Yeah we certainly could but the filters are not the center of gravity for their Content(TM)
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Yeah we certainly could but the filters are not the center of gravity for their Content(TM)
Doing the drag-sprint-carry in full view of the PLAN for deterrence
We’re definitely gonna lose that one based on the kind of content their e-girl-industrial complex is pumping out on TikTok
(Laudatory)
My deck would say “they didn’t hit Big Balls hard enough”
I was at the farmer’s market proper this morning and saw 2 chuds there unwelcomed and enjoying the fruits of our community
daaawwwg
Reinforced air assault (drop pods)
Yeah, there are lots and childhood diabetes is on the rise. Food in America has a ton of sugar even the ones that shouldn’t be salty have some kind of sugar product in them.
Bouie ends the “real or a show?” debate by explaining that it’s both at once. It’s real, a show, and their vision for the future, one that isn’t in place though possibly could be if it keeps going. Don’t fall for the show and take the reality seriously, resisting the vision. All simultaneously.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Insightful as usual from Dan but bleak for the short and medium run. I would add that another silver lining is that the regime’s NKVD, however terrifying, is a wedge in the regime’s coalition/path to consolidation.
But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article ▼▼ In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
"Trump and his ilk aren’t only keeping immigrants out, they’re setting up a new social hierarchy that places the most predatory, bloody-fanged among us at the top and seeks to subordinate caution and compassion wherever they’re found." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.” (Published May 2025)
he's not dead, guys. maybe loomer got a tongue ring and he took the weekend, who knows
It was also so nice on Wednesday that I just simply took a 2 hour lunch lol
NYT: A federal appeals court found that many of President Trump’s tariffs were issued illegally, upholding an earlier decision which ruled against the use of an international emergency powers law as the basis for waging its global trade war.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLE
The American secret police looking like fucking bank robbers certainly is a choice
but what about the poor current JS J5 ones with widdle unfunded pet pwojects? Joni, won't you think of the poor staff officers?
Well, we all are going to have our political careers die
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For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Evil; proof God has forsaken us and only we can save ourselves
she said that “black” with a hard r
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
They correctly identify the Confederacy as their political and cultural inspiration.
Only if Starheal says the bull's entrails are cooked.
I fully understand why Chinese Emperors staffed their courts with eunuchs
This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.
The media and Jeff Schumer types treat these things like an adult looking at jigsaw puzzle for ages 4-8 while the rest of us can see it for what it is: the undoing of Reconstruction by neo-confederates
Increasingly feeling like this kind of regional collaboration is the path forward not just with public health, but with other administrative state functions. We need blue states to start building capacity to fill gaps being left by the gutting of federal infrastructure.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
There’s a huge opportunity for a Democratic president with guts and principles to decisively break from our morally compromised and strategically dubious relationship with Israel. Biden clearly viewed Israel in a late 20th century paradigm (tough liberal democracy and Cold War ally) that no longer/
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
Who up pulsing from they depth
I regret nothing
More Anti-AI art coming. I ran out of mats again.
Just an apolitical, professional parade to sooth the ruffled feathers of the Dear Leader
The problem is not the gender of the person wielding the gun. It's the gun. The gun is the problem. It's always been the gun. It will always be the gun.
multiple rural hospitals have already closed/closing across the country so i think multiple sectors in multiple industries going lights out may be locked in
I just received my first copy of the book!
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader facilitates a cultural exchange between the minis bf and the rpgs gf
Civility discourse is a war on thinking and writing clearly. None of this is in defense of nuance. What civility pundits want is to be absolved of responsibility for the content of what they say, provided it's expressed in a particular way. Their fight is against judgement itself.
this is correct, and needs to be laid out in terms of the expansion of right-wing accelerationist ideology
Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨
I am a broken record about this, but the American intelligentsia convinced itself that a debating salon was the model of how the free marketplace of ideas was supposed to work, and they are about as wrong as you can possibly be about something, and the consequences have been catastrophic.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Speaking broadly, this applies to other aspects of life as well. When people say "don't get political" they always mean don't speak out in support of a liberal value.
People keep telling me the officers aren't that conservative or it's more complicated than that, but I'm sorry it doesn't look that complicated from my perspective.
The administration correctly identifies the Confederacy as its idealogical and cultural inspiration and is marking the country accordingly.
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
"civilian law professor at West Point named Tim Bakken protested the speech restrictions as unconstitutional...Before he could conclude his case, however, a fellow professor and colonel snapped at him. “You’ve said enough,” he said." We're gonna have to shove Woke 2.0 down the throats of every O-6
A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.
the mainstream media told voters in 2024 that the top National Guard-related issue in the election was whether Tim Walz retiring after serving for 21 years was scandalous. Accomplices in our oppression
uhhhh
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
Street Without Trash
The Venn Diagram of people who have posted this Reagan meme on social media and who are currently cheering on Trump's plans to send military units to occupy American cities, is a circle.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.
The enduring political cleavage between those who care about people outside of their immediate surroundings and those who don't. (From Chandra Manning's "What This Cruel War Was Over")
one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers
Festoon the city in American flags. Carry American flags at any demonstration. Make the imagery scream "America", and make the forces look foreign if at all coercive.
This is how organized crime takes root in immigrant communities.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Incredible
it won't happen automatically. but there is very obviously an opportunity for ambitious types who want to quite literally save the American republic to have their names written in history. crowns are in the gutter waiting to be picked up
Modern Sanitation: A French View of Countertrash
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new, free book comparing the rise of authoritarianism in America w/ the fall of the Roman Republic. I was doubtful but walked away from it with hope that we can change the future by rejecting the alleged historical inevitability that autocrats bank on. ⚔️
lol lmao
Say what you will about Juche, at least it's an ethos
“Amber Turning Green” is a great single released by Tribal In Nature. Their later songs like “Turning the Corner (Back to Where I Started)” and “Known Unknowns” weren’t as well received but have enjoyed critical success in the underground scene.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
No Marmalade for Paddington
modernity without feminism is a dead society
This is a hard, hard read. It’s absolutely horrifying that tools like this have been made so broadly available with so little thought given to their costs and ramifications. Adam Raine may not have been suicidal because of ChatGPT, but his reliance on it helped him follow through.
I think Cormac McCarthy would have shot his computer with a gun after reading this article
respectability politics will see us all killed
I still see over 40% of Americans approving of this admin’s deportation regime as a moral disaster. But it does seem clear Trump’s economic policies are hurting him. I just don’t find these numbers to be very encouraging about the American people. www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I mean, what is there to even say about this
I was a spy catcher. Our numbers are dwindling under this administration: www.notus.org/trump-white-...
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"The Bolton Raid Was Designed to Scare Us," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org. "I know because I was the first one there." www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolto...
yes
Jesus Christ.
I wrote about the re-arrest of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm currently reading Drawn Swords in a Distant Land by George Veith but it is a history of the Thiệu government/Second Republic and not a first-person narrative
Headhunters by Matthew Brennan is about 1/9 CAV from the perspective of the unit's veterans
+1 based recommendation
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
The reluctance of so many analysts to come to terms with how Trump's incompetent authoritarianism at home and strategic incoherence abroad might affect the ability of the US to sustain its global power status verges on the surreal. An Emperor's New Clothes moment.
