The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

This is not a genuine Frog and Toad quote.

Happy Captain-Cook-Getting-Executed-by-Hawaiians-and-Ritually-Roasted-to-Remove-His-Bones-That-Contained-All-His-Mana-So-Some-Could-Be-Presented-to-His-Crew-and-the-Rest-Distributed-Around-the-Island-iversary!

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

The Democrats have allowed police to brutalize college students all over the country for...setting up tents on a lawn. Do you realize how insane these people are yet?

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

One reason I keep saying that Trump's departure won't end our fascism problem is that every Republican presidential aspirant (even those who 10 years ago were "normal") are talking like twitter nazis now

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

another thing I find helpful if I encounter weirdly resentful people is this www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUuU...

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

Not enough. The next administration needs to release everyone from the concentration camps, give them citizenship, prosecute those who put them there, and burn the camps down.

When they make movies about this in the future they will tone down the cruelty of ICE and border patrol, like Spielberg did with Goeth in Schindler's List, because no one will believe they were actually this monstrous.

If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.

this is basically how the Discover Tab works

I feel safe in saying that Nat Turner would have used rockets if they existed

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Lots of "we need to return to the past" takes are awful and from the mouths of bigots. But I do think we need to return to an era where movies weren't in expansive cinematic universes, games weren't live service and books were about a vampire named Varney the vampire.

Also the kind of person who watches The Social Network and thinks it’s pro-tech industry

For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article. Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins. boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

A candidate who runs on “Vengeance for Your Kidnapped Neighbors, Death to the Fascists” would win the undying support of everyone with a conscience in this country. We have to destroy these people.

Video doorbell owners learning to their shock and disappointment that they were all of them deceived- there is only one lord of the Rings, and he does not share power.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

The development of the Reich's concentration camp system was just as gradual, ad-hoc, fits-and-starts, ebbs-and-flows of a process as the permanent DHS camp system being developed now, including bureaucratic turf wars, different models for size, location, security level, goals for prisoners, etc.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Nothing unusual here. This is usually what kidnappers do to keep kids quiet.

Interesting rhetoric from AOC here

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Do you support a politically loyal paramilitary at polling sites?” Surprising the numbers look as bad for that proposition as they do tbh.

ACAB includes Ring cameras, ppl.

Realfood.gov's AI just told me to go eat Snickers and Tostitos.

Blogged about playing the lucrative alien baby trade game when the economy is exclusively made of scams. aftermath.site/space-warlor...

Even in ideal conditions, how much worse is this than owning Nestlé stock? aftermath.site/space-warlor...

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Here's something that doesn't make sense about a lot of this rhetoric: violent crime is already illegal, regardless of immigration status. So, in theory, shouldn't the normal law enforcement and court system be getting violent criminals off the streets?

Just saw on the other platform that Jonas Sibony has published his online dictionary of the Arabic Varieties of the Jews of Morocco www.jonas-sibony.com/djm/

if every single national labs employee doesn’t quit on the spot, they’re traitors

Yeah the right wing of the country got way more openly racist and the secret police have been emboldened to tear gas random children whenever they feel like but at least the labor market is terrible and we'll all be poorer forever

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

Another fantasyesque passage in Faber’s peregrinations is when he encounters at the court of “Cahiro, greatest city in all the world” a giant “monster of beasts”with the head of a horse, horns of a goat, tail of a dog, neck and legs of a camel, and a coat of red fur spangled with stars. 1/