Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 9:

The whole party has been consumed by the mods of a 2014 incel forum where people talk about shooting up a supermarket because they saw a woman in yoga pants.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

get ready friends @halfmarshall.bsky.social @davidhemond.bsky.social @jakichantler.bsky.social @11tulips.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Des Moines public school issues statements yesterday (scroll down) saying that Ian Roberts had an FBI background check in 2023 and it raised no red flags and Roberts said he was a US Citizen. To summarize: ICE said Roberts entered the US in 1999. He was running track for Copin Sate though in 1997

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

This woman did the alterations for my mother-in-law’s sari for my wedding. 34 years in America, and an extra dose of cruelty before they kicked her out.

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Occam's razor says that the reason trump posted about star trek magic technology is simply that he saw a video with his face in it and went "hey that's me" and slammed that repost button

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

[England Dan, running alongside bus, waving sheaf of typed pages]: I made a list of things we could do!

I'd Really Love to See You Tonight [England Dan]: Hey, I haven't seen you in a really long time. Want to get together tonight? [Woman]: ... [Dan]: I'm not talking about moving in [Woman]: what [Dan]: I don't want to change your life [Woman]: I've got to go

Wow

American media should be in an anti-American frenzy, and it’s to their eternal shame that they’re not.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Now we can watch as thousands of skilled international workers head for the exits. We earned this.

Johnson County, Iowa chair refuses to put flags at half staff for Kirk, and he can't go back to his house because of death threats. This is how he's answering the issue. Someone help this man get another good shirt.

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

This is the first thing that's made sense to me, about why half the country would throw democracy out the window in favor of Trumpistan.

I'm not sure but...am I seeing a politician stand up with courage for his convictions? In the Year of Our Lord 2025? More of this, please, and directly into my veins.

In the end, the bots will spend all of our water being racist to each other online. The last era of humanity will be known as the Powdered Milkshake Bot Period.

Tom Cox got rid of his Substack, but in his thread about it, put his finger on the larger problem of the goals of social media for creators, and that the constant push to get more and more "eyes" on your work isn't really helping people consume/engage with your work. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

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ICYMI the Neoliberal Liberal leadership of the Democratic Party is essentially the Mafia. Meanwhile, GOP is the Nazis. Some two party system we have going for us. 🙄🤬

For folks who may not know, yes the Tisch mentioned here is related to Jessica Tisch, the current police commissioner…

If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.

! I've been banging this drum for months Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law' GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

This is amazing. Tell me more about why we keep letting institutional Dems run things when smart and savvy newcomers are reading the room accurately and responding with absolute killer media that keeps eyes and ears on them.

Here are the just published findings of 2 years of basic income for artists in Ireland. 🎨 Recipients worked 11 hours more per week on their creations and worked 3.5 hours less per week outside the arts. ⚕️ Depression dropped by 15 percentage points and anxiety by 16. assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

Here is your morning's dose of Hope for Humanity

Oh: FOSTA/SESTA? Passed 388-25 in the house, 97-2 in the senate. Ubiquitous digital surveillance of sexworkers was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan. The democrats didn't give a single shit about that apparatus possibly being expanded to include pregnant people.

I would create low-income housing communities with support for job training, childcare, transportation, healthcare, grocery stores, recreation, elder care, and a social services concierge. And free spa services. And UBI.

I would take out billboards all over the Midwest and South telling people what numbskulls their leaders were.

thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter

a wonderful thread

Reminder: measles causes immunological amnesia, wiping out acquired immunity whether from previous illnesses or vaccinations. Humans only got permanent immunity, for anything, in 1963 after the measles vaccine ensured a measles outbreak a decade later wouldn't make you vulnerable again.

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Of Mice and Gary.

+1 I am 55 and I do not want apps to be my friend. I want them to do what they're supposed to, quickly and accurately, and then I want to forget about them.

“I can’t be happy unless someone else is less happy.” That’s it. That’s the whole life perspective. That’s MAGA.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

But how else will you find out if you don't fuck around?

The failure mode our republic is currently undergoing isn't because its constitution is badly written or poorly thought out. It's because its constitution, like the next one will be, is nothing but paper. No law is self executing. We can't have a better country until we become better people.

Taco Bell's Canon

What would you call this if you saw it happening in another country? apnews.com/article/redi...

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.