30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.

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there’s just really no pretense of being able to protest against the trump government anymore

This law is so blatantly unconstitutional, @agounardes.bsky.social and @governor.ny.gov should be ashamed for wasting everyone's time, not to mention NY taxpayer's money having to defend a law so unconstitutional even the 5th circuit rejected a less onerous version of years ago.

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

One of the goals this year is to treat social media more like how we used to “go on the computer” in the olden days: brief and concentrated instead of diffuse over the course of the day

Last year, several states, including California and Texas, made it a felony to create or distribute "AI-generated CSAM," or to use AI to nudify anyone under 18. Under the law, corporations are people, meaning that they — or their executives — are legally liable.

When a news outlet writes of January 6, “The political parties refuse to agree to a shared history of the event”—as the AP did here—but not that Trump’s supporters are lying about an event we all watched happen live, how is that not going along with Trump’s lies

Sex workers have been ringing the alarm on internet privacy, government surveillance and banking censorship for so long my ears hurt.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Nothing untrue here...

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball. The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about. Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.

invading venezuela is not a distraction from the epstein files. he invaded another country, violated international law, murdered dozens of people. that is important in itself; people who care about that aren't being "distracted." 1

And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.

In last year’s general election, young women moved to the populist left considerably more than young men moved to the populist right. Current voting intention polls show these trends not only persisting but becoming more pronounced.

This guy needs to go

Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be. spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...

Chris Murphy: "At some level he's winning tonight because clearly part of his intent here was to distract the American people -- you and I -- from what's happening here at home. You have 20 million families who are getting massive increases in their healthcare premiums. People will die."

🚨BREAKING: DOJ admits it has only released 12,285 documents required by Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than 2 million documents still need to be reviewed/released. DOJ is in violation of federal law that required release by Dec. 19. More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

Did Trump also kidnap the Epstein Files? Whatever happened with the DOJ’s requirement to release the files, explain the redactions, and catalog everything they had?

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Something that is very hard to deal with in this era is how absolutely unserious these people are. They are deadly, yes. And also just deeply unserious.

admittedly people are still posting through this, but it is wild, after having lived through the 1990s and 2000s, to see there are people saying that there is no organized left or no anti-war movement in the US

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Anyone know the best way to buy a domain that’s not in use but is for sale?

many Americans will concede that imperialism is the price we all pay to maintain a certain quality of life but I just spent 5 weeks in Europe using public transport and eating food that doesn’t taste like shit so I dunno man.

If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.

Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning

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they were trying to recreate the bin laden photos weren't they?

Lots of people in Venezuela are hoping that we will stop our government and capitalists from stealing their resources.

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

This is exactly what corruption looks like: power used as a commodity, war treated as a profit center, and human lives reduced to line items. This isn't leadership or strategy-it' pay-to-play imperialism, and it's indefensible.

Gotta say, Schumer is, himself, a fucking distraction. Time to get someone in there who can actually do the job of leading an opposition party.

Wait so you publish whole article about the best male buns without actually showing any of the buns. And people say the porn industry is immoral.

Fucked up and let Instagram know that I like political shit and I like gay shit so now I am sentenced to see posts like this forever

Everything we accepted being done in places like Palestine will be done again and again elsewhere until we stop accepting it anywhere. We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

In the meantime, just for mental health purposes, I recommend screaming into Hakeem Jeffries Congressional voicemail.