In the future "Elon Musk" will solely be a descriptor of the scent of bullshit and no one will remember, or believe, the term was named for an actual guy.

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

At least Mussolini was housebroken

What scares me is that they're setting up for a sucker punch of some kind. They wouldn't let this out of they planned on suffering consequences.

One giant bag filled with pennies at the top of a hill has the opportunity to do the funniest thing...

It’s times like this that the back of my mind says…Megatron Was Right…

When the police are deciding what happens and is okay, outside of the law, then that is a Police State. I hope this helps !

They used to just give jobs to people

The fetishization and abuse of girls and young women is just as normalized today as it was when Epstein got started. Look no further than the culture of exploiting child stars, who today are predominantly online influencers, followed by shaming and blaming them for their sexuality as young adults

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

we’ve known Chomsky was a piece of shit since he tried to downplay and deny the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 70s, but I’m glad more people are *finally* figuring this out

The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.

Artists and writers are now doomed to waylay the unwary on social media because the people who used to take a cut of our earnings in exchange for explaining how lives would be enriched by owning what we made, decided that making the artists do everything (except make a living) is far more efficient.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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Think of how much better the world would be if we just hold everyone involved with the Epstein crimes accountable. Nothing will fall apart. Everything would improve.

Florida legislature has to vote on it because it’s law here. I personally don’t think it I’ll happen. They hate desantis and don’t want to do anything to move his agenda forward.

Good morning Happy happy Black History month Abolish ICE is still the bare minimum

It's hard to overstate how NORMAL it was to sexualize teen girls when I was growing up. "Jailbait" jokes were everywhere, I was constantly sexually harassed by men in cars when walking to school in 6th grade. Epstein is of an cohort where it was GENERALLY maybe a little edgy but not extreme.

Wanting to be thin isn’t a fringe perspective, nor is it edgy. It is the dominant narrative in a profoundly anti-fat culture. And in this particular moment, making media about how it’s okay to want to be thin also acts as de facto advertising for some of the wealthiest corporations in the world.

Thank God. That poor baby went through hell. But there are more children imprisoned in that place, & we need to save them all.

A bystander took a heart-wrenching picture of Liam Ramos in his hat and Spiderman backpack, and there was pressure, and he and his father are free. We must not forget all the prisoners still in the camps whose names and faces are known only to their loved ones. We must make miracles for them, too.

I testified Friday on the history of CBP and ICE's corruption and training problems. It's so much worse than you think. The population of CBP officers/agents arrested THEMSELVES since 2005 would be America's 4th largest police dept—larger than the Philly PD. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

If every website removed their paywall for a week, you'd see how much of what's in the Epstein files was covered in real time. And you'd remember what actually happened in the first Trump term and how everything he's doing now was announced then. Paywalls are a massive self-inflicted wound.

This year's Black History Month Theme is A century of BHM Commemorations! It's been 100 years since the first observance of Black History Week.

With how much of our history in the United States steeped in death, destruction, and harassment done to us, BHM has been an opportunity to recognize our impact on this country despite it all. Here's to another 100 years of recognition of who built this country and whose souls are tied to this land.

All of this is making me physically quite barfy. Not going to share my story, but reading one paragraph of testimony from a victim has me all but rattling apart. Please direct kindness towards victims.

Yeah this. Actual direct abusers are fairly small in number, but they are allowed to abuse large numbers because their colleagues/acquaintances/friends ignore or whitewash their behavior.

This elite project taking place right now to distance Epstein from his friends and allies and try to wipe their slates clean is a way to protect elitism itself in the face of more evidence that it is a house of cards, filled with people who do not deserve to be there.

The reality is that our existing culture, systems, and people in power enable the most horrific of crimes because they are selfish at best or participating directly in those crimes at worst, but all of them are culpable, as is anyone in the world who looks the other way from abuse or tolerates it

The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped

I'm not setting things on fire nearly as much as I want to and frankly people are not grateful enough for that

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

There are lots of cases of people, mainly men, who aren’t particularly intelligent or capable but benefit from the existence of rape and abuse culture simply because they recognize you can

exactly Epstein was like all wealthy organized criminals: someone who saw a gap between supply and demand that legal businesses weren't able to fill, and realized that law enforcement wasn't really all that interested in prosecuting him for filling that gap

Oh my God, no wonder Ted Cruz has needed to travel with a suitcase full of Campbell's canned for 20 years!!!

Buried in this article is the astonishing news that "Across the state Democrats have recruited candidates to run in all 150 state House districts, 16 state Senate districts and every other state and federal contest on the ballot". G-d bless Texas, get on their level.

I urge you to pick a candidate and volunteer for em, or volunteer for the party.

For too long state Dem parties in the south have ceded elections and allowed them to be uncontested - it was a big part of the reason I burned out hard on electoral organizing when I lived in Virginia.

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Takeaway: Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service" This has 2 parts: 1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data 2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse

Fascists quickly tire of safeguards. Three days ago the head of CISA (🤯!!!) got busted circumventing these safety measures, throwing sensitive government documents into the growing pile of privatized data.

To avoid obviously targeting voters, another layer of data can be used to provide deniability, however flimsy. For example, IRS data could be used to map key voters who also owe back taxes.

Voter data unlocks the possibility of ICE targeting key polling precincts, swing districts, election officials or individual voters. ICE leadership could conceivably order voter repression up at any address, like an Uber.

As sure as walking off with hard drives is illegal, what DOGE did with Palantir is illegal. The laws they violated have boring names like the Antideficiency Act, the Privacy Act, and Federal Acquisition Regulation. These are laws the government used to enforce *on itself*. Not anymore.

A few days later, Wired reported that DOGE was building exactly this: cross-government data connections with Palantir — the literal company with that name, not just the metaphor.

At the time of the GSA DOGE presentation I feared that the goal of this AI strategy was to make a continuous pushbutton repression system patterned on the metaphor of Palantir from LotR.