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The reason left-wing subcultures so often end up being extraordinarily unpleasant and dysfunctional is because they almost always devolve into people competing to perform the best and most stirring ritual recitation of the Consensus Correct Viewpoint on every single issue.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Tomorrow, in Part 1 of a two part episode on the Did Nothing Wrong Pod, I sit down with Professor @sethcotlar.bsky.social to talk about the history of the Radical Right in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Subscribe Today! www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/did-nothin...
Update on hell bathroom!
Sandbags are unrelated and always there, folks. The focus here is ICE getting in the DC cop car.
“At Goodwill of North Georgia, the number of Black people who for the first time ask for help finding work is up 41% over the past three months, compared with a 23% increase in the number of new white job seekers.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
People either understood this reference or think I'm a psychopath, according to my DMs.
An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday.
BREAKING: a photo of Rudy Giuliani has been released, after he was involved in a serious accident that shows that he is doing well, and has even requested that his temperature taken "orally" by his nurse. #RudyGiuliani
The intense sweating made me wonder.
sorry to get political but nothing rudy giuliani could do would top the euphoria of watching the four seasons total landscaping press conference go down in real time, and that includes him dying
'Fueling sexism': AI 'bikini interview' videos flood internet. The videos are strikingly lifelike, featuring bikini-clad women conducting interviews and eliciting lewd comments -- but they are fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood social media with sexist content u.afp.com/SArU
Only 56% of American voters oppose a military occupation of an American city that hasn't seen riots (recently), has lower crime than many other cities of its size and has a massive police force. It's weird that we spin this as a positive.
People need to realize that “the walls are closing in” and “Trump is dying” are similar in that they are speculation and a distraction from the realities of fascism in America and it’s accelerating intensification.
Raven
"Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore". Poe
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The East Coast was not one big "wild" forest but a carefully and intentionally managed landscape of excellent grazing and medicinal plants in oak, hickory, and longleaf pine savannahs Native people created with prescribed fire. Only damp areas stayed unburned. Amazing bison and elk grazing.
This is what a regular traffic stop looks like in DC now.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an order that would block possible immigration raids from the Trump administration.
it's in part hardcore zionism and bigotry, in part worries that it'll hurt the party electorally. but I think it the ossification of messaging we're seeing is partly uncertainty how to deal with trump, but is also about gaza and the visceral refusal to let younger people have input because of that.
Sure? My point was that eugenics is the shared core tenet for those hateful groups & folks—&, in contrast to some folks claims about RFK, this is neither new nor more complicated or sophisticated than eugenics. Suggesting it is not only inaccurate, but it’s how we got here & it helps their cause!
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
I think that affects stuff that has nothing to do with gaza too. you can see how Jeffries has dealt with mamdani, there's just a real terror of pro palestinian movement in the party and a real resentment of those pushing it.
in particular...many of the people who are better at messaging are younger (more familiarity with digital culture, more attuned to current messaging environment) and there is a huge split in the party between old/young over gaza.
It's a skills issue to some degree...but also there are people who could do a better job, and they have ideological resistance to listening to them, I think. 1
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I eat one vegan meal a week, because my degus are raw vegans and also my roommates. I want to share a meal with them.
Hello Skittles! You’re really handsome/pretty. :)
Neoliberalism has its many faults, but neoliberalism didn't cause a worldwide fascist uprising. You can't even blame Fox and Murdoch outside the anglosphere. It is quite clearly an internet and social media phenomenon, and we need to deal with it accordingly.
This sounds really fascinating!
So much fun! “Listers” is worth a watch #birds youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...
I think I just figured out his vibe: he's the Benny Hill Roy Cohn
So I read his post with “Yakkity Sax”playing in my head.
The Biden administration issued a directive in 2022 making it harder for ICE to deport noncitizen veterans. But the Trump administration has sought lists from jails and prisons of noncitizen inmates and detainees as part of its mass deportation campaign.
OMG! If civil rights are literally taken away from protected groups, they will also be taken away from everyone else.
LGBTQ rights is not a “fuck you, we got ours so everyone else can choke” dynamic, but it’s awfully telling which kinds of affluent, abled, privileged white cishet leftist men presume that it would be
The Trump admin might have to pay all the countries he ripped off with tariffs back.
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
There was two that were kidnapped by ICE. What happened to the other one? People on the front line of wildfires, hospitals, etc should be exempt from these horrific ICE kidnappings.
What are we even doing?
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
I would like to know if the people that are experiencing psychosis from this stupid thing were vulnerable before engaging ChatGPT?
i said this a few days ago, and these two sentiments are connected: you don’t cede ground to fascists, because even if you ignore basic human decency, ceding ground to fascists makes you weaker and them stronger.
In an effort to corral support for his threats to send military forces to Chicago, President Donald Trump said that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are “screaming” for him to come to Chicago. So, we thought: let’s ask them. youtube.com/shorts/8I4Ys...
[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
“GASP GASP* “JET FUEL DOES NOT MELT STEEL BEAMS” *GASP*
I would shine a high powered flashlight back in their face.
