Listening to Vance speak is the aural equivalent of chewing aluminum foil.

Also good to remember is how compartmentalized this kind of info is w/in our military/intel agencies. Often one will catch the other doing smth but will get confused cause they didn’t have “need to know” and had 0 context for what was seen.

Pro tip denied. Democrats can only gain and maintain control of their various state and national level offices via bipartisanship a la accomplishing the fascist’s policy goals so as to straddle the political divide and create unity blah blah blah - DNC official (probably)

*against the bourgeoisie and their armed agents of repression.

There’s a lot of (bad) ways to read They Live, but my fav bad way is that Piper is a newly minted Marxist revolutionary who - upon his political awakening - immediately begins unlimited war against the bourgeoisie of LA. We could all stand to learn a thing or two from him.

Door to door? Damn, I never thought I’d find myself on the pro Castle Doctrine side of things, but nothing else makes sense anymore, so sure. Why not?

I wait for the day ICE agents will encounter a reverse Golden Rule.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Genuinely don’t understand how George Clooney and Brad Pitt never made a late ’00s remake of The Sting à la Ocean’ 11.

Goddamnit yes! This is where we‘ve been almost since ’01. FUCK. YOU must DO. SOMETHING. Cops wont. YOU must DO. SOMETHING Mayors won’t. YOU must DO. SOMETHING Governors won’t. YOU must DO. SOMETHING State and federal representatives won’t. YOU must DO. SOMETHING

Am I nuts, or is the Gronkowski Uncrustables ad read on Spotify unintentionally SUPER homoerotic? Or did they just want it to sound like it was accidental??

No sleep for the dumbfucks who tell you you’re the bad one for staying. They don’t know Sophie Scholl. They don’t know the French partisans. They don’t know Nestor Mahkno. They don’t know John Brown. You aren’t a coward for leaving, but you aren’t a fascist for staying either.

Why haven't they forced a vote already? Procedure. The biggest enemies the American populace faces are #1: the GOP, and tied for #2 Billionaires, and the Dem’s absolute dearth of political creativity and slavish devotion to procedure. “keeping our eyes on the ball” - like, from the couch? Wtf

If the headline was written by s/one with guts: On Saturday, the US government invaded, and then illegally deposed and abducted the president of Venezuela in a brazen act of unprovoked military aggression. @forbes.com

agree or disagree with school shootings, you can't help but be in awe of the efficiency of the AR-15

Don’t forget all the covid loan forgiveness fraud by sitting members of congress and enough corporations to fill the Mariana trench

With all this imperial war crime-ing going on, we better start ramping things up at the Talking Head factory to feed the Fox News industrial complex or there won’t be enough degenerate, fascist shitheads to run things from their TV camera facing desks…

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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

And if drawing up articles of impeachment doesn’t work, I wouldn’t be disappointed if members of congress drew literal pistols (tho, half of them would use pencils I’m sure. Dorks).

Did Trump abduct the US congress too? Fucking silence almost as trump basically issues a unilateral declaration of war on Venezuela. wtf is going on? At what point do the Democrats in the federal decide to do anything besides look worried, tweet, eat hot chips and lie?

If Dems really cared about What Happened Today they'd be flooding everyone's texts asking for money to somehow stand against it

None. …Idiot

What I wouldn’t give for the entire administration (cabinet, both houses, and fuck, throw in the judiciary) to conduct a sort of live reenactment of Jonestown with a couple hundred bottles of drano and some solo cups.

Suddenly finding myself very pro Greenland becoming a nuclear power...

This list of places to burn down and pave with irradiated concrete is getting fucking redundant as all hell...

Damn, another new year and I’m still mad about the Patriot Act. WTH am I even supposed to do?

Idk, but if I were him, I’d just stand too long in front of a moving train for everything that’s happened as a result of me being a moron centrist. It would be the moral choice.

Good luck finding a jury to indict him tho.

Who gives a fuck even if she did? Anyway, Loomer is a world champion dumbass. Fuck her. Fuck the GOP. Free Palestine.

You can tell we don’t get a lot of sincere politicians by how utterly weird legacy media is anytime someone says what they mean and means what they say.

We really need to start understanding death via abuse and neglect at the hands of bureaucratic systems (as opposed to directly, at the hands of an individual) for what it *really* is: MURDER. And I when we are able to respond to it as such, maybe then… idk. Anyway fuck this government

My toxic trait is that thats the whole reason I got the vaccine in the first place. Then again, this kind of shit is also why I don’t gamble.

Having been a long time listener to Tides of History, it’s a damn shame and a tragedy that this Is a predominantly text based medium and we don’t have audio/video of Dr Wyman screaming. I really want to see the most swol historian ever, shouting Shia Lebouf style into the camera.

transgender for everyone this new year

Cool. I can’t wait for all the stupidest, most disingenuous people I know to start quoting this without context or nuance like everything is totally fine and there’s nothing to complain about.

New resolution just dropped folks

One of the more fascinating things lately is seeing occasional updates about all the past GOP presidential candidates who lost out to DJT. Scott, Perry, Rubio, Graham, Cruz, Paul… so much ”great American“ schtick back then, so much fascist grifter BS now. Almost like this is who they were all along

*busily commissioning every local artist I can find to recreate her work in memoriam

This is how you do it folks

Listen, I love the theater and the arts, but this whole saga about the Kennedy Center is the most wretched, pearl-clutchingist, bourgeois handwringing shit anyone could be bothering with right now. It matters, but in light of everything else, who tf cares.

Pop that baby into the slot and get me a Mr Pib

Hot take: this is totally fine and cool actually. Rules are imaginary. Nothing matters. Murder is nice. You can just straight up murder people or even target a specific individual and nothing happens. We could all be doing exactly that. YOU could do this. From a clock tower. The world would be a-ok.

The increasingly convoluted (and self defeating) methods which corps. will go to IOT avoid needing to rely on skilled humans for literally anything is astounding. Writers, artists, editors, etc all have 1 thing in common: they’re human, and humans demand rights and compensation. CEOs hate that.

Being a stereotypical big D trans girl is weird cause you’ll be all ready to go out and then realize you’ve stretched the hell out of the the crotch of your panties and now you look like s/one stuffed a hackysack down your pants and that sick at outfit you had on is ruined.

Don’t get it… is the joke that trump (and by extension maga) are hypocrites? Or is the joke class commentary on the absurd unlikelihood of ICE being used on wealthy white passing ppl? ? ???

Leave? We can do better than that. I believe (with proper effort) we as a country have it in us to craft a wealth tax capable of convincing billionaires to seek the welcoming climes of an active volcano.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Damn. The inability or unwillingness to distinguish between the gains of feminism and the coercive influence of capitalism on it makes a person look stupid af. Credit cards. No fault divorce. Abortion. Home ownership. Bank accounts. Domestic abuse laws. Pretty much every career path. Come on!

Listen. All I’m saying is, if just FILMING ICE raids is enough to land s/one on terrorism charges, then what’s even stopping a person from doing the kind of stuff we traditionally thought of as “terrorism” a decade ago? This kind of escalation by the DOJ is fucked in the short AND long term.