Because this is a dystopian NIGHTMARE. Folks love to criticize police states when they're South American, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, etc but for some reason are just glossing over this?! Why are people not more appalled?
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Because this is a dystopian NIGHTMARE. Folks love to criticize police states when they're South American, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, etc but for some reason are just glossing over this?! Why are people not more appalled?
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#StarTrek is #antifascist and always has been.
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
Theyāre cranking up the propaganda machine again: claiming Brad Lander āunlawfully interferedā and that ICE is just āenforcing Trumpās policy.ā Reality: Lander stood up for civil rights. ICEās conduct reflects a deeply troubling use of federal power.
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
Captain: āWhat is it theyāve sent us?ā Leia: āHope.ā
Punishing a veteran for peaceful protest while supporting a draft dodger who has a plethora of felonies. The irony is lost on no one.
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trumpās military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (š„ @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
No Kings. No Jesters. No sycophants for the upper class who besmirch the very idea of nobility. We are not their peasants we are their CONSTITUENTS! #NOKINGS
Military parade for a draft dodgers birthday? Will the author at least add less absurd irony to this story please? I can't with this...
Senator dared to question the Empire, directly, and was met with force. Stormtroopers didnāt hesitate. They grabbed him, cuffed him, dragged him away like a dissident, claiming he āfailed to identify himself.ā But everyone knew who he was. He was a Senator.
Stop telling me the military wonāt shoot civilians. Stop telling me that there are laws to stop him. Heās coming and they are his choir.
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There's the reason the media only shows you burning Waymo cars
The disparity btwn whatās actually happening in Los Angeles and the way itās being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacyāitās like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
So ICE caused a traffic jam, started their raid right in front of the traffic jam, and then attacked the people stuck in traffic who were angry about the whole thing and recording it on their phones. People sometimes have a hard time understanding that police start the violence, but come on
Looks like the jokeās on them.
It's only a national security issue because one petulant manbaby put his fellow incorrigible unelected billionaire bozo into our nation's most secure information. Magic how this all could've been avoided by āØfollowing the lawāØ
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Well fortunately for you guys and unfortunately for us the doctors who both like private and own their own practices are also mostly conservative and won't leave down here. š
Unfortunately they're also the most wealthy so they get the biggest megaphones to yell at the rest of the world.
Most doctors who work at practices hate private insurance. It's folks who own their own practices who may have differing opinions.
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Z is AI confirmed
Mark Brown, who posts game explainers to his Game Makerās Toolkit channel, says his persona has been plagiarized.
A technology feature in Nature explains how organoids, assembloids and a growing toolkit of bioengineering tricks are helping scientists stitch together models of the developing human brain, pushing the limits of realism and control. š§Ŗ
Every once in a while, a show comes along that renews my belief in the power of storytelling. A show that centers the human experience, the connections and friendships we share, the stories each of us have to tell about our own place in the grand scheme. Right now, that show for me was #Andor
100%. She breaks my heart every time she's "on-screen" because she, like most, is good beneath all the blind loyalty and cognitive dissonance/justification machine. I love all the characters in WBN (even the wizard Keen-- was a great minor villain)
Love Steel. She's bought-in to a WILD system but she's such a badass --the end of last episode made me audibly shriek at work
This sounds incredible. I am 100% going to attempt making this
Would be a bigger shame if the only people who showed up were in the parade. Treat it like what it is. Nothing but a waste of money. And the lack of attention will KILL HIM. No one showing up at all to his "macho man" birthday party
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Phew! At least Canada is sane. ā¤ļø
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Willard would like to run for Mayor of NYC. He's lived here his whole life- Bronx born, Manhattan fostered, and Brooklyn raised. A real picture of the city ā¤ļø
EMERGENCY ACTION Join us weāre actively working to get coalition members on the ground! Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI this morning after refusing to allow ICE agents into her courtroom. She was taken to the federal courthouse.
Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar ā¦ hereās āAll the Small Thingsā but itās about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them š¤
Nearing? Are y'all losing the plot? This diminishing of reality in an age where headlines are all most folks read is getting really old. It IS a constitutional crisis. This Republican admin is straight up ignoring the constitution, checks and balances, and their constituents! Hold them accountable.
You are here.
American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blueās unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on ācollege protesters,ā āradicalizedā political activists, and suspected traffickers.
They canāt get Abrego Garcia. They sent him to a prison where no one gets out, ever, and the only seeming way out is death. They are directly going against the unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court by not getting him out. What the fuck is even happening
When I say you donāt have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you donāt ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
š¤·š»āāļø Ask my brainwashed blue collar brother. They get steeped in the shit and don't realize they're the exact demographic that will suffer.
