I know that when I gather all of my military commanders in one spot, I make sure to tell the entire world about it.

I remain unconcerned by the memo, because at the end of the day there are no magic words that convey powers that did not exist before they were uttered nor were any powers restrained for lack of their utterance.

Knowing a (very) little (but probably more than your average person) about the record keeping requirements for porn, this was my immediately what I thought when I read the article. 😝😮‍💨

Fuck the Mann Act but also fuck lawyers who think the sex industry is some weird netherworld just over the county line where normal rules don't apply. This isn't Porky's.

I will resist going into the legal underpinnings here because the Mann Act is a witches' familiar that need not be summoned. But the prosecution is going to immediately ask for model releases, IDs and all the other things we do to remain ... viable. We're not a get out of jail free card.

We are obviously in horrible danger. I am not downplaying the threat against us. I am simply saying it's good to maintain some perspective about whether or not the FBI is going to come for each and every one of us in the coming months It's important not to panic

The US has declared war against IKEA

I am putting my art up in public for everyone. Pen and ink and color pencil on cardboard. Abolish ICE.

Out in Madison at Crucible for a burlesque show my friend is hosting, so that's cool.

Trump seems completely unaware of Hegseth's upcoming Virginia meeting with all top brass in the US military Vance knows about it though

Diddy's lawyers now claim that he is immune from Mann Act charges because he was merely a "producer of amateur porn" and thus protected by the 1st Amendment. I have news for Mr. Combs and it is not good. For any of us.

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

Alright betting pool for the reason behind the Quantico meeting: - deploying troops to hunt down antifa: 2:1 - in-person transgender inspections: 4:1 - invading greenland: 5:1 - invading canada: 7.5:1 - party invite inadvertently sent to the email list: 15:1 - party invite purposefully sent: 25:1

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I keep imagining we'll get to a point where we can switch from "is authoritarianism happening" to "is it good that authoritarianism is happening": a darker but far more honest conversation Delusion is a hell of a thing and I'm starting to doubt we get there

she looms!

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

The League is one of those shows that I shouldn't like because I don't have any interest in football, but it's actually about high school friends being awful to each other into adulthood, which I have both interest and experience in. But yeah, the whole actor-who-plays Kevin thing is so wild.

bonuses to heretic/apostate/blasphemer phrasing: -emphasizes this is an internecine faith dispute -does not put the onus on nonchristians to sort good from bad -gets to the meat of it (punchy) -does not imply christianity and goodness are synonymous

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

when you're out of ideas

Like I don't gaf if you want to take a GLP-1 for whatever reason, but thinking that someone was actually trying to address a systemic issue that needs a solution and instead they're just another "HIMs" or whatever made me angrier than I thought it would!

Yeah I guess that's the same as when I was forced to withdraw from meds *my Dr prescribed* bc she didn't know how Kaiser (her employer) worked or being left in pain for months bc Drs didn't believe I had conditions I'd been diagnosed with or the times I ended up in the ER bc Drs decided I was lying

There's a concierge medical service I hear ads for a lot & their whole thing is it was started bc ppl complain about being dismissed & not believed by Drs, which is a HUGE problem but the example review they share is from a person who was tired of "trying to convince" Drs that they need a GLP-1 🙃

Critical thinking skills are generally not respected, valued, or taught in American culture, so how can we be surprised by an outcome like this?

You literally can't believe anything this administration releases to the press (who then mostly go on to publish it verbatim with zero scrutiny so by extension...)

Aside from being weird and bad and ominous, this seems like a meeting that probably shouldn't be public knowledge opsec-wise

Allegedly they wouldn’t “have to vacuum so much” if I stopped “being so dramatic” when they are “just trying to brush me” which all sounds fake. I choose neither

This weekend marks a year since Hurricane Helene poured into our mountains, creating both big C catastrophe and small C communism. To grapple with what we'd experienced, we created a Disaster Reading Group, initially focused on exploring Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built In Hell." 1/

this week i learned that the anarchist scientist peter kropotkin was the guy who discovered how glaciers move and also wrote maybe the first treatise on the need to combat climate change

Everyone involved at PBS should be ashamed, especially by the entire lack of any contrary perspective, any fact-checking. Not even anyone to point out that crime in NM was down, that these interventions don't reduce crime, or even that they have other devastating consequences.

(Also, as a bonus, the Governor trumpets the "community policing" lie that I address at length in the book. She and PBS hide from liberal audience that CP is actually itself a military counterinsurgency technique taken from colonial policing and developed by US, French, and UK military!)

Worse, the reporter (cheering along like a personal AI-bot) lets Governor do this at a time of near-historic crime lows in New Mexico. Even worse, reporter lets her demand even more authoritarian repression as a solution to this fear, despite overwhelming evidence that this is like flat-earth stuff.

THREAD. PBS news recently aired a dangerous news segment, full of misinformation. The incident is not only embarrassing for PBS and Democrats, but it portends dark days for the future of our society that editors published it. People at the network should be doing some deep soul searching.

We're actually having trouble securing a spot in Chicago, our hometown :( (This is mostly because it's such short notice, btw.) Let us know if you're interested in screening Bad Pedophile and you have a big space in town: [email protected]

always towards the beautiful idea

It is perfectly "journalistic" to say, “here is a structure, here is why it is, and here's how that affects this person's life, and here are things that would change it.” The forces which define us need to be illustrated, but not necessarily spoken for. The status quo speaks for itself at all times.

Don’t do it Erika. No matter what don’t accept that man’s cum.

the people who work the morning commuter shift at the union station starbucks are significantly braver than the troops

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You know what word sucks? Comptroller. Horrible word.

“Dwell” is a fantastic word. Really S-tier among words.

i will write forever because that’s what i do but im not so attached to Having a Writing Career that i would ever let the invisible hand of the market strangle to death the things i love about it just to keep my job lol

well meaning people love to be like ‘aren’t you scared of being left behind if you don’t start using AI in your work’ and from the bottom of my heart: no, im not scared of that. i would rather go back to restaurants for the rest of my life than publish AI ‘books’

I love when the journalist nonverbally directs the cameras to keep following him.

Surveillance companies justify helping ICE and Trump with ‘democracy’ “It's not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.” 🔗 www.404media.co/how-surveill...