Trump threatened Congress. Said anyone who helps the Epstein victims would be viewed as a “very hostile act” to the Trump admin. Trump is cooked. There is no way out of it. Best part is they know it.
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Trump threatened Congress. Said anyone who helps the Epstein victims would be viewed as a “very hostile act” to the Trump admin. Trump is cooked. There is no way out of it. Best part is they know it.
That fold down pocket flap is calling my name so I will let you know!
And British atheism, especially among the menfolk.
I was raised without gods and I can always tell when someone converted to atheism rather than just stopped believing. They're often as evangelical and fundamentalist as the most fervent believers in gods. They're also often not great at deconstructing the intersection of belief, culture and religion
Same same.
Today on Volts: sodium-ion batteries! They are lower in energy density than lithium-ion, but cheaper, safer, & made from abundant domestic materials. What are they good for? Peak Energy is using them for grid-scale energy storage. I dive into the business case with CEO Landon Mossburg.
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Cool to have more evidence but to be fair, that theory has had little to no buy in in pain medicine (and the neuroscience related to it) for a pretty long time.
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"One of them, Callum Barker, is a hardened neo-Nazi who helped to establish Combat 18 as the street-fighting security detail of the Nazi British National Party in the 1990s. He has posted images that reference the code ‘1488’ 1/2 www.counterfire.org/article/the-...
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Epstein victims' press conference, livestreamed: www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...
The flurry of 70 human infections over the course of 11 months, followed by an abrupt halt, makes scientists wonder how many people may have had H5N1 since February without the public being informed. Read more from @lygianavarro.com: bit.ly/45NqwF8
He just looks like an evangelical, very "I knocked on doors to sell the Lord to heathens as a boy" coded.
Putin’s Pals Brag that Trump and Tulsi Followed His Orders The Kremlin is delighted that a slew of current and former intelligence officers were stripped of their security clearance, claiming it as a huge victory for Putin. My latest for @thedailybeast: www.thedailybeast.com/putins-state...
You just know they're all mainlining the blood of children to attempt this (as are the tech brollionaires, along with their ridiculous experimental drug and supplement regimens that are currently really fucking up their biology because we are not machines).
One of the tremendous themes of the TV adaptation of “Interview with the Vampire” is that immortality is actually a *terrible* experience (people with enormous resources fantasize about radically extending their life span bc they can’t imagine a world without themselves in it; so go to therapy!)
Is "flock" a paternalistic religious reference?
The third Georgian prisoner arrested on trumped-up drug charges has been found innocent. Nika Katsia is free, with a whole army of supporters waiting outside.
The annoying thing is a how this successfully distracts people from all the massive ongoing disasters created by this grifter businessman gvt. Truly a petite noirceur that grows and spreads to smother a vibrant contemporary Quebec with reactionary fearmongering and grift.
This assessment of Xi's ambitions & of China's strengths & weaknesses is a companion piece of sorts to coverage of the military parade. It's good. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
"Space dominance"....stupid colonial industrial war mindsets. I miss the days of international cooperation and visions of us peacefully exploring the galaxy. It's all just stupid terrestrial grift at this point.
It's because Atlas Shrugged ended up in the list too (in an act of "vicious compliance" according to the Premier 🤣)
This is around the same time of the before/after Amsterdam photos, when people protested and tamed the car there, but in North America the car was too strong, undefeatable. Some victories like stopping the Spadina Expy in Toronto, but street level experience is still death stalking us on wheels.
Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, April 13, 1973: Following injuries to their children walking to and from school, about 30 people blocked the intersection of Esplanade and Van Horne avenues for an hour. They demanded a crossing guard or anything else that would make walking safer.
Despite being a political novice, 40-year-old Graham Platner raised over $1 million in nine days. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reportedly is working behind the scenes to get 77-year-old Gov. Janet Mills to enter the race.
good faith progressive reform rebuilds faith in institutions, which erodes authoritarianism's appeal to the disenfranchised the center-right (from major education institutions to major media) is terrified of that because it means an erosion in white center-right male power and, again, paying taxes
in fact popular, good faith progressivism is THE answer to conquering authoritarianism, which is the real thing the centrist brunchlord establishment (including the abundance folks) want to redirect you away from because they'll probably have to pay taxes
Sounds like Elon doesn't really like or enjoy being a man, even with all the wealth, power and perks. Masculinity as he conceives and embodies it does seem pretty bleak and not much real fun. Joy does seem beyond his grasp.
