rationalization.
Something seems really wrong at our most influential news institution.
The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
July 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The core problem appears to be that the NYT decided to double down on "we must be perceived as objective" rather than "we must report the truth."
It's a losing game! The only way to be perceived as credible by the right is to amplify their lies and moral panics.
It's a losing game! The only way to be perceived as credible by the right is to amplify their lies and moral panics.
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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Tapping the sign
i feel like the entire media is the kid who doesn't read the syllabus, but the syllabus is the constitution
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
July 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tapping the sign
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bold of them to directly attack their base like this
Scalise: "The 35-year-old who's sitting in his mom's basement playing video games is gonna have to go get a job again."
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
bold of them to directly attack their base like this
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The framing of the NYT article is incredibly reckless and irresponsible. This just isn't a summer travel issue. It's a lies-about-vaccines issue.
July 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The framing of the NYT article is incredibly reckless and irresponsible. This just isn't a summer travel issue. It's a lies-about-vaccines issue.
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Kaiju coming
Something is ‘pulsing’ beneath the Earth, scientists say – and could tear a continent apart
Something is ‘pulsing’ beneath the Earth – and it could tear a continent apart
Rhythmic surges are like a ‘heartbeat’ under the ground
www.independent.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Kaiju coming
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Fascinated to watch all the Election Guys who have never lived here try to parse the block-by-block voting maps of Brooklyn and try to figure out who lives where because they were under the impression that it was all podcasters
June 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Fascinated to watch all the Election Guys who have never lived here try to parse the block-by-block voting maps of Brooklyn and try to figure out who lives where because they were under the impression that it was all podcasters
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Please let this be true. PLEASE.
Bill Clinton well and truly and finally completely irrelevant.
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Please let this be true. PLEASE.
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Can we all give #BradLander a big hand for throwing himself on the tracks in front of the Cuomo train, because it's starting to look like it worked.
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Can we all give #BradLander a big hand for throwing himself on the tracks in front of the Cuomo train, because it's starting to look like it worked.
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Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
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Culver City is 15 minutes from me. A friend of mine knows the family. This happened yesterday. Last I heard, they don't yet know his whereabouts.
There's more on their Go Fund Me page - thankfully almost funded after a day.
There's more on their Go Fund Me page - thankfully almost funded after a day.
Donate to Fundraiser for Enrique, paletero in Culver City, organized by Kimberly Noriega
On June 23, 2025, at about my 1:15 PM, my uncle Ambrocio Lozano aka E… Kimberly Noriega needs your support for Fundraiser for Enrique, paletero in Culver City
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June 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Culver City is 15 minutes from me. A friend of mine knows the family. This happened yesterday. Last I heard, they don't yet know his whereabouts.
There's more on their Go Fund Me page - thankfully almost funded after a day.
There's more on their Go Fund Me page - thankfully almost funded after a day.
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 102 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 102 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
June 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 102 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 102 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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This is actually extremely common. The evangelical community is VERY dedicated to beating their children with paddles and various other objects in order to control and demand submission. They REGULARLY fight child abuse laws so they can continue this practice. And now they run the federal government
June 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is actually extremely common. The evangelical community is VERY dedicated to beating their children with paddles and various other objects in order to control and demand submission. They REGULARLY fight child abuse laws so they can continue this practice. And now they run the federal government
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the Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian but it's an ICE agent showing foreigners at a port of entry this picture of jd vance and deporting them if they can't keep from laughing
This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao
June 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
the Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian but it's an ICE agent showing foreigners at a port of entry this picture of jd vance and deporting them if they can't keep from laughing
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next generation of would-be entrepreneurs are gonna sure as shit find out, though, the tech barons who are destroying these institutions are burning all the bridges behind them
June 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
next generation of would-be entrepreneurs are gonna sure as shit find out, though, the tech barons who are destroying these institutions are burning all the bridges behind them
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it’s partly this and it’s partly that all of these guys are totally ignorant of how the products that made them wealthy are downstream from the research these institutions produced at no cost to those businesses and are hostile to the suggestion
It’s stupid as hell but I think esp with the emergence of right-wing tech billionaire class (which happened quite suddenly—these people were “liberal coded” in the public imagination) has led to MAGA seeing “tech” (manly & good) as different from “science” (feminized & bad)
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I only have conjecture as to the “why” but I’d point to:
•longstanding underlying disdain for basic research & public grants
•recent emergence of right-wing tech-bro class standing in contrast & opposition to “scientists”
•COVID, the anti-vaxxers, and the lab leak conspiracy are the final catalyst
•longstanding underlying disdain for basic research & public grants
•recent emergence of right-wing tech-bro class standing in contrast & opposition to “scientists”
•COVID, the anti-vaxxers, and the lab leak conspiracy are the final catalyst
June 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
it’s partly this and it’s partly that all of these guys are totally ignorant of how the products that made them wealthy are downstream from the research these institutions produced at no cost to those businesses and are hostile to the suggestion
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This is like the one thing the Trump administration could do to lose the Olympics. International sports organizations don’t really care if a government has awful policies, but they absolutely do care if you’re denying travel to athletes
Five players, and thirteen staff members from the Senegalese basketball team have been denied visas to the US.
The team is here to prepare for the upcoming Afrobasket tournament.
The team is here to prepare for the upcoming Afrobasket tournament.
June 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is like the one thing the Trump administration could do to lose the Olympics. International sports organizations don’t really care if a government has awful policies, but they absolutely do care if you’re denying travel to athletes
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I think this is the right take. From outside of New York, I know it seems NYC is a hotbed of democratic liberalism. But actual New York politics are almost the reverse: the New York Democratic Party leadership is united mainly by trying to keep the left from power.
Really feel like the NYC mayor’s race shows that there is no such thing as a progressive establishment, and there is, in fact, an anti-progressive establishment that runs all the way from Murdoch to Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
June 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I think this is the right take. From outside of New York, I know it seems NYC is a hotbed of democratic liberalism. But actual New York politics are almost the reverse: the New York Democratic Party leadership is united mainly by trying to keep the left from power.
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ok i'm sold, let them vote in nyc
There was a study published in Science just under 15 years ago that showed that rats in a lab were able to show empathy & altruism for one another.
When challenged, they would choose to free a captive buddy over food. Later in the tests, the liberating rat would save treats for the captive rat.
When challenged, they would choose to free a captive buddy over food. Later in the tests, the liberating rat would save treats for the captive rat.
Tell me something cool you’ve learned about nature.
June 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ok i'm sold, let them vote in nyc
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Hard not to believe that the current moment will not completely poison many people's ability to trust the US government for a long time. No-one really believes that the masked men dishing out the kind of violence will ever face any sort of accountability.
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
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June 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hard not to believe that the current moment will not completely poison many people's ability to trust the US government for a long time. No-one really believes that the masked men dishing out the kind of violence will ever face any sort of accountability.