we need to abolish this shit

After years of the War on Terror campaign, we've gotten to the point where they can blow up boats in international waters by calling them terrorists. Then the head of DHS says that they will deal with Antifa in the same way. It's a threat. It should be taken as such.

I think the average person does not realize how ableist our entire country is, and relatedy how bad most media outlets are at covering disability issues.

Watching Aladdin with the kids for movie night and having latent regret over never beating the Cave of Wonders level for the Sega Genesis game in 1994. That level was So.Fucking.Hard.

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

Honest to god, was like “weird CATS playbill, but also, I saw the movie so…”

I accidentally paid for a subscription to an app designed to curb my social media time (HA!) and every time I try to open it, it forces me through a “breathe in / breath out” exercise and all that has done is made Bush’s “Machinehead” permanently stuck in my head.

They don’t care if it’s legal or not. But we have to keep reminding everyone that rules once mattered. And they will again, eventually. I’m just not in a place where I can see the future at all anymore and I hate its abyss.

A little on the nose: His last name is Miranda, same as the guy whose 1966 case established constitutional “Miranda rights” for informing arrestees of their rights at the time of arrest. apnews.com/article/us-c...

RIP, Diane Keaton. You were the OG Manic Pixie Dream Girl

“ This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” - Sen Schatz “Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

I love esoteric shit. The weird, the unexplained. Gnostics and occultists and all the rest. But it’s a seething mass of rightwingnuttery, and if you even dip a toe in without knowing who you really are and where your morals are, you can be subsumed by quackery in the blink of an eye.

Postal worker dies in custody after officers arrested him for a suspected DWI ignoring clear signs he was instead suffering from a massive stroke The lawsuit alleges guards left him helpless on the cell floor in his own urine for 3 hours, showing a deliberate indifference to his medical emergency

Okay who did this

Probably one of the most underreported stories of this admin. Lots of people shorting an hour or two before Trump makes major market blowing up statements. Billions of dollars made, no clue as to who is making these profits.

I taught Constitutional Law during the first Trump Administration. I’m teaching public health during the second Trump Administration. This is worse.

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Here's the real money grab...

I’ve seen and heard this quote covered quite a bit and I’m kind of surprised the concept of Ahriman hasn’t been brought up. If you spend any time in esoteric places, you’re probably familiar with the concept and if anyone fits the description of Steiner’s Ahriman, it’s Thiel himself.

Since it is Friday, I am once again reminding you that I am running for CA Assembly District 72, and that my solemn pledge not to use any campaign funds to eat excessive amounts of tortellinis remains in effect. These are personal tortellinis. secure.actblue.com/donate/kluwe

This is six nuclear power plants of solar energy, which would have been cheap, and ready in almost no time--and now we can't have it because of the Trump administration's crusade against clean energy. You'd think they were vampires, scared of the sun (Hi Stephen Miller) bsky.app/profile/jael...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Really not good that we are seeing right-wing capture of major media outlets as this administration ramps up its assault on journalists. Many individuals would like to hold this administration to account, while their bosses are supporting the fascists arresting those journalists.

Everything that's happening is because a majority of white Americans would rather oversee a country on fire than be a smidgen less racist

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

a certain candidate does not post on this platform so I will share this roundabout shot and chaser for all to see

It’s all starting to make sense now that we know that the 2025 Nobel Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, is an avid deep sea fisherman.

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up “The repeal of the [clean energy] tax credits alone may push electricity prices almost 10 percent higher than they would be otherwise by 2029, according to National Economic Research Associates, a consulting firm.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics. “Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Keep going. www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

The Trump administration does not care about doing illegal things. Part of the reason is that lawsuits take years and they don't care about anything hat far off. And if they have to pay money big deal.

7 year old just hijacked the speaker with his Minecraft soundtrack

This second glass of wine is tasting like the neighborhood gets to participate in this Ozzy appreciation kitchen dance party.

No one with their full faculties believes the lies about Portland that Trump and his ghouls are spewing. They don’t. They don’t have to believe it, they just need to repeat it until it’s held as a self-evident truth. That is the very marrow of propaganda.

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sinuses seem like a body part made to be massaged when necessary to aide in their function, but you can’t because they’re in your fucking face so they just hurt like a bastard every time you cough or sneeze or breathe too much. Anyway, I’m obviously having a normal time today.

Fucking vampires. Amazon got a 100 percent property tax abatement... and has fires on the regular. futurism.com/future-socie...

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

I just cannot get over that there are TROOPS from another state in my city without the express consent of my mayor and governor. The demented president is ruling by decree and ~40% of this country does not recognize this as monarchism. The legislature refuses to meet and has shut down the government

The Plot to Enslave America

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Serve on juries, if you're able to do so. Serve on juries.

“Every time we have been attacked with pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor. “They are unhinged.”