The Internet is good sometimes.

New piece. On how media, leaders, and all the rest of us focus breathlessly on individual personalities on the far right instead of the networks they’re part of. And in realizing that, we can find the answer for how to defeat them. Networks, networks, networks.

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people. Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

I FINALLY FOUND IT. Been looking for this stupid video for fucking EVER but GOOGLE SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT NOW

Why have so many corporations donated to Trump’s White House ballroom project? Could it be because many of them have lucrative government contracts? Or because they have mergers and other regulatory business before Trump? I’m sure they just thought a ballroom sounded nice…

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

The unfortunate thing too is how many of the JP fans are just going "Well, Furuya will always be Amuro. How would you replace him?" and clearly ignoring what he did. Considering how Ikeda was recast as Char twice now, I find it disheartening that Bamco refused to do the same here.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Poor Mike. Though I'm sure the millions of Americans whose health insurance he's letting double would gladly take his job, salary, and health coverage.

Meanwhile, Trump is planning to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking.

500,000 violations.

It's so fucking infuriating to see the effect that AI is having on artists' ability to make a living. It doesn't have to be this way.

📍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐃, 𝐖𝐀: Elaine Miles, a Native American actor, says she was stopped by ICE while walking to a bus stop — agents dismissed her legally issued tribal ID as “fake,” refused to verify it, tried to take her phone, and only released her after she was detained. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

In other words: Turn the scope of the $$ into the way to villainize ICE.

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

AI music is a disgrace, an affront to art, and something for us all to reject wholesale. Not only does it hurt artists, it makes our lives far worse and threatens that which makes us human. www.jphilll.com/p/reject-ai-...

SO... I'm pretty much done with Fortnite. There were statements made by Tim Sweeney saying that AI usage doesn't need to be disclosed, and then AI usage was found all over this current season- from art to sprays to in-game songs. Between that, and the upcoming shitty wizard collab... Yeah, I'm done.

And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.

so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity

If Dems win the midterms, there's going to be a huge temptation to subordinate everything in Congress to a messaging strategy about "affordability" to prep for the '28 presidential election. I have no problem with good messaging, but Kevin is right that Dems have to use power to stop the bleeding.

I feel so bad for the kids. No one’s looking out for most of them & the ones whose parents are trying to protect them from repeated infection w/a vascular, immune-disrupting disease often get told they’re “crazy” & should force kids to “get back to normal.” The new normal just keeps getting worse.

Looks like TikTok is just never going to approve this video. There is no negotiating with or trusting any platform ever.

The Trump administration has never met a crisis it couldn't make worse.

This seems relevant here. bsky.app/profile/seth...

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

The problem with center-left parties embracing xenophobic politics is that they are a race to the bottom. There is no point at which the racists that you are pandering to will be okay with the level of immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

Trump's GOP is uninsuring up to 4 million, almost immediately followed by millions being uninsured every year for the foreseeable future.

Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.

Friday at last…

Venezuela has become the Trump regime’s comfort atrocity. Any time Donald doesn’t like what’s on the TV, he blows up another boat filled with civilians. And it’s only a matter of time before it gets even worse. Possibly far worse. Possibly very fast.

Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus. www.stopkosa.com

Let it Die: Inferno going full in on AI slop is crazy. Art, Music, Video, Music, Voice. Like the whole enchilada. Just fucking nuts.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Pathetic, unbelievably pathetic… there’s plenty of folks who would have killed to work on a dub of this show and they give us this festering slop…

One thing about Ukraine is they are engaged in a war for its own existence and operating within the “laws” of war. What Putin and Trump want is to normalize war crimes and end any pretensions to an international order.

I really hope the anime voice actors who remorselessly scabbed during the strike see this and have a real Ebenezer Scrooge ass moment

Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.

2 Palestine solidarity activists were just seized by Israeli soldiers & armed settlers near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank. Settlers from a nearby outpost stopped their vehicle on a road the activists are legally allowed to use, @masafering (X) reports.

This is Fyre Fest levels of satisfaction both in terms of how hilariously pathetic it is and in terms of the instant karma. Perfection.

The FDA has suddenly dropped a proposed rule to require asbestos testing in cosmetics. The rule would've set up testing to identify cancer-causing asbestos in talc-containing products. Contamination has repeatedly been found in talc-based cosmetics before. www.consumeraffairs.com/news/fda-dro...

I’m sorry, but if Democrats were in power, would this not be in the headlines every single day?

The same executives that just fired 3,200 workers in Lexington a week before Thanksgiving collected $14.4 Million in bonus pay last year. talkbusiness.net/2024/12/tyso...

Please watch this. The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill. You need to know this, so you can help stop it.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952