None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

We can all agree, I think, that "AI" is designed to trick. It's meant to fool people into thinking it's a person. Yes? Which people? The obvious answer is 'those using a service', customers, but it's usually obvious we're not chatting with a human. So ... it's a strategy to fool *investors*.

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

A sensible compromise position for Democrats on ICE would be that it's ok for ICE to abduct children but only children who are eight or older.

It REALLY frustrates me that everyone always forgets LaMonica McIver.

Trump on Greenland: “The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land.”

Five years ago.

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

lol my New Year's resolution was to do less doomscrolling

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again. Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/lock-them-...

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

New Data Shows Just How Miserable Google Is Making It To Be A Publisher Of Human-Created News For Other Humans www.theautopian.com/new-data-sho...

Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.

once again laughing at the absurdity of how Trump 2.0 has figured out how to kneecap every one of the *multiple sectors* I used to make a good living in at once like damn, what did I do

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

About the 'war crimes' in the Caribbean: What war? Did Congress declare war, and I missed it? Against whom? Or are these maybe just plain crimes.

a bunch of these slopfeast sites do have a "just make a prompt for me" button too which lol also based on any suno using dipshit i heard talk before i could reach the unsubscribe and close window buttons, i thought they all had chatgpt make their suno prompts anyway

...Unless you like Rise of Skywalker. That movie is bad.

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy....

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

The thing @schumer.senate.gov appears to be doing where he gets everybody who’s retiring or was just sworn in to a six-year term to vote yes so he and a bunch more moderates can vote “no” to appear more progressive than they are is so insulting lol

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

It’s almost like Senate Democrats *want* Dems in disarray stories

I’m going to have an aneurysm

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Peter Baker: "government abuse is bad because one day it could be used against the abuser." And you know what? I believe that this indeed represents the moral pinnacle that the NYTimes prints these days.

We don’t talk about how good the Rose Royce soundtrack for CAR WASH was. This is maybe the sixth best song: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QZbV...

No one Nobody Nothing Nada Elite journalist: let me tell you why I liked that guy you hate

I’m so excited for you

Democratic governors are actually flying their flags at half staff for this guy, as though he was a statesman. The bottom may be dropping out for Democrats. There is just no point to them as an entity anymore.