Pritzker: If we donât want to repeat history, then for godâs sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
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Pritzker: If we donât want to repeat history, then for godâs sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
Another historical depiction of Christian extremists attacking children by Kent Monkman / Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Well it also reminds me of the residential school system, which is yet another expression of Christian religious zealots' incomprehensible fetish for harming children. Residential schools were also fundamentally and explicitly racist/genocidal projects as well as devouring children like alligators.
That took me a minute as well - it's their silly hats. This is amazing. I will always remember it and be amazed that we knew about the Catholic priests' fetish for harming children for at least 150 years before anybody dared to talk about it.
Thomas Nast's America â a land of contrasts
Sad to hear of Graham Greene's passing... Such a wonderful actor and a very nice man I got to meet him on a few occasions as we both lived here in Stratford and even got to sing for him once at his "Walk Of Fame" ceremony. Huge loss RS
Everybody hurts.
Purchase price parity for a European compact electric car! CitroĂŤn launches a 19990 ⏠version of its C3 EV. With the French purchase bonus of up to 4242 âŹ, this means theyâve now reached purchase price parity with the petrol version (running costs & TCO are already lower)
The leaked Gaza Riviera plan is more grotesque than you could ever have imagined.
GVH irl #gvh
Spainâs prime minister, Pedro SĂĄnchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning: âIf we donât want to bequeath our children a Spain thatâs grey from fire and flames, or a Spain thatâs brown from floods, then we need a Spain thatâs greener.â
In fairness a straight face is her only option nowadays.
Good news of the day: Amy Poehler unseated Joe Rogan for top comedy podcast
Lol with P Diddy and Ivana.
Hello! You're totally right. My worst episodes of depression and anxiety, without a single exception, were directly caused by my work, which was often underpaid, pointless, monotonous, isolating and unchallenging. I finally hacked the livelihood trap and like magic, no more depression. Funny, that.
My MIL, a psychoanalyst, is of the opinion that mental illness is generally attributable to the actual state of the world rather than the unique genetic or behavioral qualities of the individuals who suffer from it. Depression and anxiety are my jam. Psilocybin is my cope.
He's very old and is slowly dying as his mental faculties rapidly deteriorate. Anything could kill him at any time. Heart failure, stroke, cancer, organ failure, infection... What specifically is wrong with him? Who cares - I just wish it well and hope that whatever it is, Putin has it too.
Glad to see this is being recognized by even more institutions. Every scholar and professor who protected Israel, who tried to criminalize and harass the encampments, is criminally complicit in this.
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenât calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Even if there weren't any climate concerns, "drill till it's all gone" would be terrible business practice - a good way to cash in if, and for as long as, demand is rising, but a good way to go broke in pretty much every other situation.
Fall asleep!
Omg thank you!
Unions should be talking about protecting the polls and assigning scrutineers. The dems should be requesting UN election observers. I get the feeling this is shaping up to be a lot of folks saying "look he's going to fuck with elections!" but then just allowing it to occur.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
* scorched mais oui!
People want a solution to the problem, not mere recognition of the problem. And the solution can't just be "vote for a Democrat if or when you get the chance".
As a woman who spent years in all male work environments, I often do! We all like working with our buddies. The path to a more inclusive society requires being mindful of whether we've only got one kind of buddy and doing some psychological repairs on ourselves if that turns out to be the case.
In fairness, the "be a guy who knows a guy" work culture created and sustained numerous entire industries where women, minorities and disabled workers were completely shut out, regardless of their relevant experience or merit. Maybe "be a guy who knows a person" is a better way to put it.
âNothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.â - Fred Hampton
I just rewatched They Live (thanks Internet archive!) Eerie details: it's full of smart watches and spy drones, and says that the alien colonizers' complete global takeover would be completed by 2025. Even a Gavin Newsom type government is foreseen, bulldozing a homeless encampment just cuz.
Clean energy isnât âwoke.â Itâs an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administrationâs war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americansâ utilities.
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
As far as they're concerned we have one purpose-to generate more wealth for the wealthy through our labour (or generate more labourers.) Soon enough, everything else will be prohibited except for Christian prayer, which is only tolerated because religion is such an effective means of social control.
Pretty soon they're just gonna be posting OBEY signs everywhere except you won't need mysterious fancy goggles to see them.
It's almost impossible to avoid given that you cannot Google anything at all any more without an entire page of AI generated bullshit being thrust in front of your eyes.
