I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

It’s funny because Mamdani gets treated as an obvious terrorist sleeper cell while open allies of this guy and his movement get “my good friends across the aisle”

they're inventing reasons to gank people anyway, don't hand them a loaded gun imo

A fun thing to do is keep track of how many moderates spend all their time talking about the need for “ideological diversity” when it comes to white supremacists and attacking trans people and eliminating women’s rights and then immediately wet the bed the moment a Muslim or leftist sniffs power.

One of the more bizarre aspects of American politics for a European or Canadian observer is how what in Ottawa, Brussels or Rome comes across as boring milquetoast Social Democracy will be inevitably portrayed in the United States as harbingers of the next Leninist Red Terror

Zines are now a federal crime in the United States. They are setting precedent to go after anyone they want for writing or reading anything they don't like.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

i have been saying this for years, but one thing politicians and journalists don't understand (or pretend not to) is that people don't have to be concerned with "gaza" as some sort of niche political cause to have reacted in horror watching the events and the way the political-media class reacted

Don’t call it the democratic tea party Don’t call it project 2029 Stop copying Republican homework you dumb fucks

The Prairieland 8 were sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison today. With every Democratic Socialist win there are hundreds of cases against Antifascist protestors that are flying under the radar. We must fight for pardons in these baseless cases against our Anarchist and Antifascist siblings.

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

there's something very contemporary about Scientific American getting gutted by the company running I Fucking Love Science

"golf uses way more water" thing is a red herring anyway. US golf has been declining steadily for > 20 years. US golf build rate peaked in 2000 at ~400 new course builds/year. Net negative since 2006, ~1,500 courses have closed. And in the arid west new golf has been net zero for ~15 years.

yo! quick question mark, why are you on the "potential future stories" list in my research obsidian, filed under "look into this guy" also can you just quickly read this old tweet of yours out loud?

I don't think I need to explain the Overton Window to anyone on Bluesky, but it's worth noting that guys like this still think you're all stupid enough to accept without hesitation the premise that frothing ultra-right nazi maniacs like MAGA and the Center-Left "healthcare pls" DSA are equivalent.

30 years for moving a box of zines. Des Sanchez Estrada was not even at the noise demo that led to this. The state is attempting to make an example of these anti-fascist political prisoners. We can expect the crackdowns to continue & escalate. Take this seriously. Don't back down

The basic question in translation is whether you're working word for word or sense for sense, the meaning; if the latter, what is the unit of sense-making at which you're operating - sentences, paragraphs, or the whole thing? How someone strikes that balance is what defines their translations.

You can draw a through line between Standing Rock, Stop Cop City, the Palestine encampment student protests, and the results of the Prairieland case. And then still have Dems asking why there aren't more protests...

Democrats won’t speak up about Praireland because they are just as committed to police and carceral power and oppose any challenges to the State.

that ideology is opposing state violence. half a century in prison for daring to protest racist state violence. that’s the message.

I’m not gonna argue with liberal lawyers about whether or not any of the Prairieland Defendants “actually” committed any crimes during their noise demo last year because when a judge says some shit like this you know it’s not because of anything anyone actually did. We don’t have to play this game

Federal law enforcement has been clear for years that “antifa” is not an organized group. It’s a tactic. You can’t name a tactic “terrorist” — and you can’t name a group an FTO without a foreign element. Ngo and his fellow propagandists are liars. They’re powerful liars — but liars nonetheless.

The American "justice system" is not broken. The system is a perfectly functioning meat grinder, a rolling border wall, a plantation ledger, a movable death warrant. High tech robotic policing of necropolitical death worlds, deciding who gets to breathe and whose bones feed the machine.

Here’s Andy Ngo, the anti-antifascist propagandist, reacting to the Praireland activists receiving sentences of up to 50 years. Ngo lobbied the administration to name “antifa” a foreign terrorist organization — on par with al Qeada or ISIS — at a White House event in the fall.

please, I beg you to stop showing me a closeup of elon musk's disgusting chin hairs

Everyone from SciAm should be hired again, but the # of jobs in journalism – especially sci/enviro journalism – has been plummeting, and freelance wages haven't risen (not even with inflation) since at least the 90s. Science media is getting quieter, even if you don't notice it all at once.

the thing about this is: state and local police are the ones who have to enforce this block.

Bonus whittle wings 🥰🥰

The shitty reflecting pool and the signage at the Kennedy center being the outrage and not death squads occupying cities and sending people to concentration camps or insane murderous war is because our media likes those things and is servile to/has class solidarity with the ruling class thanks

yeah they're 100% reversing that ban

Because it’s non-ideological so pathologically “both sides” brained reporters can finally go at him without their shock collars going off

Games preservation people are saints. So happy to see that Humanity (the Lemmings-like puzzler from the Tetris Effect studio) got most of its user content archived AND there's a new fan-run level sharing server running! steamcommunity.com/app/1581480/...

this is not a terrorist this is an american martyr

the korean american man who helped stage an attack on one of our country’s concentration camps has been sentenced to 100 years in prison

I wrote about Mona Khalil's life and death, and what it means to do conservation work amid bombs, invasion, and occupation defector.com/mona-khalil-...

Bunch of people who are absolutely addicted to wallet inspections are gonna have their minds blown when Tucker endorses JD Vance in 2028

this is perhaps the scariest thing i've seen come out of this administration. top five, at least. 30 - 70 years for protesting. apnews.com/article/prai...

This is why they had a revolution, this is literally why they had a whole revolution in the first place!

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Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

The Amazing Digital Circus (Series, 2023–2026)

You do the math! (you do the monster math)

"Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth."

“duhhhhh buhhh i left the Republican Party” so fucking what? fuck you

"Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost."

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916