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The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

If you need a momentary distraction right now — and by heavens (literally) we all do — then here's a story about how our local supermassive black hole undergoes episodes of cosmic indigestion. The last one was just over a century ago! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/our-milky-... 🔭 🧪

I feel like no other law has such a bad ratio of "actual harm done" to "people not knowing or caring about it" than the PLRA.

While advocates have spent YEARS screaming about the mostly-irrelevant 1994 Crime Bill, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (the law at issue here) quietly grinds away, shielding our brutal prison system from whole swathes of accountability, almost completely ignored.

bleach my brain today omg knowing things about things feels like torture.

i’m glad that there were 3 who would grant cert, but the PLRA has been fucking prisoners by creating impossible obstacles to access the courts since clinton was reelected. fees wouldn’t be an obstacle if petitioners were released before filing. prisoners are treated like shit here. by everyone.

keep thinking about how much more hate teachers got for not wanting to catch/spread covid than troops get for literallty obliterating children.

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

"What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it." --Simone Weil, 1937

When you’ve lost Erik Prince.

fuck this shit so much.

Why is everything simultaneously so fucking awful and so fucking stupid

so I can stomp on men

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Boomers lived the best version of the American dream and never let anyone have it again

A big of the increasing joylessness of social media is that we’ve all heard what each other has say about every bad thing many times already, and the bad things repeat almost daily

Reagan with the hostages except it's openly on polymarket

I've talked about this before but it is a lens we are literally submerged in from birth and even if you know the lens is there, are mindful of the lens, and work to actively counteract the lens it is so easy to slip back into it without realizing. 99% of our population doesn't even know it's there

so reading that laura rosen breakdown of the miscommunication with iran reads a little differently in light of this, imho.

For my entire life, the people protesting US wars have always been ultimately vindicated and that being right is completely forgotten when the next war comes.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

A friend I was meeting sent a text saying they were running late and I thought that’s ok I’ve been busy all day and have to catch up on the war. Years of philosophy study but I’ve only just started to understand what the absurdists meant.

Part of capitalism is capitalizing off of instability, just so we’re abundantly clear.

She really did the thing

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there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Again, if you want to grasp how absurd the wildly different double standards to which the two parties are held by our elite media institutions are, it is useful to recall what Dems'/Biden's economic/Covid/etc. policies actually were in Jan-Nov 2021 that prompted the NYTEB to write👇 nonsense vs now:

been a really difficult last however many years for everyone who cares about other people

Imagine the conclusion you would draw if you came out of a coma to see we’re at war again and the East Wing of the White House is rubble.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Hell yeah, brother

Careful what you ask for. The demand is not, "Congress must vote to authorize this war." The demand is, "Congress must vote to end this immoral and illegal war of aggression."

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

When I say this today what I mean is that a necessary but not sufficient step toward the US having any kind of future credibility in my nephews' lives, the GOP has to be run out of power and public life and treated like the Nazis after WWII. We will not have credibility in my own lifetime.

Anyone who downplays the sins of Bill Clinton can get bent. That dude did real damage to real people and we don't need to rehabilitate him just to make Trump look worse by comparison. Even a less-bad-dude-than-Trump is still a bad dude.

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Possibly my most Boomer take is that transitioning to a post-literate culture is incompatible with a functioning democracy. Not just because people are substantively misinformed by TikTokkers or whatever, but because a brain conditioned by sustained engagement with text is wired differently.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Claire Shipman is a former television journalist, and it shows. Going live to tape and telling the world how your university was invaded and your student abducted on the same day is exactly how you fight authoritarianism.

We need more pathways for workers and the public to own things rather than billionaires and oligarchs to own things.

Good to see the Secretary of Defense has his priorities in order in the midst of the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the Gulf War.

you think we live in a broken and propagandized information environment now? it is going to get so much worse.

Women love queer, enby, metro, bi, and otherwise fem adjacent men b/c patriarchy and white supremacy has made cis het men mostly insufferable.