Any institution, elected official, or country expecting people to ignore reality is a dying entity or, at least, of dying relevance. Right now, people are expected to carry on w/o substantively engaging the looming existential dread that we all feel even as we all know we do so at our own peril.

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

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After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | @austinstatesman.bsky.social What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Cannot be unseen

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

Cuz nothing is more American than having a King. In the beginning, it was King Tobacco &, in the 1800s, King Cotton. King Tech trying to close out the nation’s final season.

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

This degree of sycophancy is so self-debasing. People’s reflection in the bathroom mirror when they’re alone ain’t cold blooded enough.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

This is why I have hope. The racial consciousness that was ascendant in 2020 wasn’t imposed by legal mandates. It was an organic shift that wide swaths of ppl voluntarily embraced. Unlike 1930s Germany, DJT regime is trying to manufacture conditions of animus against an organic shift of solidarity

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

This was magnificent.

Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela's courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013. Here's what we know about her: reut.rs/4nHaDpX

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

One of the darkest aspects of this regime is their celebratory postings of what can only be described as “snuff videos”. You used to have to scour the dark corners of the web to find that kind of filth, now official accounts of the US gov posts them regularly for all to see. Due process be damned

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

The second hand embarrassment 🥺

Rod Johnson is a 67-year-old Black military veteran who already suffers from PTSD.

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

It seems most Americans still think that what’s happened before and elsewhere couldn’t possibly happen here now. But it can, and it is. Fascism is here. State terrorism against us is going to get more and more violent. And it is not likely to be stopped by waiting for a chance to vote against it.

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

The Supreme Court has been reluctant to constrain the imperial presidency, but if it fails to act now, it could put American democracy itself at great risk. bit.ly/3IWUMED

This Reuters headline. Oof. Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there. wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

The one choice that's always in your hands is to live a principled life

Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.

British scholars are tracking/logging Trump’s authoritarian actions.

Freed flotilla activist David Adler is live with Zeteo right now:

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

no one talks about the resentment you have towards yourself after you didn’t listen to your gut

Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”

nice

Rite Aid closes all remaining stores after 63 years in business

At Harvard, many students skip class and fail to do the reading, according to a report, but rampant grade inflation allows them to coast through anyway. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Sen. Adam Schiff: "The Republican U.S. Attorney in Virginia refused to go forward with the prosecution of James Comey because he thought it lacked evidence. They fired him and replaced him with a personal lawyer of the president, an insurance lawyer, to seek these charges."

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…