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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Can we stop using the tired trope of how people living outside of cities are all farmers, ranchers, and self-sufficient wisemen living a "different way of life,” as if it’s some pastoral paradise where people are in touch with nature.

Rural people work mostly in healthcare, education and retail. They buy cheap shit from Walmart like everybody else. They buy oversized pickup trucks that they’ll never need. They spend most of their time inside in the air conditioning. They tend to be poorer and have less education, but that doesn’t mean they have special nature superpowers.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

"Centrism" has failed everywhere it has been tried.

[Teddy Roosevelt Voter-Dark Woke Bull Moose @GorillaHpn]

In 2028 I am voting for whichever candidate promises to put the South through a new round of reconstruction

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Guardian lists some hilarious illustrations of how fake and made up Australia's "antisemitism crisis" actually is. The royal commission heard examples of "antisemitism" like:

• Someone's friend imagined she might be murdered by antisemites at the hospital
• Some Jewish people left a Facebook group of psychologists after being told they were "taking the side of the oppressor" in demanding that people not discuss Israel's genocidal atrocities
• a nurse wasn't allowed to hang pro-Israel genocide propaganda in the workplace
• a trade unionist "felt" she had to step down because younger union members fought union leadership to oppose Israel's war crimes.

It's all I felt, I feel, it made me feel. My feelings, my feelings, my feelings. Jewish feelings are treated as so supremely important that upsetting Jews by opposing an active genocide is treated as a hate crime. The victims of genocide are regarded as infinitely less important than a Jewish Australian feeling offended by anti-genocide sentiment in a Facebook group.

This is crazy, hysterical bullshit, and it should be treated as such.

[Ellie✨♥️🥂✡️🏳️‍⚧️🔆 @EllieGabalus]

RETVRN

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

Allowing the confederates and their lineage to survive was a mistake

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

Not an exaggeration to say the literal future of our planet depends on the total defeat of US imperialism

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

Pretty absurd that NYC taxpayers foot the bill to safeguard an openly illegal activity

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

don't feel bad, guys, the techno-optimist manifesto guy doesn't understand what an LLM is either

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[machine gun kelly reichardt @LingoUnbound]

Every now and then I remember Tim Walz’s “they’re weird” campaign and how close the dems were to actually shifting the way people perceive the right in a very real way and then they just…stopped

[Slim Jimmy @slimjimmy]

remember last year when a revolving door of CEOs were making bombastic claims about AI generated code every week?

microsoft, for instance, said "30% of their code was written by AI. by 2030, that'll be 99%"

but what have they shipped? how does this stack up?

- MS shipped a new windows run dialog that takes 100ms to load. that's right, a dialog with a text box and a button

- GitHub can't even ship a new CEO and keep the thing running for more than 5 minutes

- Amazon? crickets

- Google? crickets bar gemini and gemma

- OpenAI can't get GPT-5.5 to stop talking about goblins

- Anthropic is a walking disaster of poor quality, user hostility and unreliability

and yet how many times did we hear "you haven't seen what i've seen. you're not ready for what's coming"

so what IS coming? where is it? i cant see it

i only see bullshit, backtracking, bloat and bugs. at this point, i don't expect anything different than what we have now

and, after all his bluster, neither does sam altman

[Hamid @hamid]

I remember a moment when I was travelling on the number 93 bus home when I was young. In Putney a group of white men got on the bus. There was a family with South Asian heritage on the bus. A woman, a man and two young kids. The woman had a bindi applied and was wearing a sari. It took all of two minutes for the guys to start, extremely loudly, saying things like ‘I smell P*kis’. The man and the woman had to put up with this most of the way to Wimbledon.

They could have left the bus and waited for the next one, risking that group honing in on them or worse, getting off with them somewhere where there weren’t people around. They could have challenged the scumbags at the risk of even worse racism or possible violence. Instead, their kids had to witness and be exposed to this kind of stuff at that age.

Now, I bring this up because I was very young at the time and this moment was probably my first time understanding how consequence-free white racism was. It was the first time I’d seen it without eg my father being around to mollify or distract me. And nothing has really changed for non-white people in Britain. If you go to Tile Hill in Coventry on a Friday night as an Asian group of friends or East Asians, you’ll get a ton of shouted racist abuse from drunk racists with nothing better to do.

So, while I empathise with Shrimsley, assuming that this odd parable whereby his presumably white son is randomly asked in a bar if he’s Jewish is true, then it’s barely scratching the surface of what non-white Brits have to face day-in, day-out without the option of saying ‘no, no I’m just as white as you’.

If this comes as a shock to Shrimsley, he should be grabbing a giant gong and bashing it endlessly about the type of British racism that leads white people to horrifically assault Sikh women because they look to them visibly “Muslim” or indeed to Jewish men asked if they’re Jewish in bars.

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

I respect that farmers had the right to vote for what they believed in

I also respect that they are now facing the consequences of their adult decision

I’m not interested in fawning profiles of how noble they are. You voted for this, you got it

[Ash J @AshAgony]

Politicians & bootlickers will look you dead in the face & tell you that just seeing
(ever increasing numbers of) NYPD cops like this in the subway will make people *feel* safer. Meanwhile, I look at this & see money & resources that could’ve gone to food, housing, or education.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it.

May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Everything is shit across the board but I think if I had to name the single thing that has made me feel most insane in our present reality, it’s that no one powerful ever, ever, ever faces consequences no matter what they do. There are simply zero mechanisms for accountability.

[Mark @markaprovost]

Barney Frank literally dying on CNN while denouncing trans kids in sports is all time peak for the Dem brand