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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 2h

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 3m

which is btw a destructive impulse. We're not playing a ball game, nobody gains anything from supporting the team no matter how much they make the wrong plays and lose. But they do need a new roster. The first step to fixing anything is recognizing & admitting the flaws, not CYA.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 7m

Hakeem Jeffries the House leader from NY and the ones telling him not to endorse the Democratic mayoral candidate, they are who they are and they're a problem, no matter how much some liberals wanna pretend no Democrats can be responsible for anything bad

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 10m

"claiming to be a Democratic operative" means absolutely fucking nothing, the strategists working for Democrat politicians telling them to respond to every crisis by moving further right, scapegoating the left and/or abandoning the rights of another marginalized group are who they are

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 13m

It was fucking maddening to hear, in a capitalist economy already built on perpetually spiraling inequality, after two epochal upwards wealth transfers (financial crisis & covid), while cutting off covid era material assistance during a period of inflation driven by exploitative price increases

mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 20m

hostile right-leaning corporate media is always a problem but Democrats have not done nearly enough to address deep-rooted economic problems. most of the 2nd half of Biden's term was spent trying to convince ppl that the unaffordable economy was actually great if only the plebs would appreciate it

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 27m

it was a huge component, except the government can have a lot of influence on the economy thus their repeatedly stated interest in tamping down wage growth. The US government has introduced direct price controls during inflation in living memory. capitalist economists hate it so we dont speak of it.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 40m

elected Democrat politicians & their surrounding political operatives is actually a pretty specific definition that is simultaneously easily recognizable to most people--and its currently responsible for historic lows in polling as a national party

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 18h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 7h

Stoller is a strange one, so hyperfocused he has a lot of blindspots

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 7h

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 17h

ironically Thiel is almost a perfect composite of Ozymandias, the self-styled intellectual elite who thinks they will lead society against its will, and Rorshach, the paranoid reactionary who thinks they represent some deeper absolute truth

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 8h

no, but he spent millions & millions of dollars influencing education policy & propping up charter schools for decades. hes a tech oligarch who is less morally heinous than cartoon supervillains, sure

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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 13h

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 8h

eyes too. eye pigment is also melanin. eye fact: everyone's eyes are brown eyes more or less, other eye colors are a result of lesser amounts of melanin in the iris and a light scattering effect.

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Guillotine Hunger Force @themilfmag.net · 9h

let my people glo
@MichellCClark
they made healthcare a commodity,
education a debt trap, and housing
a speculation market—then told you
that poverty is a personal failing.
they privatized survival and called it
freedom.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 8h

its important to understand who they mean: politicians & political operatives, legislators, people with (D) next to their name who are invited to speak on news programs. Yes, they have very different values that most of their voting base, and that's whats being pointed out

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 8h

the contradictions & hypocrisies should be as obvious as possible

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

John Oliver dismantled The Free Press and Bari tonight. I guess Sally isn't gonna be happy about that.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 21h

figures i saw suggest we are currently eating about 40% of the costs of these tariffs at the consumer level. as inventories turn over in the coming months projections are to look for more like 60%+. shit is expensive already!!

xfiles s10e13: atomic bog @jessicapancakes.bsky.social · 21h

pre tariff denial brain too

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 22h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23h

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23h

A simple answer is that the news makes people extremely scared of strangers--the person next to you at CVS, the person walking down the street, the unhoused person in a tent, the anonymous burglar, etc. These are the kinds of crimes associated with surveillance, policing, etc.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23h

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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