I, like Bad Bunny, am a native-born US citizen not born in one of the 50 states. (I’m from DC.) I wonder why people assume he’s foreign, but not that I am. It’s a mystery… /s

Free Link. At a certain point, I’m switching to the Fediverse (@[email protected]). Privately controlled social media has a habit of being tanked by powerful horses’ fundaments. Please prove me wrong.

there was a lot of "the military won't obey illegal orders, don't underestimate its professionalism." since then 1) multiple cities are going under occupation and we have not seen any suggestion of resistance 2) we haven't heard a whisper about trump ordering them to murder random fishermen

"[Trump's] agenda only works if there’s nothing else on offer. Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

I am feeling horrified and scared today. But the word hope describes two things 1) an involuntary emotion, and 2) a choice to remain steadfast, to refuse to give in. I survived 18 years of suicidal depression with only the latter, and recovered. So can this country and this world.

Black people in the South do not, as a rule, hang themselves in public places to commit suicide. Anyone who says otherwise is hiding something.

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Someone should write an obituary for the Hatch Act.

I'm happy for this guy. This is good news.

That we don’t generally at least offer twilight sedation for IUD insertion is barbaric.

Exhausted by journalists whose entire moral foundation is located at the intersection of "Am I feeling discomfort right now?" and "Might someone call me naive at a dinner party?"

After Heggseth’s speech to the generals yesterday, can we finally talk about how fatphobia is a handmaiden of fascism and the left shouldn’t use it?

Some federal officials worry about private equity’s interest in psychiatric hospitals. “Instead of helping families, billionaire corporations are denying sick patients legally protected emergency care to turn healthy profits,” one senator said.

So important. If you’ve never been on a psych ward, you likely have no idea. youtu.be/DeAwj1jfr-g?...

Fun true fact: the yield of chardonnay grapes goes up 60% when grown in a field with solar panels. Chardonnay--helping solar, hurting coal. It's working hard, man!

Revolutionary optimism is my jam, but listening to Buffy Sainte-Marie sing “Universal Soldier,” I was punched in the gut by the understanding that even that possible avenue for change is fading, as we replace human soldiers with machines. My takeaway is that we can’t wait decades to deal with this.

If you keep sacrificing your nominal allies to the meat grinder in hopes that you will eventually once again get to be in charge of the meat grinder's operation, you'll one day look around and realize you're alone with the folks demanding ever more ground human.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

Vibes for today:

If you talk about Idiocracy without mentioning the eugenics of it all, I know I can safely ignore your opinion. Thanks.

People believe the Rapture is coming in their lifetimes because it allows them to avoid their crippling fear of death and mortality. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

YOU WILL KNOW ME BY MY VELVETS

Anyone know anyone writing cool stuff about building dual power/institutions rn?

I’m completely sincere about this: On Charlie Kirk’s day of remembrance, hit the administration where it hurts by showing them that he didn’t rate. Don’t talk about him. Talk about Aaron Bushnell instead, who recognized two years ahead of the UN that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

What we should be teaching people… youtu.be/wRz_31MWwYc?...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

The people on the Carpathia didn’t give up because their task was impossible; they just did the best they could, because they couldn’t live with themselves if they did less. They saved hundreds of people. Let’s bring that energy.

Anyone else feeling like time banking needs a comeback? Things are bad, y’all.

Homekeeping is an incredible skill set, and one at which I am a novice. Always impressed at people who are operating on a higher level.

The people who fired the employment number knowers because they didn’t like the employment numbers and fired the criminal catchers because they liked the criminals they were catching are now telling you the shooter scratched “antifa” onto his casings

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

Liberal/progressive/lefty anti-gun people: If Republicans use this to take guns only from classes of people likely to oppose them politically, and you aid/abet that, you will be picking a side, and not an antifascist one.

This is the most accurate response I’ve seen.

There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection." There is an IG page @blacktransscam that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇

Let’s teach the public how to do their own research instead of getting mad at them for “doing their own research.” Ime, people are susceptible to conspiracy thinking when the official story sounds (or is) fishy, so they latch on to the next explanation that makes sense. They need other options.

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

Used a rice cooker for the first time yesterday, only to realize I’ve been living in the stone age. My eyes have been opened.

Yes cult. You ‘vote blue no matter who’ told the leadership you’d vote for them no matter what they did or didn’t do. People like you are responsible for the continued lurch to the right.

It's almost as if they sat down and thought about how to recreate 70s stagflation. Why? Because that killed off Keynesianism. What do they want to kill? classic neoliberalism. They want to build something new for which we still don't exactly have a language to understand.

Wild how much people enjoy arguing with their idea of the kind of person who makes your argument, instead of your actual argument…

A lot of things are happening now because people simply do not want to accept how things — herd immunity, greenhouse gasses, society, ecosystems, feedback loops — work.

Tired: the daily grind Wired: the morning smash!!!

This is what their “mental illness” nonsense on guns was always coming to.

My god. We’ve reverse-engineered the marshmallow test, with all its flaws.

“What would you do with the money?” Broke: go to more concerts Woke: buy a concert venue Bespoke: pay a struggling musician $100k a year plus benefits for three years to write a rock opera shitting on my enemies

and the climate crisis

Me.

eugenics is genetic monocropping. by no means does it prove "natural" genetic fitness. a program of eugenics does not see which genes outcompete others, rather such a program dominates & subjugates the environment (land and market) in artificial, unsustainable favor of certain gene expressions