Another reason why Kotek and people pushing to defund Preschool for All in Multnomah County are gonna fall behind as we move into a future for everyone.

Feel like there has been a lot of “conspiracy theorists were right” but what actually happened was victims were and that’s much harder to accept for most people

If you were online in the 2010s, you might remember “it’s ok to be white” used as a trolling device by white supremacists at VDare and 4chan boards.

“Then they just have to get sick.” Not surprising that the pro-billionaires march organizer a) hasn’t thought through his positions and b) is a much bigger fan of keeping billionaires in CA regardless the impact over supporting pregnant mothers with healthcare.

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

Subscribe and avoid sharing Substack links.

Did you know Bluesky has a Substack labeller? Many people post to Substack using custom URLs which hide the fact they're using the service. The labeller can help you tell when someone's trying to conceal their affiliation and prevent you from sharing their stuff accidentally.

This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice

You can make money in a lot of lousy, dishonest ways, but somehow only in romance does it get written up as if it’s essentially harmless and smart, on the assumption that nobody who reads romance cares whether it’s good or not. There are a ton of ebook scams on Amazon; this is just another one.

If you were writing pieces a year ago about the "cultural dominance" of MAGA and now this year you are writing that this was actually a mirage, then perhaps your judgement can't be trusted.

“Black” is being flagged as a potentially prohibited word violating anti-DEI law at multiple Florida Universities. My interview this week with @grundrza.bsky.social documents his event being flagged because the flyer said “Black.” Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

Right. No one is saying she is a poor rep. She’s actually quite effective but this is a rubicon that can’t be crossed, in my eyes because a “centrist”approach to fascism is a huge red flag. Her generation and the one after it needs to step aside. Their ideas are no longer helpful or relevant.

Primary every Democrat who won’t fight to abolish ICE. Every one.

It's frustrating because this is how a lot of people treat domestic abuse. It's always questions about the victim's actions, why it took so long to come forward, why didn't they tell anyone, it's always about trying to find something to blame the victims for instead of the monster who did it.

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

No Israeli appearance in global sport can be understood outside the context of the athleticide it has committed in Gaza—and not been held accountable for. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.

When we've asked, "What can we do to fight this lawless regime?" the answer has often been, "Everybody should do something." I thought that was a vague cop-out; surely some acts are more effective than others. But I realize now: the answer does not lie in the "something." It is in the "everybody."

amusing to compare this lady with self proclaimed political tough guys like Rahm Emanuel and Andrew Cuomo

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

Dan Olson did a video on this grift back when it was reliant on hiring sub-minimum wage writers to ghostwrite self-help trash instead of AI. Just another get-rich-quick scheme. youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?...

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

And also, just like all fucking generative AI, this is just massive, scaled-up theft. This woman is functionally stealing money out of the KU pool from authors who are writing and publishing their own original works USING A TOOL that was itself built on stolen works.

When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

There is no reforming an institution like this. Abolish and prosecute ICE, and may fifteen generations shudder at their sentence

It’s fucking heartbreaking watching the pleas from MN residents start echoing the pleas from Gaza residents

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

man, if you have a republican representative up for reelection this year and you live in a place Trump won by less than like +40 this is probably a very emotionally satisfying time to call your rep and be like "hey man you are about to get your shit rocked."

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

he has so much more juice than newsom and shapiro it's wild

@murderxbryan.bsky.social ensuring you see this bsky.app/profile/bird...

This is a fake Trump post, and the account that posted it here has been told repeatedly that it's a fake Trump post but still has it up. That's an easy block.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

hatred of unhoused people is genuinely a pipeline to fascism. if the wealthy can get you to dehumanize your own neighbors, then they can get you to do it to anyone.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

But the other piece of evidence -- the point of this thread -- is that we now have an example of what it looks like when US political & corporate elites *really are* obsessed with and committed to something. Namely: AI.

Now we have two additional pieces of evidence. First, there's the notable fact that US elites *abandoned climate change & diversity, wholesale, with barely a peep of protest, after one election went the other way*. Not how you act when you're deeply committed!

lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved

Please stop liking and reposting that Scott Horton guy, he’s plagiarizing other people’s posts and has been a menace on here for a while. Doesn’t respond to people either, just blocks critics.

I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace. You have to fuck up. You have to be able to handle failing. You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.