Imagine if empire cared about life as much as it cares about death and destruction. Late capitalism's prophet is Schumpeter; its guru is Heinlein; its soul is cyborg-tweaking.

if you're in the white house press pool and your first question to trump isn't about kristi noem's husband you should be fired and permabanned from the profession

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

It's the whole "their free speech supersedes" someone else's very being and existence that is total horseshit hater nonsense quasi-religious claptrap. Maybe it's time to start using our 1st Amendment rights to tell them all how fucking stupid they are. By they I mean rightwing and religious nuts.

philosophy killed essentialism long ago. the scientific method killed it again, and all the major strains of philosophy, psychology, sociology kill it over and over as well. but you need it for white supremacy and fascism, so...

Where wings take dream

When I'm president reboots will be illegal but food will be free

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

ICE will soon be "policing" everything, won't it? That's their wet dream. What a spectacularly stupid thing America did to itself.

Klassy Karrot Holtville, CA

my people are being rounded up and sent to camps right now. as in scooping up native americans, not just natives from mexico or immigrant brown folk.

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No rizz 0 clout Look at him Aura drought

My poem "wilderness survival," originally published by @petrichorlit.bsky.social, was one of the inaugural winners of the Monarch Queer Literary Award. That means it is now available to read in the @monarch.gay anthology. So incredibly grateful 💕 Read the anthology here: monarch.gay/monarch-2026/

the reason

Send ICE to Iran! That’ll take care of two issues!

Half this app is bemoaning the fact that pizza hut no longer gives kids free pizza for doing a summer reading challenge but seriously check with your local library because ours gives out free zoo tickets and minor league baseball tickets for their summer reading prizes which is a much better deal.

The reason English spelling is full of inconsistencies and silent letters is because it’s not simply encoding how words sound. If English spelling were aiming to represent sound it would indeed be a total failure. But English spelling encodes words' meaning and history as well.

bradford beach bath house, lincoln memorial drive, milwaukee, wisconsin, 1977

Intellectual curiosity made being “uncool” irrelevant. Fiction kept me lit for the gaps and the crevices of sociality. Graffiti and trees offered counterexamples to the aesthetic Girl Plots. I still bite my nails. I still chase the butterflies i can‘t resist. I never grew “out of” it. :)

RIP Country Joe McDonald, who died yesterday at 84. Here he is in 1969 at the original Woodstock, singing the Vietnam Song aka “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag.” Absolutely NO relevance to today’s situation. NONE. youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk

The Ides of Gary

"Working class" has been a very vague term for a very long time, but we've hit a stage where it's a self-chosen label for any white man who is openly racist and/or has a beard and some muscles, which is inevitably going to lead people to some completely stupid conclusions.

AI research: Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers. Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats. Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

RiP Don Quioxte de la Mancha, you would have spiralled so much further and faster with chatgpt.

An insane warlord facing death contemplates invading Persia as his last hurrah and has enormous issues with supply lines, treacherous foreign allies, and rising debts. Is it Phillip II or Donald Trump? Take the quiz!

Serious question here: who took over for Epstein?. The billionaires didn’t suddenly lose interest in Child S.A., murder and torture!

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

happy Friday to everyone, but especially to the person who got this tattoo of my comic

"claude is alive and has anxiety" do you people hear yourselves??? its a text generator

I sincerely hope that every ancient alien scenario is eventually confirmed to just be this, and all of the goofs who wasted their lives insisting ancient people just weren't that creative or curious all go away forever

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

"Their society is not free" I say, as my paramilitary forces snatch thousands of people off the streets and throw them in concentration camps. "They don't get to choose their leaders" I exclaim, as I move to strip millions of the ability to vote. "We must liberate them!"

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

If you have to kill a bunch of children to also kill one dictator, you should not kill the dictator. And if you DON'T have to kill the kids to kill the dictator but kill the kids anyway...the dictator isn't the bad guy in that situation. Just saying.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

DHS / ice is still doing stuff in Minnesota and now the government is threatening their federal funding for state programs basically as a punishment for resistance. And even that is obscuring the fact that ICE never left a lot of the other major areas that they were operating in.

The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.

Im not mad about helping my neighbors I'm furious about sending money to random venmos and paypals when the state is sitting on billions in surplus and the federal government has money for anything they want.

‘Keep bombing people until they stop talking about the Epstein Files’ is the main plank of U.S Foreign Policy in 2026.

Gavin Newsom is an idiot for not realizing that ferociously defending trans people & tying it to everyone's rights would improve his chance to be president by 10,000% over publicly flirting with fascists while pretending he isn't one

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Read D. Seth Horton’s “The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo—Glitched” in issue 2 of The New Monuments www.thenewmonuments.com/dsethhorton....

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

"We have literally been talking about this for decades," says Carl, proudly. "That's why some many people have come down to be a part of it. Some of my friends were glad it happened today, so they could quit hearing about it!"

some YouTube asshole lied about Somalians stealing daycare subsides. so Trump is stealing healthcare from the entire state

the democratic response to the SOTU should start with “is Donald Trump a pedophile?” and from there be entirely about the files

the New York Times is pro-genocide, pro-pedophilia, and pro-cop, but the existence of trans people is a bridge too far