"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

i keep trying to get into blender, but getting started can be annoying thanks to adhd. i'll be trying to follow a tutorial but they always go too fast & too slow at the same time. i have to re-watch the same two seconds (or whole video) over and over because i can't pay attention. a bit trying

this is a post about from software pvp

"but that's illegal" *dunk* "he can't do that" *dunk after dunk* "that's against the constitution" *dunk after dunk after dunk* this dumbass dog doesn't know he can't play basketball. he only knows how to do whatever the fuck he wants

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I don't know that any social media platform is good for you but the stated intention of the owner of twitter is to make you worse and studies are now showing that he's having some success with that. This isn't esoteric, everyone knows it. So at this point being judgmental about staying there is fine

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action.

the state of the union is that we are royally screwed. the only hope, if there is any, is a royal flush, which seems like it just might not be in the cards. yes, the game was rigged from the start, and the house always wins, but we can stop playing games

This one hits hard.

there are not words available to appropriately reflect the vastness of my hatred of the state of things

I always thought the whole "they want you dead" thing was just hyperbole. But I guess this makes the entire raw milk, no vax, more asbestos stuff make a lot more sense.

Any excuse for this...

binged dispatch in one sitting. pretty much could have just been a tv show, but i dare say in the afterglow of hitting credits perhaps it's one of the best games of its kind. it's interesting how often it let me know i did better than one percent of other players for a shift (and overall)

once again pointing out that Trump vs. US is a treasonous decision--the Supreme Court equivalent of January 6--and the justices who voted for it have forfeited any claim to legitimacy (or indeed due process) whatsoever

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets. If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

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Well, lookie here! Puzzle Agent is still showing up on "Best of" lists in 2026! www.dualshockers.com/best-adventu... #grickledoodle #puzzleagent #games #cartoon #horror

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

however corrupt and compromised you think the system is, i think it's worse than that www.youtube.com/shorts/TXJw1...

The repeal of Section 230 would be the worst possible thing for this country- especially now when freedom of speech is under assault in every which way. That plan has been in the works for years. Kash's confirmation hearing, an exchange between @repmoskowitz.bsky.social indicated it was coming soon.

{whispering} people convicted of violent crimes also do not deserve to live in these conditions

every single god damn day there is even more new nightmare bullshit happening and The Plan is to just wait around and hope this all blows over. that the pedo nazis in power just leave at some point. that they willingly give up power. that they allow a road toward justice ever be open

This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.

if the continued cover up and outright refusal to even pretend to investigate the most visible ring of unimaginable evil ever STILL isn't enough to make you draw the line, then there was never going to be anything that goes too far

"we don't have to wait for the perfect conditions to make things better. we can act to create them" - a quote from a video about interstellar of all things

i want to make digital clay models of old video game sprites. like stuff that was originally made with clay and turned into sprites, such as doom and fallout monsters. but i can't seem to make myself take the time to actually learn blender 💀

I'm hoping shit like this helps open the eyes of people saying Chuck is doing the best he can. Do you see now why new rules or best practices (or laws!) can't be part of the ICE spending bill? It's gotta be gutted whole. It just obstinance or ignorance to stand ten toes down on it at this point

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

6 months later, i still think about this video now & then. i'm having a lot of trouble imagining an "after" all of this. it feels like we are constantly dealing with problems that should have been solved long ago fun fact: the last nuclear arms treaty has expired www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ay...

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

people mostly go along to get along, so it really matters what our larger systems structurally reward. if you have a bunch of unimaginably evil people in charge of everything because power is a magnet for evil (which digs in an protects itself), it's harder than it should be to do something about it

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

if the past year has taught me anything, it's that you can just do things. all it takes is the audacity. if there is a fire and you can put it out, you don't have to wait a year for someone else to maybe consider getting started on filing paperwork to urge arsonists to put it out

i finally got around to watching M3GAN 2.0 and it was good. there was a moment that someone says "no one is above the law", then someone else does something and i was just like "wait. she could have just done that this whole time." it just never occurred to her. that you can just do things

"Measles outbreak at the CoreCivic operated for-profit child prison." In case you were wondering why somebody thought it was such a priority to traffic kids from Minnesota to Texas. www.corecivic.com/facilities/d...

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once