I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

If you want to read a book about a Eurovision that is CENTERED on this shit, go do that because I made one but good lord not doing free live commentary is not a racist attack. I’VE LITERALLY BEEN WRITING ABOUT THIS THE WHOLE TIME amzn.to/4ntxSow

David Graeber wrote back in 2013, A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse. This is a quote from the piece. davidgraeber.org/articles/a-p...

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The President of the United States going to meet with China to get on his knees and beg them to help him get out of a giant mess is the kind of fever dream freakout Right Wing media used to imagine and lose their minds over for years.

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

IF LLM and data center carpetbaggers believed in their own product, they’d add an insignificant amount of money to their project costs and use a sealed radiator system (like your car) and heat pumps (like AC) instead of cheap ass fresh-water evaporative systems. They don’t believe in their product.

Anti-Black racism has created "fact resistant Americans." I said what I said about people that complained that right-wing news or social media had *suddenly* brainwashed their parents into refusing to mask or get vaccinated. No. Nothing was sudden. They cooked their own brains slowly over decades

I am running a VPN, ad blocker, privacy browser. It got a few things wrong. And that's good. Every site collects details about you. It's why I yap about privacy all day.

2016: Black students complaining that dehumanizing language on campus and in the media is dangerous 2016-2026: cancel culture hysteria, these students are whining about nothing 2026: Black people losing the right to vote on a state-by-state basis ANYONE WANT TO REVISE THEIR ASSESSMENT?

I knew this man. I went to his house multiple times. I listened to him. I thought he had a kind soul. I was told, by people I deeply trusted, that there was no one better that I could try to emulate in my life and my spiritual journey than him. I believed it. /1

At some point everyone will realize that these people are okay with Black people being abused and decide to do something or don’t. They aren’t disappointed they just think they can win without Black people and are willing to gamble on it

Virginia speaker of the house going "we respect the decision of the supreme court to disenfranchise millions of voters" really is the perfect distillation of the Democratic party

We have to proceed from the premise that no Republican claim to power anywhere at any level is legitimate in any way. Every bill, every law, every proclamation, every ruling, all of it is fouled, none of it should be held binding on either moral sensibilities or legal standing, all must be reversed.

What this leads to, if not course corrected, is a second Civil War. I'm not a prophet, I'm not a 19th century historian, just a guy looking at the landscape, so don't take this as authoritative. But the structures that give the minority a stranglehold on power don't change the fact that:

Not an isolated incident @thetnholler.bsky.social stole a video I took of ICE officers mooning a Minnesota crowd several months ago. Never responded to DMs, never responded to comments asking them to credit. I self-funded that trip and shot that video in -10 degree weather Fuck those guys

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🚨We Are Not Going Back ... my latest substack piece on this moment. open.substack.com/pub/jaimehar...

In response to MAGA Republicans gerrymandering Tennessee to remove all Black representation, @brotherjones.bsky.social burns the fascist Confederate flag. This is the courage we need to fight back. #CourageNow

Either Republicans are intentionally and maliciously trying to increase cancer rates and mortality rates, or they are dipshits on such a level as to approximate malicious intent. Maliciously murderous? Murderously ignorant? Answer: who gives a shit.

Cookie Monster, as cookie crumbs fall from his lips: Me worry Americans not understand how me operate, think me just want cookies.

I've been noticing the same frequently and it turns out, yea people have gotten measurably worse bsky.app/profile/scot...

People fucking LOVE fantasizing about getting to straight up murder a child

I'm done trying to guess the future on bare shelf moments, but it never hurts to have a solid basement/pantry stock of canned, dry, jarred, and frozen food to at least cushion you through a moment of "holy shit, [ingredient] costs WHAT now?" at least until you can find alternatives.

How to tell the generations apart: Millennials - locked into downward social mobility through no fault of their own Gen Z - locked into downward social mobility through no fault of their own Gen Alpha - locked into downward social mobility through no fault of their own

Also: saw this on the indie games feed the other day and it may be worth keeping an eye on too, Starfox boss Rush with existential horror and Shadow of the Colossus vibes. bsky.app/profile/deji...

Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile A brief history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality. Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction. This piece is free to read, no paywall:

Ogles admitted to lying on his campaign finance disclosures and was being investigated to see where his campaign funding was coming from (because he wouldn’t disclose). The evidence is now being “destroyed.”

The enemies of multiracial democracy understand this precisely. It’s why they’ve been focused on rolling back the rights revolution of the 1960s - and on nullifying the Reconstruction Amendments on which it was built. They fear multiracial democracy because they know it works.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I feel like I owe you a fun one after the trauma of recent days

They have time for this shite! At least 3 other VA employees have been investigated for their interactions with the press, Halioua says investigators emailed her photos of herself at the vigil from news coverage. Someone had drawn a line around her image in some photographs, with her name. #pinks

Its important that we fundamentally oppose the ability of the state to police thought, speech, journalism, and protest. At its core, the far-Right wants to do all of these things, and use the violence of the police + the courts to silence anyone who speaks out against this authoritarian project.

he’s responsible for what may be The Perfect Joke:

Elon Musk and Donald Trump and all their little minions are mass murderers and should be taken into custody.

I'd be worried too.

with the lights out it’s less dangerous from the icebox plums cry “save us” “we’re for breakfast” “please don’t take us” but we ate them we feel heinous they were tasty please don’t blame us

Hard to read major publications when the only article genres are like: - "Is this criminal thing that harms the world bad? We asked the guy doing it" - "Bigotry is warranted if I'm upset about life" - "Stop being poor so loud" and - "What Does It Mean: Debating horrible thing he said very clearly"

My favorite look of the night. If you zoom in, you'll see the fabric is cut and textured to look like brushstrokes thick with paint from the palette:

I want this up in the Louvre.

TIL the singular of Bezos is "Bezo"

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

ff14 bosses love to say shit like “i will consume this entire world in fire and ash, none shall be able to stop me” and then cast a raidwide followed by a tankbuster