It's important we don't let them gaslight us on this. Donald Trump is a historically unpopular president who's approaching the levels of disapproval Nixon had just before he was forced to resign in disgrace.

When your regime consolidation is going great.

There's no legal authority to do this at all. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Just posted a thread on the old world site about the executive order designating antifa as a terrorist organization, and I think it's also worth saying here:

Armando Iannucci would reject the storylines from this WH as being too incompetent for even his characters.

Tbh in need of socializing; let me know if you're in the DC area and want to get coffee with another Online weirdo

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

It's Miller. It's always been Miller. ⬇️

We are ready. But we are not worthy.

Can you make your likes on here private? That and Community Notes seem like the two design things that the Everything Website still has over this place.

that streak in the 90s of insanely great variety packed cover/tribute albums tho

3/ Here is the latest post from Laura Loomer, who clearly has the ear of President Trump, calling on Trump to use dictatorial powers to destroy his political opposition. This kind of rhetoric is gaining traction in MAGA world, and Trump is now echoing it.

I might be posting on here more often, as it turns out that people doing the cringe TikTok-"unalive"-style self-censorship for "cisgender" over on the Everything Website weren't being overly cautious.

I do think ICE and CBP are doing more to radicalize voters against America's police than literally anything else

“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

Immigration restrictions in the real world are always an attack on everyone's liberty, not just immigrants

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

But also, ICE may be defining assault downwards. Incidents that would have been ignored before get elevated to "assault" now, entirely to justify the fascistic tactic of sending ICE cops cos-playing as Navy Seals to roust day laborers outside of a Home Depot.

I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing

Fuck every last person who despised AI enough to sell their souls and endorse "intellectual property."

Radical centrism between the kind of person inclined to use this term and the kind of person who pretends AI art isn't even lame on purely aesthetic grounds

Which, for those who don’t know, is undeniably illegal. Even DHS *grudgingly* admits that the statute giving Congress oversight of ICE facilities—passed in the wake of Trump 1.0 bc of, you know, all this the first time—does not give ICE the right to deny MOCs access, ever.

The tree of liberty thirsts.

"Socialism basically made the left right-wing" is some word salad shit I actually believe, and this is a good example of why.

Some recent advertisements I've seen on Xdotcom

Perhaps when we worry about Big Tech, we should spend less time focused on social media and more time focused on the companies actively helping to expand the surveillance state reason.com/2025/06/02/p...

When you use the phrase "small town," what kind of population range do you usually have in mind?

nazi shit

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

For anyone confused, I’m dark funded by the American billionaire Charles Koch, not the anarcho liberal wolverine @worstaccount.bsky.social

Hard to see this with the last 100 years of Anglo-American political history, but this is the natural economic bent of right-wing politics.

For years we'd rant about how -- despite the cold war phenomenon of right-libertarianism -- at heart reactionaries, fascists, and capitalists remained fervently opposed to markets, consistently prioritizing power at the cost of abundance. But goddamn is being proven right not particularly rewarding.

Vaguely considering writing an actual paper on this at some point. Part of the upshot is also that the best reasons for caution in "being friends with bad people" (fascists or otherwise) are also good reasons against a hard, externally pressured norm against it.

In his @nonserviammedia.bsky.social interview, @worstaccount.bsky.social mentions the reason most people shouldn’t be friends with fascists is for the mere fact that most people aren’t actually good at being friends. Friendship requires empathy & rigorously challenging your peers when they’re wrong.

Rubio justifies deporting these students in generalities because once you look at the details, they are indefensible donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

Except that there's not really much interpretation needed here. All IP law should be abolished. This includes IP law that "protects creators from AI" or whatever.

‘How’s your retirement account looking?’ Pretty good brother; I invested in wisdom [went to grad school] and it never depreciates [I have no savings]

Effective altruism discourse is a real motte Bailey thing where both the critics and the defenders are doing it.

RIP Val Kilmer. Real Genius is still probably the most underrated 80s comedy.

My main reaction to logging onto Bluesky is seeing some bleets and thinking "oh yeah, I guess I haven't seen that guy in a while" over and over

One thing that’s great about bluesky is you can get a diversity of perspectives on salient issues

it is done

Even still: each and every one of us must log off.

I've begun the one account of mine to another message thread of bleeted articles that I'm probably never going to read; that's some sign that I'll actually use this site going forward.

DARE Program Sketch Re-enactor

What's a non-partisan reason for not just folding the residential parts of DC back into Maryland instead of making DC a state?

the no true scotsman fallacy is when you think anyone is actually from scotland