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it's brightened my day, this has. a tonic. in this mad mad mad mad world that we have now, i feel slightly saner. thanks fellas

"I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities." -- Charles Schulz

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

The American political system is badly broken | Bernie Sanders

"Reform’s opponents need to expose every one of these gaps between Farage and the electorate, recasting Farage as a figure of the fringes ... you cannot delay – otherwise the freedoms you thought would last for ever can vanish" @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

Foreign doctors who volunteered in Gaza say they treated over 100 Palestinian children shot in the head or chest, arguing it’s clear evidence Israel is deliberately targeting minors aje.io/f7key2

fuck yes. nobody gets to arbitrarily decide that a group of people they have some sick ideas about aren't people anymore. it's completely fucked up, and it's gone on for way too long.

concerning

On Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump and the spectre of political violence. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm seeing framing that Democrats wanted this, so I thought I’d drop this article here.👇🏾

We need to be fully prepared for organizing and action without social media. Because that’s what’s coming. Citizen assemblies, face to face meetings, Signal, VPNs, physical media like leaflets, DVDs, books… What else?

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

US lawmakers have released a copy of a “birthday book” of notes given to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein which includes a letter allegedly written by Donald Trump that he previously said did not exist trib.al/rhxB3Lc

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous

things can be fixed

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

One of the biggest corporate donors to the Reform UK treason party, H.R. Smith Group sold weapons to Russia for their war against Ukraine back in March.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The medical community understands that vaccines are safe, effective & have led to the elimination of polio, measles & small pox. Secretary Kennedy does not. President Trump must ask for his resignation.

Musk & Zuck & Murdoch & Propaganda. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Technically https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/technically It might also be possible to use complex soundwaves to inderdict the festive music.

nightmare fuel

Daily reminder not to use AI and spread the word to family and friends about how it exists only to steal jobs and ideas. Plus it destroys the climate and wastes tremendous amounts of water. #BoycottAI

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on

happy labor day!

An increasing number of women are pulling on up to 40 kilograms of steel armour to take part in historic medieval combat.

Removal of a hornet's nest.

In honor of Skynet's birthday, here's the Terminator 2 teaser trailer with the music from Sesame Street's Making Crayons short

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode - spot-on by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Trump is "objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He functions as an asset." In March, British Conservative Party MP Graham Stuart raised that Trump had been groomed by the Kremlin’s security services over a period of decades.

629 missiles and drones overnight, railways took a hit and the power's out for 60,000 people, 14 were killed that we know of and idk how many injured. 100 buildings damaged, they say. it's pretty brutal. putin's not getting much pushback at home and kremlin propaganda still gets amplified on socials

"Such that they confound the senses and simultaneously seduce my bravery to dread. I am left muttering to myself a mantra of origin unknown, 'When you’re here… when you’re here… you are… family?'"

Trump: "I won because Latino voters shifted to support me!" Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country" Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

A lot happened for a Monday. But there’s a common theme: Trump’s increasing openness about his power grab. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

As Kilmar Abrego Garcia is detained again by ICE, here’s why his case has become a flashpoint for MAGA

7-year-olds are now taught to pilot drones (they've lowered the age from ten!) and let's not ignore the domestic-abuse nightmare as wife-beating rapists are released from prison to feed the war machine. after killing ukrainians, they return as "heroes". illuminating interview with anna nemtsova.

It’s stunning how many people still treat AI like a FuN nEw gADget. AI is a plagerizing/job-taking/anti-creative/anti-worker/anti-human/disgusting/Wall Street unregulated nightmare.

Notes from a Burner Phone 101 workshop. Participants learned about “phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely”. [rebeccawilliams.info]

"It’s kind of weird, right? Why would my mind make me recall that the Russian Revolution was largely ignited by a devastating economic crisis, social inequality, and the ruling class being aggressively out of touch with the suffering masses?"

just caught the back half of this interview on the RN. a real eye-opener, and well worth your time

Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.

love swartzwelder. the greatest of all simpsons writers. he's just so funny. the same tip crops up in the excellent "the woman chaser", which i recommend to everybody. youtu.be/H-hAoyec8ZM bsky.app/profile/hann...

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

We have updated our list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. He and his administration committed fifty more in July. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors