They have no incentive to behave differently if voters keep rewarding them with reelection. We need the electoral equivalent of warehouse fires when Dems pull this shit.

Good news!

“The most telling amicus brief in Cisco comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which chronicles how U.S. companies have allegedly provided the tools and technologies to enable the global human rights abuses,” @justsecurity.org reports. www.justsecurity.org/136437/cisc...

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

This is about Hungary, but the USA is not immune from competitive authoritarianism. Our two-party duopoly and campaign finance system is already captured by wealthy capitalist interests. Both parties have shown they will use militarized police against protest and against labor strikes.

As Mother Jones originally reported, Taylor Cadle was 12 years old in 2016 when she told a sheriff’s deputy that she had been sexually abused by her adoptive father, Henry Cadle. Instead of arresting the abuser, Deputy Melissa Turnage charged Taylor with filing a false police report.

Honestly, I'd rather experience a full-day outage here than a single moment of the BS over on Twitter.

All Cops Are Bastards Defund and abolish the police

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

I think the other 48% of us are, on average, better at managing money, but I wouldn't bet on it.

While California is at the forefront of print blocking, the impacts will be felt far outside of its borders. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

Still seeing Bluesky liberals posting pro-Magyar stuff today. Thankfully, Bluesky also has educated folks like Gabriela here. Very simply: Orban was a bad man, so it's good he's gone. But also, the new guy Magyar is a bad man. Less bad, but still very bad. Don't celebrate bad men.

This is the expected reaction to stagnant wages, mass unemployment, union busting, and plutocratic capture of social, political, and academic institutions. Elite violence against workers has been escalating since 1981, so a sustained, proportionate counterattack has been increasingly likely.

Hungarian elections: far-right anti-EU Zionist loses to right-wing, pro-EU Zionist Viktor Orbán has conceded the Hungarian elections. But will his right-wing rival Péter Magyar actually be much better? You know the answer... www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Liberals celebrating Orban's defeat need to finish their homework. The winner, Peter Magyar, is also very conservative. In American terms, he's J.D. Vance or worse. Despite his racism, xenophobia, and nationalism, he markets himself as centrist. Fascism didn't definitively lose. Only Orban did.

In Chapter 13 of my book Copaganda called The Big Deception, I explained why falsifying intentions of those in power is always key to propaganda. And why subtle claims like this are such effective propaganda, particularly against professional class liberal intellectuals: bsky.app/profile/equa...

Rich white YouTube science man can't understand why other adults are so unhappy. "Must be the algorithms," he says, parroting a steaming hot, microwave-reheated take that the rich white liberal algorithm regularly serves to rich white liberals.

New: A surge in calls among Democrats to pursue Trump’s impeachment is hitting a wall with party leaders, who believe it will distract from their midterm focus on costs and corruption, according to interviews with over a dozen Democrats. Some also view 25th Amendment as a nonstarter

I'm sure we don't need the material known as "king of chemicals" for any industrial production www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

Dr. King wrote in 1963, “Few people realize that even our authentic channels of information—the press, the platform and in many instances the pulpit—do not give us objective and un-biased truth. … Our minds are constantly being invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices and false facts.”

End And the Fight for the Living World Times Naomi Klein Astra Taylor Fascism

Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge. Literally the only evidence Columbia submitted came from sealed records of dismissed arrests—records that Columbia shouldn't have even had.

If this is news to you, then also notice that it shouldn't be this easy. For capture to occur, the institutions must already be susceptible, and the "checks and balances" must already be weakened. The present is the result of decades of bipartisanship/centrism. www.youtube.com/shorts/4W4pf...

Israel blocks US student protesters from entering West Bank electronicintifada.net/content/isra...

It looks like Sarsour was booked into the Clay County Jail in Brazil, IN on 3/30. ICE has repeatedly used Clay County to move people out of the Chicago area. Another detainee in Clay County is Juan Espinoza Martinez, who a Chicago federal jury acquitted in January of placing a hit on Greg Bovino.

This thread is the best take I've seen on Artemis. From a cynical white guy perspective, the "firsts" are a lot less impressive when you realize their purpose is to provide cover for a racist, misogynist administration that gutted NASA.

Reportedly, Iran responded by holding up history's biggest mirror. /s

"This is how the center of the Democratic Party keeps the left at bay. They forge alliances to their right and leave the left isolated from power. Convening with the right is practical politics; convening with the left is beyond the pale."

"All the examples in the case law may make judges think they have to interpret future cases in this extremely literal way, Ainsworth said, making it virtually impossible for people to exercise their rights." How do such stunningly stupid people become and remain judges?

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

Cops asking civilians to do their jobs for them is yet another reason to defund and abolish cops.

As U.S. monetary dominance persists, the productive foundations of its power have eroded dramatically. The dollar’s position no longer derives from U.S. productive preeminence but from the coercive capacity of the U.S. state to control the infrastructures through which global accumulation operates.

"Witnesses said IDF soldiers then tortured Karim in front of his father to pressure him to confess to something. Journalist Osama Al-Kahlout interviewed the child’s mother, who said the toddler suffered a cigarette burn to one leg&a nail puncture to the other." www.commondreams.org/news/palesti...

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

" Do we want to bomb and fight our way to securing the Straits of Hormuz, or do we want to open up thousands of energy straits that flow directly to us from the sun and the wind—no bombing of children required—and create tens of thousands of jobs in the process? " newrepublic.com/article/2079...

Israeli forces have killed or wounded the equivalent of a classroom’s worth of children every day in Lebanon in the past two weeks of Israel’s escalation against the country, the UN’s children’s agency has reported.

I'm old enough to remember that George W. Bush is the reason DHS and ICE and several of the secret warrant structures exist, that Obama did not fulfill his mandate of pulling back on abuses of executive power/murdering people in the Middle East, and to know there is a straight line from then to now

Don't think of it as satire. Think of it as inspirational and aspirational sci-fi.

Standard American logic is that we impose economic hardship to incite people in other countries to overthrow their own government. So, what happens when our government's actions create economic hardship for us? When do we revolt, please?

Fuck the police

A reminder to call your reps today! KOSA has been sandwiched into the KIDS Act and is still a huge censorship threat. You can use this tool- it takes just a few minutes: www.badinternetbills.com

When they're done extracting all of human knowledge, they will lock it beyond more paywalls, and then they will escalate efforts to destroy, degrade, bury, and criminalize all free sources of knowledge. An ignorant and desperate population is a pliant one, easily turned against itself.

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The Marine's name is Brian McGinnis, and he's running for Senate in North Carolina.

CCTV video showing the moment a missile struck next to a boys’ school in Iran’s Qazvin, causing panic amongst students and staff, has been released by IRGC-affiliated media. Iran blamed the attack, which reportedly took place during the first day of the war, on the US and Israel.