Iām always struck by the journalism thatās on Instagram that I donāt see here. For example, this image of a protestor ā a US citizen ā being arrested by ICE today at a car wash in Los Angeles. More details here: www.instagram.com/p/DNgex-xyAX...
Until we manage nationalization (by far the best option) I gotta stress that it's important to have multiple backup options like signal and keybase to do encrypted file transfers & have large group chats for disseminating politically critical breaking news. Many of us do this already, but all should
bc it turns out the 21 year old kid who got murdered by the police was a delivery driver the delivery guys are going hard during these protests. i couldnāt download this video but hereās a screen recording.
it's cool that the future of politics is this
Anyway when the Trump administration tells you they are concerned about antisemitism, just remember they havenāt told federal agencies that scheduling major events on Jewish High Holy Days is off limits but they do want to deport brown people who oppose genocide You can do the math
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
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Every time I read the name Keir Starmer my brain autofills it as the name of an obscure German far right party and heās really starting to live up to his name
Also, Biden was part of Lava Jato and helped the State Department malign Lula. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
Harris was very good at persecuting innocent black men, terrible at prosecuting wealthy pedophiles. The Democrats would not have arrested Trump. The media would be calling for Trump to be reelected so he can build camps, ignoring that Harris would have built more by this point than Trump.
So the learned professor here is kind of unwittingly helping them rewrite that history and eliminate entirely the Democratsā equally terrible COVID response. Except one thing: Trumpitler developed the vaccine. And, Biden was *entirely* responsible for failing to get Americans to get vaccinated.
@wired.com sat down with @theonion.com ās CEO, @bencollins.bsky.social and what struck me in this was at one point they both talk about how theyāre the few remaining that are still covering whatās happening. A tech magazine and a satire site. Neither anticipated how easily media would fold. /
Forgetting is the American pastime, it seems.
More broadly, the Church has expanded outside of its normal environs, and though still having to deal with *deep* poverty amongst some members, a large college educated cohort that has its own media conglomerate and is the backbone of all MLMs did things once the internet happened.
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Also, why are we treating this like a REAL question? We already know the Trump *actually* doing this to get petty vengeance on Dem politicians in general and Black Dems in particular.* There's no need to "cover" for Don the Con when he's already blown that anyway.
They like Trump and are trying to help him
Like, if you look at this post a friend sent me and then actually read the āderanged repliesā itās mostly people pointing out that you should take jury duty seriously, but you gotta justify still hanging out in a place you know sucks.
genuinely saw a liberal talking about newsom as doing some things wrong (anti-homeless policies) but some things right (trolling trump on the internet) and i really wonder about the worth of that second thing, there. is that doing anything at all
it's been a repeated claim i've seen where trump or his supporters are supposed to be angry about newsom's social media posts. are they, even? and what would it matter, either way?
remember when trump claimed "irony" too? remember when musk claimed "irony" for doing a fucking sieg heil? there is no irony in parroting fascism it is just fascism
And all of it will be the fault of somebody else.
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The capitalized words make too much sense to emphasize. I donāt think itās him
Why donāt you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesnāt want you here)
Happy Pride Month š³ļøāš
NASA now primarily does "intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work." per this latest EO.
Stripping the savages of qualified immunity puts self-defense and justified homicide back on the table. It is not symbolic. As to your concern about legal niceties being an impenetrable roadblock, these are lawless times.
Red State Democrats and NeverTrumpers are in the same state of mind.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romneyās presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteranās paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks: media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...
You there, gay boy, did it happen yet
I hate that theyāre taking away LGBT rights, which is why you have to voluntarily give them up to Gavin Newsom and Hakeem Jeffries for my personal xcomfort. My politics make a lot of sense and arenāt borne solely out of contempt for Orange Man and Iām very principled.
I think itās very telling that to them Democrats providing little to no pushback against the US government actively attempting to erase all public mentions of trans and intersex people is just a āpurity testā Like waaaow youāre such a good self proclaimed ally I feel so represented thanks
u know shits fucked when even the vote blue no matter who libs start speaking in maoist standard english
In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Because in a lot of ways 20th century decolonization served Europe and the rest of the cultural west, by taking all those former subjects, who looked different, and talked different, and dressed different, and worshiped different, and just conveniently made them foreigners. 29/32
And this Christian apocalyptacism is more mainstream than people realize. Even many fairly "vanilla" or even "progressive" Christians will if pressed, tell you they believe we're in or close to the "end times", just just the more apparently wild evangelical types. 7/32
It's LBJ and VIetnam, only somehow stupider - you didn't have to 'look weak' by pulling back a whole bunch of American troops, all you had to do was look strong by attaching any kind of consequence to a clear cut war crime. And they refused to do it
They lost the election over this. It was close enough that any one of a dozen variables swung slightly their way would've made the difference, and this was the biggest. What's more, they KNEW they were going to lose the election on this, and it didn't matter
One thing that does has made me feel better about lately is that this whole paypro fiasco has catalyzed a huge communal pushback against all the awful self oppression a lot of people have been under for a long time and it's like... aw liberation is happening even if it's on a small scale at the time
I know this is just a natural consequence of just never having played pokemon to any serious level since the DS but the fact that there are pokemon I don't recognize still feels wrong
U fellas are really good at shining the get-a-load-of-this-guy cam at literal nobody twitter trolls role-playing as political commentators spouting bottom feeding transphobic bile to nobody in particular, but i can out-post u. I can out-post all of you.
Jesus cracking Christ
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They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.
Gavin Newsom has invented Blue TrumpCoin.
