The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

The Roberts court is a pathetically bootlicking and suborned iteration of SCOTUS.

Its the fucking easy access to guns. We are slaughtering our children for no good goddamn reason.

Patel is a fucking loser dragging the agency into the mud.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Palantir needs to meet the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Group

This is such a nauseating stew of simmering pathologies and resentments of subnormal techbros.

One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

“Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., is asking whether the nation’s top financial regulators are examining a number of trades placed moments before President Donald Trump provided a major update on the Iran war.” by Garrett Downs @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/h...

The scene was concerning enough to prompt the homeless shelter staff to call the fire department. A woman using a walker had shown up, incontinent and carrying “a large bag of medications.”

This Day in Labor History: April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passed the nation’s first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off per year to attend school!

ATTORNEY: “Please don’t tell me Trump cares about law and order. He doesn’t. Look at all the people he has pardoned… Galanis: $200M fraud… Schwarz: $38M… Duran: $205M…. Watson: $60M… fraudster after fraudster… Pardoned, all of them.” (From @cogdelllawuncensored)

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Ouch. ⛽️⛽️

NEW: During a committee hearing, House Republicans repeatedly raised hypotheticals of coordinated voter fraud as they pushed for the passage of the MEGA Act, an anti-voting bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote. The GOP argues the proposal is meant to curb fraud, which is vanishingly rare.

6/ you think you know how much money and power the AI oligarchs are amassing. I promise these numbers will shock you www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

That’s true. When their candidate is waltzing around in a union tshirt despite not being a union member and I’m over here in my second term as chapter president for my union, it’s understandable that my very existence reveals the cosplay nature of his campaign.

Altman and the AI industry are trying to blame AI doomers, bad "messaging" and "incendiary" rhetoric for the wave of violence—all of which papers over the root of rage against AI. People are angry at what *the industry itself* has promised to do; at the broader AI project as currently constituted.

AI is going to change our lives on the level of asbestos, PFAs, and microplastics.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.

"What appears to be happening at the Pentagon are services that basically recognize only a particular religious tradition. And it’s very notable that Americans United... filed suit against both the Defense Dept. and the Labor Dept..."--Judge John E. Jones III theconversation.com/why-pete-heg...

It just goes to show if you don’t put a stake through the heart of these traitors they just keep coming. With no punishment the behavior will continue.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Virginia just became the 19th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the first to sign on since 2023. The compact now holds 222 of the 270 electoral votes needed to take effect—just 48 short.

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

This is what every Amazon purchase enables. "Sam, who has CPR training, asked her supervisor if she could assist. "

I don’t even have words for this.

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during Trump’s second term—a tenfold increase from Biden. Two-thirds of the nearly 400,000 arrests since January 2025 involved people with no criminal convictions, and most Americans now say the agency has gone too far.

"Jews promote race-mixing among everyone else, to undermine the white race, while protecting their own racial purity" is a quite longtime fascist view about the Jews. It's literally part of Nazi ideology.

It isn't hard to jettison bad people instead of supporting them.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

This

Imagine Hitler "pardoning" his inner circle and people respecting that. If we don't punish each and every one of these people, we'll deserve whatever comes back to us. Like when people said it was "extrajudicial" for Biden to have tossed Trump in jail. It's the right thing to do for society.

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

I mean, we knew this was going to happen but it does just scream "keep criming, team!"

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

JFC they made the Pizzagate lawyer an immigration judge. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/r...

PSA: *reporting* Israel is bombing “Hezbollah” in Lebanon is like saying Israel is only bombing “Hamas” in Gaza — when we can all see them hitting civilians, apartment buildings, ambulances etc… all you do when you use their preferred words is sacrifice your own credibility.

Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been methodically disassembling the ability of the Pentagon to say no to orders that are illegal or immoral. trib.al/TG8tBbo

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

By Maria Amparo Nieto: "The pandemic is not over. What is over is public health and accurate information." Source: x.com/MariampaEc/s...

Oh boy, Harmeet Dhillon is not going to like this.👀 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In many ways this is an optimistic parody in light of how its played out

In honor of the anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, President Trump surrenders to Iran.

Well they both promoted violence but I think any similarity ends there.