Group of HSI agents walking around Shaw, shining flashlights in cars.
This is fantastic!!! :)
California stepping up.
If the birth rate of your country is lower than your mortality rate, your country needs immigrants to basically keep the systems of your country going.
I’m worried about this too, and I don’t even live in the US. I’m worried about minority groups having access. I’m worried about low-income families accessing it.
That’s an opinion.
Never seen a James Bond movie in my life—is that an opinion?
Bleak AF. :/
Bleak: www.wsj.com/world/europe...
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
I just want to give him a huge hug and cry. :(
Robert Mueller has Parkinson’s Disease, has developed difficulty speaking, and will not be able to comply with a request to testify before Congress about the Jeffrey Epstein investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
“Diversity of thought is, in many ways, harder to be comfortable with than demographic diversity,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. Corporate leaders should turn curiosity about others’ beliefs into a cultural norm. It’ll be great for their business too: https://theatln.tc/7IegYzMp
I have so much respect for Robert Mueller. It must be so hard for him to process this dx and try to plan for the future around it.
Yes!! They keep saying that the Trump admin is following “competitive authoritarianism” and I would like to know more about the contemporary history of this.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
We also decided that it’s perfectly reasonable to kill little children in broad daylight as long as Second Amendment rights are protected after Sandy Hook. This is honestly the most bonkers thing, That guns have more rights than little kids.
Jesus said to spend the Good News and that’s I really remember.
Your boss doesn’t have time to talk to you. It’s a radical change in the workplace.
HSI and MPD working together in Shaw
We need more people from the humanities interviewed about this, not just history.
There is literally one historian interviewed in this whol long and unfocused piece — he (only men were interviewed) is an emeritus professor with a very loose definition of totalitarianism.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Indonesia protests put spotlight on paramilitary police force. Viral footage of a tactical van crashing into a delivery driver before rolling over his body sparked renewed anger against a police force long known for its heavy-handed tactics u.afp.com/SAKr
Craig is an awesome actor, and classically handsome.
I liked him a lot. He brought a toughness to the role that steered it away from camp. I think he’s the second best Bond.
This should NEVER have happened. This is literally trafficking kids. Literally. Thank god they’re coming back, but still so traumatizing.
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children should be back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement by 10:30 p.m. ET. It counts 76 children who had been boarded onto planes at the time the court blocked their removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
One day, should literacy survive the current fascism, we will learn just how much ghoulish care went into propping this man up. I feel like it will ironically be a cross between Hawking’s vast health team and four 20 year old tan studio clerks who also do IV drips.
They’re also white supremacists and Nazis. They might think these people will change the world, or they’re deeply invested in their ideologies. They also might admire them. All of these reasons make me barf.
I do not understand the resistance to describing these folks—be it RFKjr, Trump,Thiel, Musk, Zuck, Altman or Epstein’s bozo pals within & outside Trump’s cabinet—as eugenicists. They don’t even deny it! Nor do I understand why folks think it is deeper or more complicated?
NEW SHREW!!!! amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
I dislike it. Because what am I supposed to say? "You're welcome?" Thanks back? I volunteered to serve and I fulfilled my commitment but that doesn't make me a super citizen. (Yes, I understand the connection to Vietnam, etc. Just my personal feelings)
just going to repeat that this analysis as far as guns go is completely wrong. the NRA does not give that much money; its ratings are much more coveted. Bloomburg tried just matching NRA money. it didn't work .1
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@jwhoopes2.bsky.social is “bony bits” an archaeological term? :) www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/s...
oh. don't call it that
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InfoSec news is calling it an "AI-enabled supply chain attack", which is technically true but misses the point that "a build tools company vibe-coded a change that would execute a shell command if it was in the title of the PR, and somehow nobody involved thought that was a big deal"
This is fucking horrifying and it won't stop until OpenAI aren't just shut down but hunted down.
Another Russian fake video with deep faked audio has Jane Austen scholar Dr. Gillian Dow stating Jane Austen would have definitely would have wanted to assassinate Chancellor Merz.
One video is about me being banned from entering Germany for an article we published, except it's all made up.
At least this clarifies that the attempt to sack Lisa Cook was not for 'cause'.
BREAKING Russia says reimposition of Iran sanctions risks 'irreparable consequences'
Jamie Butterworth, 30, has won Chelsea gold and supplies plants to the King. Sidonie Wilson meets him
"[Man's] life is full of risks, but risks he has the courage to accept, because like the explorer, he learns to trust his own capacities to endure, to overcome. What could it mean to speak of risk, courage, trust, endurance, and overcoming when one speaks of machines?"
I’ve had conversations with a good friend who’s a philosophy professor about how grotesque it is that people that are trying to digitally emulate thought are unable to understand the depth and breadth of experience that goes into EVERY SINGLE SITUATION that they think is so rigorously logical.
As a student physicist in the mid 80s I was very interested in AI, and the current crop of ‘ai’ is not a patch on where I thought we would be by now. It feels very much like the dot com bubble with promises of greatness, but ending with shite.