the white and white adjacent male take havers have all of the takes this morning.

We did a great podcast this week on the AI bubble and I wanted to delve deeper into the financial risks: -AI adoption isn't materializing at businesses -GPUs may burn out faster than companies claim -lack of revenue and higher costs could cause exits & trigger data center debt defaults

the current wave of fascist romance having its roots in the wizard kidlit franchise as a sort of palatable skin to drape over the act of thirsting after Nazis and Confederates is... morbidly apt

If you're not masking 😷 it's not disability justice

US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.

I’m guessing this drove the decision:

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

"It's too costly to stand up for you, but we pinky promise we have solidarity with you" is bullshit. "We have no choice but to discriminate against you" is bullshit. They could use their platform to spotlight Gender-Conservative hatred, or demonstrate actual commitment to their stated principles.

I’ve heard this shit too often. “We totally support you but we’re under so much pressure, and vague inchoate legal threats may be happening, which we certainly don’t think are valid, but you have to assume good intentions, and we can support you so much better if we avoid press attention, and…” 🤮

IN 2025 EYE DITCHED SPOTIFY 4 A WOODEN RADIO

Nothing that many people talk about wanting will ever be possible under current conditions and those conditions include the gatekeepers of the state terrorizing segments of the population daily.

Every shitty thing done by a capitalist has a phalanx of media people defending it.

Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I was four years old when I came to the US. I cannot fathom what it would have been like to have been ripped apart from my family and detained by strangers. This makes me want to scream.

Speaking as the president of an NGO and as a trans woman: when orgs decide to abandon a group, to sacrifice them, it is not that group’s job to “understand how hard it would have been to fight.” If trans people hope to survive, it is our job to make that abandonment costly as hell. Make them hurt.

I want to be clear that I'm not trying to put Jess specifically on blast here - I'm trying to point out that, as a matter of tactics, there is no benefit to, and no reason for, trans people to attempt to understand how hard it would have been for an org to fight for us. That avails us nothing.

This is the sunken place!

"when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your trans daughter why she can’t join the GirlGuides or play sports with all her friends"

An inependent review of medical evidence on trans youth healthcare found substantial evidence of benefit, and no evidence of harm. This was one of our top stories this year. Legacy news, who extensively covered a review finding the opposite, ignored this. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

If you LISTENED to the trans community, maybe you wouldn't have to "hope"

Oh neat, been added to "genocide enthusiasts" and "Zionists" block lists just for being Jewish 🙃 This place is a cesspool that is reminding me of Twitter at its worst pre Muskrat takeover

Empire Strikes Back

Walter Goddamned Peck, GHOSTBUSTERS (1984). There has been lean tissue burned into the night arguing "Oh, he had a point, the Ghostbusters gear was unsafe, they were unchecked libertarian capitalists." But Peck was a dick. From. Jump. Street. Continually disrespectful and an obnoxious prick.

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

I choose defiant jazz. youtu.be/Turq37lntO0?...

Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.

Yeah, I hate second guessing every thing I've looking at it. AI is huge net negative on society and benefits nobody but the super rich.

Body Dysphoria in Nonbinary People: The Unique Challenges No One Talks About | Clinical Psychologist (video) www.youtube.com/watc... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Reporters don’t push back because they’ll lose access and then they won’t have jobs anymore and there are virtually no middle class jobs and no social safety net Fascism isn’t just a charismatic strongman talking it’s also manufacturing ground conditions

Immigration is a massive net positive for the US and always has been. Every argument against it is grounded in racism. Them's the breaks, kids. But you can't centrist your way out of this.

There is no moral way to meet racism and xenophobia halfway. Every cultural argument against immigration is based in white supremacy. And there aren't a whole lot of good practical arguments against it: immigration benefits the US far more than it harms the US.

Number one domestic terror threat remains white supremacist violent and radical right wing groups. Not a peep about it from the Trump Administration. In fact they scrubbed the data from the DOJ.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."

What a great headline

if they marketed their little chat bots as glorified personal assistants, hey siri, what's the difference between eggplants and courgettes, they'd have a decent product with an identifiable niche. instead steal everyone's stuff and scream THE WORLD IS CHANGED 4EVER which outs them as total weirdos

When I say "the Trump administration is Nazis" I am not exaggerating nor am I just "referring to people I don't like as Nazis." I mean that the Trump administration is entirely full of people whose worldview aligns with those of the National Socialist German Worker's Party and its neo-Nazi heirs.

This. I've been hurt by block lists that mistakenly thought I supported Trump of all things. They don't vet, they just block.

My immigrant grandparents emigrated from the Pale of Settlement, although before the Holocaust. Miller's ancestrial background contradicts his hateful, disgusting, racist words and deeds. There are many Jews like Miller who strive to prove they are NOT Jewish. He is an ugly person inside and out.

If you want to block all of the Blue MAGA liberal grifters just do a search for “maga stunned into silence” and behold the astroturf.

tldr Poverty line is calculated as 3x a year’s food budget b/c the calculation dates to the 60s when food was 1/3 of spending. Food is now 1/16 of spending due to other costs rising hugely, so the official US poverty line for a family of 4 is $35,000 but updating the logic it should be $140,000!

I always wondered why it was so insanely low, Jesus fucking Christ!!!!!

"If the crisis threshold—the floor below which families cannot function—is honestly updated to current spending patterns, it lands at $140,000. What does that tell you about the $31,200 line we still use? It tells you we are measuring starvation."

I'd seen mention elsewhere recently of how we measure the poverty line and it is wild: it's a measurement from the 1960s to be a crisis threshold.

I knew the "poverty line" calculation was BS, but I had no idea by how much it was BS.

I don’t normally share Substacks because it’s a nazi bar but this one must be shared. Americans need to read this and see the lie behind the “poverty line”.