Here's an update on the big survival project. It's going to have lots and lots of visuals: www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/project-c-ga...

Here's an update on the big survival project. It's going to have lots and lots of visuals: www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/project-c-ga...

There's a big difference between "giving up" and deciding to put your time and energy somewhere else.

MTG resigning while Trump and Mamdani pal around at the White House. Did we somehow merge into a mirror universe because nothing makes sense right now.

Remember when some of us were talking about toxic positivity? This is where we warned everyone it would take us: Companies make smiling an official job requirement while our governments abandon their responsibilities and tell everyone the real problem is their attitude and appearance.

When this regime does a new horrible thing, it's not a distraction from the other horrible things they're doing. They're just doing a bunch of horrible things.

Hey, I'm working on a practical book about making it through long-term disasters and emergencies. The best part? It's not going to disappear when the internet does. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/project-c/

Fascist dictators who plan to rig future elections do not have lame duck periods.

So the Epstein files are going to be released? The House and Senate both approve? The president will sign off? This means all the predators will go to jail, including Trump?

Oh no. If this goes through it might become morally and socially unacceptable to watch Harry Potter.

We're draining the continent dry to produce beef, and 12 percent of Americans eat half of it. 12 percent.

Important: The anti-vaxx movement is closely connected to white supremacy. They blame the spread of measles on immigrants, and they frequently target immigrant communities with anti-vaxx disinformation.

I'm so glad to see Tom Nichols finally getting what he deserves years after repeatedly declaring that it was worth sacrificing the vulnerable to pretend we live in a world without dangerous airborne diseases.

"My" local police threatened to arrest me for trying to protect a homeless guy eating a sandwich on my front porch, not bothering anyone. I *do* fear every interaction with my local officials will turn into an interaction with the Regime, and it's been that way for a long, long time.

Between Tom Nichols and Ezra Klein, I have no idea why Democrats are struggling with such a low approval rating.

you think ten years makes you safe? my brain is cursed bitch

Blue Sky censored one of the most important writers of our times, and they owe her an apology. In the meantime …

She's back. Yes, Bluesky should apologize to her. It's outrageous that writers and journalists are under assault in this country, and the site that claims to be "billionaire proof" is also sabotaging us at every opportunity.

Bluesky has been struggling for months now. Sarah Kendzior's inexplicable suspension marks the beginning of the end for this place. You can't promote yourself as an alternative to other platforms and then behave worse than them.

This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.

My gut hunch: Kendzoir was probably not banned by a human for any reason, but by an automated computer process by accident, and BlueSky doesn't want to admit this mistake nor to open up that automation for debate. It wants the power to let computers do this w/o expending $ for human review.

@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted. Hours later, you said it was a mistake. Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.) Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?

If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

"Here are the only 9 books Elon Musk has ever cracked open."

Anyone who still defends Establishment Democrats just doesn't read enough. They secretly enable fascism so they can campaign off it. They've been doing it for a long time. They did it again last night.

A lot of people will keep telling you to "have faith in the system" simply because they need the rest of us to validate their delusions.

Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.

So we can have food, or we can have healthcare, but we can't have both, while billionaires become trillionaires.

I can promise everyone on this planet, nobody wants to see neurodivergent people like me try to "smile more." For everyone's sake, don't make us do this.

At least one study has shown that having to smile and perform happiness for patrons and customers shreds your mental health and leads to higher rates of drinking and substance abuse. What does it say about the fragility of Americans that everyone must smile at them constantly?

Last time, it was the Mueller report. This time, it's the Epstein files. If anything is going to change for real, people have to wake up and see Trump and Epstein as products of a larger system built on exploitation and violence.

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

So many universities have shown us they actually don't care about anything other than money. It was always like that to some extent, but this last year...

I can't even

If MAGA can't force layoffs, they'll simply drag out the shutdown until federal employees start quitting in mass. Most of us can't go more than a few weeks without a paycheck, and they know because they made it that way.

People actually love fear. They love being afraid. They only accuse you of fearmongering when you tell them something they don't want to hear.

AI is utterly incapable of serving humanity, because it consumes extraordinary amounts of water and other resources that humanity needs to live, at a time when we're running out of them.

Unfortunately, I think that's how they want it. They want white supremacists to be able to kidnap anyone they want. They'll "warn" us about it, they'll "urge" agents to ID themselves, when they could *require* them to, not just when they feel like it's "safe." They want to do nothing.

He gets it.

Oh s**t the stock market really IS about to crash

It just keeps getting worse. No, feminism doesn't pretend "both sexes are the same." It says the truth, that men and women can achieve the same, regardless of whatever differences are perceived or real. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Wow -- look at OpenAI trying to shift responsibility to the users: 🧵>> www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Take a break while you can, rest while you can. As some of us already know, it will never be over.

If nothing else, I can agree with this statement by Jeffries.

Democrats won big. If it holds through 2028, it's going to be interesting to watch all the tech giants pretend they're not a bunch of MAGA fascists.

When I said we were treating for black widows, one of my own readers called me a fearmonger. You can learn a lot about our society's eroding threat sensitivity by looking at how they respond to common dangers. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-gaslight...