âOver 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 â in the air itself.â Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
There's zero chance he would ever conceptualize his administration "winning" in court as a collective victory rather than a personal one, let alone tweet "the United States of America will win in the end". For Trump, only Trump wins. Everybody else is a loser. That's his whole deal.
They say "only group of people" like it wasn't half of all the people who voted. Obviously people who *voted for actual Nazis* don't feel a need to cut off people who want more funding for public schools or whatever. If you specifically voted for *more organized cruelty toward minorities* fuck you.
This is deeply serious. 'Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds'. Scientists say âshockingâ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
You won't be missed.
Billie Eilish's insistence on plant-based menus at her gigs is saving a lot of carbon emissions. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518235...
Get in, loser, we're laughing at the NYPD!
He could try to revive the horse and buggy industry or the printing press too, surrounded as he is by dullards and sycophants, and they too would soon be just as bankrupt as Trump's casino.
Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable. Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them? These researchers say YES. Read more:
I hate the self promotion part. Honestly it's the only genuinely useful thing I can think of for generative AI to do - pretend to be me and go out and "engage with fans", "reach out to playlist curators" and so forth. Oh for the days you could just keep a stack of CDs handy at shows.
I've been wondering that ever since arts grants juries for musical creation became almost singularly focused on the social media stats of applicants.
Delighted the 'a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich' truism has an 'unless thrown at fascists' addendum
Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes. Here's my understanding of the timeline đ§ľ
My đ friend is fighting there. He told me volunteering to help defend Ukraine gave him a sense of meaning and purpose he's never felt before, and he sounded happy. He'd met a nice Ukrainian girl, and wasn't talking about coming back. Respect to these volunteers.
Gavin for the Prize
I'm actually cool with this. If you're going to send the army into urban centres the least they can do is tidy up the place. If they don't want to, they could just quit.
FYI, when this guy says what he's doing is "community policing", he's flat out wrong. Community policing involves building trust-based relationships with members of the community, to encourage people to report crimes.
That's what I do for all the novels and screenplays I've started, except for the publisher bit .
Never gonna happen. Those kids are as stupid and depraved as Trump but never had a teevee show cultivating the myth that they are brilliant at business.
đ¨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.
That couchfucker can't even order a donut without becoming a global punchline. His grandiose aspirations alone won't hold this coalition of zealots, billionaires, gun fanatics, racists and unsexy young men together. When Trump dies these people will eat each other alive to succeed him.
Yâall are wild
Fossil fuel extractors fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. They demand the equivalent of the royal monopolies once granted by the Crown, excluding competitors, enabling old technologies to fend off newer ones. Trump answers the call. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Valerie Thomas, the NASA scientist behind the illusion transmitter patent, made 3D movies possible and paved the way for women in STEM. Her groundbreaking work at NASA continues to inspire future innovators worldwide. #BlackExcellence #BLM #UnitedWeStand
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crowâs yacht
So you would be happy if any criticism of any Democrat (or maybe only Newsom in particular?) opens with the statement "this isn't as bad as the fucking clowns in the white house, but..." Are you not able to just infer this sentiment?
I think you need to work on differentiating between legitimate criticism & histrionics. This isn't football. You don't just pick a team, buy the jersey & call it a day. Even the best of us have room to grow and improve. It would be easy for Newsom to counter the criticism by changing his positions.
The media had no problem covering Biden's declining health. Weird.
Yeah she's a bit of a wild card. Totally in when it comes to the Dominionist transformation of America but seems to have some doubts about using corruption as a way to get there. She's the real life Serena Joy.
You think it's stupid to criticize *anyone* who thinks you can make homelessness go away by throwing away the belongings of homeless people, or just this particular person who thinks so? We must have very different definitions of stupid.
What did she do now.
Maybe if they hadn't cancelled science in the US, they might have painted *the side that's actually exposed to the sun* black, instead of... you know... being an absolute clown car full of absurdly incompetent dipshits who plainly know nothing about anything.
I agree there's no class-free pizza. The poor get pepperonis from Domino's that taste like the box, & the rich get a Louis XIII made for them at home by Renato Viola. I can't believe Cuomo is right about something! Not sure where seniors come into it but hey, he's a moron. Half right is pretty good.
âTotalitarianism 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.â â Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
You can't think of any other type of opinion of a person besides "praise" or "attack"? You'd fit right in with the Republicans nowadays.
