"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal." -Aaron Bushnell

It's been 23 years since Cheney and Bush Jr. threw us into a "war" built on lies. Protests didn't stop it, of course, and Bush Jr. never got charged with war crimes. Instead, we got the Tea Party and the path to Trump. And here we are again.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

US captures Venezuelan leader Maduro, Trump says

We are past due for paying our reps daily public visits. En masse.

Saw this fascinating old doc on BBC Archive: Remembering the Big Freeze of 1963 (shut down the UK for two months). They manage to "blame it on Hawaiians" without a single finger pointed at the changing climate (studies had begun in the 19th century). www.youtube.com/watch?v=grhc...

Please remember that as this happens, women are also being stripped of the right to control their own bodies, young women are being pushed into tradwife bullshit, and a new generation of conservative men increasingly argue that women shouldn’t even have the right to vote bsky.app/profile/mhar...

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

Wrote about the Labour Party's failed popularist experiment as feckless quant-brain U.S. liberals toy with the idea of a popularist agenda in 2026 and beyond: badfaithtimes.com/a-blaring-wa...

“He spent the next 48 hours in a large room with 150 other men — in a room he was told was intended for 80 people. There were three metal toilets. The lights were always on.” “They never turned it off,” he said. Estrada had no bed, no mattress, no blankets.”

It's not journalism's job to ballwash the United States

If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize profits, then we might do things like boycotts which aim to change their behavior. If we assume Musk and Ellison are motivated to maximize power, our goal should be to entirely discredit the outlets and platforms they own.

Pro-Trump billionaires like Musk and Ellison didn’t buy media outlets to maximize the company’s profits. They bought media companies to maximize their power—and minimize the opposition’s ability to disseminate the truth.

If the platform weren't owned by the richest man of the world who is a close ally of the US president, there would be a real crackdown on such blatant illegality. www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...

We need to bring this energy to 2028

Mamdani is showing the next Democratic president what to do in 2029

We didn't make it to 50% of our fundraiser by yesterday but we're only $1555 away. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - please support the Black Zine Fair if you can.

It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Yesterday, Reuters unveiled a report in which they discovered that Israel re-purposed armored personnel carriers into truck bombs, loading them with up to 3 tons of explosives and then using them to destroy residential buildings in Gaza.

As someone who was in college during 9/11 and all of Bush 2's presidency, I can confirm: it was a nonstop horror show. If folks my age or so aren't so rabid about Trump, it's because we've seen this shit before. It was just a little less crude. That's all.

For decades, the structure of US society, by intent and design, was remade to redistribute wealth, resources, property and opportunity from the vast majority of Americans of all origins to the very wealthiest and most powerful. Fixed it for you, Herr Miller.

First art of 2026. Setting the tone.

when i say that democrats have got to stop worrying about what republicans will to do us and make republicans worry about what we will do to them, this is what i am talking about www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

If you're going into Zohran's term thinking he's going to "give you what you want" and not thinking of this time as one in which it'll be easier to organize for what you want. . . I'm afraid you will find yourself very disappointed

You're voted in. What book would you be sworn in on? Mine? bell hooks, All About Love.

Karen with her wine and Joyce with her axe is the energy we need going into 2026. #strangerthings

🇮🇷 Mass protests in Iran have turned deadly, with fatalities reported in several provinces amid intense clashes with security forces, the most serious unrest in the past three years. Inflation near 40%, currency collapse, and harsh repression fuel the crisis.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

Also something important to note that this is the software responding to a prompt to write an apology, not a formal apology from X, which I reckon makes it a fair bit worse bsky.app/profile/leah...

all of energy twitter patting itself on the back for continuing to post on a website that is mostly users prompting a generative chatbot to create non-consensual sexualised imagery of children It's where the Serious Smart Experts are Posting www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...

Reminder to anyone who thinks they want to join up: you won't get that nazi stank off you even in hell. And one day you *will* want it gone.

New York City has a new mayor

There must be a positive, progressive change of fortunes in 2026. Let's make it happen. #happynewyear

Kali, you deserved better. #strangerthings

Among the nationally confirmed cases, the CDC says about 93% are among people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.

Protests breaking out across Iran. LFG. Liberty needs a win.

An expert discusses how premiums will work, how to seek help, what to watch for in alternative plans, and more.

If your magic 8 ball said some shit like this, itd be recalled. If your teenager was messaging this to a kid, they'd catch bullying charges. Why do these weird word guessing machines get to keep doing it?

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

It really, really, REALLY did.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just released — on New Year's Eve — the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith's closed door deposition. House Republicans continue their attempts to bury Smith's testimony. Read it all here: tinyurl.com/cndtn3ez

We won't begin to roll back the tide of fascism until white liberals come to terms with the fact that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actively, knowingly, support racist Gestapo policies. Tens of millions of racists were not deluded or misled. How will you adjust your strategy accordingly?

More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. The Treasury Dept has removed three people closely affiliated with Intellexa, the company that makes Predator, off a sanctions list: therecord.media/treasury-san...

Stop calling it the Kennedy Center: the orange shit stain carved his name on it and he can own its failing. No one is required to perform for fascists. Serious people absolutely won't.

For everyone who doesn't: Please go to Settings and select the option to add Alt-Text to images. It will give you a reminder to put alt-text in the images you want to post. If you struggle w/descriptions, keep it simple. I.e.: "This is a picture of a Dog." Helps a lot of people.

RSF discovers Belarusian surveillance malware targeting Android phones, requiring physical access: rsf.org/en/exclusive...

White Men Stop Talking Over Black Women Challenge 2026

How can anyone know what people “implicitly added” in their heads? And how does them rationalizing the literal words being told to them make it not true that they voted on the words?