Reposted by LAL#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11hYeah it's too often unremarked that 99% of the people who ask that Palestinians preemptively and permanently never respond to anything done to them in any way shape or form and in exchange they'll support consequences against Israel don't actually do the last part when the PLO does the first part. 326625
Reposted by LAL#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11hIf American liberals would like nonviolence to work they should probably reward it? 644780
Reposted by LALKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7hI read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill. 401918487
Reposted by LALTremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 16hThis is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline. 9869270
Reposted by LALRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour. 41672222
Reposted by LALAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hsurreal scenes -- Trump is out while Howard Lutnick frantically glazes him 64710138
Reposted by LALPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9hThis would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard. 1748094
Reposted by LALSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9hPierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20. 16689232
Reposted by LALBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comFive Takeaways From Hegseth’s SpeechThe defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. 68823220
Reposted by LALryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12hit was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible 17688106
Reposted by LALdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10hah yes “reasonable” republicans yearning for the “reaching across the aisle” days 1058669
Reposted by LALSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15hTo recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 12089961
Reposted by LALEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16hStill kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke 571722338
Reposted by LALWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12hremember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 373395797
Reposted by LALMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12hdo men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 44081181194
Reposted by LALɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.blacksky.app · 10hmake no mistake, men DO understand consent. let a gay man walk in the room…. 718066
Reposted by LALDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10h"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues 117356
Reposted by LALKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9hJust got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?static.klipy.comSad Old Man CryingALT: Sad Old Man Crying 984962260
Reposted by LALGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9hif you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape 14789119
Reposted by LALMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10hi’ve been in cambridge for literally 10 minutes and already saw elizabeth warren’s husband and her dog 21109425
Reposted by LALtove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 10h(frats, that is, were coed before they were closed) and yes the school still raises $! 132
Reposted by LALtove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 10hYup, was at bowdoin when the school shut down the frats. I’m sure there is still excessive drinking and sexual assault but there is not the year over year reinforcing of rape culture —which totally continued in coed frats 192
Reposted by LALAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11hUnsurprisingly, Richard Hanania is doing rape apology coverage of the Cornell case with fellow wretch Michael Tracey 99821147
Reposted by LALI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hFact that him and Pete Hegseth are motivated by the same ideology, white supremacy, gives him an avenue to make more public money. 11259
Reposted by LALI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hFact that municipal leaders also disdain public transit for reasons motivated by white supremacy gives him an avenue to, once again, make more public money. 08110
Reposted by LALI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hHis entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money. 16617162
Reposted by LALMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11hthe rampant misandry is because of the continual rape 652004201
Reposted by LALChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12hPretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 43785081902
Reposted by LALMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12hThinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.” 1246794
Reposted by LALMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13hThe common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil. 351324308
Reposted by LALGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14hThis is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell. 121002195
Reposted by LALMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13hThe Bible actually does have something to say about this: Exodus 20:16: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." 481668328
Reposted by LALRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14hIt should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so. 381722376
Reposted by LALAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 21hYeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis. 8793100
Reposted by LALjamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 14hfeeling this hard -- i am so glad that there is an actual conversation that's taking place around cornell, and that survivors coming forward isn't being dismissed as 'woke 1' or whatever the fuck. and it's also hard to ignore that we've been here before, in the recent past, and nothing changed. 379582
Reposted by LALKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14hmy one experience with a frat guy in college involved him pissing on my front door, me opening said door, grabbing him by the throat, and making him clean it up. not a big fan. 1148417
Reposted by LALGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14hWe don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?! 2664080856
Reposted by LALNied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 14hIt's genuinely discombobulating to watch someone broadcast their inadequacies so clearly yet unwittingly. 48816
Reposted by LALThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14hThe flashback at the beginning of a dystopian film 701168208
Reposted by LALKiefo Nilsson @kiefonilsson.com · 16hCall it the legacy of suburbs. We built these car centric detached and isolated enclaves with no walkability or culture and now have tools to allow young people to move through them effectively without cars, gotta meet that where it is imo 01016
Reposted by LALKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16hFor LOTS OF REASONS I don’t think it is ever okay for a professor to date a student in their own department. It’s an obvious power imbalance and potentially disastrous for the student’s education and career. So it is real jarring and not fun to see it portrayed as a cute happy romance in a novel! 1060926
Reposted by LALCharlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 15hI really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 401225316
Reposted by LALMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15hthe only thing worse than a dumbass is an unrepentant one 401058121
Reposted by LALBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16hSir you should rename data centers TRUMP centers. They should emit a sinister glow and a deafening screeching sound at all times. Local communities should be required to sacrifice an innocent life to them. For your glory sir. It'll help with the election 251993253