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Photograph two: 2.52 pm Same place Your taxes are paying for the National Guard to spend the day doing nothing in particular
Photograph one: 9.20 AM Waterfront metro station, Washington DC
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
The second attack on Nasser Hospital. Israeli tanks fired four shells on August 25th, killing 22 people including 5 journalists, including one working for AP, one for NBC and one for Reuters.
They’ve given us the ‘Harris was forced upon us!!!’ Playbook, no reason not to use it.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
“Oh no, don’t tax the rich, they’re the job creators and they’ll move to Europe or something and then we’ll have socialism and be unable to buy a house or something and Elon Musk won’t get us to Mars and give us AI porn or something.” Fuck, we’re stupid 😡
A 1941 WPA road gang of migrant workers in New Mexico, many of whom were simultaneously working as farm laborers. Trump would have deported all of them.
If you needed any more reasons to hate Kyrsten Sinema:
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We need "you are not immune to propaganda" but for AI use risks We have seen too many cases of 1. Highly educated folk starting to believe LLMs are sentient. 2. Folk with no prior mental health issues becoming delusional. 3. Prrofessionals becoming reliant on it to do things they could do better.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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Though somebody recently accused me of being AI after a five post thread a couple days ago. I thought I was too lazy to compete with ChatGPT… guess not. 2/
Good set of rules. I guess the question is whether people who need to read them actually do… but that’s a social problem from long before we started chirping at each other. 1/
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The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Ok… ok.
We used to make fun of the guard before, now it's just too easy.
I should check my bio…
Susan Collins didn’t lie about who she is. She’s not moderate. You just believed that dumb shit. She checks the Republican box for a reason. And instead of going at THAT you’re talking about “the establishment of dems” if you don’t stop playing in my face.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Are they actually sleeping on the job now? Spotted near a police station in the southeast. Washington, DC
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If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
Watch how GOP pundit Brad Todd twists himself into a pretzel over the CDC mess. "The CDC needed to be more forthright about vaccines during the pandemic..." Molly Ball: "Trump was president when the pandemic started!" Todd: "He should get credit for bringing the life-saving vaccine to market."
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The history of LAPD hinges on the guy who came before the infamous Police Chief Daryl Gates, a guy named William Parker. He got rid of the corruption and graft but hired a bunch of racists from the South and created a paramilitary antagonism against Black and Latino folks. youtu.be/N2yFsx5vCLU?...
Dark money allows anonymous Super PAC donations so that wealthy donors & special interests can spend unlimited amounts promoting candidates/issues, overpowering our voices as voters. Elect and support politicians who respect our democratic rights.
Trump’s Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that’s what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
Trump’s "state capitalism" has nothing whatever to do with public ownership, socialism, helping the working class, or improving national security. There is no real industrial policy. It’s all about centralizing ever more control over America in the Oval Office.
Of course they're shutting down maternity wards in rural areas leading to increased infant and maternal mortality. Great work on this breeding project.
I'm out of DC and a 65-ish black guy saw my DC plates and commented on the national guard presence. He told me he was a cop for 25 years and very pro law enforcement, but hates what they're doing with the National Guard in DC. Really hasn't hit elite media how broadly unpopular this stuff is.
Thanks, that's helpful.
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Did/does bitcoin et al. use the same surplus ‘compute’ that AI now uses? I’ve been increasingly suspicious that the AI bubble is an effort to find a market for overproduced ‘compute’ (NVIDIA graphics chips) that were becoming increasingly difficult to sell with ‘peak gaming’ (and peaked porn).
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/w... Cue Ben Shapiro outrage about woke Finns.
Well, it does give a conclusive answer to the question: should Trump get Secret Service protection if he’s imprisoned? Unfortunately, it seems highly unlikely Trump will be held accountable in our mortal realm. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
AI Will Destroy More US Jobs Than Globalization Ever Did #ABlueView🧵1/3 We have Trump because Dems were too slow to "get" how disruptive globalization was to blue collar workers. Now, Dems should "get" (and message & act on) how massively disruptive AI will be to white *and* blue collar workers.
I suspect they’re also scared because they know AI isn’t the killer app they were groping for to continue Silicon Valley’s run.
DC resident here. She really has no idea how to deal with Trump. She seems to think she can make nice with him and he will be nice in return, but it just makes him see her (and us) as even more of a doormat.
Nobody wins when they try to be nice to him. Look at what immediately happened to that fool Murkowski.
