Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

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- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

There is no crime problem… “Crime” is a response to a problem The problem is poverty… The problem is inequity

BREAKING: Concession workers at Fenway are on strike. This is the first walkout in the 113 year history of the Boston Red Sox’s stadium. These essential workers will be on strike as the World Series champion Dodgers come to town this weekend.

“You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care.”

Thanks for this @unchi.org !

Hot grrrl summer but it’s Pilates & perimenopause. Leaning into my sweating era.

I saw this last week and I felt extremely emotional. 10 years. That's how long this took and it should not have taken this long. www.nrdc.org/press-releas... - I thought also of all of the activists including Little Miss Flint who have CONTINUED to fight for all of these years.

He's been doing this for YEARS and not in front of cameras. That's why it comes off as authentic because it's true to what he's been doing all along.

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I think what makes this thing so stupid is they're handing out tacos outside the RNC HEADQUARTERS. There are actually hungry people out there right now, every single thing costs a dollar more at the supermarket. RNC flaks will literally eat your lunch and send a masked man to round up your neighbor.

Warren's report is here: www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... - It's 14 pages and could likely be turned into a 5 page artful zine that can be printed and distributed across the country.

Who called it Car Talk and not Vehicular Man’s Laughter

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

AI’s only general purpose use is to control labor. Thank you.

Jill Sobule died in a house fire this morning. www.stereogum.com/2306492/i-ki... The folk-pop artist and activist was best known for two 1995 singles: “I Kissed A Girl," considered America's first openly gay Top 20 hit, and "Supermodel” from the 'Clueless' soundtrack. Sobule was 66.

ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

if Ritchie fucking Torres can do this and Chris Van Hollen can fly to El Salvador the rest of the Dem caucus can show up too hell, everyone should go on the El Salvador trip now’s the time, folks, this road ends with you in the foreign prison

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

Kurt Vonnegut man

Everybody seems to be fixated (quite rightly, to be sure) on the concept of illegal ideas, but I'm certainly arrested, as it were, by the application of "it" to "people."

I reject the notion that I or anyone else should have to hand craft everything from first principles like i'm living off the grid in fucking 1688 because a bunch of clowns don't understand how anything actually works in the real world

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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this is good and huge props to booker for saying it but it's also kind of funny that it takes the equivalent of the russian sleep experiment to get a democratic senator to admit this out loud

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

I need someone to root for. C'mon Valerie. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

I woke Papi up from his long nap to answer a letter from a concerned reader who says they feel scared and small in the wake of everything these days johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/what-am-i-...

"they're gonna make us look bad" go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.

ALL HAIL THE BLOOD WORM MOON IT RISES RED IN THE SKY, PLUMP WITH VENGEANCE, SLICK WITH FERAL SUBTERRANEAN SECRETIONS LET IT GUIDE US IN OUR FERAL CRUSADE AGAINST OUR OPPRESSORS

If we had a party that knew how to do politics, this would be very easy: Republicans are in charge of the entire legislative branch. It is on them to put together a budget bill that gets the necessary votes. If they cannot get those votes, Republicans have failed.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.” ― Lauren Eden

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

That reporter really looked at the president of a country being battered by an invading force and asked “but what was he wearing”

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

"I can't pay no doctor bills, but whitey's on the moon [Mars]...the Man just upped my rent last night, cause whitey's on the moon[Mars]"