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realTuckFrumper, 15 days ago to random

Patrick Mahomes' Mom Takes Side in Harrison Butker Controversy https://www.newsweek.com/patrick-mahomes-mom-harrison-butker-commencement-speech-randi-martin-x-twitter-1905256?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

br00t4c, 16 days ago to ontario

Moving nuclear waste through traditional territories could face opposition, Ontario First Nation says

#nation #ontario

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/nuclear-waste-ontario-south-bruce-saugeen-nation-1.7213878?cmp=rss

clintruin, 16 days ago to random

Another World Is Possible
Banksy
2023

randahl, 1 month ago to random

UN human rights experts horrified: Seven mass graves found in northern Gaza with 520 Palestinian bodies. Some beheaded, some showing signs of torture.

The Israeli government can scream "anti-semitism" as much as they want — The International Criminal Court is coming for Benjamin Netanyahu, and the world will never forget what his government did.

Never again.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4652018-reports-mount-of-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospitals-some-without-heads/amp/

stux, 1 month ago to random

Experts on bedroom doors

The expert: the cat

jeffjarvis, 1 month ago to random

I love the smell of Schadenfreude in the morning.

clintruin, 1 month ago to random

The Librarian
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1570

dangillmor, 2 months ago to random

Board member of the (Gerald) Ford Foundation quits, excoriates fellow board members for preemptive political cowardice in the face of a possible/likely new Trump presidency.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/10/david-hume-kennerly-liz-cheney-gerald-ford-foundation-00151480

Cowardice is contagious, and it is spreading.

But courage is contagious, too. Remember that.

There is a lesson here for Big Journalism, of course. But our top news organizations, so far, have refused to step up to what these times demand.

jeffjarvis, 2 months ago to random

"Authoritarian-curious"? WTF WaPo. What a white-gloved euphemism for fascism.
The increasingly authoritarian-curious Republican Party https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/08/republican-party-authoritarian/

StillIRise1963, 2 months ago to random

All my life I’ve had to listen to those emergency warning commercials on TV, but every time there has been an actual emergency, 9/11 included, it's NEVER gone off.🙄

emptywheel, 2 months ago to random

"Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist [who has potty mouth warnings in her Xitter bio] greeted her blue verification badge Wednesday with an expletive."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/04/twitter-blue-check-restored-x/

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to Canada

🇨🇦👎🏻”Long-serving NDP MP Charlie Angus says he won’t seek re-election — creating an opening for Pierre #Poilievre’s Conservatives
Charlie Angus, one of the NDP’s longest-serving MPs, has announced he won’t be running for re-election in a northern Ontario riding Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives hope to gain” #Canada @Snowshadow

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/long-serving-ndp-mp-charlie-angus-says-he-wont-seek-re-election-creating-an-opening/article_385b5a84-f291-11ee-9e64-c73a97f1ea99.html

aral, 2 months ago to threads

NASA captures stunning photo of mastodon.social federating with Threads.

#threads #meta #facebook #mastodonSocial #resistenceIsFutile

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

Joyce Vance: “This is a five-alarm fire. We know what the reaction would be if Joe #Biden tweeted a photo of a bound and gagged Donald #Trump in the trunk of an electric car. Why does Donald Trump get more leeway, especially with his past history? He only continues to get it because our institutions—the courts, the Republican party—let him take it.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/we-need-to-talk-about-this?r=br61&utm_medium=ios

jeffjarvis, 2 months ago to random

"Kalief Browder — arrested at 16 for an alleged robbery — spent three years at Rikers, without trial, because his family could not afford a $3,000 bond. Not Trump." - @jbouie
No One Is Above the Law, Except, Apparently, Donald Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/opinion/trump-trials-bond-invincibility.html?pvid=FO0nGJmAoGDBQk6R-A60n72m&ugrp=c&smid=tw-share

dgar, 2 months ago to random

clintruin, 2 months ago to random

Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge
Alexander Rodchenko
1924

dangillmor, 2 months ago to random

Congressman complained about TikTok surveillance, led effort to ban it. Now, reports say he's quitting to join one of the world's most evil surveillance companies. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-gallagher-tiktok-ban-palantir-1234993167/

Expert-level scumbaggery.

clintruin, 2 months ago to random

La chambre du collectionneur
Vieira da Silva
1962

clintruin, 2 months ago to random

Cold Cream
Mary Pratt
1983

HeavenlyPossum, 2 months ago to random

The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

tzimmer_history, 3 months ago to random

Weekend reading: I wrote about the system-wide failure to hold Trump accountable and mount an effective defense against the onslaught of authoritarian minority rule.

The Much Vaunted Guardrails Are Failing

A thread, based on this week’s piece:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-much-vaunted-guardrails-are-failing

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

Via nycsouthpaw:

NYT wrote a piece with “five things to know” about Mark Robinson, the NC GOP nominee for Gov, including his support online and his upbringing. https://nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/politics/north-carolina-governor-mark-robinson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

It doesn’t include, however, that Robinson is a Holocaust denier, so that’s no. 6

jeffjarvis, 3 months ago to random

The fucking Times. It follows up yesterday's awful poll with another. That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias--the agenda--in their poll. Who made age an "issue"? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing's projection. This is not journalism. Shameful.