I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

I can think of no more cruel yet majestically appropriate fate for Donald Trump: wasting away into emptiness, while his uncaring minions tirelessly torment him with AI-generated specters and shades of what never was and what will never be

Forget young, trans, or DSA folk: how is the DFL gonna do with Somalis when they appear to be visibly anti-Fateh?

Honestly, even the most pragmatic centrists amongst you, be fucking honest now - what do you think a love letter between Trump Homeland Security folks and Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara portends? Remember, be fucking honest (at least with yourself).

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Oppenheimer, the universally relatable film about being left-wing enough that the government singles you out for persecution but not left wing enough that you can get laid at a party without being told to read theory

women can do anything

If you're an lgbtq news outlet, your job is not, contrary to what you might think, giving every queer person alive a heart attack every morning

new recession indicator just dropped

Shameful from Pink News here. The threat in question is a month old social media post that they’re spuriously linking to current negotiations. This sort of cheap and misleading fearmongering from the queer press is doing Trump’s work for him.

Before private equity strip-mined it, Sears employed four times as many people as the US coal industry currently does, and yet nobody says "we have to do something to stop private equity". Why is that? Anybody wanna hazard a guess?

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

"Manosphere"... you mean this thing?

As anyone who has had a landlord can tell you, the worst landlords are not huge, faceless property management entities with a professionalized staff, nor a homeowner renting their basement unit, but the small-capitalist landlords in between.

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"When politicians say 'able-bodied,' it’s a roundabout way of downplaying the challenges faced by people who have been left behind, yet deemed capable enough to contribute to capitalism. But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Frey and his backers are indistinguishable from MAGA on several levels, including their "voter fraud" garbage.

Remember that Jacob Frey has had complete control over the police department for eight years.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

I'm probably a tad bit more business-minded than some folks on here but I gotta concur re: leveraged buyouts should not be legal. you're burning otherwise free revenue solely for the purpose of enriching a different set of shareholders. Even stock buybacks make more sense than this

people like to talk about GamerGate as the thing that ruined the internet, but what they don’t like to admit is that GamerGate *was* the internet for its first ~15 years of its existence. there were a thousand little GamerGates happening every day to people who we’ll never know about.

A couple folks have called today and said they got through to people, which means we are not crashing the lines nearly enough. Call, y'all. Even if you're never called before. Especially if you have a democratic senator who you don't trust to hold the line.

i’ll be the first one to say it: forums sucked. they sucked really, really bad. it was a breeding ground for some of the most toxic and disgusting behavior the internet has ever witnessed. the entire concept of a lolcow could only exist because of forums and the culture endemic to many of them.

this picture is getting me thru the day today

everything your classmates didn't like was "gay" and if you were in a relatively liberal area (i.e. one where being out sucked but didn't endanger your life) and tried to point out the problem with this, the best you could hope for was people saying they didn't mean it like THAT, just, yknow, gay.

Nostalgia is a gateway to fascism, and that's why you have to resist its allure

The DOJ sued six states, including Minnesota, for refusing to hand over sensitive voter data. Minnesota SoS Steve Simon said his state’s request for assurance on data protection was met with silence from the DOJ. “Instead, they chose to file a lawsuit.”

"nominative determinism isn't real" I say to myself, as I rock back and forth in an attempt to forget I ever learned that Larry Goone owns "Chicago Sexcon" and has a soft pedo instagram.

this is a leveraged buyout too, so EA is about to get saddled with a bunch of debt from its new ownership

For third month in a row, Americans are spending more than they're making “Families at the lower to median end of the income spectrum are increasingly under pressure from a labor market that is softening & prices that are rising,” Daco said www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

incredible eevee image from yesterday

Been thinking a lot on this MLK Jr. quote lately: “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice…”

Ugh, stayed up too late panic-buying hentai to beat the tariffs

i love dewayne davis pointing out that the mayor says if you don't agree with him, you don't love this city, because you see that in frey having "TEAM MPLS" shirts

I do think lots of shitposters, all ages, think they are in some battle when they're actually just ... losers with internet access.

Yeah the idea that one can still be on X and like, remain strong/independent of mind enough to not be swayed by the bs ... it's not how it works.

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THE MEME IS REAL

Remember, this is what led to the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (which led to the arrest of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver): the city's concerns that the building was not inhabitable. After that, inmates escaped thru a drywall exterior wall.

Trump winning was not a mandate, but Harris losing was representative of the electorate.

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

This might sound silly from someone who builds clusters for a living, but you should *absolutely* confine your system to a single computer if you can manage it.

NYT pollsters find voters do look at tradeoffs of free bus fares. 53% prefer paid fares if it helps maintain service. 21% would raise taxes for free fares & better service 9% want free fares & less service 8% want free fares & cuts in other city services x.com/nataliemj10/...

Trump and Dems are officially meeting Monday. This is after Trump cancelled his last meeting with Democrats because they were holding firm on immigrant and transgender protections. The Republican budget has dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Call your Dem senators, people, don't let them capitulate.

a precarious state was also promoted by liz collin, another right winger along with tom barnard jim rubin, a big part of this documentary, was also a big part of we love mpls the conservative democrat / republican alliance for this mayoral election is ugly and DANGEROUS

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

One of the deals we make for a *somewhat* civilized society is that we all try to tamp down our worst lizard-brain, oppositional defiance disorder instincts. But our fascist government has broken that bargain so hard that it’s time for everyone else to summon their sleeping FUCK YOU MAKE ME powers!

reminder to do this, I did this morning

this is great - note that there's still police, but they're now part of a larger, county-wide department. the extreme localism of US policing is a *huge* part of its corruption, especially when you get to stuff like sheriff's departments.