Tibetan shrines in museums, touted as “magnificent” and seen as a “refuge in uncertain times,” have long captivated the public and media alike. But what if these spaces, attracting thousands of visitors each year, are just sites of appropriation — of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage?
Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
Congrats!
They all dream of living forever. The undead shambling along consuming all other life.
Fucked over the environment and ourselves for nothing.
Elizabeth Catlett: Black Revolutionary Artist, in Chicago
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
"And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people." Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
Oh for sure man, why the fuck not
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Like anyone is going to believe anything the Trump government releases anyway, including the hardcore Q believers (the evangelicals don't care about this).
Bleak.
How we got to "girls can't do math" when historically women do stuff like bookkeeping and codebreaking is beyond me (well, not really beyond my understanding, it was propaganda to disempower girls and women after WW2).
Ugh, should have read the rest of your thread before leaping in with my "yes and!"
Not only that it was historically "women's work" and only became incredibly sexist once men thought it was lucrative (so important) and tried to erase women (including many Black women) from it's history.
As Canadian we have to contend with a fact that a lot of what's going on in the world vis a vis right wing evangelicals has a very Canadian origin. Stephen Harper is the root of this not the UK or US and this is exactly what they want, children and adults they can control using religion.
I mean, he did make alcoholism the central pillar of his platform....
On Aug 26th, NDP MP @gordjohns.bsky.social wrote a letter to the Cdn Govt detailing issues his constituents have had contacting the CRA Now it looks like the Liberals will have to backtrack on some of the 3,000+ staff cuts they made at the CRA Now that's what I call effective representation #cdnpoli
Putin scores an apparent diplomatic win, reportedly securing a massive pipeline deal that would tie Russia & China together for decades, maybe redefining global gas trade. Yet, China has yet to comment on deal’s details, & Chinese media reports on the Putin–Xi meeting don’t mention the pipeline.
Trump was supposed to speak for the first time publicly in a week at 2:00. Then it was delayed to 2:30. Then CSPAN had it set for 2:45. Now it’s set for 3:00.
As much as we hate our enemies, it's important to be clear eyed about who they really are, what actions we're condemning (it's what people do that counts) and how they're just people too (shitty antisocial people but just as human as the rest of us).
"You are not more powerful than Twitter’s algorithm." This is it. This is the whole ballgame. I do not understand how people don't get this.
Imaginez ma surprise de voir Dimitri Soudas à l'émission des Mordus sur @radiocanadainfo.bsky.social, quand il a eu le culot avant les vacances de traiter @rachelgilmore.bsky.social de "sympatisante terroriste" dans ce tweet, suivant la mort de journalistes de Al Jazeera. Est-il pro-génocide? Hmm..
This makes it clear how many of Trump's voters are religious, which indicates to me that many would happily switch to voting for Vance to continue trying to impose a theocracy (so fascism but God flavor rather than junk science eugenics, it's all the same and about positioning a few men as gods).
I don't even think most of GenX wants this...
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Father Ted writer Graham Linehan ‘arrested over X posts’ on trans issues
Yearly unpopular reminder that you should never post photos of your kids online, but if you're going to, you should ask them for consent. When we role model that ALL photos require consent before sharing, we actively dismantle a culture that has normalized leaking nudes.
Nah, this is different because over and misdiagnosing can create risks and end up causing harm. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Religion is a business, this is about not wanting competition for the selling gods to rubes and a few men dominating the town business.
Craig Sauvé shouldn’t be excluded from the Montreal mayoral election debate "Healthy democracies encourage respectful debate and informed choices. They don’t limit them." An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
Diabo rejects any notion that First Nations would be subordinate to the government of Quebec, and subject to any constitution it might draft. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Also, rural shooters are turning on themselves (rather than "on society") in much, much higher rates than in urban areas. Would she be interested in having that conversation?
Thinking about this for too long is like staring into the abyss. These are not serious people.
Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
Also, if all this money is just directed to junk science and grift nobody wins and the worst people get enabled.
Also the work: erasing culture and replacing it with slop. It’s a fascist project, full stop.
Provide evidence to support the claim. Yeah Trump looks wrecked from what we can see, but that's not evidence. It doesn't mean he's definitely dead by Xmas. They faked his assassination attempt. What makes you think they wouldn't fake his death and rebirth? LOL! You believe. I observe.
Femmephobia is a very useful term to describe the terror and hatred of femininity in all people.
Yes!
Your other cats seem interested in that idea too!
