Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

The reason abolition is scary is because we've all been told the US prison system is normal and we're all in danger without it. That's a lie. Prison labor is a $9 billion industry annually. That's why they lie to you. We don't need prisons. We need healthcare, housing, and education for all.

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

They're trying to speed run the apocalypse.

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

I've mainly known of the SPLC through Learning for Justice. This disturbing account of its union-busting leadership and harassment of outspoken workers is both disappointing and clarifying.

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Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

This is incredible

Community and cooperation. What a stunning thing to have recorded. Just beautiful. www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

Jfc

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

GOOD

FELLOW AUTHORS: the deadline to file a claim in the Anthropic settlement for stealing all our work is MONDAY. The settlement provides for $3000 per work. GO GET YOUR MONEY. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

What absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.

Wow, this verdict against Meta for harming children in violation of consumer protection laws could be a game-changer. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I need this good news.

this is my district, i voted today, the Democrat was outspent literally and this is not an exaggeration 10x to 15x by the Republicans who were running TV ads every 15 minutes of the county sheriff saying the D candidate was a literal criminal while the D campaign couldn't even afford yard signs

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

This, 1000x this. Beautifully expressed:

Seriously what is going on with octopuses Get a job and stop bumming rides from other organisms! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Delta finally figured out how power works.

Not mentioned in this piece: The Saudis and MBS are paying Trump's chief negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions of dollars annually.

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Fun fact: If you attempt to drive straight thru from LA to Chicago w/only a couple hour nap in your car on the way, you might hallucinate every landscape you've driven thru all at once while covering the final stretch of flat plains at night. I was 22! It was stupid. But I *did* it, dammit! 🤣🫠

It’s the biggest story. Dems forced Republicans to the table with a common sense solution. Fund TSA, FEMA, & the Coast Guard, then negotiate over ICE reforms. Trump said “no.” No deals with Democrats. Just like with the immigration bill in 2024. A disabled GOP in Congress is in Trump’s interest.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

We should all be sure to spread these videos far and wide then

what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Again: Water is wet. We're not talking about a minor effect here, cars are two orders of magnitude more dangerous to pedestrians than cyclists.

Oof.

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

Everybody who tried to argume with me about the water and energy consumption of "AI" abd data centers can go jump in a fucking lake. While they can still find any.

Regularly I am amazed at the accuracy of the advice "If you feel like you hate everyone, eat. If you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. If you feel like you hate yourself, shower. If you feel like everyone hates everyone, go outside."

Hire evil people, win stupid prizes

Widen your gaze and look upon Lebanon. Nearly a million people have been displaced by Israel in the past 3 weeks. They've been told not to return. That's ethnic cleansing. The last time Israel occupied Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah was born. What horrors will be unleashed now?

NEW from award-winning contributor @millbot.bsky.social: Over a dozen WI counties have formal agreements with ICE. Dane and Milwaukee counties are standing up against the surge, but it's not enough. More counties can and must act. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/no-more-po...

The Trump administration is scrambling to cover its tracks amid legislative pressure and a First Amendment lawsuit over its alleged “domestic terrorist” database, new legal filings and emails reviewed by Mother Jones reveal.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Essentially the only thing this could mean is "replace trained human reporters with AI generated slop and a few poorly paid interns regurgitating/plagarizing articles." And that sucks!

Chuck Norris was the Kevin Sorbo of Jean Claude Van Dammes

Trump wants to put you in a massive, secret government database: Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes. Read more from @laurenleharper.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:

One of many problems with this, @susanrinkunas.com points out at @autonomynews.co: This Black woman was arrested and charged even though Georgia state law doesn’t actually allow prosecutions of people who end their own pregnancies! www.autonomynews.co/georgia-cops...