Soon in my inbox: Hello, it's the Democrats! We have decided to capitulate and cooperate with the fascists. Please donate between 5 and 50 dollars so that we can hire a marketing firm to help Republican politicians like us better. If you don't give, we won't be able to let them strip your rights!

Trump makes it so easy to forget the last catastrophe he created. Remember USAID? “The Lancet estimated that [it] had saved 92 million lives over two decades.” It cost $24 per American per year. Its dismantling has already cost 400k kids their lives. And he thinks he deserves a peace prize.

"Trump is the man responsible for it. He’s fucking with your airplanes, he’s fucking with your time, and he’s fucking with your money. He’s the reason you’re a caged animal right now. I wouldn’t want to be him if you ever get loose." and it's only going to get worse from here

This is the part I really need people to understand. Yes, Trump was bad, is bad, yes he said all this stuff, and also a whole bunch of voters consume zero (0) news media at all.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Saw McCartney 😄

i propose that everything from october 31st until at least like november 14th is spiritually halloween already

Woooooow, this is bad. Be gentle with your libraries, friends. They're going to be struggling with service for a bit. www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.

Rich people love recessions and depressions because they’re not only rich enough to ride it out, but can afford to snap up resources that people would never sell if they weren’t desperately trying to stay alive

No Kings 10/18/2025 Go Seattle🪳

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

Gen AI isn't going away. That doesn't mean we should use it, but understand that this isn't just a passing phenomenon. The internet is rapidly degrading to being all but useless for accurate information at the exact moment the mainstream media is likewise degrading. This is a crisis.

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest. Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.  I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival: emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

Epstein survivors support effort to release records in full, w/ redactions only to protect victims "The only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing.You have a choice. Stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades." #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Talking about healthcare while people are getting snatched up off the streets and bloodthirsty soldiers are invading their own country because people have blue hair is actually so unserious. Everybody with a brain knows that until that shit stops healthcare or any other social good is off the table

Whenever you feel that everything sucks, smash that search button and look for Raptorized Ira's Thread of Threads, which begins here. Everything may still suck but at least you can pass your time scrolling through many posts with pictures that you might like. First, my poster thread:

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

There's a reason authoritarian regimes crack down on artists first. Because ART speaks to people more than anything else in this world. ART informs our hearts and our minds. Art forms bridges between our souls. Art heals what the world breaks. So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Hillary Clinton: "Good lord -- the things that have been said about me, the lies that have been propagated. If I had only known I could call up the FCC chair and say, 'Take this person off the air! Off with his head!' You have to laugh about it so you don't cry."

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

'opening officers up to prosecution would hurt recruitment' these ppl are not bashful about demanding that the law should not restrain them or their violence and these agencies know this about the pool of people they recruit from!

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Forward facing #raptors #kestrels #naturephotography #photography #southerncalifornia #birds 📷 🪶

#orangesun #flowers #roses #flowerfeed #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #coloraday #gardening #photography Past, present and future on one stem.

This is what the surface of a comet looks like. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

Another banger, Socrates

It is our patriotic duty, all of us, to mock these pathetic fucking simps everywhere they go. They shouldn't have a single waking moment free of mockery.

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

Someone went on to try to explain to this person how the illicit drug trade is driven entirely by demand and she was like “I hope that’s not true,” there is no force on earth stronger than Americans’ unquestioned belief in our own total innocence

This is why I subscribe to the belief that even if the orange goblin dies, the sad truth is that nothing here will change substantially because there are scores of other goblins chomping at the bit to do way worse. Our systems will not save us because they’ve never wanted to save us to begin with.

Little dude looking at me like they didn’t hitch a ride without asking

It me

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

I'd add to all this that successful national collaboration against Covid would have also ratified a form of solidarity that's absolutely anathema to MAGA and the right, one that isn't premised on exclusion and hierarchical superiority.

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

just announced: economic suicide