You’re gonna kick off a boom in sex tourism to Australia talking like that
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You’re gonna kick off a boom in sex tourism to Australia talking like that
You know what’s better than participating in platform discourse?
Finding 6-7 of the most deranged reels you’ve ever seen and sending them to your siblings to fuck up their algorithms. I have been in a six month algorithmic cold war with one of my brothers and seen things you can’t even imagine.
1-2 seems pretty consistent with your paper from 2025 though?
Speaking of health care, many American now can't afford health insurance.
Because Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
In many states, it's illegal for parents to secure much-needed healthcare for their kids.
Because Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
Women in many states don't have basic reproductive freedoms.
Because Donald Trump won the 2016 election (*electoral college).
The dollar is weak, tariffs are high -- impoverishing Americans.
Because Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
Imperialism is on the rise, and war across the globe is now more likely.
Because Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered by ICE.
Because Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
@wertwhile.bsky.social alert
Woke Sentiment
"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll."
time.com/7357635/more...
Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption: On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti
Absolutely heartbreaking
Yashar Ali m @yashar x.com BREAKING - IRAN UPDATE HRANA's latest numbers. The total number of fatalities - confirmed and under review - has now surpassed 22,000. Reminder: HRANA death confirmations take time, as they go through multiple layers of verification. The spike in cases is due to the fact that some Iranians can now communicate via messaging apps. But full internet access is still not available, so we do not yet know the extent of the carnage at the hands of the Islamic Republic. Confirmed fatalities: 5,459 Protesters: 5,149 Children (under 18): 60 Government-affiliated forces: 208 Non-protesters/civilians: 42 Fatalities under investigation: 17,031 TOTAL: 22,490 Severely injured: 7,403 Total arrests: 40,887 Arrests of individuals under 18: 325 Broadcast forced confessions: 205 cases Summonses to security agencies: 11,023 cases
BREAKING - Iran update
As some Iranians have been able to use messaging apps, confirmed fatalities, arrests, etc have skyrocketed.
Currently 22,490 fatalities have been confirmed and are under investigation.
BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge blocks FBI/DOJ/DHS from destroying or altering evidence related to shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis. Judge Eric Tostrud grants TRO & sets Monday hearing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
holy shit, Xi purged Zhang Youxia. that's pretty much a clean sweep of PLA senior leadership at this point.
Tavern Research already has poll results back. Americans support shutting down the government over ICE funding even when given arguments for both sides in the poll.
www.tavernresearch.com/research-and...
leftists love to throw "nonviolence won't protect you!!" at liberals. but they misunderstand. nonviolence isn't about protecting yourself. nonviolence doesn't mean nonconfrontational.
nonviolence. is. about. winning.
www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Trials yes, what we do with the enforcement agency after we’ve expunged the crooks is a separate story
The pardons, several of which forgave frauds by affluent perpetrators, strike a discordant note with Trump's claim that he was suspending federal funding for programs intended to serve poor people in Minnesota in order to root out fraud.
modern psychodynamic therapy —and science, and politics—focus on reducing a vast problems to tractable parts so we can productively alter the future. to let ourselves get blotted out by the spectre of the “hyperobject” and give up on mild empirical scaffolding is abandoning reality for mania.
The clients who can buy their access to Trump’s inner circle tend to be white collar criminals. White collar crimes are less shocking than violent crimes, but have real costs. For example, some of Gentile’s victims lost their life savings. These crimes are also incredibly difficult to prove in court, even as the rich are able to fund a legal defense beyond the reach of ordinary people. Nevertheless, many might decide a good insurance policy is to put a down-payment on a pardon. After a wealthy fraudster served two weeks of a 42 month jail sentence, one DOJ prosecutor said: Afterward, defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon.
We are getting to the point where white collar criminals are thinking, "why take the plea deal my high-priced lawyer negotiated when I can just bribe the President and skip jail altogether?"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
While many folks focus on the higher refunds coming to high middle-class/low upper-class households next tax filing season, the more immediate impact on households will be the 30bln hike in annual ACA premiums for HH below 130k.
fwiw I think it’s way funnier to give an Argentinian pope a MLK Day Atlanta Hawks jersey than an American one
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
We should invest in research for low-carbon approaches to heavy industry, agriculture, chemicals, aviation, and maritime shipping. To me, this is not a question of political cowardice or of not taking climate science seriously.
It's a question of taking seriously what the actual problem is.
Persuasion is a strange and fickle beast (I hope)
It really does impress me how the conservative foreign policy power structures literally have zero beliefs at all, if (insert D here) was what Trump was doing, they’d all be going ape shit about how they’re not taking the China challenge seriously
I would let Zohran, and not some YLS dweebs — literally dweeebs have quite important policy roles but not this — determine which vibey moves he think would work. (For his mayoralty, not for the personality cult of Lina Khan)
Great book