“Leave their church potluck casserole untouched” If you didn’t grow up in evangelical circles, you have no idea how cold this is. I’m just picturing a woman hissing at her husband who works for ICE because“They won’t even touch my tater tot casserole anymore Bob.”

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Announcing screenings of yet another 5 star banger. Wish I could just live at the Music Box

"I can’t tell you what’s coming and I can’t tell you that it’ll be okay but I also, really, really can’t tell you that “everything is fucked” or anything like that. I can only tell you that the future will be determined by our actions."

"I’m not afraid of the fallout of last week’s news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned." open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

As an archivist, this keeps me up.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

We are not in a tech race with China. We are sitting down and drinking a Gatorade while China does laps around us with solar innovation and electric vehicles. Dumping everything into "NFTs the Sequel" will not help us.

Weird how this is always go to Jupiter or live in the center of the earth but not “everyone has a good union job and healthcare”, like that’s the thing that is believing in unicorns

Hey, @ekkoastral.bsky.social Excuse the wrinkled shirt, but it was so sweet of y'all to personalize this for me at the show -- seeing y'all live was truly the best part of an amazing night and I'm so glad we got to chat after your set! Thank you for doing the thing and killing it with amazing music!

They can't be fucking serious...

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

I'm sorry but Inshallah on the front page took me completely out, LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t talk to me until I’ve hysterically thrown a jug of milk around a subway station hallway.

How anyone posting sincere celebrating-the-4th-of-July photos today looked to me

This strike is bigger than one union, and bigger than one city. It’s a fight for every workers who’s been treated as less than, as disposable, as unimportant. All eyes on Philly, my friends. They’re striking for you, too.

if young voters turned out like they did for Zohran Mamdani for every race, the Democratic Party would never lose an election again so naturally, establishment Dems are…smearing him and refusing to endorse?

this may well be one of the most darkly funny charts in the history of The Economist

This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.

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Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.

my periodic reminder that your artistic work — your writing, music, dance, whatever it is — is crucially important for you and for the people who receive it, in ways you might never personally experience or grasp. you gotta trust me, please keep going

I’m not even going to engage in any debates because they’re all structured by fascists to be in bad faith. No fucking war. Do whatever you can to jam up the machine. This and the genocide and the kidnappings of people on our soil and the invasion of Los Angeles is all apocalyptic, stupid and evil.

Oh, this paywalled piece DOES blame the left, for making consequences clear, not the right for creating those consequences. Do not say "there is a giant sinkhole ahead" because it will be your fault for giving a warning that is scary, not the people who dug the sinkhole. bsky.app/profile/pale...

Your enemies are people in actual power not some random person on the internet.

My shitass country keeps blowing up all the most beautiful places on earth for no real reason and yet I am still expected to play quarterly taxes

Butlerian Jihad NOW

Everyone like this, I gotta figure out what days I'm taking off work

so funny that they didn't just blow up a rocket, they destroyed their entire launch pad while getting NO useful information whatsoever. just a complete disaster lmao

I hope some of you actually take some joy in these pathetic images of this ridiculous and now boring military parade. It's a fiasco and everyone gets to point and laugh. More hard days ahead but for today enjoy.

From the scanner right now: LAPD is taking rubber bullets from LASD. I am not joking. (They're in each other's crossfire, it's a clusterfuck that they've largely brought on themselves)

Hot 107.9's Birthday Bash event vs. Donald Trump's Birthday Bash event

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

i don’t know what to say about the images coming out of LA right now. but in case you need it, here’s a reminder that out in the streets, only water goes in your eyes. flush with water. take your clothes off when you get home & take a cool shower, wash yourself with dish soap a few times. godspeed.

Putting up a fierce fight at the opening of the poem is the way to stop the rest of the poem from coming true. The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.

i really think this is more about Newsom wanting to do it than it is about being scared of Trump

we live in a society where corporations can just kill people outright and the media and police obediently declare it a suicide but if a CEO gets whacked in plain sight we must all take our hats off and bow our heads in respect for the Working Class Billionaire Hero.

getting emotional thinking about how much more common essays in excess of 3000 words were in online magazines 10 years ago

for the life of me, I will never understand why so many people/organizations/outlets have turned their previously easy-to-navigate websites into variants of the Netflix landing page: all images, no text, & sometimes videos/animation start playing for no apparent reason. please make it stop!

just got my personality quiz results

"Still gotta be careful in our Signal group chat. Don't invite a journalist to our Signal group chat!" Amazing

"I asked chat gpt" So? I asked the liver of a sacrificial sheep and it said by your actions you have lost the favor of the gods.

Why bother existing?