Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

The NYT style guide

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

I remember realizing Americans sided with guns post Columbine and that bent my mind. Access to guns got even worse and the media turned shooters into celebrities and now my kid does active shooter drills in elementary schools. Imagine kids saying "active shooter drill" out loud like it's nothing

killed by him!!!

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE. To everybody who framed all of this as “The Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.

i need $90 to keep my music up by the way. i know people don't really engage with my art but i put a lot of love and effort into it. search up "doomsday culture" and read the lyrics to the 12 tracks

If you can, please set up donations to The Trevor Project and find local trans support groups. Trans people need to know we love and support them no matter what this fucking monstrous admin does.

1. This is despicably evil. 2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment. 3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons

Here’s CBS “news” casually referring to Iran’s nuclear weapons as if Iran has nuclear weapons. They couldn’t possibly sink lower.

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.” Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us. Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

fwiw this is why they're getting mad at you when you say "I won't vote for newsom." A lot of them have already decided he's the one, and they're very upset with you for telling them their plan is a nonstarter. Keep telling them. He's just the liberal ron desantis

Hey, it's not okay for anyone to coerce or manipulate you into sex you don't want, ever, for any reason 💜

Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

Everybody hates this messaging except journalists and some other Democratic elected officials. There is literally no audience for this rhetoric beyond that. The fact that they’ve been sticking with it for 30 years says a lot about whose opinions they do and do not care about!

could a dying empire do THIS

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

And don't even feel an ounce of guilt for what they did to Black Boomers to have it.

like everybody needs to keep this in mind: prices affect what goes into the suits' pockets, NOT what goes into the WORKERS' pockets the way this shit works they could charge a thousand bucks a copy, pay their devs literally nothing, and the devs would basically have no recourse

MAN WHAT

The “Nazi tattoos are fine” people are one hundred percent going to find a way to defend this.

I know that everyone here hates the “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” messaging but “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” is likely the single thing about this nightmare that will most affect the day to day lives of a lot of people in the US

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the worst aspects of the finance industry are emergent properties of the stock market being essentially a proxy casino for the rest of the world and it's deeply funny that "prediction markets" and their users, by erasing the middle man, are learning in real time why that fucking sucks so much ass

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default “I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Seriously, get off of X. Don't post there and don't spend time there. You will get exposed to propaganda and bullshit that will nestle into the corners of your brain EVEN IF YOU KNOW IT'S BULLSHIT. Stay away.

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

One of my senators (D) went on TV and framed the problem with Trump's decision to launch an unprovoked assault on another country as entirely about process. She agrees with the carnage, she just wishes she would have been consulted about it first. Sorry to be a bit bummed out by that, I guess.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

she’s such a willing propagandist it’s disgusting

Necessary reading, on what lies ahead for Iran: “In demanding the restoration of the monarchy, Pahlavists have idolized Trump as their champion, affectionately calling him ‘President-e Ghalbha,’ ‘the president of hearts.’”

Oh btw ICE activity today at Whipple was fucking nuts. Large convoys of masked agents leaving every so often with a constant stream of single ICE vehicles in between. This 'drawdown' was clearly just a brief hiatus to pacify liberals and get bourgeois media/politicians to completely lose interest.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

Remembering that time they toppled Saddam Hussein and then everything in Iraq was suddenly chill and peace reigned supreme with blessedly little political fallout (The destabilisation of Iraq led to refugee migration in the millions, millions dead, spawned new even more evil terrorist groups)

Like any established institution under capitalism, journalism has been incentivized/coerced into supporting imperialist violence and left broadly unable to engage with radicalism or liberation without compromising their privileged livelihoods. Their defensiveness about this is loathsome.

once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

Senator Mullin that guy died in 1989