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Reality unblurs by the hour. Darkness is at hand. AI sucks, we don’t need to debate it or anything. Hoping we can save books, reading, and giving a shit about each other.
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Maybe hating on dick bosses is the great unifier, the thing that brings all Americans together.

Horrible move by MSNBC to fire @joyannreid.bsky.social

Kinda destroys the whole dictator attack on Zelensky 😂

Words to remember & live by:

if you can: write the thing that sounds SUPER FUN in your head. because it will sound SUPER FUN on the paper. readers can tell if the writer had fun writing something, for the most part, cause the love of the craft and characters and everything shows through. no idea is too silly. write it anyway.

Coeur d'Alene is a *nasty* place and has been for at least 50 years.

I think it's important to remember that the totalities & unities totalitarianism tries to signify are never actually total. They always fail, in every moment. This is why fascism requires so much violence. The violence doesn't signify totality; it signifies failure. "There's a crack in everything."

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

For the liberal media, the corpse of one Israeli is worth more than millions of Palestinian lives.

Some adults should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccinated before 1968. The CDC recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968 get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Oprah is lowkey one of the great information polluters of the last half century, i'm glad we can say it out loud

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

I don't know how all this will end, but they're burning through good will and shared history of alliances with remarkable speed. I don't think anyone will trust them ever again. I hope this Nazi billionaire cruelty spasm they're going through is worth it. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

People make excuses for this, but there's an extraordinary lack of civic virtue in this country.

I've said often, based on history, that there's no reasonable expectation most people will be courageous in the face of fascism. Bravery is rare. It's valued for a reason: Most people aren't cut out for it, for reasons good and bad. But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.

"I'll kill for you, sir." — Donald Trump's handpicked chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

If the media won’t call it a Nazi salute then they’re definitely not going to say that someone was fired because they are Black or a woman. These outlets are complicit.

It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Looks like @nytimes.com has stealth-edited this to add Evans' affiliation with Young Republicans. No correction or update note. I don't think I've ever worked with a single editor who would let me get away with that but it seems to happen regularly over there.

In other words: if you participated in the insurrection, you now get a pass on your other crimes that were discovered while you were being investigated for insurrection. For immigrants, the law. For my supporters, everything. apple.news/ATiXJFDLmQlm...

This is how it’s done.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

Among the many recipes for destroying morale in a military is visibly and prominently installing an unqualified officer into a leadership position, let alone THE leadership position

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

Trump: "Eggs. I'm hearing so much about eggs. You'll figure it out. You gotta figure something out fast. And we inherited all the problems ... the big things, really, we can blame other people for."

lmao, jesus

the DOGE Nazi teens apparently had no idea that the biggest beneficiary of DEI-type programs is veterans www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

Lyon, France…has eggs! @trumptakeegg.bsky.social

‘Developing a friendship with him…’ Wow.

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

It would be pretty funny if with his last breaths the pope excommunicates the couch fucker.

Trudoeuf give egg

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

This will especially hurt rural folks

Don’t make me tap the sign (cc RFK Jr)

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

part of the reason people don't believe our government is being dismantled out from underneath us is that the people who are doing it are so fucking weird and creepy that when you plainly describe what they are doing it sounds batshit insane

you know we’re down bad when americans care about hockey