Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said. n.pr/3Npx327

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

I love these journalistic fictions that normalize the administration and act like there are reasonable people there working to intelligently rein in dangerous impulses

If anyone wasn't of the belief that he's trying to create a state-run media, the fact that he shared this should take care of any hesitation on that front.

Centrists are really good as understanding when they need to drop out and consolidate behind a single candidate to get one of their own elected (see: Buttigieg, Klobuchar dropping out ahead of Super Tuesday to help Biden get the nomination over Sanders). Progressives? Not so much.

All this aside, AIPAC is straight up disgusting. It does this crap all the time where it'll run ads though shell PACs attacking candidates for things that have nothing to do with the one issue it actually cares about. It's a ratfucking organization.

Anyway, AIPAC is hoping they can get people who would have otherwise voted for Kat to vote for Bushra, instead, clearing the path for one of the candidates they'd rather have win (Fine or, more likely, Biss) to come away with the victory.

Bushra should have dropped out of this race. Now she's being used by a AIPAC to try to get Fine or Biss elected. Hope this was worth it for her to come in 4th place in the primary or whatever.

Not a fan of this thing where international sporting events are more and more being seen as like a manifest destiny opportunity for Team USA to assert their culture dominance over foreigners instead of just, like, something fun.

Horrific. Texas Supreme Court ruled that PFLAGs in Texas have to turn over records related to fleeing the state, contingency plans to get care, doctors lists, and more. Texas has become such a terrifying place for trans people. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgb...

We trans folks have less and less states we can go to. I keep thinking it will be like the old days when you came out as queer, you left your midwestern state and went to San Francisco because it was safer.

If you find yourself following someone who is called woke ginger or pissed off nurse or whatever, they’re not your ally. Your ally is someone with an obscure Pokémon avatar called like ant piss aficionado

Another murder. America Goddam.

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

This is exactly how Putin became one of the wealthiest men in the world. He got a cut of every major industry. That's exactly what is going on here.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance

A massive and highly anomalous heat wave will engulf California next week.

I wrote about how the conservative Supreme Court and federal judiciary are constructing a dual state for trans people. A system that enables arbitrary and unchecked power to push trans people out of society. www.thedissident.news/the-normativ...

In these terrible times, I so deeply appreciate Alejandra's clear-eyed, coherent summary, pulling together so many threads, that explains what is happening to our trans beloveds in this country. Please read.

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

It's like when people complain about other countries chanting "Death to America." Have you *seen* what the U.S. does to these countries? It's no surprise that large swaths of people in them hate us for the crap our government and military do. To fix that, we need to try diplomacy, not bombs.

The U.S. should not be allying itself with that country. "Oh, but they called for the country's demise!" Gee, I wonder why. Could it be because they pull crap like this? "They used mean words, so we need to slaughter a bunch of civilians!"

Just straight up state-sanctioned terrorism.

For 5 weeks, Oakland's new speed cameras have been issuing warnings. Starting March 15th, tickets will be mailed to people exceeding the speed limit by at > 10 mph. So far the 18 locations have seen 140k instances of speeding. Most people were sent one warning. 11 people have been sent 30+.

You mean tell me social media bans don't actually work and are easily circumvented but you required everyone to submit to invasive face scans and ID checks anyways? Say it isn't so.

Also, please know that trans people in particular are under brutal attack right now. Please do not tolerate politicians who won't defend them. And please do support efforts you see to support trans people, especially in your local communities.

The Israeli government is bombing southern Lebanon with no justification, and today someone who lost his whole family in Lebanon responded by attacking innocent American Jews with equally no justification, and so many innocent people are suffering because of these crazy warmongers in power.

You can’t convince me economics is real when the president can just say “oh it will be fine” and that has a significant, measurable impact on the global markets somewhere in the vicinity of a trillion dollars.

Washington State becomes the latest place to institute a wealth tax! Incomes over $1 million will be taxed at 9.9%. That money will fund school lunches, social services and housing. It will help those in need by forcing the richest among us to pay a little bit more.

This is correct, imo. A Democratic administration successfully broke students' will to protest. They won nothing and faced massive consequences. NO ONE stood up for their free speech rights among mainstream pundits. Now they're to blame for the Biden administration's success at repressing them? No.

Right after he says "we don't want transgender people." He admits it right there in the open.

I do not care that it is Thursday, it is always shut the fuck up friday.

Here's a left-wing account with 180,000 followers claiming that the synagogue attack in Michigan was a false flag.

This story is wild. Why is the mayor of San Francisco driving around the city directing his guards to get into fights with people on the street?

We had over 100 trans folks show up in the bitter cold and snow in February in Boston to protest Fenway. And we didn't have a bunch of funding from hate groups and billionaires propping us up.

does this work on news cycles

“wanting to be a shitty person and hanging out with other shitty people and then being surprised pikachu when they are shitty to you” really is the perfect summary of the modern right

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Only problem with this is that he’s so empty inside that there’s nothing good coming out

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

Pervert Glasses now have mini games.

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.