No need to exaggerate - we're talking about people having the right to decide whether to continue an unwanted pregnancy and the government inspecting the genitals of children here. These are *new* impositions on women & children. The way things were a couple years ago is hardly a utopian pipe dream.
You can't "compromise" on guaranteed basic human rights for all people without rolling back some people's basic human rights. Might sound absolutist but that's how it is. The middle ground between "no rights" & "equal rights" is "fewer rights". Taking rights away from people is the wrong way to go.
There's nothing "left" about throwing away the belongings of homeless people. He's just plain on the right. That's fine. You can be a conservative and not be a complete psychopath. But nobody should be surprised to learn he's not very exciting to most people who are to the left of Ronald Reagan.
Who says I'm attacking Newsom. I'm Canadian. There's nothing I can do about America's ongoing dumpster fire but point and either laugh or cry, plus fight the Neville Chamberlain types in my own country.
I think it's more throwing trans people under the bus and personally throwing away the belongings of homeless people that puts leftists off. Talarico went on Rogan too and people were like "wow, what a champ". It really is more about what you say than who you say it to.
If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, theyâd be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him. But theyâre not, because they really mean something else.
There was a piece in Politico recently about how the Dems just can't raise any money right now. I'm shocked that "fascism is just a distraction" isn't working for them.
Put down the bong, Jeffries.
There's no ambiguity. The only "crimes" in the US these days are not being white and/or rich & not flattering the king while showering him with gifts. Bolton, a regular asshole, criticized Trump on TV. Maxwell, a convicted perjuror & pedophile, said he did nothing wrong. Who's feeling the pressure?
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time. it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Rule number one of the patriarchy is never talk about the patriarchy. - Democrat "strategists" at a moment in history where American women have just had their agency, privacy and bodily autonomy stripped away by American men.
The shutdown came after unknown drones attacked several cities. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin recently said air defense forces shot down a drone allegedly heading toward the capital. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/massive...
Thanks! I knit it myself at many union and labour movement meetings while quietly fomenting rebellion. The yarn is hand spun and hand dyed by a pair of very nice old ladies.
Frolicking beneath the Dolomites, northeastern Italy đ
This is a bullshit statistic that even if it were true, could just mean they're arresting more people for non-violent crimes.
The Christian nationalist world view is so brittle and devoid of credibility that it cannot bear its adherents being exposed to any other perspective, anywhere. That's what all this is about. People who believe truly silly bullshit trying to defend themselves against cognitive dissonance.
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
NEW: Leaders of a small Arizona city ramped up affordable housing & services like soup kitchens for homeless people. In response, a former mayor got angry & tried to recall them. But they survived the recalls this month. Bolts reports on what's happeningâ& the warring responses to homelessness:
That's the exact guy I got! Except for the mead, but that's more up my alley than his. You have exceptional taste.
Seriously people are not fucking paying attention if they think there's going to be another peaceful transfer of power in the United States before Trump is either dead or forcibly removed from office by an organized, non-state resistance.
A Pentecostal friend loaned me a Dobson book she ordered on the advice of her church. Thankfully, she wasn't a reader and didn't take his ideas to heart. In the preface, he made it clear that *his own dog* did not respect him at all. Hated him, in fact. I read no further. The dog is always right.
Slow? It's just a normal coup. They did a post mortem on J20 and realized that they could have easily succeeded if there had been no resistance from law enforcement. So they've neutralized resistance from law enforcement, so next time it doesn't matter who wins the vote.
Your guitar will forgive you. Just touch it twice today.
Hear me out... 1. The fascists believe that socialism is what turned them into fascists. 2. The fascists, by virtue of having freely chosen to embrace the ideology of fascism, also believe that fascism is good. 3. Ipso facto, the fascists believe that socialism is good. Be a socialist.
Everyone print out one of these.
Most of what I do with carbon footprinting and power planning - data collection analytics & reporting - could be automated but it can't work if the information boundary is porous or the machine just makes things up.
Me too except instead of tech zines it was just my dad getting overexcited and trying to interest me in it, but I played real instruments and couldn't see the appeal. Years later it's useful for making music for games but never better than real instruments. It's still too square, even in swing mode.
I recommend hammering ABC and Sim on this like they're Trump and it's the Epstein files. I have a huge collection of high res BLM photos to help contextualize the actions of the VPD as a reaction to widespread public desire to see a more intelligent allocation of resources.
Anybody who desires to pontificate that slavery was not so bad should be legally required to volunteer for an indefinite term of slavery.