FIFA is long overdue for being forcibly dissolved. The league, and the teams, should be owned and operated by the players, the staff, and their communities. Remove the useless oligarch "owners" and corrupt league administrators.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Absolutely insane to me that anyone would commit murder, not to mention endangering their career and their freedom, to serve the racist whims of a constitutionally-disqualified rapist pedophile. Obviously anyone susceptible to that *needs* to be removed from any chain of command anywhere, but wow.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

No mention that Prospera is the flagship project of the Network State cult. This is why I say this stuff isn't being covered by the mainstream media. The Network State is crucial context, since this cult has seized US government control and is trying to build these cities all over the world.

At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.

The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS. The coup was over in hours because people said no.

Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.

Send that text. Record that voice memo. Someone just sent me one that made me tear up. You never know what someone is going through. Though my thing is public, you never know. ❤️

Listen I'm boycotting Amazon like everyone else But that county has multiple megadairies & a history of manure spills. A few minutes of searching pulled up one dairy with 28,000 cows, another with 70,000 cows. Respectfully, how does anyone think *Amazon* is the reason their water is a mess?

It is still imperative for states governed by adults to implement our own approval AND SUPPLY pipelines for essential medications (incl vaccines, IV fluids, devices, birth control). I see so little movement on something that needed to be started last November. Time is running out.

Conservatism has never been about improving the lives of humans. Hate will only get them so far.

Maybe we can just set ourselves free from “somebody might get something they don’t deserve”-ism in general?

TODAY IS THE DAY! GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended. I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.

I’m trans, considering going back for my PhD. This little incident is… not helping. Or it is, in all the wrong ways Universities like to pretend they’re exciting, dynamic places, the great social levelers. They’re not. They perpetuate the creation of social capital

In his "finest hour" speech, Churchill didn't just do grandiose defiance, he went on to explain "the solid, practical grounds" for continuing the war, and why "there are good and reasonable hopes of final victory." That part was just as important, and of course he was right about it all.

When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.

I am not anti-fascist, I am pro liberation. To be pro liberation means you must defeat fascism, but it also means that you fight to create a world that is liberated for all, not just against the thing that is currently harming you.

the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities

If there is a Dem Congress and President, I think the best route is much simpler. Congress can pass, and the President sign, ordinary legislation declaring that Trump's pardons are void, and then strip courts' jurisdiction to review. And then send the cops to get them.

Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

Just taking his lead from Greg Abbott of all people. Nobody punished him for this or the hundreds that died in the freeze.

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize

Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.

We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose. People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect. (*wherever you are)

Some might not even know they're doing it "An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C)."

States and localities should require, as a condition for permitting any new datacenter, the installation of renewable power generation to produce at least double the anticipated requirements of the facility. Plus payment to fund maintenance for 20 years, and no use of municipal water for cooling.

Conservatives betraying a solemn "promise" they made in order to serve their own hatred and bigotry. This is my shocked face.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video. Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.

There's no "reforming" these systems. They are functioning exactly as they were intended to. They must be dissolved and replaced by something that serves humanity instead of parasitic oligarchs.

On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Man won a narrow plurality of the vote, and immediately and very predictably started plummeting, and so many people and institutions who had no real need to go that far, even on the most cynical and cowardly of self-serving rationales, decided to chain themselves to the deck of a sinking ship.

My god. After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck. The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this. Which means this is not an isolated case. Trump's Lynching America

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Use Rule IX for an impeachment vote. When it fails, do it again. And again. And again. Deny every unanimous consent. Appeal every point of order including ones you just made up. Make every vote be recorded. Be unruly and disorderly. Call Johnson a scumbag traitor on the floor, and then keep going.

He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them. It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.

whole thing here, I also talk about media complicity and our frothin' murderous president

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

THEY SENT HER HOME????!!!! I'm not a OB-GYN, just a retired ER doc but holy fucking shit, malpractice doesn't even begin to describe what was done to this woman.

1) this from @marisakabas.bsky.social is good as always 2) as she lays out, part of the problem is there is an entire class of journalist and of publication that is obsessed…OBSESSED with access. if access can be taken away then you need to pull punches www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world. This should be a no-brainer. MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.

Don’t let the MAGA cockroaches fool you. They let this all happen. They applauded it. They supported it. They defended it. They benefited from it. They all need to go too. Traitors every one.

Hide your children from Clay Higgins.