More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
big tech hasn't come up with anything paradigm-shifting and useful since the smartphone in 2008 and I'm tired of all the shit they keep shoving down our throats trying to recapture that high
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
It gets harder and harder to hope in a future when the vast default of humanity continues to be hate and exclusion anytime things get difficult. Especially when we *have* solutions to so many of these problems already, but they aren't making money for the right people. So we just keep burning.
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Even with everything going on in the world today I struggle to comprehend this level of fearful hateful ignorant lack of humanity
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
Don't get me wrong, got a bottle of bubbly on standby for the occasion - but we can't allow ourselves to believe his death will solve anything. He's just the figurehead of the hydra. The many other heads - the Thiels, Yavins, Millers - are the ones with real teeth. And they are so much worse.
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
Joy and community are resistance and resilience and they know it
Blatant escalation of Christo-fascist totalitarianism ✨with✨ increased paranoid surveillance state to boost - quite the dystopian dream unfolding here
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
CBO analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill and how it impacts different parts of the income spectrum: —A net resource increase of $13,600, on average, for the top one-tenth of U.S. earners. —A net resource decrease of $1,200, on average, for the bottom one-tenth of U.S. earners.
Lots of practice saying "yes Mr Thiel, sir. Whatever you want Mr. Thiel, sir."
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
This exactly
Just gonna keep screaming this into the void. They. Want. Us. Dead. (see: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...) Probably a few wealthy institutional Dems in on it as well. Until we grasp the gravity of that reality and adjust our response accordingly, nothing will change.
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response. Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
Case in point www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6gcvrUn/
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
I just want lawmakers at every level to pass gun control laws. I don't care if you think they'll survive the Supreme Court's tests. They won't. That's a game you cannot win. Who cares? You have a moral obligation to try; anything less is cowardice. There are honorable defeats.
Hate, fear, and greed for power are more contagious than ebola. Especially when they've been able to watch it all enacted without consequence just to their south for so long.
GOP will move hell and spend millions to deploy the literal military in peaceful cities because their grownass manturds are afraid of the bus - but when children are regularly slaughtered by men with bullets the same scum barely blink, let alone do anything to stem gun violence. How does it change
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Lisa Cook be COOKING (definitely not the first to go there, but just so ecstatic to see someone with a real spine)
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
But we weren't paying attention while the billionaire tech bros behind these products seeped into government and all the systems of law, accountability, and economic infrastructure like slime. Altman,Thiel, Zuck et al own the show now, and it's profits > people. They want the rest of us to die out.
Hard to blame mother earth for being so keen to get rid of our lot
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.
Fast tracking the same dooming mistakes the US has made
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
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.
Am I having a bit of a menty-b on a Monday night? Yes, yes I am thanks for attending
"-because 'in order to make earthly planetary survival possible, some versions of this world need to end.'” [End🧵]
“'Hereness' can be portable, free of nationalism, rooted in solidarity, respectful of indigenous rights and unbounded by borders. That future would require its own ... world-ending and revelation, though of a very different sort."
"Go back far enough and every culture and faith has its own tradition of respecting the sanctity of here, and not searching for Zion in an elusive ever-distant promised land ... what is needed is a modern-day universalization of that concept: a commitment to the right to the 'hereness.'”
"None of this should be written off as paranoia." This is the end of the line for the 99.9 unless we take real action. "First, we help each other face the depth of the depravity that has gripped ... all of our countries."
As someone watching my entire industry evaporate, this bit struck hard: these big tech megalomaniacs are "hellbent on sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm ... getting ready to ride out the storms they themselves are summoning"
"The fact that their profits are predicated on planetary devastation helps explain why ... an unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else."
The rabid bear is backed into the corner. It no longer cares about tomorrows and next times and some days. "Having bought into various apartheid fantasies of bunkered safety, they are choosing to let the Earth burn ...'it is a politics driving toward an endgame.'"
No more being shocked every time they eliminate life-saving medicines, storm warning technology, safe food; when they blatantly break systems so more people will die. This fascist cohort is actively deciding "which parts of humanity are worth ... saving – and which could be sacrificed"
"the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line" No more braying about laws and decorum and "one day history will remember blah blah."
"Alive to our era of genuine existential danger – from climate breakdown to nuclear war to sky-rocketing inequality and unregulated AI – but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats, contemporary far-right movements lack any credible vision for a hopeful future"
"Though it builds on enduring rightwing tendencies ... we simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before ... The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism."
"If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism."
This most terrifying and prevalent article puts eloquently to words why I can barely breathe some days. Why it's worse than people acknowledge. We haven't even begun to reckon with the era that's already been ushered in. The Mad Max/Elysium/Fallout age is here. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What a pathetic coward. People choosing to build a family together is more natural and easy to understand than, say, evil robot alien armies. How do you explain to your grandkids that they can't board a rocket to space? More complicated to teach the principal of g-force than love.
