yeah, like, at least the national guard requires some discipline, I'd assume. and doesn't seem like it's advertised as "hey, be racist for money! attack the people who look different without fear of laws! engage in fascism for pay!"

That's what it looks like when any human being gets shot, though. If it's okay with Republicans when the victims are 6-year-olds, not clear why that level of violence is haunting when it's a grown man. www.mediaite.com/media/i-cant...

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Insect of the week: Leptinotarsa decemlineata. More commonly known as the Colorado Potato Beetle, these little guys are often a major pest to farmers and exhibit fascinating sexual dimorphism within the hind tibia.

incredible photo on wikimedia commons that isn't currently used in any articles

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

“The administration has convinced itself that the Charlie Kirk murder exposes some dark conspiracy.” - senior intelligence official This is an absurd lie. The admin is consciously weaponizing this event to advance an anti-trans fascist agenda. They absolutely do not believe there is a conspiracy.

In the days since someone said we should kill the homeless and mentally ill, the unhoused have been shot and lynched from trees in multiple states, yet @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy Brian Kilmeade, that someone who said it, still has a job.

Cubaris Isopods

If you publicly engage with her franchises in a positive way at this point, I just think you're a transphobe and a bad person. If you'd give money or help make anyone see her brand as anything but toxic, you are endorsing her actions and rhetoric, which is fascist and genocidal.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

wanna feel old? they're senior mints now

this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Important:

My phone just closed all of my 500 open Safari tabs and I’ve never felt more vulnerable and exposed

If you didn't care about the porn ban before, you need to now. Because they're banning fucking cat ears. Cat. Ears. CAT EARS. C A T E A R S

Blocking funding for *any* medical or medicinal action that has evidence of lowering death rates including suicide rates is murder and should be legally treated as such

uttering a sentence like that should get you immediately fired and blacklisted from ever working in any management position ever again

I know we call a lot of things Nazi shit these days but this is pure Nazi shit. "Don't show the Fuhrer in an unflattering light!!!"

The Haven #landscape #art

Stripping Palestinians of the ability to enter a safe country while being denied the most basic human rights at home is blatant collective punishment and a clear deprivation of dignity and humanity. Millions are forced to live under occupation, without water, electricity, or

I will delete this, but can somebody tell me why everybody thinks he croaked? Is it just the many days off and the weird playlist on the lawn earlier today, plus the references to heaven and the hand bruising that we already knew about? Or is there something else?

A beetle friend from @franzanth.bsky.social's backyard! [ 🐛 #art #sciart #pixelart #beetle #bug #invert #invertebrate #invertefest ]

yearning is like edging, but with your soul. it’s delicious.

#pixelart #artpost

Black bladder-bodied meloid. Say that three times fast! #AugArthroAwe #SciArt

a stick insect that huge just being discovered is like big bird winning hide and seek

#deltarune #animation animated another scene from deltarune www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hI9...