There's no way around it: if we care about law and order we have to let the government commit crimes

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Destroying Xitter would probably be the single most impactful action you could take against the fascist international movement, and the best against the US movement outside of SCOTUS reform or adding new states. It's also the easiest, and likely most popular, given how loathsome Musk and CSAM are.

Eleven years ago, there wasn't any grey in the beard.

"You see, my furry companion and high-pitched teenager with a never ending appetite. This apparition you have been running from is not, in fact, a real spectral spirit rising from the dead. It is nothing more than special effects and a costume devised by Mr Jenkins as part of a deranged scheme."

some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

ICE is killing American citizens the right way. by Ezra Klein

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Yesterday‘s killing was shocking and horrifying, but let’s not refer to this as a new fracture. Men of often questionable authority have always been permitted to murder citizens in the name of safety, and to be celebrated as heroes afterward by actively evil and morally lazy white supremacists.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

Well, that's an excellent start.

The Lincoln Project did exactly nothing but pay themselves nicely to never fuckin stop talking. Once and for all, liberals, get over these useless men.

the more nazi shit trump does, and the more democrat politicians enable the nazi shit, the madder online libs get at people who want healthcare and think genocide is bad

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

God DAMN. Absolute truth.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. I still play it.

“Taken for a ride?” They’re the fucking chauffeurs.

On the bright side, at least the Iraq War inspired some great art, like Revenge of the Sith

this would be an easy fight for democrats to win if democrats were opposed to this at all

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OpenAI and Sam Altman can't keep your kid's chatbot from encouraging them into suicide, but apparently don't have as much of a problem keeping a chatbot from encouraging political assassination. Almost as if genAI is an instrument of fascism and power.

Out-pitchbotting the pitchbot, I see.

And whomst was it, EVER, that made you apologize for loving America, EVER?

First thing that came to mind is Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko's greatest hits.

The energy I will be bringing to the rest of the week.

That's because you're a Goddamned idiot, Greg.

Kirk was, indeed, a grifter. The word you're looking for to describe the base? "Rubes". They are rubes. The people who get their money are the grifters.

Dawn of the Dune, hopefully.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Share a great female villain.

We had like two weeks of Dems calling the gop couch fucking abortion banning weirdos. It motivated the base. Then they stopped.

Hey journalists can we make 2026 the year of Not Taking Billionaire Claims As Scientific Predictions The Market, Nay, Western Civilization Itself, Can Rely On Sure In The Knowledge Such Titans Would Never Lead Us Astray

megaphonic.fm/fiascomas/2 Why do I love podcasting with @sadhbhgirl.bsky.social ? Because I get to rant like a mad scientist about Soviet film editing techniques whilst discussing "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever".

The energy I'm bringing to 2026.

Pay close attention to who is saying that 14 year-olds *can* consent to sex with trump and other damp billionaires but *can’t* consent to gender affirming care provided in close and collaborative partnership with their doctor.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

This is "AI" in a nutshell. Not actually controlled by a computer, incredibly stupid and counterproductive, and painful for the investors (sooner rather than later, one hopes).

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

Nah, I'm good.

Shoutout to Dwayne T. Robinson, whose incompetence is superseded only by that of the FBI. Onscreen representation for idiots who are wrong about everything.

A pattern here is that the rest of the world leaves the US behind, and the right decides that’s evidence of our greatness. We measure with “freedom units,” our guns keep us safe from tyranny, car-centric development is another form of freedom, etc.

Gremlins.

Terror, Inc. or GET! THE! FUCK! OUT!

Five perfect movies in no particular order DAWN OF THE DEAD '78 TELSTAR: THE JOE MEEK STORY CASABLANCA DOLEMITE IS MY NAME HARD TIMES

New "Has Tim been taken over by The Thing or not?" test dropped.

Hardly the first one to say this, but it's a thousand percent guaranteed that Sara Ditum deserves to get cut off by her family. She's like the avatar of estranged parenthood.

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein