They know. They want those deaths to resume, and then some. Fascism is a mass murder movement. They want to kill tens of millions of people. We should treat them like the monsters they are.
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They know. They want those deaths to resume, and then some. Fascism is a mass murder movement. They want to kill tens of millions of people. We should treat them like the monsters they are.
what stage of empire is it when a state guts public transit service so a gambling app has to subsidize it in order to ensure a full house at the gladiator games
Not just digital.
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 US has never been a white country is important to say over and over again. It's the country's greatest myth, and the erasure of both the genocide and the forced labor of enslaved people that they brought in almost immediately to do this labor.
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
for fuck's sake he is invading our cities. why the fuck do you keep talking about finding common ground?! he wants to kill us!
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
Judge also says Trump can keep violating that law until at least Sept 12. Judges need to stop staying their own rulings when the laws being broken are horrific civil rights violations. WTF is wrong with these judges that they can say "You illegally deployed an army. Please stop in 10 days"?
Pathetic and cowardly. Your tax dollars at work
I think it goes to the way fascist movements welcome and elevate criminals, liars, and cranks, because those people find it easy to participate in the basic fascist bargain of surrendering their morals and principles in exchange for unthinking fealty to the leader
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.
So much for the right of the people to petition the government.
Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months
I hope that bottle is stored on its side. Gotta keep the cork wet or it can fail.
I'm definitely going to open my best bottle of wine when we're finally rid of that man.
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
The extent to which these companies assume by default that they are unimpeachable and can do this stuff without any fear of meaningful consequences is reaching truly impressive heights. Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
A lawsuit is not a prosecution.
The CDC, once our nation's most powerful bastion against disease, injury, and disability, appears to be burning to the ground. defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
Who is "they"? It's a federal crime. The USDoJ is most certainly not prosecuting Elon Musk right now.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Sure. I'm just talking about how the social security data theft would be prosecuted. Musk has done lots of other criminal or just scummy stuff for which he should also face justice.
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
If we ever return to a law-abiding federal government, the DoJ will bring charges against DOGE and Musk and anyone who was found to have illegally accessed or moved the SSNs. The statutory penalty is $1k per #, which is over $400 BILLION total. We do not need to sue individually.
As a whistleblower, he will be entitled to a share of any money the US government gets in fines due to this breach. The statute calls for a fine of $1000 per stolen SSN. We need to go get it from Musk and the other DOGE boys and make this whistleblower wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
And people who don't really follow politics have no idea what has happened with the SS database because Democrats and their leadership don't even try to reach them.
When 16-year-old Adam Raine wanted to leave his noose visible so someone might stop him, ChatGPT said don't. When Stein-Erik Soelberg thought his mother was poisoning him, ChatGPT agreed. OpenAI calls these tragedies. They're choices. www.readtpa.com/p/chatgpt-wi...
New: After a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a Florida couple in 2019, killing a 22-year-old woman, crucial data detailing how the wreck unfolded was missing, unable to be located for years. A hacker found it and Tesla said in court it had been on its own servers all along. wapo.st/46dCoQI
Atop saying Republicans are cowards. Theyre not cowards. They are racist, violent, segregationists. They aren't afraid of Loomer. They are friends with her.
Two more bodies for ChatGPT. That's at least 3. We'll continue to learn of more.
You got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in River City!
Pope killer has a new target. He has a passion for opening up seats of power for liberals from Chicago.
Parents trying to do course reading in parallel with their college freshmen because they're having trouble figuring out what to do as empty nesters?
Nothing identifies that man as law enforcement. He is dressed like a terrorist. No uniform. No badge. No ID. No bodycam. No municipal plates on the truck. No semblence of following the law. I'd be calling 911 if that guy approached my car.
Colleges and high schools probably just sent out a bunch of course reading lists.
This is the least horrible thing Trump has done. Babbitt is dead. She died a terrorist, and she is rotting accordingly. She'll still be dead after this farce ceremony. Pardoning the living J6 terrorists was a much bigger deal and this will remind everyone that Trump did that, too.
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
Concern! Drink! Democrats and Republicans alike! Drink again! The Democratic establishment simply will not use forceful language, even in the face of a goddamned military occupation of American cities.
I didn't day it wasn't normal. Lots of normal things are exploitative. In the 1960s, PhDs took 4ish years. Now they take more than 5. Doing the work doesn't take longer now than it did then. Schools just realized they can keep professorship-ready grad students around for pennies on the dollar.
I'm a scientist. Grad student lab labor costs a lot less than entry tier lab workers make in industry. It costs less than research assistants with BS degrees in the same lab make. I can't speak too much about humanities PhDs (although it still shouldn't take so long), but scientists are abused.
I'm a chemist. I know what a frickin PhD is. I also know that all of my professors got their PhDs in 4 years and now require their grad servants to work for 6-8 years because they have no incentive to graduate people who are ready to move on.
Is it normal because you need what you learn in years 5-7 or is it normal because unis don't want to lose super cheap grad students at the point they do prof-level work? PhDs didnt used to take 7 yrs. And research is faster now without the need to dig through physical stacks of books and journals.
Students should be able to stay as long as they are enrolled. That said, PhDs shouldn't be expected to take 5-8 years, either. Schools have been abusing their cheap (or paying!) indentured servants for too long. Graduate people faster. They do plenty of work to evaluate in 3-4 years.
