“Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony” chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-th...

“The corporate-indentured Democratic Party, our purported opposition, blocks the only mechanism that can save us — popular mass movements and strikes — knowing its corrupt and despised party leadership will be swept aside…” chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-th...

She has been released and she should sue the hell out of them.

it's fascinating how much of this is literally stuff Z posters in Russia do

Like can you imagine WH comms if a world-ending asteroid were discovered to hit us in 3 months

I'm just saying, now would be the perfect time for a movie-style imminent world-ending threat that requires everyone to pull together but won't because of the U.S., and then everyone dies

Warning: Do not look at the pictures if you are squeamish. Also, vaccinate yourself and, if applicable, your kids. RFK Jr. and his cohorts are a bunch of murderous twits who want to “weed out the weak” and also don’t believe they will ever be one of those “weak” ones.

somehow, Defence Scheme No. 1 returned

Machado should say she’ll only share the Nobel Peace Prize with Trump if he shares the FIFA peace prize with her

Anyway, I get every side of this, but I don't secretly hate Democrats because I want them to strengthen their opposition. Zohran, those that pushed for the Epstein Files release, the Tesla protesters and No Kings all prove that loudly changing the conversation can piss off and stall these fascists.

Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable. Create bargaining position and force votes.

Around 2.28 he says tells Tapper: "You are approaching this from the wrong frame, this neoliberal frame that the United States job is to go around the world and demand immediate elections be held everywhere." Man, I know neoliberalism has been defined in all sorts of ways, but thats truly a new one.

1. London's historical smog was from burning coal to heat and cook 2. 1960s-80s films look like that because the air was that polluted 3. The first faucet to use a combined cold and hot water outlet was invented in New Brunswick 4. Rome had hydraulic mining techniques 5. Iceland was mostly forested

It is such a competitive disadvantage in the current attention environment to prioritize not saying false things. www.ms.now/opinion/inte...

Ironic Creek Road

complete batshit insanity

Antivax grandpa is yelling again. “HEPATITAS B”

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Maybe the vibes are so rancid because subconsciously we all know tomorrow is January 6.

I learn something new every time I read the NWS forecast discussion.

There were 30 Congolese with college degrees at the time of independence in 1960. The Belgian government (with US support) actively sabotaged the government, stoked civil war in Katanga to keep control of natural resources, backed Mobute's coup, and carried out Lumumba's assassination.

These are all media companies owned by the racist right-wing Jay Penske: Hollywood Reporter Variety Rolling Stone Billboard Deadline SxSW festival Robb Report ARTNews So, when you're wondering why diversity languishes and racism thrives in Hollywood, it starts at reporting level. Look at Sinners.

I have a somewhat unhinged theory that... an obvious problem with Instagram becoming the de facto event announcement place for most organizations is, because of the non-chronological timeline, users regularly find out about events several days after they happen. I think this is on purpose!

Motherfucker grew up in LA. There is NO rich white person in LA whose life would be anything like what it is without immigrant labor. They would literally not have food to eat.

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! www.reddit.com/r/confession...

A reminder that this WH is staffed by people who very sincerely believe that liberal govts in Europe have caused a realtime civilizational collapse on the continent and existential crisis for the US that justifies overt interference in their affairs

Compare and contrast how the media covered the Minnesota daycare story to how they covered the estimated $64B of fraud in Trump's PPP program

There's such a cognitive disconnect in MAGA/America First circles between "only European Americans are real Americans" and "fuck Europe."

“If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation. Please pass on this info to your coworkers that we are not allowing any immigration agents to house on our property.”

I’m sorry. I can’t let this Miller bullshit pass. After WWII “the West,” sometimes relatively quickly, sometimes not until the ‘70s, realized that the writing was on the wall: that they could spend vast sums in blood and treasure trying to defeat anti-colonial movements, and still lose.

Because the kind of world order required for it sucks, including for “the West.” Oligopolistic collusion among nationalists — not to mention autocratic ones — is impossible to sustain. The colonies become laboratories for oppression and violence at home. The house burns down.

These guys are in the goddamn 1920s. They think that the world is composed of racial blocks and “empire” is a viable path to maintaining white supremacy. IT FAILED.

what a lot of people don’t understand is that there is a good chance that the higher echelons of the fascist administration is majority staffed with anti-NATO groypers and christian nationalists. This is an additional positive to invading Greenland, not a negative.

Pete Hegseth, at his Pentagon desk, scrolling through X on a big screen: I demote YOU, I demote YOU, I DOUBLE-DEMOTE you

The Billboard Modern Rock tracks from 30 years ago Jesus Christ

I did this yesterday. It wasn't trivial, but the experience (I used login.gov and took a photo of my driver's license) was quite well designed - though it was some work to find my VINs and my connected TV device ID.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

fantastic article with data showing how congestion pricing is one of the most effective transportation policies ever. as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’ll take this a step further: I don’t trust people who don’t hate Trump and the current GOP.

Less than worthless

How Stockholm congestion pricing went from "political suicide" to wildly successful. Great film from @streetfilms.bsky.social

“Force is fast. Legitimacy is slow. But legitimacy is the only currency that buys durable peace and stability – both of which remain enduring U.S. interests@

When people complain about bike lanes and then say “well what happens when it snows?”

The United States was the gold standard for science and technology for decades, and there was never any reason that had to end.

miller is truly just a dead-eyed Nazi freak. this shit makes no sense to normal people. just insane grievance coming from the richest country in the history of the planet. this man clearly has some bespoke pathological mental disorder.

it's truly incredible that after a decade of trump being involved in politics (setting aside decades of his history in business) so many people still line up to make deals with him that end up with his knife in their back. anyway, mariá machado, step up and claim your fell for it again award.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Anyway, if we were actually a serious country, all of our institutions, both in and out of government, would stop treating This One Special Boy as if he alone is not subject to the norms, laws, & Constitution of the Republic.

Even before 2025, this was appalling. The NYT could simply have said, "No, that's illegal, violates all kinds of treaties, & we don't do that to our allies." Instead, it chose to publish this nonsense from the Least Serious Senator In America. Other choices were available.