wembley
@bananashirt.bsky.social
🔞pro-ship. ngl, i'm mainly here to vent negativity and rubberneck dumb arguments. fandom, politics, obnoxious pedantry, horny nerd shit. Liberals and Democrats are Good, Actually.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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Perhaps pride in creative human expression will re-surge inversely proportionate to how bad generative AI gets.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Perhaps pride in creative human expression will re-surge inversely proportionate to how bad generative AI gets.
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this is really good and really sad
For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi is an Embarrassment to Journalism
She seamlessly landed a plum role at Vanity Fair and got a sweetheart book deal after breaking a fundamental journalistic ethics rule.
When my co-host Christine Grimaldi and I recorded our October 20...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
this is really good and really sad
like everyone on bsky i only read headlines and screengrabs like a monster so it's the ICYMI podcast where i learn Olivia Nuzzi is gonna be the west coast editor of Vanity Fair?!?!!
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
like everyone on bsky i only read headlines and screengrabs like a monster so it's the ICYMI podcast where i learn Olivia Nuzzi is gonna be the west coast editor of Vanity Fair?!?!!
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I just want to share the thread below, for anyone who hasn't seen it. The south scores highest on racial resentment, but it decreases with the younger generations.
And Millennials + Gen Z will be 54% of eligible voters by 2028. Just something positive to keep in mind on this topic.
And Millennials + Gen Z will be 54% of eligible voters by 2028. Just something positive to keep in mind on this topic.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I just want to share the thread below, for anyone who hasn't seen it. The south scores highest on racial resentment, but it decreases with the younger generations.
And Millennials + Gen Z will be 54% of eligible voters by 2028. Just something positive to keep in mind on this topic.
And Millennials + Gen Z will be 54% of eligible voters by 2028. Just something positive to keep in mind on this topic.
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I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
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Libertarianism invariably boils down to some combination of:
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Libertarianism invariably boils down to some combination of:
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
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“Hey here’s the first, most obvious question people would have about your proposal.”
“I don’t answer those questions anymore.”
“I don’t answer those questions anymore.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
“Hey here’s the first, most obvious question people would have about your proposal.”
“I don’t answer those questions anymore.”
“I don’t answer those questions anymore.”
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I must admit, I've never asked the abolitionists I know what their plan is because we're always too busy trying to materially mitigate the suffering of people in the current condition. I got the impression it was mostly about dismantling the incarceration state by alleviating poverty and corruption.
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I must admit, I've never asked the abolitionists I know what their plan is because we're always too busy trying to materially mitigate the suffering of people in the current condition. I got the impression it was mostly about dismantling the incarceration state by alleviating poverty and corruption.
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Now that you put it that way, it’s super annoying how many people’s politics ultimately boil down to “idk, if we can just get rid of the bad people, I’m sure it’ll work out”. We gotta transcend this somehow someday
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Now that you put it that way, it’s super annoying how many people’s politics ultimately boil down to “idk, if we can just get rid of the bad people, I’m sure it’ll work out”. We gotta transcend this somehow someday
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Ironically my furtherest right opinion is “we need prisons and some people need to be in them”
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ironically my furtherest right opinion is “we need prisons and some people need to be in them”
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Also “the current system works badly“ is not actually an answer to “how would an alternative system work AT ALL”
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Also “the current system works badly“ is not actually an answer to “how would an alternative system work AT ALL”
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On the Internet, the worst thing you can for is reform. Right or left, it’s gotta be abolition or revolution or overthrow or something more based. Reform though? What are you, somebody’s mom or something? (Ew.)
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On the Internet, the worst thing you can for is reform. Right or left, it’s gotta be abolition or revolution or overthrow or something more based. Reform though? What are you, somebody’s mom or something? (Ew.)
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I have of late started identifying as an American prison abolitionist. Our specific prisons need to be abolished. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be replaced with like, Norwegian prisons.
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I have of late started identifying as an American prison abolitionist. Our specific prisons need to be abolished. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be replaced with like, Norwegian prisons.
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There are serious proposals for abolishing or dramatically reducing the use of prisons but they involve things like corporal punishment and/or house arrest with extensive surveillance that I don't think would satisfy the abolitionists
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There are serious proposals for abolishing or dramatically reducing the use of prisons but they involve things like corporal punishment and/or house arrest with extensive surveillance that I don't think would satisfy the abolitionists
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“Read theory.” The closest Angela Davis comes to talking about an alternative in her book, Are Prisons Obsolete, is talking about how a white American forgave a Black South African man for killing their daughter during riots immediately prior to the fall of apartheid
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Read theory.” The closest Angela Davis comes to talking about an alternative in her book, Are Prisons Obsolete, is talking about how a white American forgave a Black South African man for killing their daughter during riots immediately prior to the fall of apartheid
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The rhetorical move of the midwit abolitionists will be, you just haven’t read theory. I’ve read theory. This is explicit in Mariame Kaaba’s work. it’s all over the anarchist zines you love. The theorists who won’t go there still will not present an alternative that isn’t prison by another name.
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The rhetorical move of the midwit abolitionists will be, you just haven’t read theory. I’ve read theory. This is explicit in Mariame Kaaba’s work. it’s all over the anarchist zines you love. The theorists who won’t go there still will not present an alternative that isn’t prison by another name.
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
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An acquaintance of mine got a message from her russian friend “but we are affected too, I can’t use Spotify now”
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
An acquaintance of mine got a message from her russian friend “but we are affected too, I can’t use Spotify now”
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This is further complicated by the fact that you now have to separate right-wingers in the US by "sociopathic opportunist" or "dim true believer", with a third axis of "grifter" ever present.
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is further complicated by the fact that you now have to separate right-wingers in the US by "sociopathic opportunist" or "dim true believer", with a third axis of "grifter" ever present.
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This is already better than every single episode of ALL'S FAIR.
Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is already better than every single episode of ALL'S FAIR.
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“I banish you to my ancestral shores of Erie”
“For last time kid, it’s pronounced Eire”
“No, my ancestors are from Cleveland “
An incredible closing sequence
“For last time kid, it’s pronounced Eire”
“No, my ancestors are from Cleveland “
An incredible closing sequence
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“I banish you to my ancestral shores of Erie”
“For last time kid, it’s pronounced Eire”
“No, my ancestors are from Cleveland “
An incredible closing sequence
“For last time kid, it’s pronounced Eire”
“No, my ancestors are from Cleveland “
An incredible closing sequence
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lmao wait, are you saying the villain's punishment is getting banned to Ohio?!?
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
lmao wait, are you saying the villain's punishment is getting banned to Ohio?!?
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my theory of the backlash to Trump's immigration policy is that this is a "no take, only throw" issue for the electorate and I don't know what the political solution is there. but I do hope it has opened some space to refocus on fixing things instead of hurting people.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
my theory of the backlash to Trump's immigration policy is that this is a "no take, only throw" issue for the electorate and I don't know what the political solution is there. but I do hope it has opened some space to refocus on fixing things instead of hurting people.