Folks should learn more about Group Policy Editor, Task Scheduler, Services, and Registry. Even if it's situational, like how do I disable x, you can do a lot. Automatic updates set to notify, not install, in the GPE. Task Scheduler lets you switch off a lot of shit that silently kicks off. Etc.

GOP: haha kids will be kids, ah you can't hold this 40 year old lawyer accountable for loving Hitler, that's just being edgy! Gas chambers, it's just jokes people! GOP: WHAT? YOU QUOTED CHARLIE KIRK IN A WAY THAT MADE HIM LOOK BAD AFTER HE DIED ... DEPORTATION!

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points. But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

My discussion of everything right now

The difference between this behavior and satire is that the point of satire is to make fun of the ignorant belief. The point of this behavior is to repeat the ignorant belief and then make fun of people who don't like the ignorant belief, for "falling" for the shtick.

"I say ignorant things as satire" is the kind of poster I never understand. "Oooh I made people mad with my ignorance but I'm only ~~pretending~~ so I got you!" congrats. you successfully emulated the least creative people in the universe. clap clap.

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

It’s almost like billionaires and strong vibrant institutions of civil society can’t coexist

You know how when you scribble a bunch of crayons of different colors together it ends up being a gross babyshit color? Yeah, that’s what AI “art” does, because it’s mashing together millions of different sources to fill in the Mad Libs blank.

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior. To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also. Sick.

I might not find some political activism that compelling but I try to keep in mind Kwame Ture's point: "You don't criticize somebody who's doing something when you doing nothing."

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January * 100s starved to death, including kids * Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel * US citizens murdered in the West Bank I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

let’s share this and see how powerful bluesky can be for music, shall we?

If you live in one of these cities and can go see this band, you should go see them. Ekko Astral is fucking awesome!

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history. submit your comments by Friday. actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

After the No King's March next Saturday, the Defense Fund PDX is throwing a street fair to raise money for the Portland bail fund.

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

A mistake to see the Republican majorities in Congress as “abdicating.” They want the same things, the same substantive political agenda, as the executive and their acquiescence to the president’s leadership is a form of _action_, not passivity

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Please remember that "that's illegal" is a *description*, not a *conclusion*. The law PROHIBITS people from doing things. It does not PREVENT people from doing things. "Illegal" does not mean "impossible." "Illegal" means "on a list of actions the government can, but is not required, to punish."

bitches defend bitches

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members. They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

The biggest #strike of the year starts on Tuesday, featuring 45k #healthcareworkers. This means tens of thousands across Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii, in particular. Picket lines at 6 KP locations in Portland area, and will lead the labor march on Oct 18th. truthout.org/articles/23-...

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

Come teach with me for @resistanceschool.bsky.social !!

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

These are state police, under @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s control. The great khan.

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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A guy who has declared war on several of his own cities should never win any peace prize.

One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing. You solve homelessness with homes.

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

I feel for the WNBA. They spent decades not getting the shine they deserve and the second they did, it's come with a wave of misogynistic weirdos who enjoy watching women play but cannot help but do weird sh*t to and about them bc misogyny.

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

The Democrats' solution to everything is "punch left" and that is the real reason they continue to lose.

We got pushback from legislators who acted shocked at the suggestion that the label of “terrorist” could or would be abused to color political opponents as evil. It was so fucking frustrating and I’m still angry how people like this in Salem & DC have enabled this present moment.

A couple of years ago, the Democrats in the Oregon legislature passed a domestic terrorism law over of the objection of civil liberties advocates, environmentalists, and ordinarily reasonable Oregonians who told them this would only be used against the left. It fits right in with Trump’s strategy.