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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 13h

When observing that another animal has functional eyes, few will challenge whether the animal can see. Yet when presented that an animal has nerves, their faculty to feel inspires vigorous debate. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-all...

Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be

Even the smallest sea slug feels pain. That means we have a responsibility not to inflict it.

www.currentaffairs.org

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1h

Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

this is the first tour since I really got into them last year, so I’m very stoked

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

governor lilburn boggs and the mormon extermination order, but for harris voters

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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RedsHotCorner @redshotcorner.bsky.social · 4h

"We're going to kill Americans without a trial and for fun" - Pam Bondi

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 4h

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 5h

"This is a story of a period between two World Wars—an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat."

Next week marks 85 years since THE GREAT DICTATOR opened in New York City.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

guy’s name is Miranda

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

i mean it's very bad. they are trying to konami code a way to literally kill you, me, and everyone to the left of ben shapiro

i am, as always, gobsmacked at how actually lazy their execution of this is

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6h

“Eliminate them from the existence of American society.”

This violent rhetoric is deliberate. Noem is a fascist in a fascist regime that wants to criminalize and ultimately kill its political opposition.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6h

“Eliminate them from the existence of American society.”

This violent rhetoric is deliberate. Noem is a fascist in a fascist regime that wants to criminalize and ultimately kill its political opposition.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 6h

love that they've just completely invented this thing called 'antifa.' they don't even bother to describe what it is or what it's done or what it will do. they just go on tv and say 'we are going to find the people in this country who are '''antifa''' and we will fucking murder them to death.'

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 6h

YES, god, it's awful

Claire 'Val Loughcrew' [Unknown] @goresorcerer.bsky.social · 6h

the fact that everyone says franchise instead of series nowadays is so insidious

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

nobody fucking believes this shit. people might believe that portland is run down, or crime ridden, but no one fucking believes this grandiose horseshit and anyone that says they do is lying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11h

Fail

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 10h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 9h

This better feature heavily in campaign ads moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 14h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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