The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Our country’s news organizations can no longer afford to beat around the bush about this. An entire civilization lies in the balance. presswatchers.org/2026/04/ackn...

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An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Data says storage prices drops by 19% every time production doubles. You can’t out-compete math this aggressive. This "learning rate" is a one-way street to total electrification: As battery costs crater, EVs become cheapest, and solar/wind becomes reliable 24/7 This feedback loop can't be stopped

Stats in alt are interesting Why do we drill baby drill? To help Saudis pay for this! NGHC - NEOM Green Hydrogen Company share.google/yG8BnXrrBSHL...

New legislation could spell the end for the creative open-source community that has grown around 3D printing. From medical equipment to cat toys, we can't let innovation be stifled by state mandated censorware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

a single vote in the court against birthright citizenship should prove to every liberal court reporter or follower that it is an illegitimate institution that should never be taken seriously and needs to be diminished or fully abolished rather than reformed it won't be of course but it should be

It’s undoubtedly reductive to frame American political decline around a single issue but I do think we would have been less likely to elect people who promise to burn it all down if we had basic necessities like healthcare provided by the government. I keep coming back to that

"i'm gonna live on mars" dawg have you ever been to a tide pool and had a sea anenome grab your finger or been to montana and seen a moose. this planet is so super fucking dope dude and you want to live in a trash can on mars. you dumb hollow bitch

The year is 2030. I now own a home in every walkable US neighborhood, which I've paid for by selling rubber stamps that say "refused to release the Epstein files"

“There's no accountability,” one expert tells WIRED of ICE’s ability to lie to the public. "The consequence of this is that it’s going to be a systemic harm across all law enforcement.” www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

Sometimes even the President of the United States must be tried for treason.

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

Let’s have some positive news for a change. At this point the electrification of everything seems not only possible but inevitable:

Annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup or similar chemicals. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them.

Can we just pause for a fucking minute and imagine what the world would do and how we would react if Joseph Robinette Biden or Barack Hussein Obama lied about negotiating with a nation its administration illegally attacked? We have to stop normalizing how much of a fucking liar Trump is.

Isaac Newton discovering Pink Floyd (1660)

Imagine voting rights being as important as gun rights.

Chris Murphy: "We're giving Iran $14B to fund its war with us? We're giving Russia billions to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally giving money to the nations we're fighting! We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making, and we've had a LOT of incompetence in war-making!"

Washington state just passed a law banning law enforcement (including federal ICE agents) from wearing masks or face coverings while on duty. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed it Thursday and it took effect immediately.

Peregrine falcon.🪶 #peregrinefalcon #bird #wildbird #birdart #artsky #drawing

Unlike information obtained from cellphone providers, this data can be accessed without a warrant — and used to track anyone.

The Secretary of Defense keeps going out there and saying the United States is waging a Christian holy war and it is somehow not registering as a career- and administration-ending scandal

Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage. We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

Mexico has invited countries worldwide to send aid to them, and they will deliver it to Cuba, officially becoming an aid bridge to the Island. Mexico fully rejects the US blockade, and the Navy will continue to escort humanitarian ships to protect them from the US. Says: "Cuba is not alone."

REMINDER: Gun violence is the leading killer of children in America. Not immigrants, not trans people. Guns. #SOTU

I wish to be 17 again if only for my ability to consume an entire batch of the velveeta + rotel dip queso with absolutely no negative consequences

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

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I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us) And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it

serious (if not unbiased) question: Can you name an artist, in any medium, with a body of work equivalent Frederick Wiseman's? 47 films over nearly 60 years, some of the best right at the end, a cumulative portrait of staggering breadth and insight. In movies? Only Scorsese comes close.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

For 40 years, Black-owned Out Of The Past records has survived and thrived on the West Side. blockclubchi.co/3MlC1N4

The Grammys. The Olympics. The Super Bowl. The message is that the world loves diversity. Don’t let the billionaires tell you otherwise.

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Nothing says America better than the 'Trump accounts' ad that was followed by a Draft Kings ad