If you've ever had to teach a parent or grandparent how to use a tablet or fix their router you KNOW this is a barrier to entry. And an intentional one.
This is a photograph of a married, employed father with legal status in the United States who has not been convicted of any crime but was given no due process and was deported regardless. To be abundantly clear: if you live in the United States, this could have been a photo of you.
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
āMiyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything weāve seen in this country in a very long time.
We must only learn from history, we must not repeat its mistakes.
Writing up a super detailed D&D campaign setting for my players. It's cathartic.
This is a threat. Not even a veiled one. This is absolutely SICK.
They'll lie. It's their job and FAA revokes licenses for all sorts of nonsense making these things worse
Political upheavals of great magnitude have occurred since I microwaved my tea and yet society expects me to remember to drink it
SCOOP: These are the 10 DOGE operatives inside the Social Security Administration. The team appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency. This includes a number of young engineers whose presence has not been reported. Read the full story:
Me to myself: This is annoying. This conversation is annoying, this person is annoying. I hope Iām hiding it well. My face:
The most wild defense but somehow not surprising coming from Silicon Valley š¤¦š»āāļø
He's not on a visa. He's a green card holder. He wasn't terrorizing anyone. They lied to his attorneys on where he was sent. Lies seem to be the only prevailing theme in this admin.
We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
This is a flagrant violation of the 1st amendment. Where are all the free speech advocates on the right losing their minds? Oh I forgot that was just to preach ignorant bullshit and try to avoid consequences not to actually get the government to do anything.
How do you not just curl up next to him and stay in the sunbeam all day? Too stinking cute.
Sorry with a text limit it was unclear. Made for "the people" was a way of highlighting that the people the government claimed to serve were a small group. The group the government CLAIMS to serve now is larger and far different. But in reality it still works as it had- only serving that first group
A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmarāwhere tens of thousands are enslavedāare using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Muskās SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.
I don't think anyone truly enjoys it. Maybe politicians getting rich and powerful off it. But as a normal person it is a burden. Everyone has been disenfranchised by this system to an extent. Made for "the people", but the people have since changed so the system needs changing. But it resists change
I imagine the less educated cult members would have even less exposure to the negatives. And even less willingness to seek them out.
My family is up north but my sister is in the south for university and I will say their news is WAY differently censored down there. Even as really educated people there's news just not getting to them unless they seek it out.
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything Iāve seen in my life. Itās not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org
And the antivax selfishness is only going to hurt their kids. Because they had to be vaccinated to go to school. So they're literally playing with their children's lives to "make a point" while they're protected. Psycho behavior.
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Dude same. And I know statistically I'll be fine but that's what everyone says until it's them and I'm stressing
My only criticism of George Orwellās 1984 is that it wasnāt titled 2025.
Sometimes I wish I was that theater kid. But instead I'm the theater kid that knows how to build a passable guillotine. š¤£
Of course. Will be an NPC in my next campaign either way š¤£
I think you mean spectacular character idea
"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
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Not working 60+ hours a week to survive while also having to maintain our homes might help. Not having a mentally unfit toddler leading our nation might help. Not having a meddling tech bro with a god complex playing with our private data might help. But sure. Magnesium.
We're living in the most poorly written novel of all time. The villains are caricatures and not even compelling in satire. š¤¦š»āāļø Can sensible leadership please take our country back?
Not just politicians. Other working class people! Thinking these are all bloated bureaucrats. They're not! They're all everyday people trying to make ends meet.... however those firing them....
What in the actual fuck? So an unelected foreign national who pays 0 taxes yearly is looking through OUR tax information? Where in the world are our government leaders?!? Arrest this guy already! This isn't government efficiency this is STEALING CITIZENS' DATA.
If youāre wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.
Let your audience grow with you! Start at the beginning you don't have to be a pro right away
I used to laugh at the "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread" Bilbo line, but boy do I get it now
Genuinely curious if itās more effective to be pressuring state governments over federal reps right now, at least for blue states. Blue state govs are salivating for a POTUS run. Push them to enact sweeping protections at the state level and to be a complete brat towards the fed on our behalf.
This is actually insane. Working in biotech or pharma right now is already insane with layoffs and being replaced by contractors so companies don't have to pay benefits. Now we have a bozo in charge who will make getting essential medicines to patients so much harder š¤¦š»āāļø Idiocracy was foreshadowing