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Movies, tacos, Richard Kind enthusiast. Protect trans lives. Black Lives Matter. Just like on the bird app but hopefully better. (He/him)

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Guillermo del Toro: Saying ‘Art Is Not Important’ Is ‘Always the Prelude to Fascism’ Guillermo del Toro says claiming that 'art is not important' is a 'prelude to fascism.'

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05.01.2026 03:13 👍 136 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 2
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

05.01.2026 02:16 👍 18931 🔁 7440 💬 35 📌 75
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Iran’s Foreign Minister says Trump derailed a potential path to de-escalation. He says Iran signaled openness to lowering tensions but Trump’s actions “almost immediately killed” that opportunity, warning if he seeks escalation, it’s “precisely what our Armed Forces have long been prepared for.”

07.03.2026 19:35 👍 1035 🔁 429 💬 71 📌 24

Also this is slop! It looks like shit!

07.03.2026 16:30 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

As someone in the T1D family this hits hard (as does so much of all of ICE depravity). This cannot recur.

07.03.2026 16:28 👍 61 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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Mayor Mamdani Launches New Efforts to Take Sidewalk Sheds Down, Require Fewer Unnecessary Sheds

Holy crap, Mamdani is finally doing something to bring down sidewalk sheds that will actually sort of work! Sheds will no longer be required more than 40 ft. away from buildings, which will be a help to NYCHA and other towers-in-a-park complexes www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

06.03.2026 20:53 👍 317 🔁 35 💬 9 📌 4

Weird how all the enemies of freedom seem to have huge oil reserves

07.03.2026 16:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this part I also didn't get but then I saw an NBC anchor goggling open mouthed like a 12 year who just saw boobs for the first time because the Iranian foreign minister was like"yes we will fight if you invade" and they really don't think of other people as having any sort of agency, it's wild

07.03.2026 14:52 👍 1479 🔁 190 💬 21 📌 1

So if Iran applies the same logic to us and then all the other countries do the same is that good.

07.03.2026 15:02 👍 340 🔁 48 💬 10 📌 0

When we say that Democrats can still make a difference in the minority, this is what we're talking about. Garcia has been a model for his colleagues here.

07.03.2026 15:10 👍 908 🔁 188 💬 11 📌 4

Sorry, ChatGPT is not a replacement for a comprehensive physical examination and laboratory test. It is not a replacement for talk therapy and counseling (especially with how often it tells kids to kill themselves)

07.03.2026 15:11 👍 86 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats!

07.03.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It can’t be said enough how deeply stupid and disgusting and hateful and gross these Trump people are. Just truly the worst of humanity

07.03.2026 15:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crossing all body parts.

07.03.2026 01:39 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

That man doesn't care if America's war against Iran causes terrorist attacks against Americans. As a matter of fact, that's exactly what he wants because he is literally Pennywise in a suit.

07.03.2026 01:18 👍 89 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 2

No other US president will be able to do this. They have decided that the former game show host is the Very Special Boy.

07.03.2026 01:20 👍 110 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

Yep

07.03.2026 01:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like I don’t know what to tell you. At this point it’s like “don’t get the group chat subpoenaed” all the time

07.03.2026 00:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 👍 3817 🔁 1600 💬 56 📌 70

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

06.03.2026 23:31 👍 5725 🔁 1490 💬 258 📌 48

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07.03.2026 00:28 👍 176 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 0

donald john trump is going to have to go on the television and announce that nationwide alternate-day travel restrictions are in effect and it will be amazing

06.03.2026 21:39 👍 482 🔁 23 💬 10 📌 4

What a massive security breach

06.03.2026 22:33 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty sad that even MS Now, the alleged liberal news network, can’t carry the full remarks of US presidents and vice presidents at Jesse Jackson’s funeral live on its linear channel. Ditto the digital news channels of ABC, CBS and NBC.

Yes, it’s on C-Span and YouTube. Not the same.

06.03.2026 21:48 👍 46 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0

Last night on the Pitt when Dr. Mel King’s sister met Dr. Robby and was like “You’re Dr. Robby? oh cool!” I turned to my wife and said completely earnestly “that’s probably what I would’ve said too if I met Dr. Robby”

06.03.2026 22:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

cc @britneyspheres.bsky.social

SOUND ON

06.03.2026 20:09 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

06.03.2026 20:01 👍 1544 🔁 403 💬 6 📌 23

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 29112 🔁 7221 💬 225 📌 231

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.

06.03.2026 20:00 👍 748 🔁 101 💬 5 📌 0