“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

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.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

we were supposed to bow and surrender when trump won again. they are mad that we wont bow and break. celebrating american diversity makes them sooooo mad and it is our strongest weapon.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality. So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa. Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.

Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

Hang it in the Louvre

Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers: "We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm." Let's bring this energy to 2026: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

This is really crucial in understanding today's right wing: it is an arena in which you can get attention, and become famous, without any skill or insight or knowledge. All you have to do is say outrageous shit. So it's become a collection bin for all these failed, flailing narcissists.

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

I think many people confuse partisan politics for ideology and so what they really mean to say is that Trump has no coherent partisan views but that is possible both because he is completely self-serving and more importantly the ideological foundation of partisan politics is white supremacy.

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

“Kamala warned us” Fuck you Palestinians warned you Black people warned you The Left warned you Half the international community warned you The US slide into fascism has been long and slow. Many have been falsely imprisoned or killed by it over decades. It just finally came for you.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Wow anyway now I’m crying over my coffee. Goddamnit.

Convinced the liberals it's okay So let's get dressed and dance away the night While they kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight Good night youtu.be/L8zhNb8ANe8?...

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the only way to ensure a free and just society for our children and grandchildren is to enact policies as soon as possible that tax billionaires out of existence, removes their influence from politics, and breaks up the companies they've consolidated.

"We have no way of reconciling what these cases will do to water supplies." New from Miranda Williamson: The world’s largest artificial intelligence data center complex is being built in Amarillo, and it’s almost seven times the size of Central Park.

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

MAGA coward attacked literal children for protesting against ICE. Despite facing a large, grown ass adult, the kids came to each other's aid, kicked his ass, and sent him packing. Our courage and solidarity is our strength. We shall be victorious.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

And that’s why they’re banning books, suing schools, capturing popular entertainment production and distribution, dismantling journalism, and replacing it all with MechaHitler. To sum up.

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." Let that sink in.

My favorite performance of Catherine O’Hara by far is in the very overlooked and underrated movie Orange County she absolutely *made* the movie you should go watch it immediately its easily one my most quoted movies. (Recently showed to to the 14 year old and he was crying laughing so it holds up!)

Let’s remember: the call for this general strike came from student groups & young people. It’s their work together that made today possible. If you’re a “grown up” acting like you know how to do this better, please just SHUT UP and SHOW UP. All of us have something to learn.

For years I have heard every accusation he makes as a confession. Narcissists toss their shit on to everyone cause they think think everyone is just like them. And he’s saying this the day after his goons went in and seized ballots so. You know.

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

When independent journalists get into peril for doing their jobs, we can point to that very first time "fake news" was uttered and say "Oh, that's how seemingly trivial terms evolve into dangerous concepts." That's why we need to memorialize and document, so we don't forget the horrors.

Yall. Every single one of these people are Black

The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die

Remember when democrats won in 2020 by absorbing all the energy from BLM? And their main demand was to defund the police? And then democrats funded the police and ICE? Say it with me class, are we going to fall for the same trick again?

they work for us, most of them ain't shit, I'm sick of their asks for money. If they're going do nothing and/or listen to the most ass-backwards consultants in the world, just no. get out. leave. Stop taking our money. make room for fucking fighters. anyway chuck schumer resign bitch

Once again insisting we start calling homeless encampments Trumpvilles like they did with Hoover.

We need to start calling the homeless encampments Trumpvilles like they did with Hoover.

Jesus weeping and throwing up Christ it's not a goddamned "shadow network" it's NEIGHBORS protecting their NEIGHBORS

And also: don't wait for ICE to arrive to start building unions of care. There are already people who need support in your community. Organizing to help them now means that they'll be better able to help others in the future, and that the union of care will be ready if/when ICE arrives.