Police in Germany doing assault. A criminal offence by the German police according to German laws. I hope they are sued, fired and jailed for this criminal assault.
It's a nonprofit that gives grants to online creators. There was just a ~big exposé~ in Wired by someone who has 0 understanding of how nonprofits work, so now there's a big "they must be paying people to not talk about Gaza!" discourse ...I've been talking about Gaza MORE since getting the grant
Sarah's endorsement means a lot to me. And Lorenze's pivot to "White supremacists are nicer to me" pretty much indicates it was written as a hit piece (and I'm, personally, starting to wonder if Wired is being targeted for being one of the few outlets doing real reporting on tech and fascism).
The WH can hide Trump over a long weekend, and will be able to keep the plates spinning a few more days. OR Trump will appear on camera and do one of his hour long rambles. Either way, the speculation will end soon enough. You can't hide a president for long in 2025. Especially not this president.
They'll be majority Black cities or just targeting Black neighborhoods like in Washington and LA.
Delighted to have signed a contract with @edinburghup.bsky.social to produce a scholarly edition of Fred Urquhart’s war-time letters. Urquhart, an accomplished writer, was a lover of men and admirer of flamboyant women. His letters offer a Rabelaisian account of the British #SWW home front.
The military, that's now full of Trump loyalists, taking over would also be bad and authoritarian.
Is this real? I thought it was a joke.
For a lot of the right and right-leaning centrists, actual leftists and progressives are not annoying enough, so they rant about the versions they made at home from scratch, then blame real people for imagined sins and postures. p.s. Silver doesn't actually want the left to win, does he?
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
This grifter stole, not only using ai but stole the spot of a human artist doing actual art. Very cool to see an org unceremoniously chuck 'em, well done Dragon Con
Labour Day 2025 is energized and full of fight! Inspiring organizing by CUPE and flight attendants is powering CUPW with Canada Post. This is what collective power can do. #LabourDay2025 #CanLabour
Substack is now forcing writers to allow Apple iOS subscriptions—which raises prices, delays payment, and moves control of customer lists from the writer to Apple. Move your publication off Substack while you still have full access to your paid list. mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
And they seem to be preparing a reframing of Trump's role/complicity in that as well.
Is there any dossier that's not just grift by Legault's cronies?
It's the opening of the academic year in the Netherlands today. Public trust in science is stable and relatively high 💪 It is higher than trust in any other institution (judiciary, media, business or politics). Trust in the government is the lowest. Source: Rathenau in @volkskrant.nl
Happy Labour Day! /S
Les épiceries qui mentent sur le produits pour les vendre plus cher. Et on fait quoi contre ça? On laisse faire et une petite tappe sur les doigts. Paraît que c’était une erreur de bonne foi de l’épicier. Notre oligarchie alimentaire ne se gêne vraiment pas.
even with the US being a kind of hellzone, there are 30-60% of us who genuinely want to live in a just society and solve climate change etc. the breakdown of the federal govt means we have an opportunity to reboot with a different system. we have the skills & resources, but we lack a plan
The inevitable has happened: Disconnect is back on Ghost after trying Substack again. I didn’t just ditch another US tech platform; I learned the Substack network isn’t as helpful as it used to be, and certainly doesn’t justify putting up with the platform’s support for Nazis.
Journalists in Australia are among dozens of reporters who fear for their lives and those of family members after receiving death threats from the Iranian regime.
She'd very easily shift allegiance to Vance. It's one reason Vance (who is likely really an atheist) has been so performatively Catholic.
For instance, a friend's sister and family all vote GOP bcs of being Catholic and tradition but her sister is now a very fringe Trumpian Catholic. Only thing that might break the trance is Fox turning on the GOP, unlikely and a lot of the base now watches even less reality based networks.
His base isn't a monolith though. Anyway, Trump dying is unlikely to make things better because he's a figurehead (a very easily manipulated one, despite him also having an oppositional defiance disorder but reactionary people are easy to manipulate).
Today I'm talking to Dr. Robert Fuller, author of "Naming the Antichrist: The History of An American Obsession." The 1995 book outlines how the concept of "Antichrist" has been used throughout history to demonize and dehumanize political opponents. Questions for him? bookshop.org/p/books/nami...
She was such a sane, compassionate no-nonsense voice.
Ehrenreich founded @economichardship.bsky.social to address the fact that poor and working class journalists struggle to tell the stories that matter to our people for lack of support and resources. EHRP has been such a huge help to me and so many others; I wish we had a million more of them!