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The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

Two in custody after 'suspicious devices' found outside Gracie Mansion amid anti-Islam protest The anti-Islam protest was led by right-wing influencer Jake Lang. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife are safe, his press secretary said.

The January 6th terrorists, who were freed by, and celebrated by, their enabler in the White House, are carrying on the MAGA spree of attempted assassinations. This is why MAGA supporters should be rounded up and their sympathizers recognized as a public threat. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is very good

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once again: violence against women is the bedrock of mass violence in this country

I’m telling you what, the study of race, race craft, and identity has never been more relevant.

This is a very good encapsulation of how a lot of us feel about the impact of AI on a day to day basis which is that using it to find information can be more helpful than Google but a lot of that is because Google has gotten much worse

“Iran rejected the ceasefire” yeah I fucking bet they did- why would they ever negotiate with the US again??

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

It’d be funny if he had a friend named Markgarth

She better check and see if she’s on the next schedule

Markwayne? In this house we mark twain.

From the Iowa community on Reddit: Sitting State Rep called me slurs for supporting oncology over ivermectin Explore this post and more from the Iowa community

Jeff Shipley called someone a r-worded f-slur

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on this team and gonna keep saying: behind the extremely thin veneer of concern and responsibility of anti-Bluesky takes is the desperate attempt to portray something that is obviously their problem as though it were our problem. nice try. go with God, have a blessed day

Absolute dipshittery. (I mean Iowa Republicans, not Mr Walker.)

We’re at the point where it’s absolutely clear that everyone’s survival depends on everyone else’s, on global cooperation, and that anyone making distinctions between the worth of different human lives is afflicted with the deadliest of insanities, a death-cult ideology that would destroy us all.

A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

this kind of polling is pretty in line with what we've seen from Israel public opinion in the past. There's substantial majority support for genocide and war. 1

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

gotta say, "the modern right is built entirely around vice signalling" seems like a theory with legs

All I know is the absolute worst people America has to offer have wanted war with Iran as long as I’ve been alive so it’s pretty easy for me to be against it.

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

kuwait if you're listening

Somebody was saying that watching establishment Democrats learn that saying obviously true things about foreign policy is popular is like watching a toddler take its first steps