I wish the FBI would put as much effort into destroying the KKK / proud boy’s as they did into stopping MLK, Malcom X, the black panthers.

I have been watching the big cigar on my last couple flights. Will finish next week on the way to #vienna. I have finally realized the establishment is the GOP. They have always worked to exploit and destroy progressives.

Gift link. Marijuana isn't entirely benign. Interesting to me is that rates of addiction are similar to rates of alcohol addiction. That's because of the number of people who experienced past trauma, not because of inherent addictiveness. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/u...

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains. But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms.

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present

This. I’ve been in or adjacent to journalism my entire adult life. US elite political media has become an active enemy of democracy and civil life. I never thought I’d see this say, but we’d be better off if every member of the Village were fired and we started up again from scratch.

DSslack2thefuture.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 12:03am

This is not “unconventional.” It’s voter suppression. It’s voter intimidation. It’s election interference. It’s anti-democratic, un-American, and it must be defeated. Are you registered to #vote?

My most basic trait is my deep love of Bruce Springsteen

Abortion bounties, book bans, forcing families with trans kids to flee their homes: Republicans are building a model of govt that forces people to live and act how conservatives want, enforced by the fear that anyone can be an informant. A Snitch State (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale

In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.

Watch the #thebigcigar on Apple TV. (Had a flight for work). Why am I not surprised that 1. GOP & NRA are pro Gun control for black / brown people. 2. Black panther are super dangerous but proud boys et al aren’t 3. SWAT was a response to the black panthers.

So JD Vance claims that immigrants have caused the housing crisis. So much wrong with this, but one glaring problem is timing. The surge in rents (as measured by the BLS’s new tenant index) preceded the surge in immigration (as estimated by CBO)

But post Malone is totally ok. 🙄 the hypocrisy

BSsorayamcdonald.bsky.socialOct 3, 2024 3:03pm

*sighs in Linda Martell* The whole point of Cowboy Carter is showing that white people don't own country? It's not *their* world to preside over or police. Black people BEEN country without anyone's permission. What a telling illustration of Luke's willful arrogance and false superiority tho

Luke Bryan reacts to Beyoncé’s CMA snub: ‘If you’re gonna make country albums, come into our world’

The 32-time Grammy winner was shut out of the CMA Awards nominations despite her debut country album, “Cowboy Carter,” hitting No. 1 on the charts.