yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

Dial up BBSes in the greater LA area

It's funny how every story framed "I was fired due to wokeness" is actually "I was fired for repeatedly using slurs despite numerous warnings from HR"

That's...that's spyware, they're advertising that spyware is a plus

man has zero principles, no morals no honor, no respect for his own voters even

We need to stop giving this dumb fucking shit any kind of attention. It should be worth less than a box full of expired Dave and Busters tickets.

What an adorable little cuck

[Everyone disliked that.]

Two neighbors came out with a snow shovel and a broom to beat away the officer. If I were writing the scene, I'd add a hockey stick guy but you're doing amazing cliches, Minneapolis.

Apparently on the live stream, someone said "You're on the Northside now" and then started kicking an ICE vehicle. North Minneapolis needs a dedicated flag so I can tattoo that shit on my body.

Barry Lyndon shit

Never beating the “it’s okay if you do fascism the RIGHT way” allegations

Reminder that Starbucks workers across the United States are on strike! Please find coffee elsewhere until Starbucks finalizes a contract with striking workers. #NoContractNoCoffee

the people's dilbert issue #1

More like Deadbert

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Even in Captain Planet the writers room would be like ok tone it back

“What if a state decided that Covid misinformation was straining state health resources and taxed newsletters who promoted it? What if the they required a costly license to podcast? What if a state decided to tax a certain newspaper it didn't like? Porn isn’t some magical category of speech."

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

The only ax to grind that I have is against lazy thinking, of which this post is great example. You are equating the lionization of Mangione by a small number of Americans — in a manner no different from classic veneration of the outlaw — with propaganda in defense of state-sanctioned murder.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Unclear to what extent they really believe the "There are good cops! The cops are not all bad!" stuff versus saying it because they can conceive of no alternative to saying it and kinda hoping it's true.

GTFO of here with that bullshit, man. They’re explicitly telling us whose side they’re on. You sound delusional.

I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.

Any politician who says “oh, let’s not worry about any of those atrocities the nazis are doing; we can all get along” is a fucking nazi. Never vote for a nazi, even one with (D) by their name.

Related to this: There's a quote in BEING THERE where Kosinski talks about how television smooths out everything so soap operas, news, and sitcoms all have the same sense of reality, importance, and meaning that I have thought about nearly daily for like 25 years.

in the garden, growth has it seasons. first comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. and then we get spring and summer again.

LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills

"Pope announces he's backing 'good' in ultimate battle between good and evil"

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Clearly in my feels on this one: I'd love to see the outpouring of media and interest for state schools being stripped of academic freedom the way we breathlessly looked at funding coersion against the ivies. Florida, Ohio, and Texas educate exponentially more students.

PIRANESI starring The President of the United States.

I need major figures to stop suggesting that a lack of training is why ICE murdered a person yesterday. Noem has said that the agent did exactly what he was trained to do. The problem is that this regime has promised ICE agents "absolute immunity" for their actions. They have no accountability.

please do not bring your phone to a protest

A year ago today was the start of violent, terrorizing raids in California’s rural Central Valley. Violent federal agents were hunting down farm workers like animals. Today, they’re in the streets of Minneapolis. Our communities should not be enduring this. None of us are safe until all of us are.

BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability. But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down. They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

This newsletter is always great but this one is exceptional.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Details remain unclear: on the one hand, there's a video showing thugs murdering a woman in cold blood. On the other hand, the New York Times is a propaganda arm of the fascist state.

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

Not enough of them IMO

Strongly agree with this but also want to know if whoever picked this header image was choosing wildly or is a fiend for amaros like I am.

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There is video that straightforwardly refutes this. I do not recommend watching it. This isn't the first outright murder they've committed and it won't be the last.

Everyone saying this is all targeting Walz are erasing that Ilhan has been targeted by this fuckshit admin way longer than Walz.

apropos of nothing this is one of the honor temples the nazis built in munich to commemorate the stormtroopers who died during the beer hall putsch

We’re so fortunate to have celebrated Béla Tarr’s work in his presence for this retrospective. He was so generous with his time, spending hours afterwards talking with our audience members. We’re forever grateful to him for this incredible, once-in-lifetime experience.