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A great deal of trouble we face now is that those in power assume everyone working for the public good has to be part of a grift because they literally cannot conceive of a public good. They are broken, deranged people, almost to a one. I'm struggling with the response to this.

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“Flammable children’s pajamas and faulty carbon monoxide detectors”

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

I dont wanna see a single fucking story about AC shadows discourse. dont even RT that shit. everything i said about the acolyte applies double for the sci-fi video game about dead aliens and time travel aftermath.site/the-acolyte-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

You’d think “ICE is doing Abu Ghraib at Boston’s Logan Airport” would be a bigger story

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lmao

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

Shadowrun Dragonfall Pro Skater #Shadowrun #cyberpunk #cyborg

submitted 15 hours ago • 37 comments

I'm 5'3" so if it falls on me to mentor the troubled short young men, here it is: "Be funny, get your pants hemmed and quit acting like a fucking woe-is-me loser."

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Undocumented people are also protected by the Constitution. Drawing a distinction for whether someone is worthy of basic human rights based on immigration status is a big part of the reason we’re here; assuming the Constitution doesn’t apply to literally every living person in the U.S. is another.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 14 hours ago • 902 comments

Didn’t realize the word censorship had so many letters.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

if turning fash because you were annoyed by leftists on the internet was really a thing this site would be Stormfront

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.

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mrs. gennaro I am sorry to have to tell you this but your husband was killed in a work accident. they made dinosaurs real for fun and he got eaten by one while sitting on the toilet. he wasn’t using it he died abandoning children

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

It only makes sense to me if you assume that the same donors run both parties, and they want republicans to be in charge and democrats to be ineffective. Then it makes perfect sense.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

isn't it deeply fucked up that the people not convicted of or even charged with any crime are sent to a forced labor prison to be kept there... possibly indefinitely? with no rights, no means to appeal, no anything

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the most charitable I can be about this is that the people who say this shit have no earthly idea which ideas we like

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Detained protester Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University 🔗 www.404media.co/detained-pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Really interesting article, this part stuck out particularly well to me:

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Tesla vs. other partially automated driving systems that use lidar. youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ by Mark Rober

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Seems like has been very little coverage of protests happening in the U.S.--not necessarily an intentional media blackout (although possibly), but the result of a longstanding stance in legacy media that protests aren't worth covering, activists aren't credible sources (but somehow CEOs are), etc.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

Silicon Valley is coming for faculty governance. The vultures are circling the corpse of the neoliberal American university. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Nothing about American life will ever convince me that those who accumulate great wealth are worthy of respect. The admirable billionaire is a malignant fairy tale.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

imo this should be enough to get him removed from his post due to clearly being mentally unfit to hold office

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Big thanks to all the law enforcement officers helping swell the ranks at #TeslaTakedown protests around the country. Without your valued presence, the alliance between state and corporate power that has always defined fascism wouldn't be so obvious in all the media coverage!

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Every time I wrote about my home state, readers would just be like "F-- Texas, throw the state away", not realizing that what I was trying to do was show them what was going to happen nationwide. That money is king, that people, yes, are cowards, and that "rules" are made to suit the powerful.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

People who I trust as real NOs: - Warren, Sanders - Ossoff (voted no as a front liner up in 26) - Warnock (called for new leadership) - Kim and Gallego (said they were nos on both CR and cloture) Everyone else I suspect, but Booker and Hickenlooper played coy for way too long and are up in 26.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

the arch antisemite slated for deportation loves to go to shabbat dinner with his jewish friends

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I'm rewatching The Wire. A character in the episode I'm watching says, "A lie ain't a side of the story. It's just a lie." For some reason, that speaks to me these days (as do a million other lines from the show.)

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

fuck off! get absolutely fucked!

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

This is correct. The Bush administration tortured prisoners and weaponized the DOJ to institutionalize it as policy, and the only prosecutions were of foot soldiers who did short time and got parole. The US is a country that believes in torture of prisoners and detainees. That is what the US is.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Literally zero of these calls are death threats, Thom Tillis is a whiny crying pissbaby who wouldn't hack it for 30 seconds as a marginalized person on the internet

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

- Alien vs Bloodborne - I worked extremely hard on this. Please take a look.

submitted 629 days ago • 114 comments

You know what to do with this info

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks for the shout out, Annalee! Another book I recommend for this moment is LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU by the great @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

You beat fascism by making common cause with everyone who is not a fascist and not a collaborator, but that second part is critical. It’s a non-ideological coalition in which we don’t have to agree about anything except the need to fight.

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The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

submitted 223 days ago • 68 comments

I really enjoy frog wrestling. Don't even try to tell me it's fake.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments