Hey so if capitalism means we need to have constant gains for shareholders then that means private prison companies like GEO Group have to have profits go up even as crime goes down. Ergo, immigration sweeps, new categories of crime to feed the machine. Idk guys seems like a bad system

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

Hot take but maybe taking issue with genocide isn’t just “politics”

Idk guys seems like Hasan had a point

Democrats played stupid games with the genocidal apartheid state, now they’re reaping their stupid prizes.

AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”

Conservatives and the rightwing are primarily interested in rationales for domination; insofar as a culture can be created from that, it will have no core, no load-bearing values, and in time, diminishing reach.

This is probably a consequence of the circles I travel in academically, but I am always shocked when people claim expertise in a topic they know nothing about beyond the superficial state propaganda line. Know that it’s okay to not know everything. You can’t. But don’t posture like you do.

Oh god, the Dem commentariat is back on Russia stuff big time. I also just saw someone use the hammer and sickle in a chart about how Putin is controlling Trump. I’m going to have a stroke I swear to god

This photo is wildly embarrassing on so many levels.

Gonna go update my CV to include “military-grade intelligence”

Having affectionate cats is great until you sit down for the first time all day to do *more work* and you get mobbed because the cats know it is Snuggle Time.

It does kinda suck that we could live in a really cool world and we don’t because we have to make the line go up. Like the US could absolutely have Chinese-level cities and infrastructure and we don’t. We could have universal healthcare and education. But we don’t bc 📈📈📈

Okay but if box dye is bad why does my hair feel so glorious afterward?

Y’all are not gonna believe it, but there’s this other country…

remember when Gavin Newsom vowed to defeat extreme wealth taxes, that was great, i love to share a party with people who think he should be president

Working for a humanities prof who wants to have students use AI in class and speaks about conversations he had with “Chat” makes me want to Ouija Ted Kaczynski

The worst part of watching this is knowing he thinks he’s absolutely serving cunt here

Nothing brings me as much simultaneous joy and irritation as spotting some email-chain level “like if you agree Trump is an idiot” post in my feed. I would love to understand the mind of someone who makes those unironically. It’s a new, elevated level of boomer. Boomer galaxy brain.

JD vance might be one of the most repugnant people ever, somehow even more than trump, and as far as we know vance isn’t even a pedophile

Gonna go ahead and put my bet in now that after Trump passes, Melania et. al are going to put out tell-all books about how they never liked him but were all scared. And the people who thought Liz Cheney was great for Dems will eat that shit up.

Least surprising Epstein associate of all time.

If y’all have never made brownies (or blondies, I suppose) with chickpeas, you are missing out. Just FYI. I know it sounds like crazy diet food but it most definitely is not.

Hey so I know we can be outraged about multiple things at once but maybe let’s keep the Kennedy Center pretty low on that list

When they kept trying to pass laws to allow adults to “inspect” child athletes, you’d think that would have tipped people off.

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

I will say gently: every famous counter sit-in from the Civil Rights era was a crime. Nonviolent civil disobedience is quite literally and explicitly a strategy where you commit crimes.

Let’s give them “guaranteed lifelong housing” in one of those warehouses they love so much.

Donald Trump didn't break the political system on his own. Our broken political system is why we have Trump.

IMO, petty in-fighting, territorial behavior, snark, sneering, and general bitchiness is inherently baked in to activist movements. But the difference is that it’s way easier to SEE all of that now - because unlike in earlier movements, a lot of this infighting plays out on public social media.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

I genuinely wonder how anyone reads the news without a materialist/class-based analytical framework. Sadly, it appears the overwhelming majority of Americans read it from a good vs. evil framework. In this, liberals and conservatives are the same, they just assign labels differently.

Having analyzed this frame by frame like the Zapruder film my verdict is the president did indeed have an Unidentified Ass Event at 0:34

ICE are slave catchers and y'all want better trained slave catchers? Y'all want slave catchers with better rules? Fuck out of here

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

General strike this general strike that, okay, but when are Trump’s organs going to strike? Surely the working conditions are terrible.

I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.

Apropos of nothing, there is nothing quite like a snow day, cozy in bed, watching Milo Rossi videos and eating a good snack with a cup of tea, blitzed out of one’s mind. 10/10 no notes.

Not everyone can protest. Not everyone can strike. Not everyone can donate. I get the limitations & restraints to certain forms of involvement. But there’s no excuse to do nothing. To remain silent. In this moment, to carry with life as usual. To say and do nothing is a personal failure.

Sure libs can win in commie places like Fort Worth but what does real America think

the heroes have arrived!!!

The most insane thing to me about this Epstein stuff is the women who knew about this. Not the victims, but the women who were willingly in his orbit, or married to those who were. What made you think you would be safe? You’re just like plantation mistresses. You knew what was happening.

Evergreen post

Chomsky being in the Epstein files is my favorite posthumous Foucault W.

Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.

This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.

I miss when tech felt cool and not just dystopian.

I’m sorry, but I can’t stop laughing at the idea of Elon being such a “le epic” loser that he couldn’t even get an invite to Epstein’s island.