it's absolutely bonkers that this is all happening against the backdrop of the Epstein files

250 Rohingya refugees drowned, 30 were suffocated to death in the cramped conditions beforehand, and the world hardly bats an eye. Are their lives any less valuable? www.ucanews.com/news/when-si...

If you're a producer for a cable news show, you should have a tight two-minute montage with a sampling of the many times Donald Trump has encouraged political violence, just waiting for the inevitable Republican guest who tries to pretend Democrats are the real problem here.

in case you hadn’t heard, los angeles gen z royalty have a new game that’s all the rage: tear ass into the scientology building in hwood and see how far deep in you can get before staff is able to stop you. they’re building a map to share so someone has a better chance of getting further next time

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

The president posted a video of him dropping literal shit on his political opponents from a military plane. His administration compared them to Isis. I could go on and on but this is barnyard stuff.

Of course, this wouldn't be such a struggle for many if salaries at least kept up with the cost of living; if historically feminized professions were truly valued; and if there was universal basic income. And if the rich were taxed accordingly, with that money building a stronger social safety net.

Young people are, right now, en masse, understanding that the violence, the rights abuses, and the suppression inherent to the US system go much deeper than trump. Powerful people are discussing "people being radicalized against the american way of life" to describe this, and to hold onto power.

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It's interesting to consider how lib normies, viscerally appalled by Trump in the same way a peasant was by his landlord tearing up the moral economy and blissfully unburdened by a radical's self-consciousness around failed leftist violence, may be the left-of-center faction more prone to violence

I have done the workings on whether Europe is doing as well as the USA after all, once you tot up all the social ills risked by the typical US citizen. open.substack.com/pub/gileswil...

🧵1/9 Recently released maps are showing “interstellar glaciers” inside the Milky Way. NASA’s SPHEREx mission has created wide IR maps of vast clouds of frozen water, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide spread across hundreds of light-years. It’s mind-blowing.🔭🧪⚛️ www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/interst...

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The Time Line Comedy Club is a trip.

Mars Collapse Pit, December 28, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a pit that has formed on the south polar layered deposits. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

“The next phase of progress will depend not only on better models &new applications but also on clearer expectations for how clinical impact is def’ed, eval’ed & communicated.W/o a clear connection btwn claims & evidence, medical Al risks being adopted faster than its real value can be understood”🧪🛟

Workers fight for MONEY so we can have the POWER to demand the RESPECT we deserve! They want us broke, stressed out, and distracted. We want food on our table, and some free time to relax. But collective action comes first. Join us. #MoreThanMayDay

The regime’s detention camps are a moral abomination. They’re also massively unpopular in every community where they’ve been proposed. But there can’t be a public backlash if local residents don’t even realize DHS is planning a concentration camp in their communities. That’s where we come in.

woah woah woah okay with the rhetoric! bsky.app/profile/pale...

A more geopolitically cogent and morally clear take than you’ll get from most Democratic electeds

They should make edible books.

People frequently post what RW people say on X. Which is fine I guess. But it's always nonsense. Might as well post barnyard animals.

I really enjoyed this interview with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social. I'm sincerely very happy to hear two never-trump conservatives talking about white supremacy. I'm going to be harsh though because I'm a leftist and this isn't personal it's my view of the case: 1/

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Reminder that I actually do journalism sometimes and you should read the last thing I had published 😁

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Wrote a bit about acceptance and pain #chronicpain

Whatever the shooter's motive, we know the background temperature raises the likelihood for violence. The poignancy of this happening at the WHCA is it is emblematic of our society not coming to grips with the Horror of this movement. All the sanewashing, the status quo, busines-as-usual.

Im convinced the average american over 50 does actually believe in climate change, whether they publicly admit it or not its wild af when your grandma would rather support subsidies for oil companies instead of wanting you to also be able to experience snow days and white Christmases

Going through about 650 million years of evolution over the course of the first hour every morning, from sea sponge to hominid.

Sitting on the crest of my my cognitive delusions, trying to maintain balance on a little rubber ducky.

I CALLED IT!

Commenting because there’s an interesting cultural difference here. I don’t think there’s a single film I’ve seen 6 times, and I’ve never seen a Star Trek, LOTR, or Ghibli movie. The Marvels and Disneys I’ve seen have mostly been against my will, except Black Panther.

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Imagine the poor M.E. having to do an autopsy on a body murdered with one of these.

Reading people confidently declaring they think it was staged and have you people learned nothing.

Pulling back the lens from the manure pile of evidence the right has always been this way… we come to the WHCA dinner tonight and…

9 fucking years ago 🙄

The controlled opposition isn’t the Democratic Party, it’s the mainstream press.

This is the way www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Some of them are genuinely anti-Trump. But they're wrong about this. The case against court-packing (and that's what it is, I don't like "expansion" as a euphemism) depends on having a court that's behaving within the outer bounds of tolerability. This court blew past that some time ago.

There’s a story the right tells where the left is always on the verge of becoming terrible. The religious talk about moral degenerousy and the patriots American decline. The capitalists call it totalitarianism. Sodom & Gomorra. American carnage. The Road to Serfdom. 1/7

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Wonder if they’ll be hading out plastic tarps to the front row at the WHCA dinner tonight.