If you want to gaze into the horrifying abyss where the living internet is actively melting away into an ocean of AI slop, just ask DuckDuckGo for the origin of the phrase "let's blow this popsicle stand".

When I was young and foolish I feared that one day a charismatic figure who was a transphobe but otherwise great would rise and split us from our allies. But nope. Turns out transphobia is a shockingly accurate test for being across-the-board one of the worst people on earth.

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

Bezos saw "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and figured it was just like the tagline on the rat trap package about how good it is at killing rats.

No, Democrats want ICE abolished and all the goons at every level arrested and sent to the Hague

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes

Liddy Bacroff (19 August 1908 – 6 January 1943) Was a trans woman who lived in Weimar Germany. Bacroff was imprisoned several times for "homosexual acts" under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code and was murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp. #holocaustrememberance

"The emperor is wearing SO MANY clothes, actually, that their sheer mass bends light around them and therefore makes them invisible. Easy mistake to make."

Any politician discussing Pretti's murder by bringing up "untrained" goes in the trash bin for me. *I* know Ross was a CBP vet of nearly a decade who served as a firearms trainer. Pretti's killer was the epitome of a trained agent. If a politician conveniently doesn't, it serves their agenda not to.

Writing is the greatest adventure.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Whole thread

so don't get too comfortable. #art

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Journalist @audiosand.bsky.social calls this “content terror,” the bald-faced lie that contests what you just saw not as persuasion but as a form of power and violence in itself.

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

The very big thing to remember about fascism is that it doesn't work. It fails at what it attempts to do. You never, ever, have to pretend that it has benefits which outweigh its harms.

It comes to mind often these days that forgiveness only requires that you set aside your grudges and try to build some kind of good will. It does not entail reverting your opinion of someone to the one you might have held before they did harm.

If you can, show some rent support to Minneapolis immigrant communities where folks have lost work and been unable to leave their homes due to ICE's terrorism.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

WAIT YEATS'S "The Second Coming" IS A FLU PANDEMIC POEM??? what the fuck

Western thought, in its immense and ancient wisdom, now grapples with the ultimate philosophical question of our times: is power meant to serve the common good? Or is it a reward for Very Special Boys?

Crucial thread.

Whenever people get too rich they inevitably evolve into supervillains, a process called Luthorization

Now listen everybody, this thing could turn into a sunk cost fallacy unless we keep pouring more money into it forever.

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

What they don't tell you about the Time of Monsters is how long the Time of Monsters actually is. I'd like my new world to be born already.

Look, Trump may *try* to cancel all future elections, crown himself god-emperor, suspend the constitution, and invade Europe -- but he'll surely back down when Congressional Dems consider convening a committee to explore the possibility of writing a sternly-worded letter telling him that's illegal.

"Defense Technologies, an imprint of Pennsylvania-based security equipment manufacturer Safariland, markets the HC canisters as “military-style” smokers, even though the U.S. military actually stopped using HC in grenades in the 1990s due to its extreme toxicity."

NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN. stop giving them money.

Except he's going to make believe that everyone gave it to him whether or not anyone actually did. That's his entire thing.

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

In a nutshell

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Computers are getting worse at an exponential rate. All human technology is rotting away before our eyes.

Again, all polls show that abolishing ICE is an incredibly popular position, completely in the mainstream center of American politics. "Centerism" has nothing to do with what's in the center, but is instead an absolute and radical stance against the idea of change

Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I suspect the Trump administration is taking a risk by turning the whole news apparatus into state media. The media was normalizing every fascist escalation. But the gap in coverage around ICE has radicalized a whole city who are shocked it got so bad so fast.

Abolish ICE and prosecute them for crimes against humanity.

This is why the US has not, at all, acknowledged covid as a mass death event, and part of why it refuses to acknowledge it is also an ongoing mass disabling event (with millions more grieving for the futures it made impossible to them)

The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

We're going to need a general strike.

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?" If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

I can't help but notice that like half the replies here are from disabled/chronically ill people who have been pushed out of organizing spaces by groups that refuse to wear masks or take other covid precautions. 😭