let's say the president wants to suppress the vote in detroit. assuming a conventional 20 soldiers for every 1000 civilians ration, he would need more than 12,000 ICE agents — more than double the current number of field officers — to occupy detroit and only detroit, a city of 630,000 people

We’re gonna make that victimhood real in Reconstruction II. Representation weighted by population density. If you want a say in society you have to actually live in society.

NO No no NO Why would you lend more credibility to the bullshit machine?! Why did you cave?! Stop trying to wash it clean and hide its crimes Argh

Sure, sex is great, but just look at the last sentence here.

The Dutch Alex Jones died of a heart attack at 52. A hearty "RIP Bozo" to Robert Jensen.

The two easy access comprehensive lists that I want handy are a list of all the Nazi dog whistles republicans used (like the CPAC rune!) in the last 16 or so years and also a list of which billionaires are creating, profiting or advancing the police state with stuff like Palantir.

Also the number of people on here who see something like “this will be a problem for him” or “this probably won’t work at least not how he thinks it will” and somehow read “he won’t try” is truly distressing No, that’s like a whole different sentence, what the fuck are you talking about

Iran stands as a clear example of how digital sovereignty empowers repression rather than protects rights, says Azadeh Akbari. It should be a warning against abandoning the idea of a free and global internet, she writes.

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

Feeling powerless? Like nothing you could do could possibly have any impact? Try eating a cheeseburger! They taste good and you need to eat to live anyway

begging people not to preemptively hand Trump powers he does not have and has no practical means of accomplishing the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own

The world is… a lot… so have some cats.

They accuse the liberal city dwellers of hating rural people and then write an article about how rural America is super happy with moms being shot in the face three times.

Needs to be a wonder of the world in civilization

It's also just like there's not an angle here about "well country folk just don't care for that kind of sophisticated nonsense" it's just "these idiots believe conspiracy theories, but we will take them very seriously"

WHO THE FUCK IS DOXXING & HARASSING CATS OF YORE?!? like seriously, of all the fucking accounts on here, going after a cat account run by a real & caring human who’s always been conscientious to use alt text on cat picture posts

this is like the wargames nerd equivalent of an anarchist feeling patriotic while reading about the Union Army during the Civil War

Oh this will go well. Do they know what the locals in some teeny town up north did to the nazis who tried to build a "training camp"? Fuckers left with their tails between their legs. They won't welcomed by the countryfolk, nevermind the cities!

Linktree of places you can donate money directly, purchase from an amazon list or walmart registry, or places you can drop items off if within the area. This group does a LOT of great work, and this is the worst time of year to be homeless.

I can't stop laughing

Huh. The mobile site suddenly has a panel for posting at the top of the feed. It still has a button for it too. Having it at the top feels superfluous.

Okay. I need a boost here. Looking for artists. We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood. I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles. Links? Tags? Self-promo?

Historical content: The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square…

I genuinely do not understand how you can write sane washing headlines like this about Trump and Greenland as a reporter and not hate yourself.

remember when they were all "2020 was the deadliest year for cops" and it was because they were counting deaths from COVID?

how to treat every single statement that comes out of the federal government or any of its spokespeople at this point:

… so I know a big part of it is that I’ve been reading about WW1. But. Everything about Greenland is making me feel like we’re well on our way to playing the part of every central power in WW1 in the upcoming WW3.

Welp. That concept is going in my home setting.

SOMNUS ISSUE #2 "Dreamwaves" Coming soon! An urban fantasy/dark fantasy/horror comic. Claire is being stalked by something. It exists in the corner of her eye, in the whispers just out of earshot. Nightmares and portents close in around her...but all she wants to do is be a girl in a band.

LRS- if I were an enterprising criminal sort, I’d go to parking lots that use QR codes and slap my own sticker over it, have a fake parking site it leads to… if you could launder it right bet that‘d be pretty easy money.

and less likely to be immediately abused to put spyware on people's phones. it's once again time for an important PSA: DO NOT RAWDOG RANDOM QR CODES YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'VE BEEN

Complete. Global. Raccuration.

If I want high level “doesn’t matter how right it is” stuff that’s what wikipedia is for. I don’t need liebot to read Wikipedia for me and then lie about it. (Apologies to Liebot, who is worth more than any genAI)

please? its been a week without any help at all and i'm not even half way to my goal...

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

Every single ICE agent in jail. I'm not gonna stop until it happens.

It’s wild how much media attention this has gotten when the confidence interval is so large. You might as well just say ‘we don’t know anything and we’re looking into it’ if the range is somewhere between .5x and 10x!

I shared this with my brother, and he decided that Garfield gloating over Dilbert's grave was insufficient. Since apparently nothing is too petty for my family, please feast your eyes on his work of spite.

they did, in fact, take decisive action. in the midst of these hearings congress passed the third enforcement act, called the Ku Klux Klan Act. the grant administration used that authority to virtually eliminate the klan, which did not resurface for another 50 years.

You know the feds are really cruel and really incompetent when they decided to defund majority-white suburban Baltimore County but *not* majority-Black Baltimore City, which is an independent city not under the jurisdiction of Baltimore County, but counted as a county equivalent for census purposes

broke: star trek is sci-fi and star wars is space fantasy woke: star trek is submarines and star wars is biplanes

The hood is buying out tamale carts on strength The yoga mommas are taking every training You got Texas dads doing anti racism at readings on Tik Tok And country singers leading voting drives I may be naive but people are fighting I’m not arguing with folks who just don’t want to

I am simply invoking the spirit of Ray Smuckles

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

This thread, the comments and the thread she’s quoting have re-confirmed for me that my parents are EXTREMELY boring (in a good way).

Steve Jobs is the Rosetta Stone for the deciphering the Tech Bro Mentality informed he had an eminently treatable form of cancer with excellent odds of a full recovery, he ignored his doctors, treated his cancer with juice cleanses and fasting because He Knew Better, and promptly died

Said it a year ago and I'm saying it now. Governors in blue states should have been gaming this situation out as soon as Trump was fucking with FEMA money during the fires. This was always the end point. "Gotta pay the king! No mechanism not to pay the king!" is not an answer.

Among the cartoonists I know, Scott Adams was always a cautionary tale. Obsessed with his own perceived intelligence, he panicked when his popularity began to ebb, and leaned into hate to regain that rush of relevancy. I'd thank him for serving as a lesson if he hadn't done so much actual damage.