re the toxicity of the day, I actually don't think "social media" inherently has to be like this. I think we've *built* every app to be like this because no one made a serious investment building out tools at the UX and network protocol layer to make this shit more like normal human association.

Some of you will remember that the Free Speech Union legally threatened C4SS to censor us when we made a statement disassociating from a racist and misogynist c4ss.org/content/53581 They also feature prominently in my book re Sokal's transphobic pseudoscience. Well... www.transbashback.com/fsu.html

New: Trump admin officials tell Zeteo that Trump is “very interested” in secret plans drawn up last year to send US Special Forces into Mexico. One official even says Trump recently asked for updates on preparations for a possible operation.

What kind of complete moron would leak this news to these two rags lol

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Journalists speak on the repression of & resistance of the Mazateca community to a power grab in Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico beginning in December 2014, plus the related case of #MiguelPeralta and the recent death of #YorchEsquivel. thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/01...

The left should be trained in first aid and armed. Passivity isn't going to work. You can't deescalate guys who like Hitler and Pinochet.

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

“What we’re left with is a de facto state media, one in lockstep with an administration that’s been hostile to the slightest amount of adversarial media…U.S. media reflexively adopting the most euphemistic terminology used by those in power…isn’t journalism, it’s court stenography”

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every republican under 40 is a blacksun-posting nazi degenerate every republican under 40 is a blacksun-posting nazi degenerate every republican under 40 is a blacksun-posting nazi degenerate every republican under 40 is a blacksun-posting nazi degenerate every republican under 40 is a blacks...

Full-throated admission that torturing queer people and designating women as reproductive property is core to the sanctified patriarchy of your belief system. A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)

Siddig is unquestionably the hottest man to ever be on a Trek. I know this is engagement bait on decades-old racism, but still, jesus fucking christ the 90s were a backward time.

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

Yeah, if there's one thing I wish I could press into the brains of every leftist commenting on this it's that "the US did this because it needs their oil" is a bad analysis in the structural incentives of the 2020s. Trump personally just thinks "blood for oil" sounds cool.

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

However much you hate the media, it’s not nearly enough.

What the fuck is this headline

Good day to remember that the largest set of anti-war peaceful protests in history did absolutely nothing to stop the escalation of war in Iraq in 2003.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

Said worked on numerous food security projects, volunteered at 12 Baskets Cafe, organized supplies for the Standing Rock Protests, studied renewable energy, helped found JVP Asheville, did pro bono electrical work for individuals and grassroots orgs, and so much more. 2/3

We're heartbroken by the unexpected loss of Said Abdallah, a local activist born in Palestine. For the last decade, Said has been a friend to our bookstore and a constant presence in Asheville's social justice ecosystem. 1/3

#Trump is now using rhetoric toward Mexico similar to that used recently toward Venezuelay: "Something have to be done with Mexico." He adds that drug traffickers could also try to enter the US from Canada: these are the two countries with which the US will host next summer's World Cup.

Got some bad news about the justice of states

Thinking about Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti this morning as the news comes in about Venezuela. The word “empire” is not an exaggeration. This is how it regularly defines itself.

fascist cultural appropriation is taxidermy, a living artifact killed for sport, stuffed and mounted as morbid kitsch

Israel’s genocide in Gaza set a global norm that views extermination as a 'natural' part of how nations and paramilitary groups wage war. We are already seeing this in Sudan. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...

"but but Mr Fascist, don't you realize that American History X isn't about how neonazis look cool, don't you realize that you're not supposed to identify with Walter White in Breaking Bad?" They fucking know, and they're laughing that raw force can trample over critique, rendering it servile.

the tactical success here - that they went in and got him and no troops died - is going to dramatically raise the bar on the shit they think they can get away with at home and abroad and that terrifies me

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

This is a new evil spawned from the ancient capitalist hydra, we need to be using historical context to fan the flames of what the FUCK and not just retreating to smug well this is how empire has always worked you can't be surprised by it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

there's a parallel between how poststructuralist high theory became a metadiscourse concerned increasingly with itself and how the far-right has increasingly entered a hyperreality of its own creation divorced from the rest of the world

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

Well what options are left

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

I'm afraid there is going to be way more bi-partisan support for Trump's actions against Venezuela than people on here are prepared for

As a Ukrainian, if you ever cared about Russia's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Ukraine, you should absolutely care about US's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Venezuela. My solidarity and best wishes to all Venezuelans.

I honestly don't give a shit about whether a war is "legal" or "illegal" If Trump had actually bothered to make a formal declaration of war, half of the dems would have voted for it anyways

"I am being shot at" "SOURCE?"

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

Slaughter done for the sake of spectacle alone. The convulsing corpse of the evil empire, wriggling with maggots solely concerned with vice-signaling. There's no PNAC driving this, no deep geopolitics or grand strategy of conquest, it's just bloodthirsty boys frantic to prove their moral abjection.

Caracas is under fire. Multiple U.S. strikes have hit key military sites: Fuerte Tiuna, La Carlota airbase, and a communications center in El Hatillo. Explosions echo through the capital, the power is out in parts of the city, and U.S. helicopters are flying low. Fires also rage near La Guaira.

Folks are free to interpret this as they will, but put simply the US as it stands is a rogue state and it poses a danger to peace everywhere else. There is no meaningful opposition that will stop the bombing of Caracas, no matter how illegal this act of war is. Dismantle it all.