Naaaahh! We always ave cash for war!

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

My feed is already full of #uspol #democrats making excuses for #gavinnewsom ‘s #2028election loss.

It’s all well and good to be worried about centralized social media when it’s owned by fascists and there are troops on the streets and peaceful protesters are being kidnapped and killed and we’re about to strike Iran, but next time, can we listen to the people sounding the alarm a little earlier?

"They just want to torture and punish transgender people because they don’t like them, period. It has nothing to do with kids or women’s rights or anything else. They just hate the very idea of transgender people and want to make it impossible for them to function in society or even make it […]

Kudos to the NY Times for taking a story about a Nazi collaborating with a pedophile to destroy the US and making it sound like a feel-good Hallmark movie about the magical healing power of friendship

I won't debate people on conforming with the moral standards set by the far right, because every time a moderate feels the need to condemn a statement that was “inciting violence”, the truth comes out that their so-called violence was a media framing oddly […] [Original post on mastodon.de]

Anyway, I wrote about a whole slew of reports saying that DHS is using abusive administrative subpoenas to track down Trump's online critics, show up at their door, and intimidate them... And the "free speech warriors" who insisted Biden was censoring people online are somehow silent.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training. https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

This is critical to understand. It's how right-wingers can talk about "protecting children" in the same breath when they call for abusing and torturing children. They mean it in the sense of "protecting" one's property, not of supporting and nurturing a fellow human […]

I must be missing the point, why is she wearing clothes? #reviewmelania

Centrist pundits are urging Democrats to respond to ICE's killing spree by bringing in management consultants to recalibrate the agency's mission statement. That's morally bankrupt. It's also political malpractice, I argue here: www.findinggravity.net/how-not-to-t...

Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115803128842716660 the right conclusion would be that the way you're doing performance reviews (and peer reviews) is wrong, that performance reviews (and peer reviews) became, or simply always were a meaningless ritual, and that it would be better to perhaps […]

It's difficult to imagine now -- much like it was difficult for me to imagine during Bush II in the wake of the disastrous Iraq war, the disastrous Katrina response, the disastrous economy -- but the second these monsters are out of power, the soothing cries of "look forward, not back" will begin.

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

We're living in a deeply, aggressively stupid time. slate.com/life/2025/11...

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True Story. Half a year after 9-11, security for the company I was working for at the time were made aware that a disgruntled employee who was also a licensed single-engine pilot, was making threats about flying his plane into the corporate headquarters building downtown. When no one could […]

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

A better question would be why Bob Marley was arrested in the first place for a crime to which the Kingston Trio had already confessed in 1960. In this essay I will [1/323]

It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

Report: "Hawaii Library System Bans Displays That Refer to ‘Banned Books Week,’ Rebrands to 'Freedom To Read'" (via @apnews) https://apnews.com/article/censorship-stephen-chbosky-toni-morrison-harper-lee-suzanne-collins-2629558095821eff8556082285ca0aee #libraries #books

Speaking of which...

> So we are fully at the stage of the pandemic where accounts with huge numbers of followers get incredibly bad long term repercussions from covid, and then blame them on demons. Don't they know, Demons Are Airborne? It's their wings, donchaknow […]

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

Dem Lawmaker Removed From Committee For Being Too Christian | Crooks and Liars https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/dem-lawmaker-removed-committee-being-too

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on #ai: > [T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain […]

Please Do Not Call ICE Thugs 'Gestapo' For Holding 5-Year-Old Hostage As Bait To Nab Her Father https://www.wonkette.com/p/please-do-not-call-ice-thugs-gestapo

The whole idea of the “liberal” media was always a myth and bludgeon used to force broadcast journalism to the right. Looking at how many Sinclair stations won’t show Kimmel and how corporate news media aided and capitulated to Trump shows us all their real ideological leaning — their owners.

CPJ - Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers, is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded […]

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

This is a Dystopian timeline: My wife was let go after 25 years working for the same bank this morning. In an apparent oops, the bank's IT department hard wiped ALL her IOS devices remotely, while she was on the road driving, relying on the GPS function. The screw you cherry on top? Our […]

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you l scold peers for not being nice.

"When Kilmeade suggests killing the homeless, you don't debate. You make his position professionally untenable through coordinated campaigns of economic pressure and public accountability. "...In asymmetric conflicts where one side exploits civility while violating it, maintaining civility […]

@GottaLaff He built a profitable enterprise selling child sex slaves to himself? We're supposed to believe that?

MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying that Charlie Kirk pushed hate. Meanwhile, over at FOX, Brian Kilmeade floats “involuntarily lethal injection” for the homeless. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-host-mentally-ill-people-who-commit-crimes-just-kill-them

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer deletes post targeting Charlie Kirk as insufficiently loyal to Trump - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk-laura-loomer/