dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i learned about something called slutcon against my will and i am very mad 000
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I truly enjoyed this piece. Oakland Review of Books is just killing it. 072
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822411169
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialroz-animator @diseasehaver.northsky.social · 24/09/2026remember when there was a guy named reince priebus 269478
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialGender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 23/09/2026GLM and ACT UP NY will continue showing up. We’ll be protesting outside one of the three NYC hospitals that have ended care for trans youth every month through Pride 2027. Join Us: actionnetwork.org/forms/hold-n...actionnetwork.orgHold New York City Hospitals Accountable For Abandoning Trans Youth!NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and New York Presbyterian have all ended gender affirming care for trans youth––capitulating to the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people, their families, and the he... 03413
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialRob @robertferry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It turns out we could have implemented a ~$450 per ton carbon tax all this time without a populist backlash. It’s just that it would have had to come under the policy guidance of a right wing administration being consulted by the Heritage foundation. 213627
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I love this scene bc he's supposed to be like an abandoned street kid. With those abs???? Love it for us. 000
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026im only a bit into this longread and it's already a brutal accounting of the Reconstruction rollback being carried out by the neoconfederates on the Court like, this is a deliberate effort by opponents of multiracial democracy to disempower and degrade--again. different century but same shit 8441188
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the DMV wouldn't accept my friend's driver's license as proof of his address 020
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026Appreciate the direct link Chris’s post makes between the Supreme Court repeatedly making shit up to suit its agenda, and hack Trump appointees on the lower courts who decide that they are perfectly within their rights to do the same thing 5368104
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026If only there were some profession or establishment that could objectively state in a headline whether this pervasive sense was based in fact. 315732
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026girl dinner 36378852
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialMax the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026 016930
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The way these hospitals are caving to Trump makes me fucking ill. You're gonna spend $8.5 MILLION DOLLARS in a "fine" for providing medical care to kids??? Fucking spend half that money fucking suing these guys to smithereens you fucking cowards 011
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Chopped a Jalapeño One (1) Hour Ago and Touched My Eyeball Just Now AMA 010
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026if you got excited when sarah michelle gellar and daid boreanaz walked out together do your stretches 1462
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026ICE flights. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, an average and terrible day. 75 total flights, at least 16 removal flights — Cambodia, Costa Rica*, Ecuador*, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Israel*, Jamaica*, Laos, Mexico (4), Nicaragua*, & Vietnam. *suspected third-country removal 3163132
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialbetsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Heavy fog over Oakland turned pink as the sun set tonight. Taken from Emeryville, California. 📸 #fog #sunset #eck #eastcoastkin 3847
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026actually seems really bad that hegseth is de facto resegregating the military through purges and the remaining officer corps are increasingly complicit in that project 12894175
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Reading national media takes, there is simply zero chance you’d have any clue Rogers is in any way unpopular or has baggage. 1455775
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I am so election pilled that I literally thought "twist lick vote" was a GOTV push by Oreo 000
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Also 2 in 5 Americans know who hasan piker is????? *i* dont even know who he is 000
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Elon Musk opening up the checkbook is always framed as a problem for Democrats, never as an ethical quandary for Republicans. 241060200
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.axios.comExclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midtermsMusk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024. 10334241094
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are. 221556151
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The entire reactionary centrist case is that leftist politicians must distance themselves from Piker to neutralize him as a electoral issue. But when they *do* distance themselves, reactionary centrists still write articles making the link and criticizing their exact wording. 221808186
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This excerpt doesn't even do justice to how good Dr. El-sayed is and how terrible Tur is here watch the whole thing 010
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/08/2026Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.motherjones.comPolice are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock camerasHistoric opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement. 713960
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm Free" 130
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass 4561281509
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"visiting the White House site that once offered you free at-home COVID-19 tests through USPS will now greet you with an image of President Donald Trump superimposed over the headline “LAB LEAK: The True Origins of COVID,” www.kqed.org/news/1209132... [Aug 4th]kqed.orgYes, That ‘Summer Cold’ Really Might Be COVID (Again). What to Know About Bay Area Viral Levels | KQEDCOVID-19 levels in Bay Area wastewater are up again this summer — as if you needed another thing to worry about. Here’s what to know about your risk. 110
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One of the biggest misconceptions people in the US seem to have is that legal or illegal status are not moral statuses one achieves by doing things the “proper” way, but simply legal fictions bestowed and revoked by the state at will. 7426106
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I attempted to put words to what's been going on in my life:thehandbasket.coMy miscarriageA personal update from Marisa. 7717821428
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Tiny Bookshop- I *wish* I could live there for a year 010
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026You knew this. I knew this. We all knew this. Yet Columbia and Brown made agreements with the federal government anyways. 337137
Reposted by @dilettante.bsky.socialFeodor Chin @feochin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026God, if only we could go back to the days when a person’s entire political career could be ended simply because they couldn’t spell potato. 421581273
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Third country removals are literally evil and the Supreme Court could have stopped this and chose not to 020
dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 15/08/2026www.404media.co/own-the-narr... #Oakland city council didn't listen to the people and got played. "OH no crime!!"404media.co‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co... 020
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When he appeared before the state Senate that day to testify against the new redistricting plans, he was joined by three other veteran Black politicians. Although Fields, a 63-year-old lawyer, has a reputation as an even-keeled consensus builder, he grew emotional as he spoke.
“To me, it is personal,” he told the Senate committee. “Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four African Americans to Congress. And you’re looking at all of them. Four.” Even though nearly a third of Louisiana’s population is Black.
“You said something very profound,” state Sen. Gary Carter Jr., an African American Democrat from New Orleans, told Fields. “From the 1870s all the way through [the] present, just you four gentlemen—that’s it. And now this body wants to reduce that. ‘We want to cut it. That’s too many.’ How do we not be outraged?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjklbsuepdppuppsfluytydl/bafkreicc3jzq4std3st5bqszp7m2ng6ajhderlvk52o6zyru4rs2i6xgbe)
