Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Another must read from JVL open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

I think a significant number of people continue to advocate for Russian victory solely because they’ve realized that, if Ukraine prevails, their goose is fucking cooked because they’ve spent the last 3.5 years publicly cheering genocide and justifying atrocities. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

I can't believe that Yamantaka Eye is 61 years old.

If you were wondering how you can actively help to protect people in this moment and you’re a white middle-class American the way you can protect people now is by using your position of privilege and relative safety to call what is happening by its name and to get louder than you have ever been.

I think this misreads the extent to which an increasingly addled Trump is in control of his own administration and underestimates how much some of his courtiers will blow up the country because they believe in the cleansing power of blowing up the country

It’s wild the Supreme Court essentially said that the president doesn’t need Congress in regards to the power for Congress to control spending should be really concerning to people. Especially in regards to a potential shutdown.

Why did I have this image on my hard drive

Sitting on a couch in the morning, drinking some coffee and listening to the cat purr on my lap. Recommended activity.

US move to ease Belavia sanctions raises fears of spare parts reaching Russia, Politico reports There is growing concern that U.S.-made aircraft components could be diverted to Russian airlines, which face acute shortages of spare parts and maintenance capacity after more than...

My younger brother was severely wounded during a combat mission in Pokrovsk. He lost his left leg, his right leg is badly damaged with multiple fractures below the knee, and two toes were torn off. send.monobank.ua/jar/9QYKaZsfrC PP: [email protected]

Of course, it’s two weeks before I'm moving that I have a sudden urge to dig all my hex-and-counter wargames out of boxes.

American free speech is being murdered out in the open by the fascists and the corporate fascist alliance is being defined as clearly as it will be before the curtain drops. Between this and south park not airing tonight it’s clear Americas transformation into fascist police state is solidifying.

Something to think about: Literally every piece of “evidence” that shows Charlie Kirk’s shooter was antifa/leftist/trans/etc. has come from inside the Trump administration. But every piece of evidence that shows he was a far-right extremist has come from real-world, outside sources.

Picked this up the other day. There’re a few books in line before it, but I’ll be interested to read a good, cohesive, and systematic treatment of the sources of contemporary Russian nationalism.

Man, this is grim

This is disgusting, but I’m not surprised that Jesse Watters is the one throwing gasoline on the fire. If you’re not familiar with Horst Wessel and how his death was weaponized by Goebbels, this is an urgent time to learn about it — because Fox News appears to be going there.

Explicit calls for violence, even war on many Americans, is very bad. Even worse since they have no idea who killed Kirk or why. But if you’re not familiar with these prominent right-wing figures, they regularly advocate violence and repression against the broadly defined Left, often based on lies.

At the moment of this post, nobody knows the identity of the person who did this... and yet this guy has a full psychological profile of who it was and what motivated them to do it. Garbage human being.

Iryna Zarutska's death wouldn't have been remotely noticed by the fascist right if she had been killed by a drunk driver. It would've even been cheered by some of them if a Russian drone had killed her after being expelled from the US as Trump is poised to do to other Ukrainians. 1/

The only people who use these lines are gargling Russian propaganda

They now have a martyr.

Americans should have fewer guns.

Really starting to feel like the best thing that could happen to the world is for the internet to just stop working forever.

Here we go again. If you truly want to honor her, sanction russia, stop the war, stop the need for people to flee their homes. Twisting her death into a tool for domestic politics is... a poor taste.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

If Orban faces electoral defeat he is likely to pull this kind of manoeuvre too

Hey everyone...LOOK OVER HERE! It's Lt. Col. Bone Spurs declaring war on an American city!!! Does his rough tough cream-puff cosplay make you forget about the EPSTEIN survivors, their lifetime of trauma & their courage to speak the truth in public? Yeah, me neither. #ReleaseTheEPSTEINFilesASAP

Russia launched over 800 drones and missiles in its biggest attack of the war, killing civilians in Kyiv and Odesa and damaging Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers for the first time. https://www.patreon.com/posts/top-news-today-7-138374365

Karma exists 🤞

Mitch is learning in real time that his legacy will be the destruction of the Constitution and the collapse of American dominance. Every bit of this was made possible by Mitch. Every bit of it. Cry me a river, old man.

I will just say it again for those in the back: Ai is a knowledge killer and an epistemic suicide machine, it is a digital cage meant to silo human creativity and learning. A digital back hole that destroys your cognitive development and ultimately our collective humanity. Generative ai is a threat

Lockstep Vatniks.

Centrists : “But Karl the invasion of American cities by fascist foot soldiers isn't really as bad as you make it out to be” Reality:

Many people are asking this

The things you find in used book stores. Yikes.

Update: almost bought more books yesterday but the store was closed for the holiday so I did not. This is an exceptionally stupid exercise in any case because I can’t carry them all when I travel. But reading physical books is simply better than on the kindle (which is still a marvelous device)

Me: “gosh it feels good to finally be getting though this huge backlog of books!” Also me: *buys 3 new books*

Fml

It’s a cat, book, and coffee, sort of morning.

Can't believe how many insist Trump, Rubio, etc. are secretly coerced to act against their will. That's what "compromised" means. They don't want to, but they've been blackmailed, so they reluctantly do things they recognize as bad to hide some secret. Why absolve them of responsibility like that?

It wasn’t long ago Russia was accused of putting bounties on US troops in Afghanistan. Now Putin walks on American soil, red carpet rolled out. From killing Americans abroad to being honored in America, the shock is real.

💭 🗞 🤡 🇺🇦 🏹  Trump told Zelensky by phone that Putin wants the entire Donbas, — Bloomberg He added that Ukraine must decide on its own whether to agree to this or not

Put the Russia-Ukraine peace deal on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

Hi gang! I have a new article up over at The Checkpoint! Please read it and subscribe! By the way, this isn't the "companion" piece to the long article about geopolitics that I posted on Medium -- that one is still on its way, but I wanted to get this out first. open.substack.com/pub/geogvma/...

Told you so