I do want to force catholic hospitals to perform abortions against their will, actually. If you can't offer full maternal care don't be a hospital. Fuck off.

It’ll depend, we should worry, on who’s writing those history books.

Snycsouthpaw.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 2:19am

This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.

The unspoken creed of the U.S. press is that its task is to keep the major parties in thermostatic balance — always comparable to one another, always operating from a shared moral plane. Mass deportations, given moral equivalence to tax breaks? Impartiality between the two parties requires it.

DMdonmoyn.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 1:40am

More from the Dept of Fash Graphics: How Deporting Your Neighbor Can Slash Your Housing Costs

Hours needed by the average US worker to purchase a week’s worth of groceries in 2024 is now similar to what it was in 2019 pre-COVID and pre-inflation. www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

me: *starts a new job yesterday* linkedin today: you've worked there for 2 months

**taps the sign again The police exist to protect property, not people.

“democratize” was the web3 buzzword too. it turns out it just meant “we want to take resources from everyone, and hoard them for us”. a lesson there, perhaps

Hhypervisible.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 1:45am

They keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.

AI music companies say their tools can democratize the art form. Some artists are skeptical.

AI music tools have already helped to create viral songs, but some artists aren’t so sure about the trend.

Nothing would be more poignant and gratifying than a progressive Texas media company buying the Infowars assets from a Houston bankruptcy court and using it to explicitly counterprogram garbage disinfo and continue to hammer Jones and the other grifters who do this

thebarbedwire.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 2:25am

“We started The Barbed Wire in part to disrupt the constant stream of conspiracies and disinformation from people like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, and it would be a step towards justice to use the InfoWars brand to undo some of the damage they’ve caused,” our Publisher Jeff Rotkoff said.

InfoWars' victims and enemies consider buying it | Semafor

The auctioning off of Alex Jones' conspiracy theory-laden network has sparked some serious behind-the-scenes interest.

And like, I get it, love and life are complicated. But sometimes your desire to be with a specific person is not compatible with you wanting to be safe for marginalized people to be around, and that’s a choice you need to make, and then don’t whine when we tell you so.

If you think fact checking debaters favors one side over the other, isn’t that an important thing to inform voters of? And doesn’t that automatically mean NOT fact checking favors one of the sides???