“‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms *** The goal of the PAC is to elect a Congress that will prohibit individual states from passing their own AI regulations.” 2/11/26 … 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/ai-supe...

Advocates, protesters rally against ‘conversion therapy’ bill in Iowa House iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/09/a...

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

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I had not really considered this, but it leverages the way that the prospect of package theft feels like a crime against us even though, as this points out, the costs are actually born by sellers in practice.

Chicago-area Proud Boys, Terry Newsome, showed up in Downers Grove yesterday to harass and intimidate high school students protesting DHS-activity. Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.

Please do not praise Fox News reporters. If they were good at their jobs they would work somewhere besides the racism factory

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

The reality is that most of you do not need to have your doorbell be a 24 hour surveillance camera. It is lunacy to pretend the mass adoption of an Amazon owned home monitoring system is necessary.

I never enjoyed any of my actual interactions with going to church, but I think this is like the way other people must feel when they’re like “preach! amen!” Etc lol

Feels stupid to be at work when the government is completely illegitimate and taken over by fascists.

I don’t know how to explain to people that being a survivor of rape is enduringly life ruining and alienating, because your baseline faith in humanity will be smashed to pieces, instantly. The banal reality of that experience is something I wish on no one, but it’s worse than you can imagine.

You just can't electrify heavy trucking and shipping. Not possible. Need gas, hydrogen, ammonia,... China: hold my electrons. maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

If we don’t start putting guard rails on surveillance tech now, we are fucked as a species in ways I can’t begin to innumerate. And not one single politician cares, because they intend to buy the data. It’s just fucking disgusting.

Ok so i went to give a talk and write an essay and came back to find out that El Paso was air isolated for a few hours today because the most lethal and technological military in the world ... checks notes ... panicked about some party balloons? we're all gonna die in a nuclear winter, aren't we

I see we've moved on from 'our US system isn't corrupt, it's the GOP that's corrupt' to 'OK our system IS corrupt but no more than every other system in the world' - at least there's movement kind of

I think that our democratic representatives should stop voting to give more money to the professional misanthropes that we are paying to beat and kill and kidnap us and destroy our property tbh

I’m just blocking enlightened centrist journalists now. I highly recommend it. Do you really need Chris Hayes rage-baiting you into entertaining the hypothetical that AI is good actually? Do you need Matty Yglesias to tell you it’s not weird to be attracted to a 15 year old girl? No. You don’t.

An Irish man who has been held in the US by ICE for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.

For GENERATIONS

🚘🚛 Today on the Gorman Rd Overpass nearly 40 people protested with flags waving and the main message: ABOLISH ICE NOW! Tomorrow we’ll display our Light Brigade signs, 5-7 pm. Join us! See the poster below with our entire Protest Marathon schedule.🍃

cancel the fucking olympics

I'm not proud of my entire record as a parent but I did show my son the Studio Ghibli movie about the raccoons who defend the forest with their giant testicles and I think that counts for something

Home insurance rates are soaring in the aftermath of wildfires in Maui and Los Angeles. Two new bills introduced in Hawaiʻi and California would help protect families from rising costs by making Big Oil pay their fair share. 👏

being told that my mild criticism of Democrats makes me anti-electoral is sure making anti-electoralism more appealing

"Jim Boyling, who infiltrated environmental and animal rights activist groups for five years, said senior managers turned a blind eye to undercover officers having deceitful sexual relationships with women, often lasting years."

democratic party cheerleaders are really doing their best to make it seem like the nominee for president in 2028 is gavin newsom already huh

Trump pattern: Covid numbers look bad: "STOP THE TESTING!" Job numbers look bad: "STOP PUTTING OUT NUMBERS!" Poll numbers look bad: "STOP THE POLLING!" Next Election results look bad: "STOP THE VOTING!"

The plutocrats really, really want the country to go fascist. What else can we think? Trump is historically unpopular, so the next step is to stop polling.

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is now saying Trump is right to roll back climate science and pollution protections at the EPA.

minnesota is still being terrorized by ICE. it hasn’t stopped and from local reports has gotten way worse. it isn’t making major headlines anymore and we know why. ABOLISH ICE !!!

some tricks to spot the “secret shopper" in your grocery store. they are an employee of a private security agency contracted with your grocery store. they are all trained to make arrests by force after a person doesn’t pay. this post is written in French yet easily auto-translated. BEWARE!

Sure would be nice if journalists writing about the tech industry had, at bare minimum, enough of a science education to debunk their claims. Idk guys. I feel like you need to be more than a cheerleader or you’re just a useful rube doing free advertising for evil people.

The reason centrists seem so uniquely delusional is that they believe the myth of hard work and meritocracy. The far left and the far right both understand the concrete fact that wealth is power that can be wielded to avoid consequences. Only the left believes this is a bad thing.

As a child I was constantly annoyed at my dad's inability to tolerate crowds and most socializing, even just five other people on the same city block could make him freeze up and twitch. Only very recently did I finally recognize he was having autistic breakdowns and it changes my attitude entirely.

if Sam has been banned by bluesky for doxxing nazis, what then is the point of antifascist action accounts on bluesky? @bsky.app supports nazis?

Ofc he is tbh my only surprise is that he has not already done this

So I reread this this morning as part of the research I’m doing, and I thought it would be good to remind people that it’s not new that the liberals would defend absolute brutality on one hand and then claim for it to be more civil on the other During the time of slavery was called amelioration

Also one time my great aunt called me a cackhand and boy does that have the mouthfeel of a slur

I heard stories from my Dad that the nuns in his school would wack a ruler across his knuckles when he wrote left-handed. He wrote left-handed until he passed away at age 86. The nuns didn't fix anything. They were just sadistic, brutal, cruel.

every now and then i remember, dimly, that my first grade teacher tried to force me to stop being left handed. my mom and i used to get school supplies at a left-handed store. everyone i knew seemed to comment on me being left-handed. that all stopped when I was 10-11, no one seems to care now

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Six US states now have bills to pause data center construction. New York just introduced a three-year moratorium.

Fucking for the fall of fascism

Agreed. But I believe lust will win.

Yea I’m still mad about it and you should be too. It didn’t have to be this way it was a choice to allow things to come apart this far.

So many of us on the academic and research side as well as those already being effected by the encroachment of fascism tried to warn people what was coming only to be derided as conspiracy theorists and anti intellectuals by pundits who now are selling fascism lite as a good thing.