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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 11 hours ago • 318 comments

NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

submitted 14 hours ago • 42 comments

The Musk/Trump regime and their billionaire flunkies are parasitic creatures intent on devouring and killing their hosts - and their host is the human species. This will eventually kill them too, but it is core to their perversion that they cannot recognize this. The parasites must be extracted.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

The thing is, when we had high marginal tax rates on the rich, the rich still had yachts and second and third houses and fancy vacations and really good schools for their kids, so, yes, I think most people who are really very rich would do just fine, and the rest of the US would do better than now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 71 comments

This is a direct reference to the Proud Boys who use the gold wreath FAFO logo. I fully believe Elon is going to utilize vigilante violence to enforce things. You should take this seriously.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

elder millennial here and it's getting harder and harder to ignore that so much of my life's trajectory has been decided by really shitty politics espoused by really shitty people

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

It seems that Germany managed to hold the line. The nazis still did better than the previous election, but they underperformed compared to the polls. Hopefully by the next election, more people will be turned off by Trump-style craziness internationally and swing further away from them.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

this person said it so good so here it is

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I bought this before Elon… Today’s @theage @smh cartoon #ElonMusk

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1553 comments

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 608 comments

One of my favourite criticisms of the effects of slavery is that it created a languid, incurious ruling class of ignorant bumpkins with no incentive to improve anything. I mean if production didn't need slavery, what were slaveowners FOR?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Have seen a few defending Musk and Bannon’s nazi salutes with an image that seems to show a bunch of left wing leaders making accidental nazi salutes. I’ve not seen any source for when any these happened. Surely they would have been reported in the news at the time if these actually happened?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

The SAVE Act is specifically designed to disenfranchise a ton of American women. Let us recall how many of the techbros now infiltrating the American government, like Peter Thiel, believe that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I just saw a take that Nazi salutes will be common in the next two years and I have to say, I disagree. Normal people hate Nazis. The Nazis in Ohio a couple weeks ago got their flag burned. Most of my generation had grandparents who fought Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Let me take this format for a spin

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This seems like a phisher's dream. Announcing that a government email is about to go out and that recipients are required to respond to it seems like the kind of thing cybercriminals would love to spoof in order to infect workers or trick them into revealing their login credentials.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

submitted 1 day ago • 637 comments

Countries need to stop being cowards and ban Elon Musk’s disgusting Nazi website. Yes, right wing extremists in those countries will squeal about it. That’s better than continuing to tolerate a website that’s actively attempting to put those extremists in power globally.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 3 days ago • 348 comments

The “run it like a start up” grift is a more extreme version of the “run it like a business” trend for infrastructure. We had decades of people trying to run things like businesses they never should have—public goods, like schools, universities, and hospitals. That, plus technophilia, got us here.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 4 days ago • 845 comments

With Musk calling for drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico, what are the odds we end up seeing civilian infrastructure like hospitals targeted, with them justifying it by claiming the cartels are using them somehow?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In the world of privacy coverage, there has always been a central question of who is a greater threat to it: the government or corporate America. Now with DOGE, the two are merged into one: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 5 days ago • 240 comments

Exactly. Rulings mean nothing if there’s no enforcement. The Musk/Trump junta is proving that power isn’t about legality—it’s about who’s willing to act. This loophole isn’t just dangerous; it’s deadly. It must be closed before the rule of law becomes a meaningless relic.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 5 days ago • 818 comments

repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else

submitted 5 days ago • 340 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1065 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 5 days ago • 627 comments

20 minutes apart. On top of being a fascist this is door knob IQ shit.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

Glad to see that the work @markandrejevic.bsky.social and I did last year investigating algorithmic bias on X continued to be useful. The work has been featured in @theconversation.com's latest Impact Report. cdn.theconversation.com/static_files...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The most revealing look at the electorate. In only one election since 1976 has "Did Not Vote" lost.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments