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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 1d

The flapping fascist maw:

"We will be making cuts that will be permanent, and we're only going to cut Democrat Programs I hate to tell you..."

"We'll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren't very popular with republicans frankly because that's the way it works"

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Slate @slate.com · 2d

Bestselling author John Grisham, who has written a book about Roberson’s case, calls it “an ongoing tragedy.” He says, “If it now becomes a wrongful execution, it will live in infamy.” slate.trib.al/AREAKEo

Texas Has Scheduled the Execution of an Innocent Man in One Week. Will Anyone Stop It?

Even after all of its misconduct and mistakes have become public knowledge, the state is not convinced that it should spare Robert Roberson’s life.

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

And we certainly can hope that the children who decided to put their bigotry on public display face consequences and their own personal growth. But in the conservative youth movement bigotry is the norm and open displays encouraged

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

But we can only hope that this leads him to some realization, or personal growth about his place in a toxic movement that only cares for him as a pawn at best, and at worst wants to subjugate him. That the capitalist myths he peddles are laced in white supremacy. But my hopes are not high

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear, Vivek for his part handled this as well as anyone should be expected to do under the circumstances for someone as dull as him and this is abhorrent cultural rot groyper bullshit that absolutely no-one including Vivek deserves to have to endure.

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

But we can only hope that this leads him to some realization, or personal growth about his place in a toxic movement that only cares for him as a pawn at best, and at worst wants to subjugate him. That the capitalist myths he peddles are laced in white supremacy. But my hopes are not high

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear, Vivek for his part handled this as well as anyone should be expected to do under the circumstances for someone as dull as him and this is abhorrent cultural rot groyper bullshit that absolutely no-one including Vivek deserves to have to endure.

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

Ok now multiple rabid children have attacked Vivek Ramaswamy for his Hindu faith at a TPUSA event in Montana. Not sure if that had something to do with why they just suddenly ended the Q&A but I can guess

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear, Vivek for his part handled this as well as anyone should be expected to do under the circumstances for someone as dull as him and this is abhorrent cultural rot groyper bullshit that absolutely no-one including Vivek deserves to have to endure.

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

Ok now multiple rabid children have attacked Vivek Ramaswamy for his Hindu faith at a TPUSA event in Montana. Not sure if that had something to do with why they just suddenly ended the Q&A but I can guess

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

Vivek Ramaswamy is currently on a TPUSA stage learning that the leopards will in fact be eating his face

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

Ok now multiple rabid children have attacked Vivek Ramaswamy for his Hindu faith at a TPUSA event in Montana. Not sure if that had something to do with why they just suddenly ended the Q&A but I can guess

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

Vivek Ramaswamy is currently on a TPUSA stage learning that the leopards will in fact be eating his face

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

Vivek Ramaswamy is currently on a TPUSA stage learning that the leopards will in fact be eating his face

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 3d

They ripped up union contracts and now are gleefully threatening to force government workers to work without pay.

I fully support a nationwide wildcat strike of federal employees. They deserve better

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 4d

I have been at the airport all day and spent a decent amount of time talking to TSA employees encouraging them to strike.

When the fascist administration tore up their union contract they tore up the rules. Shut it all down

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.

Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.

If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5d

Liberals say that recent Supreme Court ruling have given the executive branch too much power. But they’re wrong, because the rulings only apply to Trump and will all be reversed when there’s a Democratic president.

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 4d

Brain-dead centrism must go so hard if you’re stupid.

altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 5d

My dad used to say that America was like the eagle that represents it, it has a left and a right wing and both are required to fly. But without the heart in the center, it would just die.

Never more true than it is today.

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t see what the big problem is. Pete Hegseth just wants to make sure he has an entire army made up of his ideal fuckable twinks

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Things that it is permissible to deadname:

- The Department of Defense
- Twitter

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 4d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 4d

The facade that mega corporations are full of serious people who care about detail and accuracy has never been more transparent than in this age of chatbot-enabled half-assery

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4d

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 4d

Going to make it my life’s work to normalize the use of the phrase “boot-licking toadies” in academic writing about the Supreme Court

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 4d

We need outlets like LCRW that track the far right more than ever.

Please help if you can

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 4d

Hey everyone,

I don’t get paid until Friday and car repairs and other monthly expenses set me back real bad this past week. I could use some assistance.

