Not sure how to reaffirm all my past comments about Elon's familial dynamics, apropos my psychoanalytic commitments, without making it sound like I'm making light of this horrifying story. Suffice it to say, psychoanalysis might be ridiculous, but it continues to have massive explanatory power.

I can't imagine that this woman won't suffer lifelong injuries from this encounter. Absolutely fucking horrifying and the audacity of arresting her at the end is heartbreaking.

Not looking forward to the Food Not Bombs drone strike

Quitting Disney+ and not sure what to do with all that cash? You could pre-order my book and learn all about the many nefarious ways Disney Corp helped build this very fascistic moment in culture!

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Canseco had a very funny Twitter account because 90% of the posts were either inviting you to meet him at his car wash for an autograph signing or about how much A-Rod sucked, but 10% of it was "I met bigfoot and am looking for bigfoot experts to share my evidence"

One thing TikTok has been very good at is demonstrating that a lot of absolutely insane people don't sound crazy and live otherwise "normal" lives

Happy Everson Poe release day to all who celebrate. tidal.com/browse/album...

Republicans are spreading conspiracy theories about Venezuelans as a way to gin up support among Latinos for ICE raids. They've been doing it since the election at least.

I don't claim to have uniquely strong political instincts but willfully handing the right a monopoly on bangsticks that put people into forever boxes is an obvious mistake, doubly so because the reason they give for owning them is "a 250 year old piece of paper says I can use it to kill politicians"

If mass shooters was reflective of the general population this means about 1% of the perpetrators would be trans - however, considering less than 0.1% of perpetrators are trans this means trans individuals are significantly less likely to be mass shooters than other groups…who can they be?

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nbd just rep. mcbride endorsing a 60 year old fascist conspiracy theory for people who think rambo 2 was a documentary.

that's why all animals are baby and all babies are wild

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

From the perspective of the plane of immanence - where boundaries between the animate/inanimate, human/animal, living/dead, etc, become imperceptible - when Penny is begging for treats with a high pitched squeak she's becoming-whiny and, in the same moment, a kid throwing a tantrum is becoming-dog

perfect demonstration of "there is no big other", we all are tourists in our own lives to some extent, and our environments (tokyo) are always having to tell us how they are to be used and accessed

This is a great example of 'castration,' in the psychoanalytic sense. We're all castrated (or lacking) because we feel like there's someone out there (the phallus) who is really the thing we're trying to be (a real man, a real artist, a real boss, etc). But, the phallus doesn't really exist!

One time I was talking to a transmasc egg who felt like they couldn't be a man because this or that aspect of their body made them clockable, and when I told him that feeling like you're not enough of a man is a normal part of being a man, it blew his fucking mind

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

Hayao Miyazaki moved from Marxism to environmentalism across his life and that conflict is so central to PM. You've got Eboshi, who moves society forward, irreverent, uninterested in the sacral, engaged in economic exploitatoin and then the gods who wish to preserve an unchanging natural world.

Checking in on the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee.

I watched the public reaction to the police crackdown on the Gaza solidarity encampments pretty closely, and I do not believe 93% of baby boomers and 86% of Gen X-ers believe that violence in stopping speech is unacceptable

Antifa Cathars 🤝 Whether or not they actually exist is irrelevant, they must be destroyed to protect our great civilization.

Every trans person who insists on their own existence presents a thousand new possibilities for how to be a person. And every trans woman presents a thousand more possibilities for how to be a woman. We're fools if we pass up this chance to create more possibilities for everyone.

Hell of a thread

I don't have data on this, but I imagine individualism is structurally ingrained into the USian unconscious so, because we largely don't have people we implicitly trust to help, our carrying capacity is, relatively, small and so we find ourselves, alone, facing (seemingly) insurmountable hurtles

also why Deleuze & Guattari are better historical materialists when they discuss the natural history of human sociality in terms of horses & birdsong than most historical materialists. there is no history of human society without real patterns of communication with animals

neo-pragmatist Hegelians like Brandom assume an original ideal position in which humans first discover their transcendental discursivity then project it by analogy onto other living things. but we’ve never been alone in the world! —the “spirit of trust” was always interspecific

Patel is the only member of the Trump administration who I can see myself in any way in that we both visibly fall apart when we have a little too much stuff on our plate.

People still absolutely fucking hate Trump this is not a situation where a fascist dictator has mass popular support he's incredibly unpopular and he's getting more unpopular by the day Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The oldest known piece of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh, is a story about a powerful man who learns he should not waste his life on a fruitless quest for immortality.

“I am in Franklin Park as we speak, and many Chicago residents are saying ‘it's about time.’” four days after his agents shot and killed a man in that location tells you exactly where this is going.

ICE is snatching people across Chicagoland again today.

you can not freak out about everything all the time because you will not have energy for fights you can actually win!

A must read. Sure, the National Guard backed off Chicago, but the ICE goon squads are like sharks, circling the waters on the fringe of the city where we’re thin on the ground. They’re snatching our people without warning, even killed a man for no good reason. It’s heartbreaking. 💔

We are fully at right-wing wokeness

the most incompetent shit i've ever heard of. so absurd and stupid and horrific. imagine smoking meth for the first time for an hour straight, getting higher and higher on one of the most intense, fucked up drugs, because you're trying to save animals that are also smoking meth.

We need to understand the libidinal composition of anglofascism. It's a carnival, it's pints and packet on a Saturday. It's the feeling the cruelty might finally be worth it, because you get your share, laundered through the images of owned lib, sad migrant, and the cheeky, horny, deporter in chief.

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

A wild NORTHEN LIGHTS appeared.

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I deeply resent that so many on the left have decided to just let fascists have the environmental justice movement. No attempt whatsoever to fight back against the cooptation. They see a few fascists talk about nature, and throw their hands up. "Caring for the earth is fascism now."

He said stoning gay's was "God's perfect law" they act like everyone else lacks reading comprehension

The quote is "I'm sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I'm gonna be like, "Boy, I hope he's qualified" and if you're going to pretend that he didn't mean what he was plainly saying, it suggests you're taking the reactionary implications of affirmative action and DEI at face value.

Who is "our" in this situation?? In what ways does Brooks see himself as Kirk? White guys? Notable opinion havers? Right wing "thinkers"? This rings to me like a class thing as much as anything else. Good lord.