I don't have to give it up for the Atlantic fascism article for acknowledging fascism, because it found the space to both pat itself on the back for understanding it now, but also still frame leftists as being wrong because "it wasn't fascist when THEY were calling it that".

Something the regime has not and seemingly cannot understand is that almost every photo of people resisting ICE makes the protesters look cool as hell.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

I'm too angry to articulate precisely how I'm feeling at the moment. I will say that I'll never forgive the people who enacted or enabled this. I'll never trust this system again, and my comrades are those who will hold these criminals accountable and help build a new system in the shell of the old.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I took my daughter through adoption to go see Superman in the theater, and that final scene where Gary is playing the videos of Clark and his parents nearly had me sobbing.

"cognitive amplifier"

bus saga

The story in Minnesota is not about “clashes” or protests. What is happening here is the clearest example in my life of the government violating every basic principle America is supposedly founded upon. It is lawless, unconstitutional, and un-American.

We made it

Since Ep1 is on Youtube, I decided to give Starfleet Academy a chance. Six minutes in, and I don't think I can watch anymore of this show. I hasn't even introduced the stuff yet that I don't think I'll like; it's opening conflict is an entirely unexpected thing that I absolutely don't like.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

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not a cell phone in sight. just ppl living in the moment.

The part I'm wariest of about Starfleet Academy is that I'm a teacher, and I don't know if it will be fun for me to watch I show I know will make me think "I don't think that's good pedagogy" or "my utopian school would have different schedules, expectations, & curricula than this" every 5 minutes.

I think when you have insomnia, your work the next day should start exactly as much later as it took you to fall asleep.

I need to be more active on here instead of the other place. I feel like I’m having to relearn how to post.

I made a discovery in my daughter’s doll house.

dudes rock

rip bozo

the milgram experiments, the stanford prison experiments, satanic panic, stranger danger. i've been genuinely unmoored by how much of conventional wisdom about human behavior from my youth has turned out to be just plain fake.

Science Fiction franchise where FTL is discovered in the next few decades and every other country on Earth measures distances in lightyears and the USA chooses parsecs just to be difficult.

Bad news everyone: my appeals to my wife and in-laws to watch Star Trek II or IV have not been well received. Updates will be posted.

Pushing the button so hard my hand punches straight through the diorama…

LeVar Burton could not have guessed as a young man that a job hosting a kid's show would transform him into the Guardian of American Literacy, but he never shirked it. I have no doubt he would fight these people irl, for the kids.

I sometimes remember this old comic on Comics Alliance about the horror that Gamergate continues into 2016 and beyond, and it never left my head because of how prescient it was.

Moms Against Liberty

This is like the boss battle of a Persona game.

We’re making our way through Righteous Gemstones S3, and now I have the phrase “Uncle Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers” stuck in my head on a loop.

I took my daughter trick or treating and a woman two or three blocks over was passing out candy in the blue Lower Decks uniform.

Inside of you is one Homer, what is your Homer?

Housing is a human right and the fact we leave millions in this country unhoused is disgusting.

We need more third places, but capitalism has carved those out and cornered the market for massive profits.

Amazing how Republicans have to run on things they’re against, because if they talk even a bit about what they want to do, they say ghoulish things like “we need to raise the retirement age”

*donning pajamas at 8:30 voice* I’m entering cozy mode.

Victim of the classic dilemma (do I wake up my daughter peacefully napping now, or let her sleep and upend bedtime?)