Donation links below. Anything helps.

A screenshot of a bank statement showing a negative balance of $0.11 in checking snd $10.34 in savings

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National Lawyers Guild Chicago @nlgchicago.bsky.social · 5d

NLG Chicago condemns arrests by state and federal authorities at demonstrations outside Broadview ICE detention facility and in Chicago

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

Those who are so inclined to immediately dismiss all the seemingly grandiose reports of torture and abuse in the Israeli prison system should read this report from B'Tselem entitled: "Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps"

In some cases, witnesses described other IPS personnel being present during attacks by the IRF. They stood idly by and did nothing to protect the victims, their presence essentially lending legitimacy to the actions. The presence of IPS officers and the participation of dozens of IPS guards in the assaults indicates that these were not isolated incidents or the work of a rogue guard.
On 9 November 2023, at around 2:00 P.M., a force of 20 masked officers from the IRF and DU arrived with a dog. They opened the cell door and attacked
Some of the
us with batons. Two of them grabbed me forces filmed
and hit me in the back with batons. One of us with cell
them grabbed my head while I was on the phones and
floor and hit me in the face with a baton.
cameras. I
My face and right eye started bleeding. I heard the
told them in Hebrew, "I'm going to die," and officer tell
one of them said that he wanted me to die.
the others in
Others told me to shut up.
Hebrew: "We're
After they beat us up for about 10 minutes, they tied our hands behind our backs with
loresee wins
zip ties. They fastened them so tight that I felt them cutting into my hands. The beating continued, and members of the forces stepped on my chest and head. There were also two officers in the cell, and one of them ordered them to beat us. The members of the forces laughed among themselves. They took some clothes away from inmates. They dragged some of us on the floor and forced others to kiss one of the officer's shoes.
I saw them grab some inmates by the testicles, and the inmates screamed and cried. The officers also pressed their batons against

Keter
Welcome to Hell
the genitals of some inmates. The stream of insults didn't stop: "motherfuckers," "sons
None of us could move,
of bitches," "dogs," "ISIS." Some of the forces
not even to
filmed us with cell phones and cameras. I go to the
heard the officer tell the others in Hebrew:
bathroom.
"We're livestreaming for Ben Gvir."
We were all
The attack lasted a long time, more than half dizzy and lost
an hour of nonstop beating. It looked like they balance.
wanted to cause as much damage as possible.
My right eye
When it was over, I felt I was going to pass swelled up,
out. Afterwards, we lay on the floor for hours.
and I was
None of us could move, not even to go to the afraid I'd lose
bathroom. We were all dizzy and lost balance.
my sight. We
My right eye swelled up, and I was afraid I'd were in a very
lose my sight. We were in a very bad state. One bad state.
prisoner said in tears that they'd raped him
One prisoner
with a stick.
said in tears that they'd
After that incident, we lived in constant fear.
raped him
Also, we were shocked by the screams of with a stick.
inmates being beaten in other cells. We were
afraid all the time, day and night, that the forces would attack us again.
From the testimony of Firas Hassan
50, a father of four and resident of Hindaza in Bethlehem District, who was held in the Negev Prison (Ketziot) | Full testimony

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 5d

… from… from jerking off?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "I saw so many veterans my hand will never be the same."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

A State Department inspector general report says U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson dismissed an embassy contractor at Salvadoran President Bukele’s request.

The contractor had talked to a journalist about a suspected government pact with the MS-13 gang.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/42WCOcc

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone has heard their dumbest relatives say this at thanksgiving at least 5 times

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 5d

They’re just gutter racists. Top to bottom. Sad boy racist fuckwits

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 6d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 17d

Visited when we were in Barcelona last month and my first thought was "this looks like Disney." But my honest thoughts are "there's a place for weird buildings because even if ugly they're fun to look at"

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17d

Antoni Gaudí’s vision for the Sagrada Família, a church that’s been under construction for nearly 150 years, was never universally liked. George Orwell called the church “one of the most hideous buildings in the world.”

Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch?

In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Sep 10

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after being shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University. Kirk is known for spreading far right beliefs to young Americans through Turning Point USA, including racism, xenophobia, and other ideologies like lessening restrictions on gun ownership.

Far Right Activist Charlie Kirk Shot and Killed at Utah University

The Turning Point USA founder was extremely influential in the right-wing space.

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