What happens when the GOP tries to have their cake and eat it too. Stand-your-ground 2nd amendment gung-ho bullshit ➕ masked N*zi scum kidnapping people without ID or warrant 🟰 stupid prizes
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Even Yarvin admits this administration isn’t competent enough to fully implement his vision—they’re chaotic enough to break things but not rebuild them. But breaking things IS the point: create enough institutional chaos that people beg for an authoritarian to restore order.
He looks and acts like a man dying. It will happen, hopefully soon but remember his power was always theater. Even if his health fails, the architects of Project 2025 remain. Celebrate, but know the hand inside the puppet still moves and their plans haven’t changed. #Resist
Tom Nichols on the Trump admin: "Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere."
If you want to resist through humor, maybe support a political cartoonist or local comedian instead!
Please please stop with the AI slop - even ones poking fun at the kakistocracy. Excess AI use just makes even more $$$ for the scum billionaires who put these awful people in charge in the first place, while deeply damaging the communities they're hurting most (i.e. water usage, electric costs).
If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.
Then, I'll do everything I possibly can to push back on his disgusting policies. I'll at least still have the right to.
I don't want Newsom nominated either. It would be an utter failing to find ourselves in the lesser-of-two-evils scenario again. But I also don't have much faith left in the Dem party - or the average voter. If despite everything, it somehow came down to Newsom or Trump? You bet I'm voting Newsom.
Newsom's policies on our trans community (and the unhoused also) are abhorrent. But at least we'd still have the democratic processes in place to force change. Any GOP rep will only worsen the persecution , while continuing to shred the systems we need to fight back.
Saying you could "never" vote for him means that if Newsom does somehow end up as the next contender, choosing abstinence equates to effectively voting for the GOP nominee. Exact same mistake. And our trans family (or any minority, and Gaza) will have no hope under another Nazi administration.
This is the mentality that got us here in the first place. The people who "could never" vote for Harris bc of her failure on Palestine. Yes, both utterly and grossly wrong, but Harris and Newsom are at least rational people who can evolve, be pushed to change. Trump's ilk cannot be reasoned with.
I mean why not his supporters already seem pretty cool with the whole taxation without representation thing
Where @totalseasons.bsky.social at
@totalseasons.bsky.social this is your MOMENT
They could do this exact same thing for anyone prescribed abortion pills or birth control. This is a playbook that spells the end of medical privacy in the United States.
Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1. This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.
Hey look. It’s the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office. Probably just a coincidence
America’s biggest crime problem is that we have roving bands of masked kidnappers who may or may not be federal agents.
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Just now…
Just don't think having to "testify under oath" is any concern for the scumbags operating at this level of horror. If they have no qualms about what they're doing now, it won't tickle their morals to lie about it later. If we even get the kind of "later" implied here.
Don't think having to "testify under oath" is any concern for the scumbags operating at this level of horror. If they have no qualms about what they're doing now, it won't tickle their morals to lie about it later. So tired of this empty rhetoric - when will we do something REAL about it??
What blue state is stepping up next? Who’s gonna meet this moment with the urgency it deserves? Who wants to be able to tell their kids and grandkids that when everything was on the line, they didn’t just SAY the right things, but DID the right thing with the power they had?
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?
Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.
ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….” A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam www.12news.com/article/news...
Before you have the reflexive American reaction of “haha, the president has no power over this, it’s A Distraction”, consider that the goal here is not to change anything, but rather to prepare the terrain to declare any election loss as having been rigged.
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Hate this timeline so much. Why are we all barreling so determinedly into a deceptive sham facade of a world
Very cool how Thomas & Alito were found to have taken exorbitant bribes over the years and not a goddamn thing was done about it
Not at all the sound I was expecting when I unmuted the video - It was so much better. 😂
"(you can't) pick yourself up by your bootstraps." "the customer is always right (on matters of taste)." "just a few bad apples (spoil the whole bunch)." is there a word for phrases like this? like, phrases where the important bits have been chopped out in widespread use?
Once authoritarians capture enough institutions, time is on their side, not ours. Resistance gets riskier, opposition networks weaken & the public grows used to this new way of life, until finally there is a generation that never knew true freedom. We are at the point of no return. #Resist
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
"crime" is the word he gets away with using to mean Black, brown, homeless, and trans people
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. (Published April 2024)
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
Too perfect that her name is Martha. Like the mothers of Batman and Superman. She's a shero.
I missed the part where blowing hundreds of millions in taxpayer money on gaudy, unnecessary White House upgrades counts as “cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.” Or did we just drop that whole narrative?
Even a stopped clock ...
