I always said that the primary reason for countries to invest in renewables isn't necessarily because of climate change, of course that's massively important, but they should've think about it in terms of national security and economic stability. www.euronews.com/business/202...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Please remember that we are at war right now not because we have to be, but because our government chose to be. And every bomb could have fed thousands of children.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Seems less than ideal.

Oh look, someone did the study again.

The desire to apply AI to military applications such as targeting is so that you can kill whoever you want, and if someone takes offense, go 'we didnt do it, though, it was the company we outsource to', which is also insulted, by corporate law, from anyone involved being held to account.

These would be perfectly terrible conditions under which to start a data center building spree.

It's amazing that so many populations have been gulled into thinking 'logistics' - that's the part that tells the war machine where to go, makes sure it has enough bombs, and then points out the schools that need destroying - is somehow not responsible for dead people.

The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut." Here's a Miami Herald gift link.

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

Ryan Grim: 'If the owner of a business works next to working class people, they are basically working class, too' Just a remarkably stupid person, without a shred of conviction.

Grim going to the absolute mat for the Nazi tattoo guy bc he used to frequent the bar where he worked is, like....peak Ryan Grim. Just sputtering 'he's a good guy, I know him, he's a good guy' while growing redder and redder and redder. What a tool

Man, Democrats fucking love war. They fucking love bombing kids. These are fucking Reaganites, man. Like, very literally, this is where the Reagan Republicans finally roosted; and this is the world they have wrought.

I am genuinely excited to hear how this is Biden's, or possibly even Obama's, fault, over the next couple weeks. It's a shame there wasnt more coverage of the nightmare that lumber prices have reached since we threatened Canada.

To add onto this, I need people to stop pretending like white working class people are particularly prone to having their Nazi phase. ie it’s not a signifier of his working class roots that he has Nazi tattoos. This does not appeal to and recruit the working class.

The Celtics' season is about to be determined by whether or not Jayson Tatum, who just got done releasing a multipart video series about rehabbing an injury, a totally normal thing that Boston fans would be supportive of if players like Luka or KD did, can subsume his ego and play with the team.

One of the best of all time. “You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.” Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

Dem leadership going to the mat to protect Cuellar would be one of the greatest own goals in history if they hadnt ensured he saved his seat precisely to do what he's doing.

Since he almost certainly cannot sober up, I am okay with him fighting the jaguar drunk.

Hegseth should sober up and fight a jaguar to prove his loyalty to the President.

Meta's Pervert Glasses really living up to the name, though I hadnt even thought about someone being bold enough to also use them for credit card fraud. So much malfeasance in such a stupid fucking package.

They sacrifice people like Noem bc they know it usually buys them *months* of relief in pressure, bc liberals who are not under any threat, and dont live near anyone who is, wipe their brows like in a cartoon, and decide the job is done. It would be nice if that didnt work, here.

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

Interestingly, when I requested this information from @massgovernor.bsky.social's office, I was directed to the DOC. That suggests the governor isn't reviewing these numbers and doesn't actually know how many people she's turning over to ICE or what (if anything) they've been convicted of.

I just wouldnt do this job if I had this much disdain for the user base. It amazes me how many of the people who get into social media utterly despise the folks who make the machine go - people.

Do you thing it was the "smart vibrator is actually spyware" story that pushed drone and military surveillance tech billionaire Trae Stephens to want to buy and corrupt Wired forever?

the rich are such menacing fucking loser snowflakes, holy fuck.

Trying desperately to see ANY bright side -- it's never been a better time to be a decent hetero guy who wants a full partner and knows how to do his own laundry and actively likes women as people.

Want a fun and easy way to support Palestine? Pick a brand on this list and stop patronizing it! Then, add another! The best part is that many of these companies also support Trump, so your boycott benefits multiple great causes simultaneously!

I keep hoping that THIS atrocity will be the one that makes someone go 'wait, we actually just target kids, on purpose, all the time'. This is our military doctrine - we target civilians with bombs and missiles. The end.

Too bad there's no opposition party that could relentlessly press the case against war.

I really wanted the C's to have a good game, tonight, but this is going about how I expected - they thought they were getting, like, the Hornets, perennial losers, not this enormous, gritty team with four legit shot-makers. C's want no part of getting to the rim, or fighting through screens.

I feel like people are giving the Times entirely too much credit - they are not naively scrutinizing disability access in universities, they are advancing eugenicist talking points. This is the vanguard of how they targeted Trans folk, too. This is, very literally, Nazi shit.

I got this today after paying a family’s back rent to stop an eviction that had been filed. I feel that weight in my bones, and I’m glad she gets to sleep tonight. No one should ever have to feel that fear.

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers. If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

Sheehy needs to be expelled. Immediately. There's no other path. This is a violent assault on a US citizen exercising their rights, by a man with no remittance to put hands on anyone. @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me. But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

How is this not assault? Im the most cynical person you are ever going to meet, but a *US Senator* has absolutely no business, no right, no suggestion of purview, to be putting their hands on anyone, protestor or otherwise.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

Our military is very specifically just for killing kids. When tasked with exceeding the bounds of that mission, one starts impinging on the profit margins of the industrialists, which is cause for alarm.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Third Way getting into appliances, apparently

I think about this take more often than I'd like to.

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint filed with a religious freedom watchdog. www.rawstory.com/military-267...

I feel incredible distance from the folks who feel obliged, naively, to do this 'well, obviously Iran is evil, but...' performance before criticizing our government for open murder - usually by arguing the murder isnt 'strategic' or 'legal'. Rarely ever 'wrong', or, topically, 'evil'.

When I started learning about it, and trying to react to it, the Silver Tsunami was a main st problem - small businesses are owned by old people, who had bought them from old people when they were young; but young people, now, have nowhere near the capital to buy small businesses.