counting or not counting whiteface violence

My latest newsletter is about how the media defines "political violence" as something that happens exclusively to politicians, and ignores its primary victims: everyone else.

1. Trump has nominated Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor, to be the next Surgeon General. She has an ardent history of anti-trans statements, and pushes detransition myths and hate. She calls trans youth a "national emergency." Subscribe to support our journalism.

be invoked #mecha #illustration

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Sometimes people get confused about tensions between majority rule and minority rights Majority rule as almost always been helpful for rights for racial, religious, gender etc minorities The minorities that the Constitution tends to protect are geographic (small states, rural) and capital

“And yet …”

what’s your favorite way to heal in resident evil? 🪴

Dont give up

It's by design to prevent criticism of the IOF and their war crimes. Defeating all supremacists from Jewish hating skinheads to genocidal Israeli soldiers committing genocide is an all or nothing game. We're not free until we are all

my fanart of lalah sune spinning UKG and bassline please enjoy

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

Reminder to those who can't seem to grasp distinction between median and average. US average income in 2024 was $76,000. US median income was $44,000. The difference is vast inequality. And $44,000 is not a good living.

alito and thomas think the creation of majority-minority voting districts is itself discriminatory. but the goal of the voting rights act wasn't to usher in an era of harmony by eliminating all racial categories, it was to alleviate discrimination by whites against blacks, particularly in the South

one rhetorical trick the right uses is to reframe civil rights issues as being about racial discrimination in a very broad sense, when the actual civil rights movement was about a very specific type of racial discrimination directed at one very specific demographic

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

here's my diagnosis of whats going on with civilization: we have completely lost the plot. what are we even doing here. whats the fucking point. things of this nature

Billionaires say they’re building bunkers because the apocalypse is coming but really it’s because people fucking hate them

Yeah we're into cursed videos from the 2000s now. Sharing them in various file formats, plugging USBs into televisions and so forth. There's a few good YouTube channels with the stuff but availability isn't consistent. "Keep sharing the tapes" ha ha. We're all dying in horrifying & inexplicable ways

the ghoul

So. Which do you think is more efficient: 1) Solar panels in space, converting that electricity *back* into EM radiation, beaming that *through the same atmospheric losses*, recapturing it (losing some to efficiency/misses), and converting it back into electricity, or 2) solar panels on the ground

Bringing back a classic #LancerRPG

To stop the Terminator future he created the pedophile machine

Every one of the fake-ass journalists in that room are going to be so annoying about this for a long time. Truly.

Epiphany

Keep hands, arms, and legs inside the vehicle and remain seated at all times during the movie...

Every other week in gaming news you’ll read a report laying out the extensive connections between Bub And Bob From Bubble Bobble and the Saudi Investment Fund.

tapping the sign

Hard to believe that a large portion of where we are is because people got mad about video games and pop culture being *kinda* preachy for ~8 months 10 years ago

i like following international news as a reminder that ALL of this [waves hand at everything] is optional

he is correct

i knew there was a far side comic for the news today

AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.

I think if a company lays people off their stock price should go down, not up.

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

1) you could just read your kids a literal bedtime story 2) you could just make one up with your brain

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

hasan makes an obvious joke and has generally good politics and the media is like we need to drown him to prove he's not a witch. meanwhile tucker carlson goes live and talks about how demons are real and one tried to eat him in his sleep once and the media is like he seems trustworthy

correct

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

White dude next to him is wearing one of the most untrustworthy fits I’ve ever seen

“fuck it, we’ll do it unalive!”

Ban on betting companies like kalshi and polymarket come to North America sweetie

really hate our puritanical culture that goes after even the most lighthearted pieces of queer media as if it were 120 days of sodom

lol

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