If you are a Republican, I do not think you are a fascist. I *observe* that you are a fascist.

Criticize the administration, get investigated by the administration. You don't even need conspiracy theories with these guys, they just do it all out in the open.

Every business establishment should put a sign in their window: ICE agents not allowed in without a warrant. Then let the GOP argue that businesses are not allowed to refuse service to anyone.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

First, they murder you for no reason. Then, they go digging in your past and the past of your family and friends and associates and coworkers and people you once stood in line next to at the grocery store to find a reason why it's okay that they murdered you, even if they didn't know it at the time.

Every year my company updates their employee handbook and everyone has to sign it. And every year they don't provide a diff of the changes forcing those of us who want to know exactly every change to do that ourselves.

"Abolish ICE, dismantle DHS." is the centrist compromise position. The Leftist position is "Nazis will hang."

This episode of Speed Racer has a villain who is going to blow up all the oil refineries and gas in the world, and then he'll be the richest man because he's heavily invested in coal and trains. But he blows himself up instead when Chim-Chim spits out the bomb he's been chewing on as they flee.

What war on protein? I was just as the grocery store and almost every single product on every aisle had a regular version and one with added protein.

Given how many people were concerned about being able to breathe during COVID and the mask mandates, I don't understand why we don't have the same people worried that the ICE officers aren't all suffocating under their masks and demanding they remove them...

You don't hear much about the Proud Boys anymore, or those III% guys, but ICE is all over the place. It's like how you don't see Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana together... Only with guns and murdering innocent people.

Chyron: Protesters Gather For Another Night Of Chaos Video it is superimposed over: people calmly walking the street while peacefully protesting. The Message: Don't believe your eyes, believe our lies.

The only reason I want to develop AI driven VR that is indistinguishable from reality is so that we can identify fascists, sneak in while they're asleep and put them in a world where they get to live out all their dreams and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

The follow up question in a situation like this is "Which law were they enforcing? What is the statute number?" Of course, Fox News is never going to ask that question. Unfortunately neither would any of the other news channels.

this is intentional, and worth highlighting in some depth (i've been tempted to spit out a blog piece on it actually) it has two reasons at its core. 1) terrorizing people into compliance, you are less likely to stand up to someone wearing combat fatigues, body armor, and a surplus of weapons

"Introducing ChatGPT Health..." "Bring your medical records and the apps you use to track your health and wellness into Health. You can upload files directly, connect from tools (+) or “Apps” in Settings." Absolutely the fuck not.

Lots bad here, but I want to call out "professional agitator" here. This has been a right wing tactic for a long time. "These angry people? They aren't real. They are paid. Don't believe them." And too often it works. Too many people are willing to accept that no one is angry enough to protest.

Just waiting for one of these ICE assholes that shoots someone to also be a pardoned J6er.

ICE releases statement blaming victim for shooting in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE.

Reported the X and Grok apps to Google because of the CSAM and it appears they are taking the "we aren't responsible for 3rd party content" route while maintaining access to the portals to said content.

"Impeachment is a waste of time!" My dude, there are 213 Democrats in the House. It only takes 1 and their staff to write and file articles of impeachment. Even if 1 per person that needs impeaching, there's still lots of them left to do whatever action you think would be better.

My mind always goes back to that moment in 2016 during the debate when she called him out on using foreign steel in his buildings and his response was along the lines of "Why didn't you stop me?" That's the whole game. He's going to do what he wants. We have to stop him.

People will say "impeachment doesn't do anything, so why bother?" And the answer is unless you are personally willing to take up arms in violent revolution, impeachment is the process. Malicious compliance is a thing. You file articles of impeachment until it's all anyone is talking about.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

Bunch of folks need to get Scrooged, only they are news people and they need to be visited by the ghosts of Journalism Past, Journalism Present, and Journalism Future. Maybe it can scare them back to the truth.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The Trump administration out there trying to swiftly disabuse you of the idea that this year will be better than the last. Impeachment, removal, then jail. It's the only solution, for him and everyone in his administration that is going along.

Demanding they follow the Constitution is going to about as well as demanding they follow the Bible. They haven't read either, don't plan to, but insist they know what it says and that it agrees with them, even when they contradict themselves, because they don't actually care about either.

In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.

The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away." Much of this material is literally irreplaceable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

If you think you still have a good reason to maintain a Twitter account, you are wrong. There are no good reasons, haven't been for a while but definitely aren't anymore. Just delete it.

This is a thread I will return to over and over, and I hope it continues to grow.

The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

The new year begins...

Ringing in the New Year as expected: slow dancing to the Counting Crow's "A Long December" with my wife and then ordering the new LEGO building. Time for nightly meds and sleepy-time tea. Happy new year, folks. Hold on to your butts. 2026 is going to be crazy.

Really, how much worse can 2026 be than 202- *taps earpiece* Hold it, folks, I was just reminded that next year will have the same dipshits in charge but also be an election year.

Every single person who is upset with the voting process should volunteer to work the polls in their area. I realize many of them would just shift to "my precinct was fine, the voter fraud is happening in *other places*" but I'd bet a bunch of them would actually glimpse reality.

It's a New Year's Eve countdown, but instead of a ball it's the blade of a guillotine and instead of slowly descending it drops decisively at midnight... **Shhhunk** Welcome to 2026!

If you work at a video game company making a video game where the player can romance the other NPCs and you haven't hired an actual romance author to punch up your scripts and plotlines, you are doing it wrong.

A stable government people can trust is one in which rules are established, followed, and can be counted on. Authoritarians want a government they control, the rules malleable and unknowable, that they can use against you when it benefits them.

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

"Everything WE want to do is legal. Everything THEY want to do is illegal." That's it. That's all of it. It's all about control and dividing everyone into teams. No limits on them, all limits on everyone else.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I haven't played it in probably more than a decade, but it is on my mind a lot these days for some reason...

The Christmas duck, it's head attached. The Christmas duck, it's head removed.

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

Wrapping up the year...

Resisting the urge to use work's on-call paging system to wish everyone a "Merry Christmas!" Similarly resisting a Slack @everyone or @channel for the same.

"Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character," 1/