NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Feels like there are conclusions and consequences that ought to follow from this.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Read Audrey Watters, always. "Technologies are often wielded in ways meant to imply that humans are weak, messy, slow, stupid, replaceable. We are strong, messy, awkward, flawed, irreplaceable. All of us. Our strength comes, in part, from this vulnerability, from our humanity."

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

Yeah, this was kinda my reflexive feeling the first time I played Undertale. Watching the kids play it, I kinda put the feeling aside, but as a moral statement, I still think it’s a bit weak.

This too is Torah.

The bill to end the shutdown kills FDA food safety rules. Just like public health, food safety isn’t flashy or exciting When it’s functioning well, you barely notice it. But it’s necessary for our survival. Food borne illnesses have been on the rise & this cut will endanger lives l

…huh, I wonder if he has the same kind of pain med resistance as I do and just like… assumes everyone else does too.

Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social

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Nights like this I go on Threads to check on the normies and on the one hand they’re all over the Epstein story like everyone else but also I learned that there’s a bunch of white people who have learned to laugh at themselves and nothing has made me feel more hopeful than this, probably ever.

This too is murder.

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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

here's a 13GB .zip with all 33,572 images from the Epstein doc dump, converted to pdf and OCR'd drive.google.com/file/d/15UfF...

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

It’s amazing how much existing institutions and the people profiting from Trump’s presidency lean toward a trivialization and normalization of something that in any other context nearly everyone would treat with horror

there is one (1) pre-modern English cathedral with actual legit foundations and it is St Alban’s in case you’re wondering.

Remember how Elon said that Trump was in the Epstein files and that’s why he won’t let them be released and he apparently knew all about that but then decided to be friends with Trump again a week later so he just deleted that tweet and doesn’t mention it and no one regards that as a bit of an issue

Fascinating and thought provoking essay about the book that is the source of my main scripture www.abc.net.au/religion/raj...

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Not the most important point but today's Epstein emails make it clear that Maxwell committed gross perjury in her interview with Todd Blanche, and it will still be within the statute of limitations when President (insert your favorite Dem) takes office in January 2029

So good, this thread.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

The Northern Lights Have seen queer sights But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lamarge I cremated Sam McGee

Authoritarian governments are not new to this country. If you want to know what comes next should resistance fail, look to the history of Black resistance in the South. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

Every comment in this thread has revealed new and enchanting wonders to me

A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

STAR TREK IS REAL

My hot Frankenstein take is that Frankenstein is a textually rich work and the beauty and longevity of these works is that different people can interpret them through radically different lenses. Making your monster movie about accepting your father/son's flaws is a new lens that enriches the corpus.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Some kind of… marketplace? He’s just mad because the current one has Obama’s name on it.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

This tactic is used by dictators to fragment the internal security apparatus and consolidate power. In Zaire, Mobutu kept kept the huge personal fortune he had amassed from pilfering the country’s diamond and copper exports as a ‘rainy day’ fund, which included paying the army’s wage bill.

My new article "Immigration is Not Invasion" is now up on SSRN. It comprehensively explains why illegal migration and drug smuggling do not qualify as "invasion" under the Constitution and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Ah yes, the thing to revitalize your downtown is to fill it with masked and armed man who routinely pepper spray random people. Everyone loves that.

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

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Founder culture is so cooked that the guy apparently didn’t realize that his first post was just “we used to lie to people to make money” and the second one was “and we’re still doing it to this day”

19: “People keep acting like the Republicans and Democrats are on two opposing teams, like surely the Democrats are going to start playing defense any day now. But the Republicans are on the field and the Democrats are IN THE STANDS WATCHING. Nobody’s left to play defense but us.”

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up