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Humanities lecturer. We produce art and culture like coral produces a reef. It's involuntary and unstoppable. If all of it burns, we'll make more.
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The combination of an Israeli regime highly motivated to, uh, inspire US involvement in Iran with the stark revelation that Israel clearly maintains invisible sleeper cells capable of doing host nations incredible harm is pretty, uh, worrisome.

When I tell you Los Angeles is an occupied city/county, this is what I mean… Yesterday, ICE agents showed up to a regular Saturday swap meet with armed Marines and a military helicopter overhead, like it’s a fucking war zone.

An Army vet heading to the VA took a wrong turn—and was detained by Marines in LA. While they acted professionally, their detaining him was likely illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. It’s another line being crossed—and it puts our Marines in a bad spot. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

All US media will describe Israel's declaration of war as "preemptive" and Iran's response as "unprovoked."

Israel starts another war. Another "preemptive" war (i.e. attack). The US will now step in to "protect them" (do evil) with American blood and resources.

Senator Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. "Hands off!," Padilla can be heard yelling. Never seen a US senator handled this way. Gonna be covering LA closely, join my newsletter for updates: kenklippenstein.com/subscribe

Absolutely nothing in existence has a "right to exist."

Eyes on the Madleen

I physically feel it in my body. This is a horrid chokepoint for our species. A bottleneck is coming. The wealthy are breeding bandits and warlords in the police departments. They will try to survive the bottleneck with technology and massive preemptive and punitive violence toward the poor.

The White House's stated intent to use expedited removal for this guy's family is flatly ILLEGAL. By law, expedited removal ONLY applies to people not admitted at a port of entry, or here without having been "admitted or paroled" into the US. But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!

The Republican budget bill blocking state regulations also allocates hundreds of millions in federal funds toward AI.

Wait why the fuck would one pay a subscription fee to a pirating website? fuck outta here

Optimistic Researchers Say There Still Time To Head Off Climate Change Before It Starts Killing Rich People theonion.com/optimis...

This motherfucker is rolling balls.

Except it's not hard at all for most people to identify & discuss bad people in power. Like Donald Trump. Or Nancy Pelosi. Or Randy Fine. Or Genocide Joe Biden. Most people know the "leaders" are nearly all immoral; fear & lack of imagination are the only things separating neoliberals from fascists.

Dang. I'm having to get more basic with conservative associates & family than I thought would be necessary to snap them out of it. Folks, ask the right-wingers around you if they know what authoritarianism is. They may think it is simply a synonym for communism.

I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.

I have been sick for a week not from a wound that has bled my body, but from hunger that has eaten my bones, and thirst that has burned my insides. Not a single piece of bread has entered my mouth, nor a morsel that could support my stomach.

We've even got Americans. Eugene Debs, Fred Hampton, Joe Hill, Bill Haywood, Paul Robeson, Staughton Lynd, Richard Wright...