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I’m not big on the religious side of Christmas, but lately I’ve been thinking of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt: how tired and scared they must have been, pursued by a mad king into a foreign country. To honor them, I’m donating to South Brooklyn Sanctuary: www.southbrooklynsanctuary.org/donate
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December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I’m not big on the religious side of Christmas, but lately I’ve been thinking of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt: how tired and scared they must have been, pursued by a mad king into a foreign country. To honor them, I’m donating to South Brooklyn Sanctuary: www.southbrooklynsanctuary.org/donate
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Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile!
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile!
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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It's amazing how many Americans are totally devoid of compassion and think if a human being can't work, they deserve to starve. Then they'll go to a Christmas Eve service at church to celebrate the birth of a poor man who told them to feed the poor.
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's amazing how many Americans are totally devoid of compassion and think if a human being can't work, they deserve to starve. Then they'll go to a Christmas Eve service at church to celebrate the birth of a poor man who told them to feed the poor.
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Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
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And this country HAD a ban on assault weapons! It was in the 1990s! It wasn't that long ago!
Obviously AR-15s should be completely banned. That’s the MINIMUM we should be doing.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
And this country HAD a ban on assault weapons! It was in the 1990s! It wasn't that long ago!
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The fact that the Trump Administration continues to enjoy such broad support from big businesses and rich assholes while 69% of Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy really drives home that we live in an oligarchy rather than a democracy.
“Only 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how Trump is handling the economy, the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds.”
Any other President with these numbers would be buried, but his policies maintain elite support because of broad agreement with their aims.
Any other President with these numbers would be buried, but his policies maintain elite support because of broad agreement with their aims.
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The fact that the Trump Administration continues to enjoy such broad support from big businesses and rich assholes while 69% of Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy really drives home that we live in an oligarchy rather than a democracy.
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"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
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Thieves and grifters said NFTs were the future as well, and that didn't pan out because everyone also resisted those in art, games, music, writing, etc. We can do the same for Gen AI.
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Thieves and grifters said NFTs were the future as well, and that didn't pan out because everyone also resisted those in art, games, music, writing, etc. We can do the same for Gen AI.
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It's a charitable day on the internet but hey, let's NOT:
-go into debt buying holiday gifts or charitable ones
-allow corporations to guilt us about the problems they cause so we'll do their giving for them
-feel personal responsibility for actions of political regimes we didn't vote for
-go into debt buying holiday gifts or charitable ones
-allow corporations to guilt us about the problems they cause so we'll do their giving for them
-feel personal responsibility for actions of political regimes we didn't vote for
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's a charitable day on the internet but hey, let's NOT:
-go into debt buying holiday gifts or charitable ones
-allow corporations to guilt us about the problems they cause so we'll do their giving for them
-feel personal responsibility for actions of political regimes we didn't vote for
-go into debt buying holiday gifts or charitable ones
-allow corporations to guilt us about the problems they cause so we'll do their giving for them
-feel personal responsibility for actions of political regimes we didn't vote for
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it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
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Imagine a world in which all politicians spend time in soup kitchens & shelters, offer pro bono legal clinics, work on low-income housing sites, volunteer in hospitals, at daycare centers, literacy classes — because the priority of a real political party should be to build & support community.
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Imagine a world in which all politicians spend time in soup kitchens & shelters, offer pro bono legal clinics, work on low-income housing sites, volunteer in hospitals, at daycare centers, literacy classes — because the priority of a real political party should be to build & support community.
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Here is your annual #Thanksgiving reminder that "Over the River and Through the Wood" was written by Lydia Maria Child, a fierce abolitionist who waged a lifelong struggle for racial justice in the US. She loved her country; she recognized its faults; she fought to fix it. 🙏 🙏for her example!
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Here is your annual #Thanksgiving reminder that "Over the River and Through the Wood" was written by Lydia Maria Child, a fierce abolitionist who waged a lifelong struggle for racial justice in the US. She loved her country; she recognized its faults; she fought to fix it. 🙏 🙏for her example!
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The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
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We're enduring this Cloudflare outage as best we can: in the fetal position, surrounded by decorative gourds.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We're enduring this Cloudflare outage as best we can: in the fetal position, surrounded by decorative gourds.
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Running the whole internet through three or four points of failure is maybe not such a great idea.
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Running the whole internet through three or four points of failure is maybe not such a great idea.
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I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
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Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.
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Meanwhile, MAGA is still pretending that trans women are the real bathroom threat.
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Meanwhile, MAGA is still pretending that trans women are the real bathroom threat.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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Yes. How do Dem electeds not understand this dynamic? After all these years?
At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Yes. How do Dem electeds not understand this dynamic? After all these years?
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...