This is absolutely not news to anyone who has followed Earle-Sears for any length of time. She’s a frothing bigot, and her followers are bigots. Perfect representation of the modern Republican Party.

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

I feel like I’m kinda past compromising on certain things. - bodily autonomy - abolition of the surveillance state - state violence should be presumed invalid - freedom of honest inquiry (which is not freedom to slander groups that can’t easily countermeasage) - freedom from want - anti-corruption

I have no use for analyses of ‘political violence’ that don’t include what ICE are doing in Chicago in that category. Whether or not it ever was, it is not appropriate to say that violence committed by agents of the USA doesn’t count because it is ‘legitimate.’

Now I am imagining Musk as Conrad Harlan … and it kinda fits. $&@? them both.

I wonder how many folks would turn up for a Concours de Crapulence—a show of the worst bodged and hacked up automobiles that still somehow run and drive.

There's literally a subprime car loan crisis going on, two automotive finance companies went bankrupt in the last few weeks, been a rash of squeamish headlines about private equity and finance, high-interest buy now pay later schemes for GROCERIES and medical bills have become a massive industry

That’s the spirit of it www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

it was a good second week of my new newsletter. here's what i did there this week. on monday, i wrote about why conservatives have already overrun the possible compromise positions on trans rights. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

Two people very much worth listening to, in an important conversation. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

How little do you have to care for the lives or riders to think your design aesthetic is worth more than the lives of people trapped in your cars?!? apple.news/A8Oc4npDCSlu...

Again, no one involved in the new lavender scare should never hold power over others again, anywhere on earth. This is a moral imperative and I will never support any social arrangement that does not achieve it.

Not only does ICE need to be abolished, everyone who didn’t quit when the recent deployments started needs to be prosecuted and forever banned from owning weapons. We don’t need an army of people who are happy to attack us.

Why not bring Clowngress back? What is spokesbigot Johnson afraid of? thehill.com/homenews/adm...

they're the ones who suck, why should i be the one to leave?

Goddesses I loathe air accident TV shows that breathlessly dramatise people’s deaths while mangling the details. Real accident investigators—NTSB, AAIB, BEA—dig into detail and capture it as accurately as they can not for your titillation but so that the industry can learn and improve.

If you don’t want the world celebrating when you leave it, maybe don’t be an outrageous asshole that does orders of magnitude more harm than good? Nobody’s cheering the death of some flawed guy who tried to do right by others and sometimes screwed up. It takes wilful harm pisses people off so much.

Listening to a real sack of shit sing (badly) about “you stupid b****” in the shower is not doing anything to improve my perception of him.

just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...

While I appreciate the sentiment, and agree that we very much do need to think about what comes next, I’m very skeptical of any appeal for one man to save us. Case in point: FDR was the guy who committed one of America’s historically noteworthy crimes against humanity: Japanese internment.

If only more people listened to my podcast

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

This shitdown fight ain’t about what the combatants are saying. I’d guess that the biggest issue is actually recision: if the orange shit can just arbitrarily not spend money as Congress directs, Congress has surrendered its power to the executive branch and we have a (hopefully four year) dictator.

Y’know, I prefer the McDonalds of my childhood: fried beige lumps in a yellow and orange dining room full of kids toys. The one we favored had a wooden biplane replica with wooden controls that kids could climb on and pretend to fly. This knockoff Cracker Barrel shit ain’t it.

Good grief this is stupid. A beige DB25 is more likely to be parallel or serial than Apple-style SCSI. And this doesn’t help you spot 50-pin Centronics vs 36-pin Centronics parallel port connectors. If you’re not going to teach the differences, just teach people the bloody SCSI symbol already.

Trump and Musk spent HUNDREDS of MILLIONS attacking trans people. Trump II's first big EOs aimed to drum trans people out of public life. He's tried to ban them from travelling. There is no way this is not a newsworthy item. But because it's not negative about trans people, it doesn't get covered.

“A sick & dying population is easier to control”. To understand what’s going on— Suggest read the books: “ Hiding in Plain Sight” & “THEY KNEW” by Dr Sarah Kenzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Plus ça change, plus c’est le même merde Everyone sees, but We Corporates Say Nothing. spittingimage.fandom.com/wiki/The_Pre...

Trump to wheelchair users: $&€£ off. “US will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule” - Reuters apple.news/AFJEIzeyERdi...

Just naked corruption in the mafia state. Pay your bribes or bend over. “Kristi Noem fast-tracked millions in disaster aid to Florida tourist attraction after campaign donor intervened” - ProPublica apple.news/AH2ys32xlSLy...

I keep getting assaulted by an ad for a “military grade” “tactical” hoodie featuring a “ten thousand millimeter” waterproof barrier. That’s right, scientifically literate readers, this cavalcade of crap claims the hoodie to have ten meters of something (intimated to be thickness). Gahhhhhh.

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

I always hated this expression ever since 2016. People voted for not normal. They didn't want normal, because normal wasn't working out for them. This is what got us into so much trouble. And we have the Jeffries and Schumers promising more normal instead of fighting back.

The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... #NASA #IAC #IAC2025

How does the protection racket work? They drive millions into poverty, sell guns to everyone, flood the airwaves with hatred, and then—when people snap and carry out shootings—they tell you your only hope is to entrust even more power to the ones profiting on this system. crimethinc.com/TheirGuns

I’ve got some kinda airplane lurgy. Tell me again why we stopped masking up on the disease tubes?!?

I suspect some of my antipathy to generate A’I’ is due to seeing it as Nazi-aligned tech. One of the core Nazi cadres is mediocre but entitled guys. And the promise of ShatGPT &co. is precisely to allow such slimebuckets to appear more capable, productive, and creative than they actually are.

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“Taxpayer funded transgender surgeries” is outrage bait coding for Medicaid, Medicare, and civil service health coverage of medically necessary care. I wonder how many of the people screaming it get dick pills on the public dime?

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

"Trans people cannot live alongside people who promise to eradicate us from society."

When the experts you quote about travel finance can’t do basic arithmetic:

Watch the same christian fascists who celebrated Kim Davis froth at the mouth demanding jail time for officers store clerks refusing to print a deification of Saint Kirk.

I have no faith, least of all in the illegitimate SCOTUS defending the freedom to not be a christian. apple.news/AHIFvYDu3Rwa...

If some political party wants a particular god in government, they should be invited to ask said god to materialize and stand for election.

To be fair, this has been needed for ages. Also to be fair, I have zero confidence in the FDA under the fourth reich to do this honestly and not as some kinda shakedown effort for the big boss.

Blessed bean juice