Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

after years of feeding Bari et al bangers to a neural network I'm proud to launch a NEW news (read:opinion) outlet called The Even Freer Press, which promises to debase the discourse and lower the standard of collective "thought" more than anyone could imagine. buyout bids start at $151 million. HMU

Greetings from reporting on my first labor protest in Africa! The SACCAWU domestic union, South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) & others are protesting labor conditions at Cosatwu house, Section 129 & the closure of my neighborhood Pick N Pay supermarke

Please read this follow the link to send emails. The bravery of people like Alex is incredible, and we have to do whatever we can to support them.

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by writer Michael Clune, author of the new novel, Pan! It's a tour de force tale of growing up, friendship, coolness, drugs, unfolding on the boundaries between the normal upheavals of adolescence and acute pathology. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

chotiner is primo at what he does to be sure but the real thruline in all of this is that our best and brightest have never been either of those things and that the only thing exceeding the impunity they enjoy for their actions is their self-regard and deference in pontification

vance has already framed this an assault on "law enforcement." if events of the past week haven't already driven the point home, the right's opportunism when it comes to minting martyrs to pursue its agenda will proceed no matter the actual events in question or the context that produced them

(enters, rapping, gesturing) yo I'm cass sunstein and Im here to say maybe we frame this elephant some other way? (tangles a hand in suspenders, trips, falls backwards down a staircase)

phil greaves: vindicated once again

A friend of mine is an incredible artist who recently spent over 25 years incarcerated. He has created a wonderful work of art that has already been exhibited once and he would love to loan it to others who might want to exhibit it. When it is mounted, the entire piece with the frame is 48"x 67"

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

you love how APAP is good when politicians use it to “deter abuse” by people with opioid dependency (IE: liver failure as deterrence) but bad when it might alleviate the pain of pregnancy and give ghouls another angle to both police reproduction and liquidate Lebensunwertes Leben

a guy getting raptured but then turned away from the pearly gates because of recently discovered Charlie Kirk posts

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

turns out we can do Mourning from the paranoid schizoid position

Get in losers, we’re grieving

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

It’s important to know in advance that you will regret going along with it, but it’s also important to say to those who made the wrong decision that you can always stop going along with it, in fact it’s the best thing you could do

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

The Flyers should stage a fake assassination of Gritty, and then have a huge star studded Gritty memorial service and then right at the climactic moment Gritty leaps out of the coffin, reborn and perfected, too important to take home to Heaven just yet when His Love is still needed here on Earth.

(Democratic Consultant, poignant and thoughtful, maturely realistic savvy politics style) leftist Groups that weren’t willing to compromise their purity tests on repealing the 19th amendment are the biggest reason why We got here

(at my Ted talk, extremely smart) what if the real pyramid scheme,,, was Society (goes on to make the world way worse)

damn I can't believe he did this

a Gun Guy who thinks you should be denied the right to vote because you don’t know what “AR” signifies but who also insists god can harden your carotid against a .30-06 round going 2.5K fps

I am pretty fucking confident the president is not posting DMs on main. don’t be a sucker

actually the President is simply doing a Social Experiment involving Legitimacy

if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game

(unforced, to the world, in print) for every pro choice democratic woman we lose, we’ll pick up two Austrian incest dungeon monster dad style GOP moderates in the suburbs of our mind

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 Freud goes on an alpine holiday - but altitude is no barrier to psychic distress. Joins us for the story of Katharina, the shortest, strangest, and saddest of the Studies on Hysteria. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Ezra Klein casts Omelas Child on you and locks you in the basement

[roles a D20] oh no! Ezra Klein has decided your rights are worth forfeiting in order for the rest of us to achieve Abundance

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

this exists it is called thinking

actually Allen Key was the one who invented doing bumps of blow of the tip of a car key; it was his brother, Thurbert, who came up with the whole hex wrench deal

old enough to remember my man speculating the notre dame fire was arson by You Know Who within minutes of coverage starting

what a dark and deferred displacement of rage and grief over two million unmourned dead

(interviewing you for a job) let me get this straight. you say you wouldn't have been willing to dive in front of an assassin's bullet to save a saintly and universally loved public figure? and yet we're supposed to think you'd fit in to our corporate family and be a valuable "team player"?

kimmel is not enough! free speech and freedom won't be safe until all american households are legally mandated to watch and live tweet their appreciation for a nightly primetime block wherein gutfeld and kilmeade euthanize sundry social parasites live from a kill room atop 30 rock

(gently but firmly; condescending, indulgent, and vaguely threatening all at once) don't worry, these aren't actually violations of rights, since it's only happening to categories of persons who don't have the right to have rights to begin with

feverish new season of "terminal list" grows increasingly weird by the plot development that the CIA (or a faction in the CIA?) maybe wants to give Iran a nuke and it's not entirely clear, in the show's own universe of proposed identifications, whether that is good or bad. quite uh a text

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

conservatives demanding firings and hirings, censorship on campus, performances of public fealty, etc - been saying this for years but they really have grasped and operationalized the gap between signifier and signified more than the most hardened cultural studies pomo "nihilist" they caricatured

entirely seriously when I say that this is, no joke, an extremely stupid, misguided, and half-baked version of what was actually a fairly nuanced and provocative argument put together by, yes, Critical Race Theory legal scholars in the late '90s

if I were a liberal and the right was going to do ideological purges regardless I would simply not make it easier for them by voluntarily leaping to endorse the supposed better angels of their pretexts

me, when I watched "weapons" and I saw a weapon:

the proper reaction to peter thiel delivering FOUR four hour lectures on the antichrist is that sometimes you really do just have to hand it to amphetamines

a truly remarkable film

I would simply build our most fundamental institutions out of load-bearing drywall