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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 25m

The tradcath crusades revivalism goes right back to that book too

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 32m

Working on a theory about how “The Da Vinci Code” helped inspire this particular brand of American fascism

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 18h

This is purely a safety issue. You simply cannot sit in the exit row if the crew doesn’t trust you to follow their instructions. His refusal to get off signaled that he might pose a danger to the flight.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 20h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 18h

It’s literally a safety issue. Airlines cannot have people who won’t comply with flight crew instructions in an exit row

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t like all these white people hating on Taylor Swift. It feels like cultural appropriation

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 20h

I asked this question in 2020 and again in 2024: what issues can you say, definitively, that the Democratic party stands for?

I think we can reasonably say abortion and social security. Everything else is negotiable, and they failed at protecting abortion.

orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 21h

And and and how many issues are gonna be hit with “they shouldn’t stand up for that bc it will hurt them in the election” before it looks like they’re spineless and struggling to stand for anything?

(They already look like this)

Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 21h

The logic of "Democrats shouldn't stand up for trans rights because it will hurt them in elections" makes no sense. There are NO voters who are ready to vote for Democrats but decide not to because they just can't get on board with support for trans rights. Those people are Republicans.

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 21h

The logic of "Democrats shouldn't stand up for trans rights because it will hurt them in elections" makes no sense. There are NO voters who are ready to vote for Democrats but decide not to because they just can't get on board with support for trans rights. Those people are Republicans.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to forget because we spent 20 years sending National Guardsmen to Iraq and Afghanistan but these people are not real professional soldiers. They’re a bunch of unfit, poorly trained dork ass losers

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

She’s supposed to read trans. The guy in the middle is supposed to read Muslim and the guy on the right is supposed to read gay. Normal people, for sure, but they got their message out.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish the entire department of homeland security, and enact a federal law prohibiting law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings on duty, and requiring any officer who isn’t undercover to wear uniforms featuring their name and agency.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to forget because we spent 20 years sending National Guardsmen to Iraq and Afghanistan but these people are not real professional soldiers. They’re a bunch of unfit, poorly trained dork ass losers

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

Unless it’s Newsom

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

Strongly agree. They’re also way too low on the injury-prone guys like Embiid, Zion and AD.

If we get Joel Embiid at 75%, playing 65 games, that’s still a top 10 player.

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely absurd to think that eight players, including Anthony Edwards, Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson and Cade Cunningham will be better than Wemby this season.

HoopsHype @hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social · 1d

We've got six OKC players in our projection for 2025-26:

88. Aaron Wiggins
83. Lu Dort
70. Isaiah Hartenstein
49. Chet Holmgren
10. Jalen Williams
1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

No team has more representation.

www.hoopshype.com/story/sports...

NBA Ranking: The Top 100 players for 2025-26

HoopsHype projects and ranks the 100 players for the 2025-26 NBA season, featuring Shai-Gilgeous Alexaner, Nikola Jokic, Anthony Edwards and more.

www.hoopshype.com

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that a Venezuelan gang could take over an entire building in a P Stone neighborhood, without gang warfare was absurd on face

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

It should be noted that the DOJ also has a 99% conviction rate, largely for the same reason that Japan does; they don’t just charge people with a bunch of bullshit and hope it sticks

Katie @katesofheaven.bsky.social · 1d

conservatives like to cite the 99% conviction rate japan has as proof that america is too woke on criminality, but the united states would also have a conviction rate above 99% if it were measured like japan's.

no, the issue is a broader need to leave behind those we deem too unfortunate to save

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, Magic City from Atlanta just did a pop-up in Tokyo? THIS is the cultural exchange we need

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

The combination of the internet and “zero tolerance” fighting policies have created a world where all it takes is ill-intent to be a bully. You don’t need physical might or even social capital. You just have to be loud and nasty. It’s a society of middle-school mean girls.

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

It has also conditioned us to think it’s normal for people to use what used to be considered “fighting words”. There was a whole legal principle built around saying wildly offensive shit and getting popped in the mouth. Now you’re “triggered” if you respond the way reasonable adults have always done

Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 2d

social media has made people feel a little too comfortable with being mean to strangers

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t like that she goes by Jay. It speaks volumes

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration is about to come for VA disability, and is using its media arm to sturup concerns of rampant fraud so it doesn’t look like they are targeting veterans www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls

The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

Hot take: liberals in the media class made Bari Weiss a thing because they wouldn’t. stop. talking. about. her.

She was such a minor figure in the media landscape and they hated her into dominance

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