The U.S. empire isn’t a “force for good”—it’s the global hegemon enforcing unipolar capitalism, crushing countries that resist, and sustaining a world of extreme inequality, death, and suffering while the rest of the planet tries to move on without it substack.com/@futuredude/...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Guardian investigation into Facebook groups with 600k members in which the kind of extreme dehumanising language that socialises racist violence is rife. Facebook has become more permissive towards extreme content in the last year. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

While the rumours and smears are horrible, it is not a good sign that a full month into Jim Gavin’s presidential campaign and his only platform so far is ‘stop bullying me online.’

am still unwell today, still far from reaching my goal. The genocide being committed against me has stripped me of my strength it has shaken my nerves, clouded my thoughts, and taken away even my ability to write. All I want now is a little rest, a small space where I can breathe again 💔😔 Repost

Again am still sick today, still far from reaching my goal. All I want now is a little rest, a small space where I can breathe again 💔😔 Repost help me reach it today

Things have really changed. Now I need your help.   I wrote about why I left academia, why I left America, why I left Substack - and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:   Some major personal news: steady.page/en/democracy...

Just in case she makes it onto the ballot, it’s good to remind yourself who Maria Steen and the Iona Institute are - fundamentalist zealots who represent almost no one cos even most Catholics think they’re awful

Ah… I need an embrace, but it seems hugs have become a rare commodity in this burned city. I sit in the desert of my life, watching the sun melt me by day, the moon freeze me by night,

Go for it Brenda. Give it a lash. See how you get on.

To put Brenda's remark in context: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are both running candidates and the Terenure Pharma Bro won't be spotted reading Slavoj Žižek or Naomi Klein anytime soon. What she is asking for is a *far* right candidate.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

The next Democratic administration is going to need a fully staffed and fully funded anti-trust department. It's day-one mission needs to be break up the media conglomerates that are trading editorial discretion for merger approval.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

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Over on Xitter, the "evidence" being offered for the new theory that the Kirk assassin has/had "a trans lover" seems to be that one of his roommates possesses a sloth hoodie or possibly onesie & once used an anime filter on TikTok that (to his amusement) represented him in this garment as a woman.

last night i had a dream they start selling luke kelly heads in the middle aisle of lidl so people could buy them for their garden like buddha statues

Usual projection here from Ben, who claims his own (purported) views are shared by "the average construction worker" as a means of granting those views some bogus credibility. His image of "the average construction worker" seems based on Derek Blighe - possibly the only brickie he's ever met!

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Anyone who’s still using twitter is complicit in this shit.

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Great piece, wish the people who needed to read it actually would

I reported years ago on professors who received death threats thanks to Charlie Kirk's Watchlist. They feared for their families' safety. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...

When Charlie Kirk called for the lynching of transgender individuals. Is this a respectful debate???

This clerk is a good and kind neighbor, and the people running these machines - and these scams - are true villains

As a scholar of violence and nonviolence I am used to thinking broadly about what constitutes violence beyond what is considered a standard definition. But this is whack, filming the state being violent is an act of resistance, not violence.

The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.

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Who'd a thunk it, eh?

Maria Steen starting her campaign by claiming immigrants do not share "our" social or culture values all the more amazing in the context of her exposing an extreme and doctrinaire version of Christianity that is not even shared by most of her fellow Christians in Ireland.

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Their names are Iman & Lian Salem Slaughtered this night by Israel in their tent

Read to the end of this one. Trust me.

#Speirgorm #Limerick #Ireland #SaoirsedonPhalaistín

🧵🇵🇸 An updating list of Protests taken in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine 🇮🇪 In front of the US Embassy in Ireland

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

Ummm……..

if my entire argument for banning trans women in sports was that cis men are pretending to be trans women to win against cis women and I tried to make a documentary about it but could not find any cis men willing to do the thing i said cis men do i would simply never show my face in public again

i’m actually fine not having malcolm “koreans can’t fly planes because they’re too polite & the chinese are better at math because of the epigenetic memory of rice” gladwell on my side. i’m sure there’s a lovely garden party where he can go burn a cross with the other harper’s letter signatories.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

He said people should attack trans women on sight They won't quote him, they won't post what he actually said, some are even lying about it and making up a fake quote. He said, to assault trans women on sight That's not freedom of speech