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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 2d

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Andrew R. Butler @andrewrbutler.bsky.social · 1d

This is comedically perfect. Every comedian is aspiring to something this perfect. Sherman. The gold standard. What a gift.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3d

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 5d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

He’s trying to provoke a war.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

BREAKING: President Donald Trump is activating up to 400 Texas National Guard personnel for deployment to Oregon, Illinois and possibly elsewhere, per Hegseth memo in court filing.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Andrew R. Butler @andrewrbutler.bsky.social · 7d

We need the visible support of the public to win contract updates that protect our health and our access to healthcare! Please sign!

Actors' Equity Association @actorsequity.bsky.social · 8d

These unsustainable workplace conditions are breaking the bodies of Broadway workers and threatening our members’ access to health insurance.
Tell The Broadway League that you support our members who make Broadway possible!
@afm-union.bsky.social
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Stand United for a Healthier Broadway

If you love going to the theatre, then you're familiar with the "the show must go on" mentality that has persisted within the theatre industry. For generations, that phrase has been a plucky, pull-...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7d

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8d

this is also white nationalist framing straight from the Jim Crow era, as if Joy Reid citizenship is a gift from Vance, whose belonging is of course unquestioned

it’s what @profkori.bsky.social would call “know your place aggression”

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Andrew R. Butler @andrewrbutler.bsky.social · 8d

You gotta watch this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault

When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro.

There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12d

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 12d

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Andrew R. Butler @andrewrbutler.bsky.social · 14d

Stereophonic merch really should have used the quote “I’m controlling because I am fearful of losing everything but it’s happening no matter what I do.” That’d be a banger of a coffee mug.

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umbellifer @apiaceae.bsky.social · 19d

fabulous work happening in the midwest US not least because tenant organizing and collectivization is some of the hardest there is
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Tenants Seek to Unionize One Private Equity Firm's Entire Housing Portfolio

By organizing renters across Capital Realty Group’s affordable housing complexes, the Tenant Union Federation hopes to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21d

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 22d

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 21d

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

Opinion | The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever

New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.

www.nytimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22d

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority.

It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22d

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22d

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 23d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · Jul 26

1939

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Andrew R. Butler @andrewrbutler.bsky.social · 26d

The Republican Party cultivates and espouses violence and extremism through their rhetoric. There is hard data that demonstrates their rhetoric. There is hard data that charts the violence and who commits it. Show people, and invite them into alternatives. Organize the future.

Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 27d

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party