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I feel like it's worth expanding with a bit of nuance on this tactical idea because there's levels and layers to this. For example: it doesn't matter as much what you do on bluesky because frankly bluesky doesn't matter. Janonismo has to be understood tactically through a material lens.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

I'm old enough to remember when the internet insisted Graham Platner was the only person who could defeat Collins.

Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

Finally someone is just saying it.

In his (rather dubious) defense, Republican voters have shown him again and again that they love bigotry more than the constitution, the country, the troops, their jobs, drinking water, affordable food, their dignity, their own families, and even their own lives.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

"Local collaborator responsible for disappearing 1/10th of the town population" is the kinda bio usually discovered on Wikipedia pages of people either tried and sentenced by post-WWII govts in Europe or people whose bio skips from 1945 to when he died under an assumed name in Argentina in the 70s

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

Read this if you want to see an evil cop looking for a redemption arc. This man led to the detainment and deportation of 10% of an entire town by ICE and made money doing it. Disappointed that otherwise great journalism wants to treat him as "conflicted" about his actions. He knows what he's doing.

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This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

As a cis woman, I am not uncomfortable with trans women in the bathroom with me. That's ridiculous. I *am* uncomfortable with cis men telling me how I feel about any topic and with how much time they spend thinking about women's genitals - trans or cis. Also making up women friends is weird

Sandhill cranes have returned to the Minnesota farm field where my father was born. His mother remembered them from her childhood, but he never saw them until a decade or two or so back.

I think the Trump people have understandably come to the conclusion that this country hates women and misogyny is a cheat code for power. They may or may not be right. But I will grant that I see how they reached that conclusion from their personal experiences.

Any queer culture writers who have written about this? I feel like there’s a very real difference between Gen Z and millennial queer culture and “I didn’t spend my formative years closeted” seems like one of the clear dividing lines.

In 1977, when I was four, an older-than-me girl, Marlene, lived next door. She was the youngest in her family and would regularly indulge my "come over and play?" requests. The year after we moved, Marlene died of leukemia. Childhood leukemia is now 85%+ curable.

there are a lot of things to be angry about in this post but I choose to be infuriated that the united states secretary of state doesn’t know the difference between “discrete” and “discreet”

Games. Are. For. Everyone.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Please vote, nobody knows wtf is going on anymore and the lies have the bit between their teeth.

Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration’s request to cut off medical care for transgender people in federal prison. This ruling affirms that federal prison officials can’t deny transgender people essential health care.

If I saw something like this in a movie I'd think it was satire.

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say

this more or less already happened in California due to Prop 13 in the late 70s and now boomers like Ray Warner pay effectively nothing in property taxes but people under 40 pay $10k-25k per year. every time a boomer says this, they’re trying to rob you.

We don't *want* to. We have a *civic responsibility* to. You wouldn't understand the difference, though.

It's Félicette Day! On the date in 1963 the first cat went to space. Here's the song we wrote about her youtu.be/70VCY9Iu6qc?...

This is every bit as much of a “purity test” as any demand that a candidate not abandon fascist-targeted humans for a specious hope of political advantage. It’s just that accommodation of fascism is so ingrained as the default posture that it doesn’t register as such to people like this.