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From the tempest fury, the spark ignites! He/him. Stealing the golden disk to go back in time and stop humanity evolving doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
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A large, vocal and peaceful gathering — that was Nashville’s version of the No Kings protest against President Donald Trump on Saturday. via @wpln.bsky.social

Uh oh, the Hetero Awesome Fest, despite a big coup from a local HVAC company, has only secured half its needed sponsors. At this crucial juncture, it's vitally important that nobody waste their time with frivolous fake offers of sponsorship, volunteer work, etc.

as ever, if you ask people if they think art should exist for their enjoyment they will say yes, and then if you ask them if the people making the art should get paid for it they'll tell you "no that's a fake job"

About "nonviolence"— The definition of "violence" is not neutral. What counts as violence is determined by those who control public discourse. This is why police can terrorize people without it registering as violence, while the slightest act of community defense is framed as "violence." 🧵⬇️

Asshole worries "no-assholes" rule limiting overall experience at the No-Assholes Club. fortune.com/2025/06/12/b...

Impersonating law enforcement just requires wearing a balaclava, some tacticool, and maybe but not necessarily an ICE patch

It's amazing that this guy has sucked the ENTIRE time I've been alive.

I remember when this place was still invites and a big % of the TL was users complaining about Twitter like an ex that was still processing a breakup. These days we're living our lives & it seems X users are doing the same about Bluesky. Sorry boo we just don't think about you that much these days.

Disney's big AI lawsuit includes some very damning images: aftermath.site/disney-univers...

Sophia Petrillo said GAY RIGHTS #Pride

Imagine if Cuban took the perspective that it would be weird to pivot your entire politics to persecute 10 people in the entire country just trying to do sports. Instead of whatever the fuck this is.

Wow. NYT is reporting that Trump is largely pausing deportation raids in agriculture and hospitality industries, suggesting he fears deportations are "hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose." As I try to argue in this piece/thread, he's vulnerable here. Reset, Dems:

Ted Cruz (2013)

I asked Andrew Cuomo a simple question: will he publicly ask his Super PAC to return the millions of dollars it's received from Trump-backing billionaires? And will his own campaign reject the hundreds of thousands of dollars from MAGA Republicans? He wouldn't answer.

Absolutely. In addition to debunking the myth, Lembke has a lucid explication of the Nixon-Agnew strategy to smash opposition to the war by blaming the media for creating it. Published in 1998--a real contribution to the field of Vietnam War studies (& in its way the mass psychology of fascism).

People are convicted by conviction. You create a coalition by attracting people to you, not by chasing them.

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

Zohran is up. Keep going.

If Trump wants a ceasefire in LA, he should free the hostages and stop committing terrorism.

Saturday is yet another staged Trump event, right down to the “diverse” crowd.

Wait hold up! Everyone reported this like the entire $40bn had closed! It's almost as if SoftBank doesn't have the money to fund OpenAI and they're having to paper over that by begging every investor under the sun. They also have already said they'll need another $17bn in 2027? On top of the $30bn?

Do. Not. Travel. To. The. United. States.

Desperation. They hear the siren song of "if I throw other people under the bus I might be spared". It's stupid, but as the pressure gets more extreme more people's brains will switch off

It's a very crowded field but TCW may be the most intellectually incurious pundit out there, it's just a never-ending stream of mush.

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

This is why protests work! At some point the administration has to ask itself if having a city on fire for days and spending millions to send in the National Guard and exhausting all your cops is worth kidnapping some random girl for waiting tables on a student visa.

How on earth can the UK sanction two Israeli ministers yet — at the very same time — continue supplying weapons to the very government they serve? The UK’s position is becoming more absurd by the day. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Now all we need is for Jim Carrey to show up and make them all dance to "Cuban Pete."

Mark You have always been free. You have always written whatever you want You own your own publishing imprint What are you talking about you mop

I'm not sure there is a more perfect example of how cancel culture, at least how folks like him define it, doesn't exist. Because he has spent the last...decade? Fifteen years? Consistently making comics with some of the best artists in the business with lucrative publishing deals "Cancelled". Pfft

Arcadia, CA going all night against ICE and they are asking people to show up. Honk your horns, bring your drums and noisemakers

Always an Onion article.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN four State Election Board rules concerning certification and hand counting ballots last year. A big victory for GA voters and a stinging defeat for the RNC and election deniers. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

Newsom is doing what almost every Democrat in the country is afraid to do right now and he is going to reap all the rewards if they don’t hurry. As a California voter intimately familiar with Newsom’s actual policy bonafides, I am loudly imploring someone else to do that hurrying.

Cops trying to describe a hellscape: "They are insulting the president and smoking a legal drug"

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.