Not even hiding behind drug smugglers anymore - they are just blasting the previously quiet parts now It's about re-privatizing the oil

It's a rags-to-capital-accumulation-by-dispossession story

It's also an exercise in power, i.e.: "we don't have to be experts because we have power/influence/money"

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could never...

"I want you to use AI"... so that your understanding of reality is mediated by machines we control

From the makers of: "You can believe everything you read online!" comes: "Use AI for everything!"

Father of a child and partner of a doula here... This guy is pathetic

Our civilization has clearly moved on from "that's illegal" and is grappling with the concept of "what are you going to do about it?"

I heard that now they're placing people who criticize ICE under surveillance. I want it to be known to the entire world that I despise ICE to the core and I think their entire institution should be abolished. They are cruel, inhumane, and are examples of the worst of humanity Fuck ICE Fuck Fascism.

Cybertrucks are the vehicular manifestation of manspreading

I still don't know German

Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal. I would mention libraries, but…

"The fundamental mission of the neoliberal state is to create a 'good business climate' and therefore to optimize conditions for capital accumulation no matter what the consequences for employment or social well-being" - David Harvey

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Interesting how all these "narco-terrorists" are sitting on top of the largest proven oil reserves in the world... Must be a coincidence

The National Guard is not a police force. Adding more troops to address a policing problem is like adding more dirt to mud and hoping the mud will go away

great oped explaining the “we ain’t buying it” boycott of black friday sales by big retailers - namely those who abandoned previously advertised DEI or civil rights efforts and who have reportedly treated workers so badly in so many ways… www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

And Trump wanted Witkoff, so draw from that what you will

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Queuing up the next war for oil Oh, you thought it was about "drugs?" Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world and it is managed by a state monopoly, the industry having been nationalized in the 1970s So, yeah, here we go again

Information warfare

I call bullshit

This veteran says: fuck the traitor Donald Trump Impeach, convict, remove

Welcome to Trump's America where white supremacist chuds get due process and immigrants don't

A closed system designed to stroke the ego of an oligarch

As with "drain the swamp" it was a convenient means of motivating his base that wasn't grounded in authenticity

"Can you imagine if Democrats/Obama/Biden/whoever..." No. It's a waste of time

Mamdani & Wilson both need to expend significant effort to anticipate and counter the raft of shyte coming from the right, media, and our own damn Federal government if they want to succeed

The other progressive races didn't squeak by like this. The difference was the negative and disingenuous campaigning by Harrell

The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles "Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.” Directions included - www.404media.co/the-latest-d...

A Fistful of Loud: Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE

Narrator: they were never going to work with us

Live footage of Senate Democrats making a deal

Love on this site how i can scroll for a while, not seeing anything direct like "Dick Cheney is dead" but get enough backscatter that I can pause and think "is Dick Cheney dead?"

PSA for Seattle procrastinators: If you're voting today or tomorrow, USE A DROP BOX, NOT THE MAIL! The USPS won't guarantee your timely ballot is postmarked on time. Locations of ballot boxes: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec... More details: publicola.com/2025/10/03/p...

“what will happen when ai takes all the desk jobs” so, the recursive loops that form when the bots generate the content they subsequently feed on, having been deprived of the material that gave a sheen of quality to their counterfeit languagelike slop? that’s called “model collapse” and it’s ugly.

We desperately need a media ecosystem that is impervious to billionaires

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

ICE must be abolished

It's clear that Johnson's task was to dissolve Congress

I hate "Snowflake" as a pejorative, but it really fits this guy. Imagine being so weak and insecure that you can't handle people speaking another language? Fahr zu Hölle, "JD"

Megan has made a bunch of these for different areas! Print your own from here: drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

And, he said he was going to do this, to "correct" history

These fuckers could just pay their taxes and not have to spend so much... Slippery slope or something i guess

“If you live in a 15 minute city but your barista can’t afford to live there too, you don’t live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.“

"You can't vote out the mafia." From February: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

Test run for election interference