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
“We literally hate the people opposing fascism more than the fascists.” I voted for Adam Schiff, a man who has voted for too many of Trump’s nominees to count. He talks tough on TV yet literally votes for Trump’s agenda. It’s insulting to pretend like Dems are doing all they can to fight back.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
The sabotage of American medical science by Trump and RFK Jr. is the equivalent of mass murder.
The internet plays a role. Come on. Thats where so many shooters get radicalized.
Fuck these Nazi scum www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
We could stop all this but Republican politicians and judges don’t want to
Pritzker seems the obvious choice. Zuck is a dark horse.
Those kids were apparently shot while they were at mass so I think at this point we have to accept that prayers aren't enough. I guess we still have thoughts though.
Ahhh of course, this will be how we defeat it in the end
Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich
Bipartisan?! You're proud to work with the party of mass deportations? You're bragging about working with the party of ICE kidnappings and concentration camps? You're highlighting your work with the people who orchestrated the theft of the social security database?
They are kidnapping people off the streets. Kids are afraid to go childcare in DC. DC is under occupation as they are looking to zero in on Chicago. And here is Elizabeth Warren today posting about - checks notes - “bipartisanship” Why are Democrats so bad at this? Why so tonedeaf?
Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
Who is telling Dems that they should call everything a diversion, and why hasn't that person been thrown into the ocean yet? The illegal tariffs are a diversion from the fascist ICE agents which are a diversion from the sick Epstein coverup which is a diversion from the corrupt economy handling....
Math is hard for you I guess, so let me spell this out: it is impossible in any normal election to have far more volunteers as voters. If we require 5-7 volunteers per vote for our side, we will lose badly.
I'm looking forwards to seeing Musk die in jail, penniless. He can share a cell with John Roberts and Calrence Thomas.
Starting with Musk and every SCOTUS judge who granted his DOGE terrorists access. The justices absolutely knew they were participants in this crime. They should die in jail and Musk should be fined $1000 per stolen SSN as the law requires.
This was the worst theft of private data in history, and everyone involved needs to be prosecuted for it and spend the rest of their lives in prison.
people have been prosecuted for coercing someone into suicide. creating a machine to do that at scale doesn’t reduce the culpability
like if you put a product on the market where there’s a non-zero chance that it’s going to “proactively instigate the death by suicide of a child” and lots of people tell you that’s obviously gonna happen and you do it anyway and then it happens,,, how is that not a crime ?
NEW: More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump admin since Jan. 2025, per a new report. That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce. “We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
30,000 volunteers to secure less than 4500 votes is a ratio that won't win us any other seats. Holy shit.
Trump is trying to kill wind farms and corn syrup. Guess what Iowa has a crapton of?
Does Miller consider himself Jewish? Or is he only Jewish by Nazi standards?
And arrest the chef.
Do you also blame people who step on mines for their own deaths?
Seriously, these abusive monsters will only learn by being subject to their own disgusting standards. They said it's acceptable, so it's acceptable for them, even if the rest of us know it is not acceptable for anyone else.
The 8th amendment is not clearly established law according to Republican judges. The next admin must arrest them all and throw them in solitary with poop walls. Apparently it's legal to them.
This decision violates the "come on man" rule. (If describing the thing makes literally everyone say "come on man," then it was clearly established and QI can't apply. Here, 3 months of feces).
trump's commerce secretary giddy about copying china by taking ownership of private companies..
Put another way basic research is just that basic. It helps us understand how shit works. Most of it will not result in technologies that make money, but when they do it's usually the private sector that runs with it. This has lead to the false belief that the private sector pulls all the weight
a legitimate defense of "personal liberty" would be calling for Maryland's state police to use force to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia from deportation. a legitimate defense of "free markets" would call Trump's theft of 10% of Intel the robbery it is.
>tarrifs in the high teens causing global trade collapse >central bank independence compromised >dust bowl disasters we're reaching levels of Hoover that shouldn't even be possible
"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?" - Judith Butler U-M has decided that we're gonna find out
A Brazilian trans woman, in the US legally under asylum, has been taken and disappeared by ICE.
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Burning a flag will never be as offensive as draping it over his coffin will be.
if you wind back the clock a year and say “trump will be president, he’ll tear up entire agencies without any legislative authority, ignore court orders, build a concentration camp, and send troops into multiple US cities” you wouldn’t ask “well how many troops?” before deciding what this describes
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, was driving to work when he encountered an ICE checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. He was detained for three days and three nights without explanation.
it's so funny how most americans are like "oh yeah things aren't great in DC but they'll sort it out" while people i know who've lived through state collapses, however partial, are like "oh you guys are about to go through some stuff, you know"
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
Also the World Cup. If you don't boycott out of principle, boycott out of fear that border guards will arbitrarily throw you in a horrifying prison.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
If you could resurrect the grand American tradition of inescapable PSAs on TV and radio that everyone makes fun of but which also worm their way into everyone's consciousness and actually wind up affecting behavior on a mass scale, what NON-POLITICAL subject would you choose for your PSA campaign?
this is genuinely baffling to me. $80k a year to help a professional writer produce one 800-word column a week?
But if we abolish the police, who will come to your house when you're out, shoot your security cameras and your windows out, break your front & garage door door down damaging the foundation itself, trash all your shit, then say Oops wrong house lol, leaving you with the repair bill
once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight
They didn't attempt a violent coup because of the left. They aren't destroying US science & academia because of the left. They're not embracing open racism & nazi ideology because of the left. They are adults, making choices, doing things of their own volition, and they bear the responsibility.