Techbros want technofeudalism where they rule with an iron fist through mass surveillance and autonomous drones, the latter being important because it free them from being constrained/having to listen the military. Truly individualized control over an society held at gunpoint

people should be safe in churches and schools and grocery stores and bars. they should be safe where they live and where they work and where they learn and where they worship. our society is sick; it is death-loving and death-dealing. god help us. help us turn from our evil ways and live

"Has your country ever been so xenophobic it's easier to imagine elder care robots than permissive immigration?" is a real test of our time

Here’s the thing about America: you know which mf in this vid we’re rooting for.

agree; the don't-fight-numbers-fuckstein types like ezra [probably] know that they're about to get jettisoned in the blue tea party and are desperately trying to negotiate away their pending irrelevance

this is cinema. like the panning up at the end, as the action fades into the background and dissipates? absolute kino

ICE agents brutalize yet another American citizen through extrajudicial and illegal arrest but this may be the first time (in the current crisis) where a citizen was beaten near death. bsky.app/profile/long...

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

"the administration’s new National Defense Strategy is expected to significantly shift attention and resources away from preparing for a conflict with China to sharply focus on homeland defense and military use at home" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Oh I think you'll find that they just pretend that this never happened and was justified and SCOTUS will have played enough procedural games without getting into the merits to firmly rule on the merits against democrats

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

VHERR AH YOUR PAPERS????

A classic interactive fiction ad from the 1980s, back when text adventures got full-page ads instead of me bothering you here to play my games

Incredible watching the garden walls go up as a matter of (mostly) right wing state policy

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks. This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential

these guys are so familiar and domesticated now, it seems hard to properly convey just how weird this pilot was, a different world filled with bizarre shit making no real attempt to color within the lines of the still very popular movies … like a weird day-glo bomb set off right in the living room.

So part of the reason Adams was involved with Turkish corruption specifically is cause some guys in Ankara saw this and believed they had an in with a future US president cause they did some shady real estate stuff with Adams back when he was Brooklyn Borough president

Imo difference between Groups (derogatory, The Groups, etc) and just being a group is the ability to reliably deliver actual votes. A group that wants things and can deliver votes in exchange for those things is just normal politics. if you make lots of demands with no constituency that’s A Group

Terribly sorry sir, the table of success is fully booked this evening. May I offer you a 7:30 at the table of embarrassing failure

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

one way you could describe lincoln's approach is of never getting ahead of the public on its attitudes, but holding an immovable set of principles on where the country ought to be and where he hopes to lead it

you'll notice two things. 1st, that lincoln made repeated concessions to the public's anti-black racism. and 2nd, that lincoln never budged on his view of the declaration ("all men *are* created equal") or compromised on his opposition to the extension of slavery

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

Multiple people were shot at a Michigan church, which was also set on fire, authorities say abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-...

He would probably make a better contribution to the cause by continuing to write lesbian self-insert fanfic

i think a fundamental issue with our politics right now is that with the collapse of mediating institutions there is a critical mass of more or less politically unsocialized 'free agent' voters thermostatically seesawing the system, which is an extremely destabilizing influence

think this meaningfully ups the chances that a bunch of generals are about to get purged

of all the things about ta-nehisi coates’s philosophy i wish people would internalize the main one is: sometimes you lose

Cannot be repeated enough: this was not a voluntary resignation program. Workers were told they were more valuable in the private sector, that they might be fired from their jobs, that they could expect no reasonable work accommodations, that they would work for leaders who were undermining services

There was a story from this time about some hippy family who lived in a bus, and how they took their young daughter to Forks, WA because she was a big fan of the Twilight series. The town thought this was an ‘antifa bus’ and worked themselves into a frenzy on facebook and terrorized them.

it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real

"with Steiner's medbeds, everything will be all right"

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

fifty years after the second nuremberg trials there are gonna be kids going into their grandfathers basement and finding these in carefully hidden display cases

this is great - note that there's still police, but they're now part of a larger, county-wide department. the extreme localism of US policing is a *huge* part of its corruption, especially when you get to stuff like sheriff's departments.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

Some of us have been screaming for years that THIS IS NOT HOW ACTUAL HUMAN POLITICS WORKS, that you don’t win a contest for hearts and minds by algorithmically selecting a topic and hammering it, but it genuinely appears our Dem leaders are simply not capable of thinking about this any other way.

Yes, that is precisely what is happening. Dems believe the way to win in politics is to outsource their own voices and rhetoric to pollsters, and pollsters relentlessly push the idea that health care is Dems’ strongest issue, and thus every event and crisis should be redirected towards health care.

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

i do think it’s worthwhile to note that trump’s social media post about invading portland with “full force” appears to have taken everyone, including the oregon national guard, completely by surprise, there’s no actual plan here

the president is lying about portland

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

NEW: Days before a decades-long contract between CPB and NPR is due to expire (and would normally be renewed), CPB announced Friday that it is giving nearly $60 million over five years to a newly formed coalition entity. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.