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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 8m

the absolute state of the NYT today

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Chloe "Botgirl Summer" Adams @addamschloe.bsky.social · 12h

do i have fond memories of school, or do i have fond memories of the fact that all my friends were in the same physical location as me 5 days a week

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1d

The defining element of this era is not wanting to download the app but being forced to download the app.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

I need to have internet, location, and Bluetooth enabled on my phone to do my damn laundry

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

If leftists are such a vital voting block that dems can't win without us then maybe they should give us literally anything to get us to vote for them.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

No one wants this because it fucking sucks

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

Name a good thing you can do with generative images which outweighs the power use and theft from artists

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

AI images suck and so does Gal Gadot

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

Newsmax isn't signing???

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

You're only terrible with it because it's bad. My best advice is find the daedalus hammer that gives you a constant fire rather than burst

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

I don't even understand what he had to do with it anyway. isn't it the same deal biden had brokered?

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

You leave until they learn some emotional intelligence

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

Which ones don't?

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

There isn't a left wing platform in the sense of like, Twitch being leftist, but there are certainly leftist platforms within Twitch.

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

Ring wing media is bad because they have bad ideas that hurt people, not because their propaganda is ineffective

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

Why is it bad to expose a right wing person to left wing ideas

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

With the only option remaining to them. I can't stand here and say I definitely wouldn't do the same under the same conditions, and neither can you. If that's unacceptable, then the more powerful of the two parties needs to take responsibility for the death they cause.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not justifying anything. Killing civilians is obviously horrific. What I'm saying is, I can't sit here in my air conditioned apartment 3,000 miles away and judge someone who has no power to stop Israel from killing and destroying everything they hold dear as they lash out against a nuclear power

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

If your entire family was wiped out by a Russian missile, can you say with certainty that you wouldn't commit war crimes against Russian civilians? I'd like to think I wouldn't, but I definitely can't say it with any certainty.

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

No, they're not "just as bad," Israel is far worse because they have the power to not bomb civilians and yet do it anyway

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 3d

Because if it's bad to expose a leftwing audience to a right wing person, it ought to be good to expose a right wing audience to a left wing person

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