billionaires are CATEGORICALLY people who are comfortable making selfish, cutthroat, cruel decisions for personal gain and to the detriment of functional society. i do not recognize the legitimacy of their demands and i will have nothing to do with them 🤷‍♀️

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

The authoritarian inversion of language and reality is accelerating. freedom of speech being redefined as a right to spout fascist lies and stochastic propaganda while defining pro democratic speech as “authoritarian and dangerous speech” is part of the ongoing process and the machinery of fascism.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

Oh for the love of Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451

Finally found the ICE video that I fully could not watch and it was the man having the seizure while they pulled a child from his arms. Countries are fake, borders are fake, nothing can justify this inhumanity. It’s all just for the abstract comfort of withering country clubbers and their pawns.

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

we need another billionaire undersea implosion to keep our spirits up

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

My Platner take is he got the tattoo because he existed in a social structure where it was normal and there were no negative consequences for doing so. He knew what it was and it speaks to a lack of strength of character that we don't need in yet another senator.

Servo partied HARD with The Band That Played California Lady

It's really sad that entertainment overall has become a landlord economy. The people who own the platforms make the money. The people who provide the labor make crumbs in comparison.

I’m happy no one got arrested but when they consider it a real threat to power there will be arrests so it’s important not to judge the success of a protest by the lack of arrests

hope everyone has a good time committing regicide tomorrow

this is what happens when the country spends 40 yrs glorifying manufacturing jobs, which, let’s be fair, are shit jobs. it’s loud, repetitive, dangerous. the only reason any american would work them before is they paid well without a college education. and that’s only because of unions.

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

@jay.bsky.team Remember when you and your team took advantage of our disdain for the other app to market Bluesky as a safe space for multiple groups, including marginalized ones? What happened to that? I’m curious to know since you’re now silencing people who call you out.

Uh if this guy wants to see "a virgin on screen" he should just put his phone in selfie mode

Would they be able to get away with all this if we didnt have to go to work? Do work, rent and bills only exist to produce profit, or is it just as importantly a function of social pacification, punishment and control? Is the economy just about money, or is it also about power?

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

You probably failed at "building bridges" if millions of people think that your life's work was destructive and terrible and if your supporters have to threaten people to keep them quiet about said legacy.

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.

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Not just crazy, but rank and file are motivated by greed. How cares if the fire is out of control I am getting 2 grand

the reason rightwingers care so much about the cracker barrel logo change and take it as a personal attack is that most conservatives areas don’t have any actual community and the only semblence of identity these days is based around consumption

As always, the proof that AI will have no lasting impact on the arts is that it has produced nothing of value. It has been used in the creation of nothing of value. It has nothing to offer the pursuit of beauty and understanding.

We should change the american flag to a tongue licking a boot

If you can't tell the difference between propaganda storylines put out by ideological hacks and actual journalism (hint: one regularly involves people admitting and correcting mistakes), you have no business being in journalism.

so the people who kept telling us that college men raping their schoolmates isn't a big deal want us to freak out about a table?

If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.

10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*

1 — ZOHRAN MAMDANI 2 — LANDER 3 — MYRIE 4 — A. ADAMS 5 — BLAKE DON’T RANK CUOMO. EARLY VOTING SATURDAY & SUNDAY. PRIMARY DAY TUESDAY. LFG.

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

But—and this is really the thing that kills me about this sort of discourse—the fact that her first desire is not to fix the problem now that it is here, but rather to be let off the hook for helping cause it ... this is what shows me the motives were bad from the start. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Five years ago we put this very same president in a fucking bunker and we'll fucking do it again. Happy Pride everyone long live the uprising Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Ruth Asawa's 1940s internment camp ID card, from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

When there is nothing to eat, the chuds will always turn to cannibalism

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