2025 has just been a year of incalculable loss, culturally speaking. It does not feel fair to have this year bookended by the preventable deaths of David Lynch and Rob Reiner and various other deeply unfair and evil shit happening to the medium of film on top of that

Call or email your reps about Kosa and Section 230 If S230 is repealed any website or company can be punished for what their users post and so will have to censor or limit who can post. And Kosa is requiring every website to have ID verification Email or call your reps!! www.badinternetbills.com

Millions of young people across the globe protested against a genocide — an unprecedented mass movement that was organized on social media. In that time, the US government basically nationalized TikTok and the Australian government has banned teenagers from social media altogether.

A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet. It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.

An estimated 30 million civilians died in Europe in WWII before Germany was able to rebuild. An entire generation was destroyed. The United States is the strongest military superpower in human history. Humans may not survive a fully unbound and autocratic U.S.A., we must resist it here and now.

Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out. Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.

This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.

Neo Nazi weaponized unreality is the norm now. It is going to get far far more destabilizing fast now.

Same with TikTok. We were told it was a "national security" threat. But the forced divestiture wasn't about data privacy. It was about transfer of ownership. Handing the algorithm to politically safe tech oligarchs ensures that the last algorithmic feed not under their thumb is brought to heel.

Welp. SNL is dead. Put it down.

People just don’t seem to understand that enhancing tools of repression also helps your enemy.

This is fascism

A fascist has won the presidential election in Chile. It’s like the world wants to commit collective suicide.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.

History tells us where this "co-opt or destroy" scheme leads. In 1945, when it became clear he could not own the future of Germany, Hitler issued the "Nero Decree." He ordered the destruction of his own country's infrastructure. If the nation wouldn't serve him, it didn't deserve to survive him.

The same racism that elected Donald Trump as POTUS, and made Charlie Kirk famous, and made Elon Musk a billionaire, is the same racism that lets Democrats support mass murder, systematic kidnapping, caging, torture and rape, and of course, GENOCIDE, when it's their party sponsoring the atrocities.

“And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.”

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties👇🎯

The regime in the U.S. claims to represent Christianity in much the same way the regime in Israel claims to represent Judaism. I wonder if the OP would be as willing to blame Christians if someone attacked Christian events on the other side of the world in revenge for Trump's crimes.

The republicans goal is the Turner diaries reality and the day of the rope nothing less. The republicans are gearing up for a massive stochastic push that is designed to develop surrogate violence again the population

It really cannot be overstated here Trump just threatened the entire country with civil war and surrogate violence he is telling you he will call on the true believers to enact genocide.

just a reminder that antisemitism has been a part of Western culture for over a millennia and has a powerful influence on culture, social life, and politics. as with other forms of oppression, like misogyny and racism, open violence is just an explicit expression of more widespread attitudes.

When those of us on the academic and research side of countering fascism say the republicans are attempting to foment open kinetic ethnic cleansing (genocide) not just the kind the state is engaged in

Trump and the fascists are now openly threatening a civil war from the White House if they do not get their way. To the elected democrats who have capitulated with the fascists for decades because you were cowards the fascists are still going to try and kill you.

The fascists can never understand Minnesota or our view of dignity for all. We will win the fascists can’t stop our collective humanity.

Mushroom at the End of the World is a great book but it also reminds you that the answer to why anything in the US Is Like That is just racism

Fascist foot soldiers now openly targeting the children of their opponents.

The fascists in the federal government don’t have enough bullets to kill the ideas we are fighting for. They lose in the end.

Minnesota will never fall to fascism the fascist will fall to us. Solidarity to those on the ground fighting back against the fascist foot soldiers of the state.

I will say it again. It’s a world war people just don’t understand it as one yet. gray war precedes ground war.

The democrats have funneled Billions of dollars to the billionaire class attempting to use ai as a tool for fascist state capture while they tell every American the real threat is male loneliness and trans folks. The democrats are doing the fascists job for them and telling you it’s a good thing

It’s telling that The democrats have done more in the last year to protect ai and the fascist billionaires who are trying to force it on all of us than they did to protect society from covid

If you’re wondering why anyone younger than 40 is done with both parties it’s because both parties have demanded children accept they may be blown apart with an ar during class all while telling them their is nothing they will do to stop it. The terror of the last two decades has been bipartisan.

We should absolutely have a 100% wealth tax over a billion dollars. Not only would we raise meaningful dollars, but we’d prevent the extraordinary harms from excessive wealth.

I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society

Hyper vigilance is exhausting and I have to believe that they force everybody into this state on purpose so they’re constantly stressed out and burning the candle at both ends so they don’t have the capacity to revolt, being too busy putting out fires to punish the arsonists

Adding to this: they let y'all believe covid is harmless and over. bc one: money. and two: a sick populace presents weaker resistance to fascism.

Capitalism needs us to feel bad if we are not in its service. When we support each other, we weaken capitalism's hold on our imaginations, and capitalists rightly feel threatened.

Democrats are on trump’s side.

what is extra frustrating about the continued efforts to kill it is that none of them understand this everyone attacking it is convinced that killing section 230 will allow them to remove some part of the internet that they don't like, be it content moderation or sex predators, but it's much worse

We can no longer afford the rich. They know it, and that’s why they are pushing fascism everywhere. - Blogwart www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

This situation is EXTREMELY serious. Britt needs $1400 by tomorrow morning or they are ON THE STREETS In DECEMBER They will be in on the streets for weeks bc paying for shelter is even more brutal with holiday rates Who would choose this? Who deserves this? Not Britt. Not ANYBODY Pls help

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Hey, y'all, I hate to burst your bubbles, but that "hooded crow snowboarding with green plate" video is generative AI Here's the _REAL_ video of a snowboarding crow from 13+ years ago the fake is stealing from www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBM...

Bipartisanship to do the Tik Tok ban but that censorship was not enough for them. They are trying to censor the entire internet now. Call your reps and demand that they do not repeal Section 230 Senate switchboard number: 202-224-3121 Congress switchboard number: 202-224-3121

No, they specifically chose 8 Dems not up for reelection to end the government shutdown and side with republicans. Meaning they are aware of mass calls to primary establishment Dems.