one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

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.

Been noticing a lot more smut on here lately. Can't say I'm crazy about it. That's part of the reason I left the Nazi site. It's nowhere near that bad yet but I've been seeing a lot more thirst trap profiles than I used to.

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

Everyone is yelling at Ian about this but the article is good and this is a real problem! If you are a straight guy trying to get laid 99% of the advice you come across will be right wing-coded.

The problem here is that a random Bluesky poster with 5 fake diseases can become the face of the Democratic Party while the actual president can say he's mad that Jeffrey Epstein stole his sex slave and he wants Barack Obama executed and people shrug.

I animated a Power Rangers the Movie 30th anniversary fan film YouTube set my video for kids and killed all momentum over there Do me a favor and hit that repost button #powerrangers

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

this one had me out of my chair for a little walk lmao mamdanitimes.com

january 6th and its consequences, if taken seriously, can only mean that the previous constitutional order is already dead. rather than facing this head-on we spent the past 4 years attempting to puppet its rotting corpse, with visible results.

absent the democratic party having its own tea party movement which ushers in new leadership who take a radically more forceful approach to politics the likeliest scenario is a hollow dem victory which results in a redux of the biden/obama 'ignore the problem and hope it goes away on its own'

mamdani won the dem primary fair and square and he’s the only dem in the race, every dem who wants to stop him isn’t a dem, they’re a wrecker

the other thing about this is that this shouldn’t be a national race, but the country’s most powerful and influential newspaper is determined to *make it* a national race, and i want them to fucking lose, and i want them to lose big.

forgive me if this is stating the obvious but the reason they quote Rufo so much is bc they agree with him

This is why I find the “Dems must *reform* the Supreme Court, not expand it” arguments so frustrating. There is no reform other than expansion that solves the problem of a 6-3 conservative supermajority. Term limits, ethics codes, great. But it’s all window dressing as long as these numbers hold.

We'll need a system where political and business elites are subject to laws again which at minimum means a different supreme court

my entire politics rn is informed by the belief that, even if trump fails to finish consolidating power, doesn’t build a bunch of camps, and leaves office peacefully, we would still eventually get all the worst outcomes, absent a dedicated effort to dismantle fascist tools and punish the fascists

Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.” It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle. Trump? Hardly a peep. When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

Everyone in power in society is so divorced from need & want they do not understand the very precarity our entire society is built upon. We are carrying out pogroms against the legally created underclass that we relegated to picking our food and cleaning our messes against threats of deportations

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I think one measure of who is bringing the violence to protests is how many reporters have been injured by protesters and how many have been injured from police.

i think it was very important to take him alive so that he can say why he did what he did

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

Had a good turnout for the protest and march in Covington, Louisiana. Three or four hundred people, I'd say, which was a bit surprising. I didn't get very good footage, as usual, but everything was safe and the vibes were very positive. Lots of solidarity from the people driving by.

Ah, I love the inevitable split between the ideologue dregs and leftist candidates that actually have potential for election. It's a painful, but beautiful part of the cycle, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

I continue to believe that in times like these, we all share a collective duty NOT to splatter our demotivating feelings of doom and despair all over everybody else in public. I don’t care if it makes YOU feel better. This isn’t about YOU. Deal with those feelings outside of public venues.

It's remarkable to see substack after substack about how Bluesky is a lefty Petri dish and the informational implications of that—something everyone knows including all of us who are in it—and absolutely no consideration of what Twitter has become and the informational implications of *that.*

People do not understand how much they are cooking their brains by submerging themselves in a social environment where scientific racism, antisemitism, bigotry, and Nazi ideology are completely normalized and expected.

If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

it's state propaganda now

Wow, so, Sinners was great. The hype is legit. Amazing soundtrack and there were a couple of scenes that were deeply inspired, like, among the best I've seen in cinema. There's a lot of buzz so I know my couple dozen followers don't need to hear this from me, but if you're on the fence go see it.

this is an incredibly ham-handed failed attempt to get a model to do something which its creators could not cause to happen by any normal means

Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)

something to be said about how these people view americans as inputs to be used up by capital

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read this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

it is incredible how a purely Satanic religious movement captured American Christianity

This is so funny, I might have to print it out and frame it