Absolutely it is. The lesson we should take from this is that all societies create their own monsters. They emerge out of the stories we tell ourselves culturally about what we are. Thar's why these fucks are so horny for Hollywood and Twitter

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

Juries, unlike the Trump administration, are familiar with the First Amendment www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

The framers were wrong about a lot of stuff but they were definitely onto something with juries

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

🚨🚨🚨Video captures a DHS employee break the window at the Eugene Oregon Fed Building. They declared a riot and tear gassed everyone over it.

I think maybe the remarkable part is that the US Attorney tried to indict six Democratic elected officials (and veterans) who made a video saying that everyone should follow the law.

Russian factories produced more than 7mn shells, mortar rounds and rockets last year, according to estimates, up from 4.5mn in 2024. ft.trib.al/adcWq4Z

5-year-old twins were denied bond because lack of assets and property. Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. 😡

Bsky: Home of not being allowed to post if it's too interesting or at all if you're Link, who did nothing wrong

In a similar project, I will begin studying my freezer's ability to bake a cake

ME: so it rhymes with baseline INVENTOR OF VASELINE: oh goodness no

When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.

Important job alert! Toronto’s City Planning Division is looking for a new Director of Urban Design. If you have a passion for cities and for the importance of architecture, urban design, art and heritage in successful city-building, you should check out our job posting at tinyurl.com/3e8s3br8

We could have nice things, we could be much less sick. But not when grifters are put in charge. 🩺 #Medsky

Yes, the US has been doing this for decades but it's acutely worse now. We can acknowledge things are actively worse now that we're systematically cutting off all access to fuel and threatening anyone that supplies Cuba with fuel.

This sends a chill across all new vaccines. Companies will not put billions into developing and bringing a new vaccine to market, when the world’s largest market can’t buy them

Withrow Park, Toronto - Same view looking south east from the north west end of the park, Feb. 10, 1923 & 2023. #OnThisDay #OTD #WithrowPark #parksandrecreation #hockey #1920s #thenandnow #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

"why did Zohran quickly endorse Hochul?!" turns out it's better for the political fortunes of both the governor of NY and the mayor of NYC if they're on the same team and work together, who knew

<Cringe post, don't care> I just gave a global health talk at Johns Hopkins, and one of their students came up afterward to introduce herself. She had taken my global health class at Emory, and she said that's what made her go into the field. Sometimes the things we do matter 🥹

www.canada.ca/en/global-af... #Canada strongly condemns the Israeli security cabinet’s recent decision to approve measures to expand Israeli control over the West Bank. “These measures contravene international law, undermine the prospects for peace, and erode the viability of a Palestinian State.

Former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is pressuring the Hamilton Public Library to accept a smaller budget than they require in the face of cyberattacks and opioid overdoses. They’re closing the Central branch on Sundays but she wants more cuts. This is the “left wing” leader 😡

"(crushed) ICE", oil on watercolour paper, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

At the time, Nigerian #musician #FelaKuti was studying at Trinity College in the capital. “We also had the desire to become a Miles Davis, a Charlie Christian, or a Kenny Burrell,” #Taylor said in 2025. “… He was such a playful and lively person” #RIP #EboTaylor www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

In today’s #404DeepDive, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social gets into Ring’s new feature Search Party which was advertised at the Super Bowl which essentially turns the entire neighborhood into a security dragnet. Read more: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Jaime Raskin says Donald Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files over a million times. Somehow, it’s always worse than we think.

The UK government is disappointing: "..its environmental failures are even more striking than its failures on other issues. When the ruling party compares unfavourably with the one that brought us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, it’s worse than a betrayal. It’s a threat to our survival." George Monbiot

Wall Street Journal, y'all

no if you deny the holocaust you're a nazi, fucking lol what is with the liberals today?

It is absolutely mind-boggling to me that we have seen so many “experts” on the far right and authoritarianism try to make the claim that these are not death camps in concentration camps when the reality is, they are both.

The Grammys. The Olympics. The Super Bowl. The message is that the world loves diversity. Don’t let the billionaires tell you otherwise.

"For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."

The video you’re replying to shows that this is the US level of ass kissing being done inside the US by US citizens on behalf of the leaders of the US.

I'll never forget former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti saying, "In a good economy, homelessness goes up." A perfect encapsulation of what happens when a "strong economy" is measured by everything except whether workers can afford necessities like housing or healthcare.

This is terrifying: A group of Palestinian students and teachers who are citizens of Israel were brutally attacked by Israeli settlers during a school trip. (1/3)

Epstein celebrated Tommy Robinson’s release bcs he was part of building a new rightwing movement in the UK. Tommy Robinson endorsed Matthew Goodwin, Reform’s candidate in Manchester, who was also seen in photos with Steve Bannon. Does it have to get more obvious? www.instagram.com/reel/DUd8S1N...

The government can spend money on concentration camps but not on housing. It really is this obscene.

Depends on what his crypto bosses tell him

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

#Israel has killed today 6 people in occupied #Palestine 's #Gaza, yesterday Israel killed 6 people in #GazaStrip, the day before yesterday 3 people were killed in #Israeli occupation forces attacks in Gaza. bsky.app/profile/endt... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #MiddleEast #Zionism

Israeli court blocks life-saving cancer care for boy, 5, due to his Gaza address