I say this deeper in the thread, but I firmly believe that the best diagnostic criteria for ADHD is your friends with ADHD chanting "one of us! one of us!" at you when you describe your brain.

The reason to not defund all the pillars of a functioning society to save money is that society collapses and no money is saved. The reason to not spend all the money on police and tax breaks for wealthy pricks is then the wealthy pricks have everything in a police state designed to protect them.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette

The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.

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children of deported migrants are being stolen from their parents this is child trafficking apnews.com/article/97b0...

Your only choices when comparison shopping are: 𝗦𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 $230 Take a walk on these clouds and we know you’ll see: Comfort has a new name. It’s Style. 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝘇𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 $13 Do not allow in baby crib

As I said the other day - this story is very much revealing how little folks understand the massive reach and influence of agribusiness and how the food chain works. Framing the story around taco bell is a good ex of news coverage failing to give us the info we need about our corporate food system.

Emma Landis is the woman who was shot, and here is her gofundme. The gofundme contains a narrative about what happened: the woman was engaged in peaceful protest, spoke to an agent, and he shot her in the foot. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

literally do not speak to me about ANYTHING else

"After enduring months of anti-ICE protests at its bank offices, Citizens Financial Group is parting ways with two for-profit prison operators that oversee detention facilities for the federal immigration enforcement agency." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/b...

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

Elon Musk trying to sink a Christopher Nolan movie was honestly the funniest and dumbest course of action he could have taken. He’s one of the most popular filmmakers alive and now it proves Elon and his fanboys have no real cultural impact outside of X

I'm getting really sick of seeing rapists just get to promote rape on TV and in the government day in and day out with no consequences or truly any reaction at all at this point

This is what you get when ICE has been ordered to hit quotas; the “re-arrest” and detention of people doing absolutely nothing wrong and simply waiting for the government to hear their case. It’s despicable.

ICE thugs tackled and tried to handcuff a man at Las Vegas airport. When they realized they were being filmed, they simply walked away, leaving the man on the ground with a handcuff attached to one arm. The Las Vegas Police found no outstanding warrants for the man and removed his handcuffs.

Dang they really got a category for everything

Extreme wildfire smoke hits US and Canada. Here's our tiny California wildfire smoke org's advice from 9 years of watching and responding. (slides 1-4 of 8) #wildfiresmoke #canadawildfires #airquality #NewYork #Chicago #Toronto

I am literally in this video. Seems like they pulled local news B-roll of us building emergency food boxes at Second Harvest Heartland. People really did show up for weird, middle of the day packing shifts that were always full.

"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"

Just a note to say: that ex-wife speaking out about her abusive ICE ex-husband is braver than all of ICE put together. No question at all.

Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

God I hate it when bad things are funny

TSLA crash in San Mateo: "It is unknown at this time why the driver ran the red light at a high rate of speed, but a witness stated he appeared to be unconscious when the car came to rest before it quickly became engulfed in flames." www.cityofsanmateo.org/4029/Press-R...

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

The CDC is so underfunded now that it's like: "Just remove the three outer layers of lettuce, so you don't consume any feces, then wash each interior leaf individually, so you remove any hidden feces. Good luck!"

Megan Rapinoe losing out on a world cup advertising brand deal for being an outspoken trans ally as a result of AI decision making underlines how these tools function as mechanisms for censorship and blanding culture into nothingness.

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

Don’t take the bait. Whether ICE planted drugs or there were drugs DOES NOT MATTER. It’s irrelevant to the murder. Feds want us to debate drugs in a story that’s about murder. Stay focused on the murder. It’s not about the victim’s virtue or lack thereof. It’s about ICE murdering people.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

And the Paramount case has now been transferred to Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in Oakland with a hearing on the states request to block the deal from closing next week scheduled for tomorrow at 10 am

Kids. When your Xennial Aunties try to explain how the pre/post-y2k hipster snark era of rape culture led to today's mainstream incel and podcast manosphere this is what they mean

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

Elon Musk donated $1 million to the "Judicial Fairness PAC" in Texas. Texans, tell me what you know about this group and these folks! prd.tecprd.ethicsefile.com/public/cf/20...

my new idea for time zones. whenever you wake up, that's 9 am. and whenever you go to sleep that's 9 pm. time is no longer a fixed point. you can follow the sun or you can follow your heart. the choice is yours

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

I think people understandably but magically believe that surveilling your loved ones will protect them from harm because it promises knowledge and control. But when you get more knowledge but little actual control, your anxiety goes through the roof

No tech is benign. None.

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

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