By the way, this guy was the 'Mom and Pop' landlord who owned one of our places in Philly and the cops later found out he had taken underage Amish daughters in trade for money the family "owed" him and he kept them at his house in Feasterville.
I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it
Conservatives are subhuman.
If you haven't been over to the other place at all lately, there's a chud Maj openly @ ing the SECDEF and senior advisors with his hare brained schemes on how to make the military white and male again, and the advisors have been responding Meanwhile stu has been crashing out for a couple weeks now
Itās also funny because heās realizing it was all performative and no one really wanted to come back in. They used the vaccine as an excuse to be a martyr
The Adam Friedland Show is what happens when a non-meritocrat runs a TV show.
Yeah. The only real belief people like this hold is that they are Worthy and deserve power, and anyone who questions that is not worth considering. Itās the ego born from never facing meaningful personal consequence.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Everybody take a deep breath. The media, general public and politicians are going to have a hard time wrapping their heads around this one, but Joe is spot on. "esoterica without a center"
You mix that up with the quest narrative inherent in hard right ideologies and you get the mass shooter
O9A-ToBāCom-CVLT-764 are 'organizations' in the loosest possible sense of the term. They're more ideas than formal organizations and the types of people who are particularly interested in this brand are the same people who want to engage in associated actions offline
Functionally it doesn't matter, the formal O9A is mostly uninteresting and frankly irrelevant, what does matter is their particular brand of esoteric neofascism's emphasis on memetics. There's been almost 0 instances of someone ordering anyone else to commit a mass casualty event, they don't need to
This whole bit is a strategy of "semiotic cold reading" - a scattershot of references, in-jokes, esoterica without a centre. There are enough for various researchers & journalists to manufacture the centre, the point to this, that they would like. For others in the community; it's content.
It's written on the scope mount. Most of what is written on his rifle is nihilistic trolling. It shouldn't be taken as a manifesto of a movement so much as garbage from the worst cesspools on the internet designed to provoke a response in those same cesspools.
Shooter was a repressor.
His rifle had "Thank God for Breivik" and "Brenton 4ever" carved into it, along with the name of Pittsburgh Synagogue Murderer Robert Bowers, and OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh.
This will last long enough to immediately destroy many small businesses and a few very large ones. After which, there will be no recovery because either a) those businesses no longer exist and/or b) no one wants a cute gift from overseas with an $80 flat duty.
somebody is going to yell at me that actually DHL suspended service too but i'm talking about DHL Express which is a different thing because they make it as confusing as humanly fucking possible
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
The plaintiffs are asserting products liability, negligence, wrongful death, and finally theyāre asserting a violation of California Unfair Competition Law The UCL theory is GPT 4o violated Cal. criminal code by deliberately aiding & encouraging suicide, was practicing unlicensed psychotherapy,
The only criminals are the subhuman savages of the conservative parasite race.
No. Firearms officers are UNDER the military-subordinate to it. Then, when they gave guns to cops they had troops on the streets.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesāassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceāthey can be prosecuted.
The demonym is Democrat and the colloquialism is Democrat Party-
stop doing this weird thing where you police others language for a conspiracy theory started by friend of trump and fascist culture jammer joe scarborough
The news will not tell you if people are in the streets because they are collaborators and have been since Bush purged them.
Former Baghdad resident here, if you leave a walkie talkie on on the floor of your car you'll get a burst of static from the anti-IED ECM on the lead Humvee of nearby US patrols. Just pull over, preferably off the main route, and don't make eye contact as they pass
No, it's Bush's Gestapo. Trump's SA are that internet volunteer portal thing.
I just want everyone who remembers talking to conservatives between Bush v Gore and 9/11 to explain how Republicans were acting before a brown guy stole three thousand of their kills.
Total [slur] death, reinstatement of slavery, Africa: the White Continent, and for the earth's people to be sorted into four categories.
the shit that is being put into action now is infinitely shittier, invasive, and dumb than everything we made up about other regions and cultures. im so tired man.
To be fair, I see why Cuomo doesnāt like us.
oh yeah the conservatives really care about law fuck off liar
I thought it was crazy that both news and social media was covering the flag burning order and nearly ignoring this one, which to me is the spicy as hell news. Officially announcing a quick reaction force for the national guard to deploy rapidly anywhere in the country is a huge authoritarian step.
read trump's new executive order on domestic military dplymt + vigilante "portal." one of the reasons i am happy to be an independent journalist is so I can say that this is crazy, fascist, brownshirts shit without getting pulled into a meeting with PR for "opening us up to criticism from the right"
The only time I will allow the Chiraq nickname because that city will have them boys thinking itās 2002 all over again. Please donāt play with us.
Professor life, 2025: "Will I be able to make this deadline if the President invades the city?" Is a real thought I just had.
It's easy to do in California since they have a terrible governor who wasn't willing to actually stand up against Trump. In contrast Pritzker made it very clear that he wasn't going to allow Trump to do that. If you stand up to bullies, you actually get results.
From NPR: When pressed ... [Trump] hedged, saying he may or may not send in federal troops to Chicago. "I didn't get a request from the governor... And I think until I get that request from that guy, I'm not going to do anything about it."
Iām not hanging my hat on any of this but skipping Chicago after an inch of push back would be funny
Imagine being a guy who wants to settle this early for Gavin Newsom
That second one is Newsom, you're describing Newsom.
Which is more important to you? Winning, or telling other people you think their red lines are wrong?
I sure do love that whenever a trans person says anything negative about Newsom that a horde of people who are locking in Newsom as the 2028 Dem nominee pop up to scold you. Very fun!
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