“The most chilling thing is what happens to society, but also to individuals. Fear becomes internalised, and we begin to censor our own thoughts. We wonder if the law will actually protect us if they come for us one day.”

“As the historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social warned in his 2017 book, On Tyranny, this is how societies slide into danger: people obey in advance.“

“Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive.” @janinedigi.bsky.social writing in @theguardian.com Opinions.

The obsession with going back to the way things were under Biden by some members of congress is wild to me. Who wants to go back to being one election cycle away from masked death squads roaming our streets?

Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

This is part of a longstanding practice of legacy media being deeply invested in ignoring how central racism is to R politics. That paved the way for Trump to *start* in politics championing a racist conspiracy theory about a Black president & not just get away w it but parlay it into the presidency

Lutnick’s wife wrote to Epstein’s assistant, “We will be coming from Caneel Bay in the morning,” bringing “two families each with four kids.” Epstein donated $50,000 in honor of Lutnick to an unknown organization. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Lutnick (Trump's commerce secretary) and Epstein: Lived next door to each another Invested in the same privately held company together Appeared to have socialized in New York and the Caribbean Epstein at one point sought to meet with Lutnick’s nanny www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/n...

Hey man. You work at a newspaper. Have some self respect and try to write at least one sentence that doesn’t feel like sandpaper on my eyeballs.

if this post made you yearn for the sweet release of death, i have a podcast for you youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?...

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

#OtD 7 Feb 1952 workers won a bagel bakers' and drivers' strike in New York City. Bagel Bakers Local 338 had won their demands on 28 January, but drivers in the Teamsters union remained out until employers agreed to pay them back wages stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

Howdy folks! Has the state of the world and the deliberate falsehoods around the Palestinian genocide got ya down? Has the constant gaslighting of the media and politicians made you feel insane? Then watch the Bad Hasbara podcast! Hosted by Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté youtube.com/@badhasbara?...

The US demonstrated that unregulated media and social media pose national security threats. Europe must not make the same mistake. Sovereignty starts with who owns the microphone

Chip Berlet, who worked to take on everything from COINTELPRO to neo-Nazis, will be remembered for helping to inform, inspire, challenge and strengthen generations of anti-racist movements on the Left. We were lucky to speak with him in 2020. itsgoingdown.org/from-souther...

I love this. Bar these Nazis from public service employment forever. thelalocal.org/immigration/...

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.

Most people can go their entire lives without realizing they're intersex. So Colin wants someone born and raised female to suddenly abandon her entire identity in her twenties when they get a chromosome test for sports despite having female genitalia as well? None of this makes any sense.

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

loser shit

Congratulations on an unbelievable career to one of the best to ever do it.

10 years of endless interviews of Trump supporters in midwestern diners, but midwest erupts into greatest resistance campaign in decades and Corporate Media is completely uninterested in giving them a voice. False equivalency was a generous lie, Corporate Media is pro-Republican/MAGA, anti-US.

Let Black history month serve to remind us that the living legacy of slavery is the carceral state- policing, prison, immigration detention, and border enforcement. Abolition now.

newsmax asking the questions that no one else even dared to imagine

He doesn’t even have an elementary understanding of how fractions work but our Congress is letting him dictate global economic policies

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Canada relying on experience to repeat as Olympic women's hockey champions #Canada #TeamCanada #WomensHockey Team to open tournament against Switzerland on Saturday at 3:10 p.m. ET www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

The media is brazenly, openly republican and it sucks that democrats don’t know how to communicate this

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

RCMP Assistant Commissioner John Brewer testified yesterday in The Narwhal's case against the police force for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Here's coverage from The Canadian Press. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I forget who first coined it but “the revolt of the bosses” sums it up perfectly the power that labor held in the remote work era was existentially terrifying to them and every move they have made since has been designed to crush it and instill fear across the workforce

the idea that there’s something you can do - some level of performance you can achieve - that makes you safe from the whims of execs is something they want to avoid they want you to fear for your job, they want you to feel unsafe and unable to speak out that, above all else, is the message

This is very well put. Seems to me they are intentionally dismantling the Washington Post as an effective source of public information... much as they already have with Google, CBS, much of academia... and as they will never stop attempting to do with holdouts like @wikipedia.org and @archive.org.

something I remember from the big tech layoffs of a couple years ago is seeing coworkers with excellent performance reviews - even some who had literally just been promoted - getting thrown overboard for completely opaque reasons and realizing that was part of the point

I had state 1 cancer in my left lobe. I had surgery on April 1, 20220. i have had my 6 year check up and am all clear🙂 If you were a smoker, I suggest you get a screened!

Covering the book launch of To Catch A Fascist by @letsgomathias.bsky.social at Brooklyn Heights Public Library. Read our review here www.huffpost.com/entry/to-cat...

The media blackout on ICE activity is partly due to national Dem leadership giving up the leverage and national attention they had a month ago. It's partly due to Americans not being willing to stay engaged for more than a couple months when it's bad things happening only to Black and brown people.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Now comes news that NYC‘s Comptroller, who oversees its public pension funds, wants an independent investigation into Palantir’s work with ICE, invoking ICE shootings in Minneapolis and potential “legal, reputational and human capital risks” to the firm. NYC pensions have big $ in Palantir. 5/x

Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ invested in PALANTIR, which is enabling the ICE secret police and its horrific terror campaign. Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms! (See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)

Military-grade Excel

I mean...

LLMs are trained on the code that comes before, but not the code that comes after. They aren’t going to innovate for you. If you want to do new things, you have to know what you’re doing.