What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

They don't want luxury. They don't want fully automated space communism. They want to endlessly critique fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Scott Pelley has been fired by '60 Minutes.' From earlier today, here's some admiration for his willingness to speak truth to power. www.thebulwark.com/p/scott-pell...

Am I not polisci enough to have a word for the genera of movements that glorify, normalize, and even mandate sadistic violence and then attempt to simultaneously foment and leverage that violence for political ends, of which fascism is definitely a species

You ever post weird shit that someone likes months after the fact and you're reminded you said that weird shit but it feels too weird for you to have said it

So nice our governments and politicians keep posting on the site where the owner says this

Oh cool more corporate welfare and public capture by tech companies FYI this inherently conflicts with opposition to data center construction

@liberalcurrents.com New design looks great. www.liberalcurrents.com

@labeler.bikesky.social label Safe Streets

Bookmark this for the next "Firefighters oppose bike lanes" story. Individual firefighters or fire houses might oppose them, but the FDNY? Typically the department is all in.

this is what happens when two scorpions try to ride each other

The only right fate for fascism

Side note: Bernouts have to grapple with the fact that Bernie was against packing the court

Hell yes, Kathy doing some good deeds here

Not for nothing but freedom of navigation has been a core US foreign policy objective for 200+ years and preserving the Arabian Gulf from domination has been one for just a hair under 50. When I say things like “calamity” or “inexcusable defeat”, I am not being partisan or exaggerating.

everyone is saying this is a disaster, but what they don't understand is Donald Trump's committed belief that Ali ibn Abi Talib was the legitimate successor of the prophet Muhammad

i just think some of you are a bit too in the tank for the guy while also making other uh sus statements

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

This is a #ProAirConditioning Account! Unfollow if you don't back our boys in blue!!!

Yes, however, European economic influence over the Global South by way of international cooperation is outsized, especially when it comes to climate accords. So if Europe's priorities are to make India stop using AC while people are frying to death in Mumbai, that's a big issue.

Hello everyone responding “heat pumps, not air conditioners” I have some news for you about what air conditioners are

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

Worth noting explicitly that Trump's "ceasefire" announcement seems to be operating under this framework 1. Hezbollah stop all activity, period 2. Israel only stops bombing Beirut, but can bomb everything else. This is called you cease, I fire. It's what was already happening before.

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.

When I think of the types of violence perpetrated by this regime on immigrants and black folks my thoughts do not go to "high gas prices" first

I also think it's as shrimple as JPMC gets punished far less for being overly optimistic than they would for being inappropriately pessimistic

so if I'm going to be constructive I think some of these responses to the JP Morgan stuff are great encapsulations of a big problem that forecasters are having. Which is that this has transcended economics and become a political risk issue

Banishment bros, we are so back!

i'm tired of all of you asking me to expend constant empathy for people i despise because of principle. how about no. no one ever does for me

you know what i will say it outright i don't care that hasan piker is banned from the UK

Personally I also think that policymakers should go ahead and prohibit commercial development of ICE-AVs while nobody is seriously considering this. There's a possibility in the future that as we decarbonize, gas becomes temporarily really cheap and encourages that.

love reading about this like it's a degree at a technical college www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

happy pride month

Happy the Strait will be open on June 1st day to all who celebrate

'"It was the first time that the Israeli army had intercepted one of the peace flotillas in daylight, so that says a lot about their brazen attitude to breaking international law, taking people prisoner from international waters' www.heraldscotland.com/news... @gabymckay.bsky.social

Got sent some reel about TBLWHIT and the real-life Chicken Ranch it's based on and how Marvin Zindler's career was kicked off by an exposé on it and I can't get past how despite the deep editorializing about Zindler as a carpet-bagger the narrator pronounces La Grange the French way

Wonder if this might have some relevance in the US 🤔

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

They privatized ICE for profit. 70%-75% of the ICE prisoners committed no crime but Geo Group still gets paid per body, per day. Geo group has been proven to have a lot of employees who sexually assault ICE prisoners. Geo Group is no.different than human traffickers and drug cartels.

Jack Palance in Shane Did Nothing Wrong

Attention all hot people: get out into the meatspace and start changing hearts and minds

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

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Honestly I think part of what distinguishes conservative and reactionary art from most other art is its relationship to critique, in that conservatism and reaction both essentially reject the propriety of critique in the first place.

Wow Tucker Carlson hawking nicotine pouches

This is the most Army guy thing the quoted Army guy could have said

Had a conversation with some new libs recently about Iranian rocket strikes on Israel and how they were likely to cause real damage, and they swore that the iron dome and arrow would have no problem shooting down Iran's rudimentary munitions, and got really mad when I said that's not how it worked.

One of the problems for Dems for decades is that they've been wildly unsuccessful in communicating about military procurement and pentagon budgets, because they're afraid of being seen as weak. That needs to stop. These budgets are stacked with waste and corruption, and we need to talk about it. 🧵