The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

my most correct (historically-informed) opinion is that the right fetishizes Sparta, the crusades, confederacy, etc. BECAUSE they lost! the modern right needs these narratives of unjust/ unfair losses, to be followed by redemption at their hands in the not so distant future

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

This stuff needs to be challenged as a violation of the human rights act. It's absolutely indecent in terms of destroying children's rights to express themselves.

we almost never saw pieces like this when the prevailing epstein accusations were based on totally made up claims from the right. now that the actual evidence in the files implicates trump and other right wing figures, we get 5 articles like this a day.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

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"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

In my heart, I know tumblr is down because I forgot to replenish my wet beast Wednesday queue for like three weeks. This was my doing and I'm sorry.

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

A+++ Appalachian protest sign:

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

You know who doesn't have to deny their eugenic research? People who aren't eugenicists.

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

1. Does this look like a criminal to you? He’s FIVE FUCKING YEARS OLD. His name is LIAM RAMOS. He is here LEGALLY, as is his dad. He lives in Minnesota. He’s been kidnapped and imprisoned in a concentration camp in TEXAS. I have never had such rage in my heart and I don’t know what to do.

Can someone explain to me why this man is the House minority leader? To go from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries has been devastating. Couple of legendary fighters replaced by two giant wusses with zero urgency while America burns. Have we no better options?

and should also mention the smell

McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.

His name is DAVID EASTERWOOD and he’s not just “reportedly associated,” he’s the Acting Director of the ICE Field Office here. They want to be badass warrior spies with no mercy, no rules until they face the *tiniest* bit of accountability, then they cry like babies who got their juice box stolen.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

Important to understand social roles. “Quiet Piggy” is an acceptable thing to say to a journalist, but not a gang member.

Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

/2 But if, when folks are risking their lives to oppose ICE, and people are talking about how to best defend them and how we might support each other and do right, the role YOU are called to is to slump in and tell us what we are talking about is naive and meaningless, you can just fuck right off.

I haven’t seen this video shared here yet and people need to see it so if you have more reach than me please share. They carry her down the street and around the corner to be out of sight instead of performing CPR immediately, then later shoot a 40mm tear gas canister point blank at someone’s face.

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

I keep saying it but chopping down the Presidency’s unilateral powers needs to be the #1 priority of the next real Congress.

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.

And to add insult to injury, they’ve all refused to learn the lessons of the LAST SEVERAL ROUNDS OF STUPID TRENDS. Had a lotta success pivoting to video? Did the blockchain fix all your problems? Getting a lot of use out of your metaverse? How those NFTs treating ya, lately?

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. Not that hard, I've seen at least 50 movies 6 or more times When in doubt, I always go with the greatest creature feature of all time

LLM’s will be training themselves on stolen slop generated by other LLM’s They’re not going to destroy humanity by nuking the earth, they’ll do it by making the internet so stupid we off ourselves.

Trump has *added* more illegal immigrants than he’s deported. Let me prove it to you.

Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her. What a racist piece of shit.

We're clearly failing the youth if most don't even know who Justinian is, let alone he's the clear best of this bunch by a lot

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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

If you see this post an anime you love

J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.