A New Yorker article published on Monday delivers a portrait of President Joe Biden that might surprise many Americans. Despite the polls, despite endless headlines focused on his age, and despite pundits desperately clutching at whole strings of pearls, the Biden that emerges from the article is calm and confident.

When it comes to Biden’s strategy for the fall election, Bruce Reed, one of his closest aides, put it simply, “We live in abnormal political times, but the American people are still normal people. Given a choice between normal and crazy, they’re going to choose normal.”

That may be true. We can all hope that it is true. But a pair of new polls indicate that there could be a basic problem with counting on Americans to reject Donald Trump’s wild statements and authoritarian schemes: First, they have to know about them. Right now, between a steady diet of headlines making it clear that Biden is old and a relative silence when it comes to reporting Trump’s plans for 2025, Americans are in the dark about the stakes of this election.

And unless things change in the way the press reports on both Trump and Biden, the nation could sleepwalk into fascism without ever waking up.

London Evening Standard explaining what Tumblr is to normies (link)

I feel like conservatives are so obsessed with calling anything that isn't blatantly rightwing news "mainstream news" is because the only way (traditionally) left leaning legislation, movements, ideas, etc have any CHANCE of moving forward is if it's popularized and sensationalized enough to be "mainstream" like it's a fucking piece of hot gossip

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More proof of our corrupt government

Fear is their drug

So while there are literal international hearings about Israel’s genocidal acts, Netanyahu states that “a Rafah invasion is imminent” and that Israel would be “weeks away from total victory once they invade Rafah.” You can imagine what that means for the Palestinians still living in Rafah, with pretty much nowhere else to go with Egypt charging insane prices (literally profiting off a genocide). This coincides with the same day that UNRWA shares that it has not been able to transport food aid since January 23.

Starvation, mass displacement, living in tents, being carpet bombed every other day—and now your oppressor is saying that no matter what you do, no matter what anyone does, your last sanctuary will be bombed to pieces. How has this not warranted an emergency ceasefire? How is the ICJ seeing this and still allowing the US to play with time and mince words and stall on purpose? Why are Arab lives so insignificant to anyone who has the power to do anything to change this?

so far, nearly 3 weeks on from the inauguration of ram mandir, indian authorities have demolished as many masjids and/or madrasas.

30.01.24 - akhoonji masjid & madrasa in delhi, also destroying a cemetery, shrine and all the students’ belongings in the process.

01.02.24 - a madrasa in maharashtra despite facing opposition from local muslims and one day before its scheduled court appeal.

08.02.24 - a masjid & madrasa in uttarakhand. this comes one day after uttarakhand became the first state to pass the uniform civil code (x, x) which aims to apply a ‘hindu code’ to all indians, infringing on the rights of dalits, adivasis, sikhs, christians, buddhists and muslims (i.e. anybody non-hindu) to practice their religion/lifestyle. muslim women protesting the demolition were lathi-charged (beaten with sticks) by police, a shoot-on-sight order was given resulting in 6 muslims killed and 300+ injured in the riots that followed, a curfew was put in place during which hindutva mobs burned down muslim homes and businesses while shouting abuse at muslims.

as always, no prior notice was given and bjp used it’s gold-standard excuse for each demolition, citing ‘illegal encroachment’.

in addition to these masjid demolitions, indian authorities bulldozed 2 neighbourhoods (ghettos, really) in the same timeframe and also without prior notice:

01.02.24 - jasola slum, which, having been around for at least 16 years, should not have been demolished without providing alternative housing, as the delhi slum policy states for slums which came up before 2015. obviously, housing hasn’t been provided.

06.02.24 - panchsheel nagar in mumbai which, having been around since 2011, entitled residents to paid rehabilitation, which has also not been given. this has left over 110 families homeless.

the demographic of both neighbourhoods, surprise surprise, is overwhelmingly muslim, buddhist and dalit.

bjp is enjoying the cover it is receiving from israel’s genocide in palestine to do whatever it wants and is getting bolder by the day. this ‘bulldozer justice’ has been happening for years, but not at such a rapid rate as it is now.

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When I see Jason and Bruce acting like the stereotypical "prodigal son and gruff but loving father" (in canon!) my blood boils.

Jason died. Bruce did not avenge him, not even "playing by the rules", so not even by arresting the Joker. He didn't do JACK SHIT after his boy was murdered. And once Jason came back, Bruce slit his throat in order to save the life of the man who murdered him, and then left him to die in a burning building.

They should be unable to coexist in the same room let alone speak let alone have a "difficult but ultimately loving relationship". I hate you DC I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE