after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

This is literally Brooklyn. Like, stg I've seen these exact people in Brooklyn.

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

“While conducting operations intended to enhance the peacekeeping skills of our troops, a simple target acquisition error regrettably ended in the deaths of over 99.9% of Americans,” said Maj. Gen. Curtis D. Taylor

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Between this and the damage to Saudi and gulf state infrastructure, there goes the petroleum-based world economy.

It’s obviously got to be Minneapolis. We haven’t turned away from the horrors, let us prosecute them.

if there’s gonna be a nuclear war you have to tell your crushes. I don’t make the rules

With widespread internet blackouts in Iran and new restrictions on certain satellite imagery of the region at the request of the US government, Bellingcat is launching a tool to help estimate the damage in Iran and the wider Gulf region. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

this discourse goes around periodically, and i always think it’s the wrong way of looking at it. was life better before everyone had a smart phone? objectively, no. has that everyone having a smart phone had significant consequences we didn’t anticipate and have had difficulty mitigating? absolutely

Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

The second funniest thing I saw today was the Artemis II crew smiling blandly and spinning a mic while Trump talked to them. The funniest was when after almost 2 full minutes of silence after he’d stopped, the crew asked Ground Control if Trump was gone and Trump answered that he was still there.

Möther...take pity, I am but skin & bones

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

For anybody keeping score this is actual antisemitism. Treating the entire Jewish population as a monolith that's supposed to support Israel is antisemitic. Israel does this all the time and so do their political allies. that never gets called out. But criticizing Israel does. Funny, that.

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright. In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

Check the date. The GOP had to repost last year‘s Trump Easter greeting because the one from this year sounds too much like Hitler.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

A classic 💓

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Let me help you out for further reference so you know a Nazi when you see one….

Decades of broken windows policing and the decimation of third spaces are integral parts of the rampant fascism we're living through now.

Yearly reminder that in the New Testament the normative response to witnessing the resurrection of Jesus is to found an anarcho-socialist commune.

Someone recently asked me what I thought of the Prairieland case, where defendents were convicted on terrorism charges for possessing leftist literature. It reminds me very much of the ways the state historically criminalized knowledge of abolition. @awkword.bsky.social

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

Shoes

Pod listeners have probably picked up from Mike that something went wrong at SPLC, which abruptly kicked him to the curb. He sued and won a settlement. Here, Mike explains what happened. His story feels familiar to me and many others on the beat. michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Damn. Maybe he really has that dog in him to hit an 80% disapproval rate.

Until today “Trump will draw attention back to the Epstein files to distract from his Iran humiliation” was like a B- internet joke.

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

Rewatching DS9 with a dear friend we really relished the mirror universe episodes for being exactly this and ignored any viewing guides that said to skip them. "Plot, shmot. AU Worf is dragging AU Garak around a warship in chains and it is just incredible television."

This was heart-wrenching. Anyone who "platforms" a person so clearly in crisis for their own gain should be brutally fucking shunned.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Someone must have told him that Iran couldn’t go shot for shot and he didn’t realize they were making fun of him

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

The rot at the heart of American institutions is even clearer now that it's actively at war with a pariah state and every move the Administration makes spectacularly backfires. It's like they're playing Candyland while the Iranian regime is playing chess.

This is why "cancel culture" was seen as such an existential threat, those in power didn't want to face any consequences for their actions

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

americans will experience inflation and the poor will suffer most and assholes with $1200 truck payments will complain the loudest of all. meanwhile a dozen other countries are already rationing fuel or restricting activity because there simply is not enough of the physical product to distribute