Plausible take to consider. “The strikes and seizures serve less to secure resources than to justify emergency powers, sideline Congress and expand presidential authority at home.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

A very clinical way to talk about life under a horribly decaying rogue mafia state. "When environments change rapidly or become hostile, previously healthy organisms die - not because they were defective, but because the environment became incompatible."

The path to our empowerment includes defunding the oligarchy. To do that we must disengage. - Reduce consumption esp chains - Withdraw data from BigTech. We're heading into socioeconomic chaos. Ours leaders are bought, silenced or asleep. Time to shut this nonsense down. #defundtheoligarchy

Please do not consent to this. Please. I don't care if you have nothing to hide. You will be setting a precedent that will inevitably be used to surveil and harm vulnerable people.

The isolationist right was never isolationist. They just wanted to shun alliances and international law while embarking on their own bizarre imperial adventures.

What’s at stake in the fight between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros? The power of a wannabe tyrant to interfere in any business transaction he wishes, to enlarge his own power and stifle criticism. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-a-president-intrudes

We are calling European countries socialist now? Either the IQ of people in office fell to double digits or they are intentionally spreading propaganda. Wow

Learned this today: "Poverty is not the absence of wealth. It is the consequence of wealth being concentrated in very few hands."

The exodus is happening slowly but surely. (I try not to share Meta links and just screenshot. I know there’s still good activism happening on IG and Threads, but want to encourage migration off those too)

Don’t forget to share here on Bluesky your wins on the journey out of the Big Tech/Monopoly matrix, no matter how small. Recently: 💪 I deleted all of my documents from Google Drive (except a work one) 💪 Reduced social media use on my phone #mediarevolution #defundthebillionaires #digitalexodus

ground.news/article/judg... Here comes another batch of Epstein info. This is the Grand Jury deliberations in the 2019 Trial. I don’t expect to see anything we don’t already know in these, but whatever. Drip,drip.

Whole of the American economy is now piracy.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

It’s that time of the year again! Join us for another survey, this time this will help guide our winter strategy. We’re getting ready for what comes next, here’s your chance to tell us what you think that should look like! #50501Movement Take the survey here: BIT.LY/50501-ACTION

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Department of War is more honest, but I think we could keep it honest without having to change the acronym. How about: The Department of Death? Still abbreviates to US DOD, but now it's honest.

Uber is on the Boycott list as a public backer of authoritarianism along with the other tech broligarchs who attended the inauguration.

There's a media blackout on the FBI's new enemies list and cash fund for snitching on people harboring things like "anti-Americanism." What little coverage its gotten has been laughably bad: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-ene...

BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Sen. Warner: "We've just had another briefing on the issues surrounding the strikes in the Caribbean…I continue to think that the whole underlying basis of equating a boat that has drugs on it as the same, in a sense, as terrorists that had guns or bombs. I find it problematic."

Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"

I don’t hate Sam Altman like I do the other tech broligarchs. I can’t help it. If we get to an Epic Showdown moment, I feel like he might be persuaded to the side of good. He’s delusional and misguided but not sociopathic like Zuck, Musk, Thiel. Or maybe I’m just naive.

The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

The exodus is happening slowly but surely. (I try not to share Meta links and just screenshot. I know there’s still good activism happening on IG and Threads, but want to encourage migration off those too)

Seems worth noting, but not surprising too. www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...

I know this doesn't carry weight (yet). But we have to start somewhere.

Why allow US to be involved either? "As British PM, Blair strongly supported the US-led so-called 'war on terror' & sent tens of thousands of British troops to join the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq...launched based on false claims that Iraq...had developed WMDs." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

You know what? She’s right. Thank you for the reminder.

Of course. Of course. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

📣NEW REPORT: "We’re locked up in 1000 ft cages. There are 32 people in each cage, and 8 cages inside the tent. The lights are like stadium lights; they’re always on, they’re never turned off or even dimmed ..." -Individual previously detained at "Alligator Alcatraz". From @amnesty.org's new report.⬇️

America got “the president is killing terrorists, don’t question it” in the 2000s too. But unlike now: -The US had been attacked -Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks -They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky -Congress authorized the action

It's just an admission that they're not doing "law" as we generally understand it, if you think law means a set of principles and rules to be applied based on logic and fairness. They can just say "oh, that doesn't apply here." The logical outcome of Bush v. Gore's "present circumstances" carve out.

Imagine big tech companies using their donations to non-profit groups to try to influence policies to allow them to continue to pollute for profit? Shocking? Nope. Now look at all the big green groups who are advocating for "cleaner" natural gas and see who funds them.

LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that

Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?

Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else

Reproductive rights groups do NOT want the Quebec government to enshrine abortion rights in the province's proposed constitution. First, it's not really a constitution - it's a regular law that can be amended. And that would turn it into an anti-choice weapon to restrict abortion.

A Republican president once picked Ben Bernanke—a future Nobel laureate—because expertise mattered more than spin. That norm, picking Fed chairs for brains not loyalty, does more to protect your paycheck than any campaign slogan.