this is just so unspeakably fucked up

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This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

If you are an activist /organizer in Ireland that wants to talk about the ongoing protests, the fuel crisis’ root in US empire, etc. please reach out to me and let’s get in touch!

It's gotten lost amidst everything else, but a sitting Vice President traveling overseas to speak at a campaign rally for a flailing authoritarian leader is such a massive violation of both norms and democratic values

if you want a shot of optimism remember that ten years ago Victor Orban's position seemed unassailable and today he and his movement are failing.

As a comms person, I like this straightforward, reader-centered messaging.

Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán are quantum-entangled fascists 7,000 kilometers apart— a long-distance bipartite mixed-state spin entanglement. They are losing momentum and energy simultaneously, heading for decay, possibly annihilation.

one thing democrats should think about when they consider their "messaging problems" is how often they tell their base and independent voters that they are losing ass losers who can't accomplish anything because they never have enough votes to make things better for everyone

100% concurr with KC. I'll add that not a single voter currently knows what Democrats will do should they win the House or Senate. Not one thing and we're halfway into April. Not a single thing outlined. Nothing for voters to rally FOR.

If you are an activist /organizer in Ireland that wants to talk about the ongoing protests, the fuel crisis’ root in US empire, etc. please reach out to me and let’s get in touch!

This month, OKD Fiction Reader Sam Borek is bringing some *magic* to our newsletter in the form of spells & tarot for getting yourself in the creative space. Plus, we have three new poetry readers on the OKD team! Read the full newsletter at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/writing-as....

If you’re using AI to write books, understand that’s not going to somehow get you respect or money like real writers who aren’t using AI to write books because we don’t get respect or money either.

This framing is appalling and, importantly, just fucking wrong - "just $1" is $1 too much, because the charges are illegitimate - it is not illegal in Georgia to induce one's own abortion, so I don't know what "illegal abortion" the AP (or the prosecutors) are talking about here

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

This bridge is a primary civilian artery linking southern Lebanon—a main agricultural region—with the rest of the country. Its destruction isolates southern communities and cuts off the flow of goods to the north. Israel plans to annex the southern territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone.”

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

But make sure to use a soggy pasta straw to save the environment, they’ll tell you.

President Trump has claimed he is “going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and is currently lobbying the US Senate to effectively outlaw the practice as part of his push to pass the Save America Act. The conservative justices on the US Supreme Court appear eager to assist.

Donald Trump is the reason you are waiting for 6 hours on line at the airport. I hope that helps.

I can confirm that people who are already exhausted and scared of going through TSA and flying right now, people who have just been told to wait in a line for 4+ hours, are absolutely furious to see ICE agents—a stark reminder of who exactly is to blame for this situation

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It seems profoundly odd to me that the defense did not call up any witnesses in the Prairieland trial. Is this typical?

Tá d'Oracal ó Bhríd "Celtic Festival: Imbolg / Hope" an mhí seo // Your oracle from Brigid is "Celtic Festival: Imbolg / Hope" this month. Léigh an chuid eile ag Who Gives a Focal // Read the rest at Who Gives a Focal Cláraigh anois ag nasc i mo bhio // subscribe now at the link in my bio

This week’s Oracal Ó Bhríd talks about hope in fascistic times

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“A force numbering in the hundreds — several times larger than that initial deployment — is not a retreat. It is a tremendous enforcement footprint in a single metropolitan area, and a force capable of inflicting mass terror, carrying out targeted abductions, and sustaining a climate of fear.”

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Like Octavia E. Butler wrote on her calendar, “Keep your word,” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. prisonculture.substack.com/p/mayor-mamd...

Every frickin time

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I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Today, I wrote about white anger around the bad bunny half time performance, and how white people should recognize that although we might not understand his language he is speaking to us too as assimilated people who have much to do in decolonizing ourselves

Today, I wrote about white anger around the bad bunny half time performance, and how white people should recognize that although we might not understand his language he is speaking to us too as assimilated people who have much to do in decolonizing ourselves

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Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

Swing by the station (aka Discord) next Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 8 pm ET for the first part of Steve’s “Crooks + Detectives” Masterclass! This month, we’ll start with the figure of The Crook 🦹 and how the 5 elements of a crime can help us construct narratives with more tension, depth, and propulsion.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.