solidarity forever

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

The best smoke I ever had By me, Dec 2025

Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

"The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." - 4 USC Ch. 1 (U.S. Flag Code), §8(k)

One of the most important things to keep in mind if you want to understand the American right today, especially the people leading the federal government and its allied media outlets, is they believe their own BS. They really are in a bubble, and genuinely surprised when reality does not comport.

Trump shares some interesting company as the last person to be gifted a Nobel Prize medal they did not earn was Joseph Goebbels.

It's darkly funny that so many very online left and liberal types seem to get their ideas about what people in the military (and now ICE, who cosplay as it) are like from 80s Stallone movies. Like please hate ICE but these guys aren't Rambo, they're shitty midlife crisis divorced dudes with a gut.

For those who don't know: Strudel is a javascript livecoding environment, you make music in real time by programming as you go. Since it's javascript, you can do this right in the browser.

Ppl who call for Term Limits forget, we already have Term Limits, called ELECTIONS Lobbyist love Term Limits - gives them more power over congress neophytes

My "thank you for your interest in this position but unfortunately" email collection is coming along nicely

Fuck em

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

I find myself increasingly out of patience with the debates on whether the current US regime counts as fascist, or what the strict definition of a fascist polity even is, held between those who don't even acknowledge how central patriarchal violence is to reactionary regimes.

You guys ever think about this

I retired from the military on 1 December. I still haven't received my final paycheck.

We will never stop fighting for our LGBTQ+ servicemembers. After the Trump administration’s discriminatory policies forced transgender servicemembers out of service, today, the HRC Foundation commemorated the retirement of five trans servicemembers of the Armed Forces ⤵️

(cartoon Mike Luckovich) #politics #ice

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.

Thank you for being there to commemorate our service. Both to @charlotteclymer.bsky.social and to Generals McChrystal and Smith, and to everyone who came. And most especially to @hrc.org for hosting. It was a day I'll cherish forever.

This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban. “I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.” Full remarks:

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

IBM's "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" was from 1979. That was 47 years ago. That was before AOL, the Macarena, and Google. Half a century ago it was considered obvious that CEO's would deflect blame from themselves onto "AI"

Tomorrow at 1300 EST is my retirement ceremony, hosted by @hrc.org. Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/@hrcmedia/st...

It is not believable because this is complete bullshit.

I don't understand this trilogy

Laziness doesn't exist

Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth. This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.

January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy. We will never forget it, and we will not let the nation or the world forget — despite the revisionism of Trump and his lackeys in the Republican Party.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

to the extent it’s about anything I think it’s about hegseth‘s insecurity

I am definitely getting there. It is a painful process of realization.

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

to any good faith libs wondering why the anti-war left is frustrated with democrats instead of republicans today, MLK jr. said it best:

Maduro was a brutal repressive dictator who destroyed Venezuela. Trump did not have congressional or UN approval to engage in unilateral regime change. Trump's actions were illegal. All of those things can be true at the same time. Don't let them make this about Maduro.

I’m sitting here, thinking about how I would have felt if there was a betting market for how many troops would get killed daily in Iraq.

"A 'veteran'? You could say that."

I'm not going to give names and details because it is not my story to tell, but I will say something here in the event those who can tell the story don’t. I know a marine. "Jim" was in another platoon. We had common friends, but we never clicked. One day while deployed, Jim got assigned to my team