24 hours ago, it looked like the Utah GOP was complying with a court order to create a competitive district grounded in Salt Lake. But the gamesmanship may have been just around the corner with this new bill GOP unveiled. www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/utah-republi...

Incredible bummer about Bluestockings. The lack of space in Lower Manhattan has devastated organizing and just plain old community for decades. Activism often requires impromptu convenings and is facilitated by serendipitous encounters. We need places where we can get into each others' orbits.

He's been busy working on Not Making that people's cabinet since April

Wow @petebuttigieg.bsky.social you did not do your homework. Harrell fights taxing the rich, and nearly always for corporate interests. He has blocked housing, added immense expense and delay (with reduced value) to transit, presided over a dysfunctional, feckless administration, hostile to women

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

Don't pull that smol bean stuff on us now, prick. We know your game.

Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Chat is this violent rhetoric

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

In case you are worried that everything js bad, the Charlie Kirk tribute that was supposed to air over Kimmel has 68K views in YouTube, the world’s most popular website. The retrospective of Maru, the recently deceased internet cat that charmed us by getting stuck in boxes, has almost double.

Imagine trying to cancel GWAR

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

well bad news, today i have to go... *sigh* practice christmas music

The only ethical use of AI is to create a deepfaked cut of Tron 3 that replaces Jared Leto with Tim Robinson released to torrent sites the same day it premieres in theaters

argentina will get more support from the united states government so they can continue their libertarian collapse than americans will get during a recession lol

So libertarian policies have destroyed Argentina and we are go no to bail them out because our government wants to prove that those policies work. Because they’re doing them here. So, we get a preview of our future.

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

New from me: Last week I noticed a feature on TikTok that used AI to scan videos and identify products. It turns out the feature is being applied even to videos from Gaza. In one, a mother cries out for her family. TikTok tagged dresses, head coverings, and handbags. www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...

It's fine it's not like the media is helping hypernormalize all of this or anything

Idk is it a good or bad thing for society when everything from your vacuum cleaner to your doorbell is constantly saying ALARM WARNING DANGER while the worst people alive harvest all our data lol

It's important to note that they not only sold out the very things that made their own opportunities possible, they're also lying to themselves because they're getting fucked, too. We have to point out that they're *obviously stupid to buy into this stuff*.

It's important that they employ countless thousands of H1B workers and want to make sure those workers can never organize, and have no political or social power. It's important to say that they want more trans kids to die — even the VCs who have trans kids of their own. These aren't minor points!

I said _ten years ago_ that these guys were pivoting hard to the right, and I was far from the first. And these stories always omit the worst of their transgressions. It should *matter* that they lie about Lina Khan! It should matter that they enabled the Rohingya genocide! They're full of shit.

"Tor does have limitations like anything, but if privacy is your primary concern, Tor is the king of the hill." Thanks DW (@news.dw.com) for the shoutout! 💜 www.dw.com/en/anything-...

Love this 18th century plate. In Dutch it says: "That is an unicorn". Just in case you didn't know. Via Atelier Able, who of course had to make a replica. More here: www.facebook.com/www.ateliera...

Many folks at work are surprised I bring my lunch in every day and I think people underestimate how much the rage over going outside to pay $20 for a mid salad can serve as a motivator

It's KER-LEAF! season, too! That's one for The Onomatopoedia: The Encyclopedia of Onomatopoeia

When you spot the perfect pumpkin. 🤩 🦇eastern red bat 📷J. Scott Altenbach

you could have decided to be better, but you didn't, and then when your kids do it's time to bring in THE ENTIRE MURDER MACHINE THAT IS THE STATE to punish them for being queer, or autistic, or uninterested in your car-dealership dynasty, or willing to date outside their race

and there is maybe no greater sense of betrayal than being abused your whole life and told you'll get your turn as the big bad patriarch/matriarch playing with your own little puppets, only to have them turn around and say "i don't have to take this" — because *you* didn't have to take it, either

"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

We need an environmental movement that builds things* *bollards, concrete barriers, vegetated buffers

The entire “Americans want pro corporate liberal centrism” project has failed, and an entire industry that runs on pretending otherwise is panicking. It isn’t just that they don’t want to move the party to the left; they don’t understand HOW to. They’ve literally never thought about it.

it is very disappointing, and extremely telling, when asking politely if people would consider not using AI/getting off substack/etc, that the OP is in the comments having great convos but utterly ignoring that one comment.

what's that, you say? Gavin Newsom is being a big fucking disappiointment again?

An interesting thing about the Hague Invasion Act is that the President of the United States doesn't *have to* enforce it to protect war criminals from a prior administration any more than it has to prioritize enforcement of any other law.

Seeing a party that abhors vulnerability try to publicly mourn, a very vulnerable thing to do, is like watching a dog trying to drive a car

this isn't my opinion, this is fact. this is what the department of defense's law of war manual says

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

IF the Biden DOJ thought Homan had to perform an official act to charge him because of recent jurisprudence, then their $50,000 payment to him looks like a massive parlay bet that: (a) Biden/Harris would lose, (b) Trump would reappoint Homan, (c) Homan would do it, and (d) TRUMP’s DOJ WOULD INDICT.

Here it is: The @wired.com Politics Issue is now live, with more stories rolling out all week. We're so proud of this one. Behold this cover; truly a work of art. And we're treating it that way: Starting today, you can find it on murals, billboards, and posters across in five U.S. cities.

NOBODY LIKES THIS GUY! EVERYBODY LOVES MAMDANI!

One thing I remember deeply during the 2nd GWB administration/leading into Obama's 1st term was a growing consensus that terrorism is just basic crime. Murder, extortion, etc. It's stopped by law enforcement, not military. And then that got thrown out the window around 2011.

I wondered what sort of prior tear gas conditioning he must have had. I appreciate how he spoke about the people who were there alongside him despite appearing to be alone in the photo. He doesn’t sugarcoat how the ICE agents treated protestors- “…people got hurt, people were hurt purposefully.”

10/10 perfect example of MAGA approach to the serious matter of government administration, no notes

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

A guy on tik tok onside kicks into random things

ICE records on Palantir show how the company has long been enmeshed in the day-to-day operations fueling ICE surveillance and deportations.

bureaucracy — lit. "rule by desk" — was invented for a reason! and that reason was to prevent rule by fiat and favor