if there's a next presidential election i think we should have a vote within the DNC to select a candidate who more people would want prior to the general election. we could call it something like a selection election. i'm open to work-shopping the name tho

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Launching the virtual library of @davidgraeber—still drafts, but it's happening! books.davidgraeber.org

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

hearing from sources that Amelia Bedelia has been arrested in connection with the water-pouring assault. "but it was ICE headquarters," she said

unironically

rewatching Hunchback of Notre Dame for the first time since I was a child and hoo boy it is hitting some potent harmonies with current events i tell you hwhat

we actually can’t live in a society that allows jackbooted klansman to kill people in the street with impunity

This is a crackdown on @foodnotbombs.bsky.social and it continues throughout the country. The establishment doesn't want people feeding people for free. They want people to starve. There is plenty of food for everyone. Food should be a right. www.thepitchkc.com/video-of-arr...

hard to work if you're in prison for the rest of your natural existence

And at this point I get the same feeling looking at their sustained, committed inaction I got looking at Trump's rhetoric in 2016. And now, as then, I find looking at their words and deeds will tell you plainly who they really are, even if we don't really want to admit it yet.

They are looking at the pending invasion of Greenland and the dissolution of NATO, at the murder of Renee Good whose killer Trump is sheltering, at the kidnapping and physical abuse of American teenagers and the gassing of public schools and go: "Eh. Maybe we'll act if it gets serious."

This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.

"After the Kapp putsch in 1920 the [German] government charged 705 persons with high treason; only one, the police president of Berlin, received a sentence—five years of 'honorary confinement.'" Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).

the purpose of a system is what it does the purpose of a system is what it does the purpose of a system is what it does the purpose of a system is what it does

bad week 2026 day 8 - regret

the animal crossing update dropped early and i realised my switch hasn't been charging for like months so i have to wait for it to charge now smhhhhh 😭😭😭

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

“Just to be upfront, the goal is to put as many guns and badges out in the field as possible,” he said.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

i was not expecting this video to be as based as it was. actual sympathy and love for the zapatistas was not something i expected from a youtube video with millions of views. and the tech recommendations are rad too!!

imma be straight up i fully expect an officer of the peace to die before killing a suspect

i’m so tired of seeing things that simultaneously make me cry and sick to my stomach

I really don’t think we can undersell just how much of this current moment is white women realizing that extrajudicial colonial violence can be meted out to them as well and being radicalized by that fact. and good for them, honestly

we've abided by the contract and played by the rules. we're entitled by its terms to demand that it be enforced and assert its protections. these folks, not so much! they're kind of out there freestyling for better or worse

not only do you not have to tolerate this kind of stuff, tolerating it will lead to the elimination of tolerance itself. they have no wish to live in a pluralistic multicultural democracy, that's a choice they made. unfortunately for them we still de jure live in one and we should keep it that way

we've sort of reached the platonic ideal of the paradox of tolerance here. they've repudiated the social contract, thus it definitionally no longer protects them or binds you vis-a-vis them

i will not post insanely traumatic memories as an attempt to be funny i will not post insanely traumatic memories as an attempt to be funny i will not post insanely traumatic memories as an attempt to be funny i will not post insanely traumatic memories as an attempt to be funny

interested to know why NZ media aren’t urgently asking questions about this situation

tbh at this point, if you hold any kind of public office, i don't want to see a single social media post or statement that doesn't nclude: a) a clear statement of intended action by the speaker (lawsuit, calling someone, passing a law) b) a clear call to action for the audience (calls, protests)

i mean this so completely sincerely: talk to a person who isn't online. have one friend who does not have a bsky, who doesn't watch twitch, who only uses youtube to watch woodworking videos, whose instagram is just pics of food and friends. it will help you more than touching grass, i promise.

Gen X is at +5 support for ICE while millennials are at -25. Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?

A project to dismantle ICE will be years in the making. This is because you will have opponents [not just in the fascist GOP but also in the Democratic party]. And that means that organizing campaigns will have to be strategic and they will always be subject to being undermined by purported "allies"

there is nothing more damaging to your career in Left-wing punditry than being right before it is acceptable to be right.

cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”

We are in unprecedented times. Everyone is on edge. Peaceful protest Boycotts Strikes Armed resistance These are all legal. These are all important. Remember who the enemy is. Love to you all. 💙💙💙

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

There going to come a day when conservatives say we all have to come together as Americans again. On that day I hope things have changed enough that everyone else can tell them to fuck themselves.

I wonder if my kiwisaver provider is hedging against the collapse of NATO and the collapse of the US dollar both happening in the next month.

in the stocked market. straight up 'tanking it'. and by 'it', haha, well. let's justr say. My currentsy.

god, with the fed blowing up the market and the dollar about to tank, it would be a really bad time for the AI subprime bubble to burst and further tank GDP

vague predictions that might not come true Some ICE Agents are going to get shot soon as they've now decided to start booting in doors Trumps meddling with the Fed will go extremely badly, potentially globally *It* will happen in 3 months or so

Trump has taken an absolute battering ram to the dollar's position as the world's reserve currency. Central bankers in stable democracies don't make statements like this. They don't have to. This is cataclysmic shit and Powell will have been fighting to avoid this moment. bsky.app/profile/bung...

someone remind me, were the late 1800's a good time for the US economy?

when my post starts getting RTs from the puppygirls that's when i know i'm posting good

"this isn't the america i kn-" the purpose of a system is what it does. if the purpose of the system were different, it would do something different. the purpose of a system is what it does.