The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

It was inevitable that once fundamentalists felt their power was secure, they would devolve into purity contests over who counts as Christian.

First they came for the furry artists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a furry artist. Then they came for the graphics cards and RAM. And I did not speak up because I was a console player. Then they came for the trains, and I had to stop wonder if this was just a war on autists.

That’s what I keep hoping, the boys from El Paso step out of their motel, take one breath and instantly feel their alveoli deep freeze.

I am starting to lose patience with "America was founded on white supremacy and it is core to its culture" side when they choose to ignore all of the things our ancestors did to chip away at that fact. Many of those ancestors are still with us. I feel like their legacy is being disrespected.

Brightline West, the high speed rail project between LA and Vegas, is exploding in cost and timeline. Not because of lack of planning or having trouble buying land or anything like that. It's because AI datacenters are sucking up all the labor and resources. www.railwayage.com/passenger/hi...

The Black Panthers can be far more trusted to use guns in a responsible way than anyone in ICE. That's not even close.

People who say "they don't care about polls" have an understanding of soft power that rivals Cersi Lannister. And so does Stephen Miller.

This warms my anarchist cockles

They do Nazi shit because they are Nazis.

Think BMW cares if Trump makes their cars more expensive for Americans? They're masters of making Americans overpay for their cars. It's why they exist. Trump is a bully overplaying his hand. Treat him like one.

"Vibecoding is fast fashion for software" is a hilarious take that I sorta love.

Try to think of it from another perspective. For example, if you were a complete piece of shit, this argument would make sense.

Friends, it's not like "Insurrection Act" is some victory condition that Miller achieves if he accumulates enough points. It just means he can send increasingly less reliable elements into places like Minneapolis.

When a racist sees the cartoon below, I think they come away with a different message. It's not "this whole system is hypocritical". It's more "if they gain power, they're going to do to us what we did to them".

"The land did not invite conquest disguised as order. The demand to 'come the right way' echoes across history with painful irony. 🛶⚔️ Indigenous peoples were already home. The idea of permission was imposed, not agreed upon ... History sounds different when the land speaks first." via PowWows.com

Cosmo writes a lot of bad sex advice. I nominate this for their worst sex advice of all time. Even by Cosmo standards, this one sticks out as uniquely terrible.

nothing more properly honors Scott's memory than a crude cartoon drawn incompetently by a plagiarism robot

Lemme expand on this. The good news is that fascists have lost. Only a matter of time now. Bad news is that if they lose now, establishment Dems get to sit in power. They're useless, and won't do a thing to stop this from happening again 🧵

Thank you. A general strike is something that needs tons of groundwork behind it. People who shout it randomly have very obviously never read a smidge of organizing theory.

There has been radicalization among the Dem base, but what they haven't come to accept yet is that Dems don't want the things they want. It's not about them being too cowardly to reign in ICE, prosecute the Trump admin, reject Silicon Valley, break w/ Israel, etc. They actively oppose these things.

I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that

The truth is too much for the liberal mind. They can't comprehend that someone in uniform would commit violence for the sake of committing violence. However, in reality, the uniform attracts the exact sort of people who would do that.

thoughts.

This is really important to understand. ICE does not have the manpower to fight everywhere. Even a federalized National Guard plus the regular military does not have the manpower to fight everywhere. They have to maintain the appearance, but it is a paper thin lie.

The only thing worth hearing from a Democrat right now is an absolute assurance that, when they retake the U.S. government, they will prosecute every single member of the American military who knowingly followed an illegal order. Make it clear people will be going to prison.

See also: the OG police report on George Floyd

This is another angle of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. You can clearly see the officer fire three shots at the driver of the vehicle. The officer is clearly visible (though half his face is covered) as he walks back from the vehicle, which crashed a short distance away.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

As someone who was opposed to the Iraq War before it began, I remember vividly watching the Mission Accomplished speech, alarmed that it seemed as though Bush was seeing no downside for his defiant, norm-breaking invasion. But shit changed. Because shit changes, in unpredictable ways.

We should tax billionaires because billionaires should not exist. Getting revenue for public services is secondary, and won't work as well as people think.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Venezuela is a distraction from the Epstein Files. The Epstein Files are a distraction from election interference. Election interference is a distraction from milking the working class dry. Maybe none of them are distractions. Maybe they're all important and interlinked.

I kinda hate it when I run across a whole discussion subculture that was out there for over a decade and I knew nothing about it. Like #NoEstimates. I've long felt software estimation is a dead end, and only done to satiate the demands of naive project managers. They never worked, and won't work.

This song isn't particularly subtle. It could easily be about Trump, specifically. Of course, if Trump heard that, the next thought out of the narcissist-in-chief would be "they made a banger of a song about me".

Hegseth: Com'on, line piece! Line piece!

These are not the actions of a regime who thinks they are winning.

THIS!!!!!

OK, there is a reason. JD Vance is everything the Bible says a righteous man should be. No, really, I’m going somewhere with this. 🧵

Putting these two together for no particular reason

if an AI slopfucker claiming AI coding is the best thing ever dismisses the METR study as too out of date, ask them where the new studies that directly measure coding time in a comparable manner are - and not studies that survey vibes. (there don't seem to be any! wonder why)

Dr Assal Rad— 🇷🇺: Illegally Annexes 🇮🇱: Approves Settlements

I don’t want to hear anyone giving the “the problem is ILLEGAL immigration” lecture ever again. Or lecturing anyone who’s undocumented for not “following the law” when the government doesn’t.

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

'Socialists... should say clearly that AI, like many other technologies, is too useful and too dangerous to leave in the hands of capitalists.' A useful contribution to the debate as Bailey underlines his essential uselessness: againstthecurrent.org/atc237/ai-us... www.bbc.com/news/article...

i spent a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me. after having a certain number of guns and knives pulled on me and having a couple bones broken I decided conservatives aren't worth the trouble.

Guess the last person he talked to thought it was a good idea.

People love pointing out all the things AI is bad at, but I look to the future. Tomorrow, we may discover brand new things that AI is bad at.

the tech industry was all about making computers better, smaller, and more connected. and they more or less finished that the last decade. they did a good job at it. and since then there's been this weird midlife crisis vibe from the industry that finished its purpose.