Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesFrom France with love - The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde. Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéeswe’re not doing this under Woke 2 sorry not sorry
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesSo incredibly pathetic to let a Russian asset lead your party because your policies are so terrible that the only way to enact them is to destroy the country.
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- 5/5 stars no notes
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- I’m not crying, you’re crying. I have allergies. I mean, obviously there’s a lot of pollen… on this 40° winter afternoon. Plus, i’m a “dog person” and def not a <cries a little> stupid crying Cryer McCryingface. (Thanks Ana, for being so good and for sharing the story.)
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesNow that Trump deleted the racist video that he didn't post, I'm glad that we cleared up he isn't racist Wait...what's that I'm hearing? He's sending his goon squad that terrorizes communities of color to Springfield Ohio to round up Haitians who he said were eating pets?
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesPeople have been sharing that video of Ian McKellen performing The Strangers’ Case on Colbert. It is precisely why art is so dangerous to fascist projects.
- The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
- So weird to live in a world where exhibiting above-avg intelligence, wit, & competence while at the same time just being basically human can *feel* so completely rare, extraordinary, and REVOLUTIONARY. Dem pols, take note: BE smart and kind. BE those things. It’ll get you 97% of the way there.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéesagain: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
- I’m now officially old — as my body seems excited to constantly remind me — and yet… …I have a zit. A blemish. A spot. Damn thing is right there above my chin for all to see. This is NOT THE DEAL that I was promised during puberty. Someone needs to answer for this.
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéesif you had told people back during the Kavanaugh hearings that disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was working the phones getting Ken Starr to lobby Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to vote yes people would have said you need to get your head checked. But this is literally what was happening.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesBut we are now in a frankly cartoonish situation. It really just sort of IS good vs evil. There aren’t actually many good points worth considering on the MAGA side, and it really is all just lies and bigotry. And people who thought their job was teasing out nuance are having trouble adapting.
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesNow that Trump has deleted the post, the defenses will shift from "stop the fake outrage" to "see he deleted it, not a big deal"
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesJust want to say, I see all the comments saying it’s a sign of his senility or mental decline. You could be right but I have a thing about linking racism to mental acuity. Not sure it needs to be, most of the time, and I don’t like the idea of racism as deviant, for a lot of reasons.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées4. I’m not sure even the Obama piñata can give his core followers the hit it used to give. Not only does the racism dopamine have a killer half life, Obama has been mostly gone from public discourse. I guess we will see.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesThree thoughts. 1. It’s always been about the white nationalism 2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning 3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesHere’s that article online: www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2... A model for journalists everywhere.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesThe danger of “we already knew who/what Trump is, so we don’t need to keep up with the latest outrage,” is that it can obscure the ratcheting steps by which he drops even faintest veneer of democratic practice. In general, each rhetorical escalation marks an IRL increase in state violence. “
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesTrump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesEvery American to the left of Susan Collins is somewhat responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it’s unclear if the President is responsible for the video he posted.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéeswow too much for tim scott is saying something
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- Sure, sex is great… …but have you tried finding out that your coffee is accidentally full of grounds then looking in the cabinet to discover that you somehow own FOUR different sieves of various sizes that will fit just about any coffee cup you can imagine?
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- Chat, chronic illness just really sucks sometimes. Total pain in the ass. That’s it.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesIt feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées“.. US stocks outperforming the rest of the world has been one of the strongest investing themes for years. It peaked in December 2024, right after Trump's win.” - @weisenthal.bsky.social
- Holy moly are we gonna burn in ALL the hellfire.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées* US Companies Announce Most Job Cuts for Any January Since 2009 @bloomberg.com
- NARRATOR: Trump was the first one who wanted to complain.
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesI am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéeslook at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
- Don’t miss these additional thoughts from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social related to her most recent piece on tech & surveillance. Her ‘bon mots’ come with extra bon. They’re bon-bons.
- Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéesjust think about how incredibly out of bounds your sexual ethics must be to get the government of france sounding this prot-pilled
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesI may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesThis is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
- Dear Capitalism, More of this please. Love, Errbody
- Attention Firefox users! Starting with the next rollout, Firefox is adding a "disable all generative AI features" button. www.findarticles.com/firefox-will...
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéesone thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesIf many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
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- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesIn honour of Melania, here's a reminder that the thing Kane is applauding in this popular gif isn't good. It's very bad! It's his wife singing poorly in an opera he paid for.
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renéesokay, list of trump admin plans to fix the economy: 1) start working right after high school 2) postpone retirement 3) consumers pay tariffs 4) buy your kids fewer toys/pencils 5) limit meals to a piece of chicken, broccoli, corn tortilla, & "1 other thing" 6) 50-year (high-interest) mortgage
- Reposted by Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenéesHeather Cox Richardson returns to The Holler to chat about American democracy. We talk Reconstruction, the Wilmington Coup, North Carolina’s unique political history, and what it means when people say, “it can’t happen here.” Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube to catch all the conversations!