Projection
She should’ve been extremely alarmed on January 6! And again, the day Trump was inaugurated! And again, and again, and again! #LeadershipMatters
This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit. It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Once again, traumatizing children. I hope every single one of them dies alone and ashamed.
America, you too could own a piece of Oval Office memorabilia in the new Trump "Walmart Liberace" motif. Item: Polyurethane applique made by Ekena Millwork available at Home Depot. Just $58.07. www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic...
JD Vance has been plotting for this moment his entire life mentally with Peter Thiel and all the other billionaires spending their dark money to create his political career out of nothing. It is not talked enough about how JD Vance actually has no experience in the public service whatsoever.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
That said, there’s still a species of stupid expressed in adhering to lab leak and Chinaflu conspiracy theories but also disarming the CDC.
(And, arguably, the kind of ‘bread and butter unionism’ that sold away political organization in return for a better pension, health insurance, and then a 401k). 2/
This goes back to Galbraith’s idea of ‘countervailing power’ in the context of American capitalism, which is a brilliantly genteel repackaging of 1930-50s era US trade unionism, which, in the end, didn’t succeed against the McCarthyist tide. 1/
(Emmiseration, not em miseration, to be clear)
Interestingly, even Adam Smith was concerned about these concentrations of market power. 3/
Which is, in a very simplified form, a Marxian critique of Liberalism: liberals ignore the potential for market power to become raw power, which enables further exploitation, upward redistribution of wealth, and a vicious cycle of em muse ration amongst those who must work for their living. 2/
There’s a key point to this rationality as well — which arguably marks where ‘the wings converge’. Most simply, if I’ve come out at +$10 with respect to you, it means I have $10 more than you to funge into the power to further redistribute wealth. 1/
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
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REUTERS: “Trump's special representative, Steve Witkoff, violated diplomatic protocol in Moscow when he went to the Kremlin on August 6 for a meeting with Putin without a stenographer and a representative from the U.S. State Department.” ⬇️
“Who pays the tariffs?! Who pays the tariffs?!” Bama folks not playing
Another federal official is refusing to step aside after the White House tried to fire him: Robert E. Primus, a board member of the federal agency responsible for approving railroad mergers. “It’s illegal," he said of the move. "The president cannot remove me arbitrarily."
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
In truth, the Kennedies had serious problems. RFK jr. among the worst of those still living. But sexy voice, I guess.
Just out of curiosity I went to see how old that man is and stumbled upon info about his previous wife. This doesn’t immediately raise flags?????
The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.
Which is why it's insane our intelligence agencies just let Russia slowly sink it's tentacles into the US. Big players from billionaires to politicians have been clearly turned over the past few decades. Mind boggling that we haven't had a strong counter-intelligence system. Now we pay the price.
Political and corporate corruption in the US has been rampant and skewed towards oligarchs for decades. White collar criminals and corporations stealing countless trillions have and continue to get away with it.
But think what you could do with total control of maple syrup production!
The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
Prayer works, therefore they should stay home and pray rather than voting.
If you are being asked to "embrace the suck" of violating the constitutional rights of United States citizens, call immediately. 877-447-4487 Www.GIRightsHotline.org
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
The rise of a fascist leader in Germany led to genocide and a disastrous war that killed millions of Germans, but only 25 years later, Germany had regained its standing as a prosperous industrial power. Could the same thing happen here?
The thing with the NC gerrymander is that when you put all your GOP cronies into positions of power, you rapidly discover that your cronies are total dumbasses.
I think I used 35 Calories on that exposition.
Man, I forgot my em dashes..
Will Tucker Carlson take credit for the deaths of two children in Minneapolis today, or is he too modest to admit he contributed to this evil?
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Isn't the conspiracy theory that COVID was a biowar effort by the Chinese.... Which would be why we're relaxing surveillance on infectious diseases?
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
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Hoo boy
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social for this powerful and much-needed message 👏😁 Clip uploaded 2 weeks ago but it's still relevant & important 🫶🫂🏳️🌈💙🗽 Video description: "Standing up, being yourself, and not hiding who you are is more powerful than you may know."
Evidently Great Lakes Naval training center, North Chicago.
This is horrific, and then there's Chat GPT meets Gen. Buck Turgidson... or Gen Jack Ripper:
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
Another drag queen allegedly engaged in human trafficking. Oh wait, he’s not a drag queen. He’s a PASTOR! www.joemygod.com/2025/08/fait...
For Trump's ultra-wealthy donors, fascism is just good business. zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...