that path has already been chosen. do you want to fucking win or do you want to be crushed

What's odd is there hasn't been any surge of "vibe shift" works. There's no like, "anti-woke" pop culture, nothing has escaped niche online spaces. Lots of people seemed excited to say the r-word, and they only seem to do it in a comedy club where they still confiscate cell phones at the door.

Heartbreaking:

Break the dealership cartels and save the country

In the face of immoral and virtueless governance, morality and virtue are revolutionary acts.

Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy

DALLAS (AP) — Homeland Security spokesperson says ICE detainees were among those shot in Dallas attack; no agents injured.

YES to @roxanegay.bsky.social: In "this framework, incivility is refusing to surrender to hatred, refusing to smile politely at someone who doesn’t consider you their equal, refusing to carve away the seemingly unpalatable parts of yourself until there is nothing left." #politics #justice #activism

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

There was an era long lost to us now, one that I can only faintly sense the shape of, where it was easy to get away with making up bullshit claims about military service and Native American ancestry, and I'm increasingly convinced that the two actual genders are which one you lied about.

Quite frankly, you Americans always make this so complicated. Hegemony this, hegemony that. How about you just advocate keeping your obligations to other nations and the planet and whether that ends up being "hegemonic" or not can be a question for nerds.

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

Telegram: "hey your ex just joined" Get behind me Satan

BREAKING: Further confirmation that the shooter targeted immigrant detainees, not #ICE agents. All three #shooting victims were people ICE was holding and processing at the center. The shooter died of a self inflicted would and has been described as a white male www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

Regret to inform these women that he only goes for racist catboys and washed-out red-brown politics streamers

another point for “2020s biotech >>> 2020s infotech”

Is it illegal to arrest all those ICE agents on kidnapping charges? That is a Future Problem for a judge to decide later.

If anyone needs a tiny boost today, Gen Alpha is now using “AI” as slang for “bad” and “disingenuous.”

Anyway, here is some actually incredible news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An old fashioned word, you don’t hear it much anymore; they call it…”dementia.”

Having been fortunate enough to see a lot of renaissance / early modern religious art in various European museums and cathedrals, I don’t think your average American is prepared for how horny so much of it is.

Oil and gas industries will devastate the entire Texas economy by outlawing renewables before they cede their prime spot and the nature of both markets is such that crashing the Texas economy would be in their best interests

Biggest update is the fairly obvious role fossil fuels are playing in Russian aggression

and so will all of you

i had the realization that i was free, the bird site had degenerated to the point i no longer found it interesting, so i packed a bag and fucked off to the caribbean for a while. i lasted maybe two weeks. consigned to the fact that when the world is ending, i will be quote-tweeting it contemptuously

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

Hegel stood in the presence of Napoleon for five minutes and declared him the Weltgeist on horseback. Your insane uncle Merle stares ceaselessly at Trump online, slack jawed and unmoving, and declares him god king of money and the universe. There are 77.3M Merles. These are related events.

I don’t think we appreciate the extent to which Trump is the Hegelian world spirit of all of history’s lunatic comment sections and letters to the editor. Just pure distilled reactionary gibberish.

It’s more like shooting the rest of humanity in the gut tbh

"But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: "Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms"" - Simulacra and Simulation

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

“Islam” = submission, surrender “Muslim” = the one who submits/surrenders Both from the Semitic root *S-L-M which also gives us “Salaam” (and Hebrew Shalom) = peace

Since the headlines can’t be honest, I will do the work of clarifying that this article illuminates how ICE is routinely kidnapping children as a method of extortion

Wtf I love the papacy now?

Trump just stood up in front of the UN and admitted he has no idea what the UN is and why it exists, but insisted he could fix it. He blathered like a madman. Release the Epstein files.

Disagree - Democrats should consistently pressure corporations for failing American democracy. Point it out as frequently as possible.

trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”

With each day, this tweet becomes more prescient.

Nah he should take a giant, wet shit on the regime and its puppets, cheers 👍

I think #1 - withdraw of temporary COVID supports in '22 mean that in '24 millions of people's lives were actually worse than they had been at start of the term Solution: don't do generous temporary measures, if it is generous don't kill it before your term ends.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN chief warns world leaders that humanity has entered 'an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering.'

I never, ever want to hear "disrupt" as a marketing slogan again.

🚨 NOW: NYPD Arresting Demonstrators Near UN Assembly: “Trump does not speak for us!” A coalition of orgs, in addition to @50501newyork.bsky.social, formed a blockade (restricting traffic) to gain attention from the International community during the UN assembly. Their message: SHUTDOWN TRUMP.

Excellent piece on the ideological antecedents of Trumpism and MAGA, from @mattpolprof.bsky.social. Core point: MAGA is expressly anti-egalitarian, something that constantly gets airbrushed away or just passes unnoticed in mainstream pundit depictions of it www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...

I feel like fundamentalist Christians talk all the time about how if you're around people who aren't pure enough or whatever you become like them And maybe they're right about that that, but you know, look who they're spending time with Something about laying with pigs?

Throughout history, 99% of societies would not have tolerated a man named Beast who looks like this.

Fire the consultants and if they won’t then primary the idiots who hired the consultants

Trump just said Hep B is sexually transmitted so there’s no reason to give it to a baby, wait until they’re 12 years-old. If that’s not a tell I don’t know WTF is.

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists