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A depressing reality as a journalist is that often the most valuable stories are the ones the social media algorithm/people care the least about. One of my worst performing videos for Mother Jones is about a family of asylum seekers who had a father deported by ICE. It is likely my best work.

An Azerbaijani court has sentenced nine journalists, media workers, and civil society activists to between 12 and 15 years in prison. It's the harshest verdict since the government began its ongoing crackdown on independent journalism.

Is it Valentines Day?

I just thought of something horrible. Mind if I riff off this in a repost?

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

RFK Jr is going to DM you

Where's the orbs?

There was probably no way I would have understood that wasn't just some normal French film director name without this explainer.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

the only safe thing to do is get behind the kind of establishment candidates who created the conditions we are now living in and who voters appear to hate! be smart!

@mattyglesias.bsky.social do u like what u see

if you are freaking out trying to catastrophize the idea of a publicly run grocery store you officially have the Brain of a Child and no one need concern themselves with you again

"oh no, don't do socialist things! you'll play right into their hands" - the people playing right the fuck into their hands

i refuse to read theory because i also just refuse to read but i assume that the joint democrat-republican red scare we are getting about the dsa really is a predictable step in capital defending itself against its own excesses

the upcoming elections are simply too important to be doing risky things like nominating muslims, opposing wars, standing up for immigrants and trans kids, or taking a strong stand against paramilitary squads summarily executing our neighbors outside their homes. i wish this weren't true but it is

cracking up at the Revenge Is Inevitable photo on the Reuters homepage

Oh no it does sound like that NeoNAZI's song

I think it's time at last to post an opinion that will likely get me cancelled on this venue: not every 80s pop music band made music that was any good.

An strident example of entrepreneur spirit