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Reading US news outlets, I now finally understand that corruption, abuse of power, Putsch attempt, human rights violations, and any other major political crimes happen only abroad. In the US, those are "highly unusual/ unprecedented moves" Americans are so self-indulgent...

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

The CDC eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries AND the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions. If you don't measure, it's not a problem, right?

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

oh, so in the middle of this, we actually cut loose a bunch of high-ranking MS-13 members to help Bukele keep his truce? there are just so many fucking layers of awful shit tied up in these 3 plane flights.

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

If you might be interested in a copy of my book of Lego-based robots 'Planet Robotica,' please drop me a message. They'll be sold at cost (inc. tax and shipping). 8.5"x8.5" hardback, 276 pages. If I can get 20+ copies, the cost will be +/-$45 shipped. Here's a PDF: flickr.com/photos/plane...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Review: If “Secret Mall Apartment” stuck to a sardonic comic groove, it’d probably still be worthwhile. But director Jeremy Workman and company find more than that, in a true story of a truly nutty living situation.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You know the only reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

The CFPB is one of those things where like, virtually every single person in the United States would support its existence if they were told the truth about what it is/does. Or used to do, I guess.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/g...

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

Listened to Quinn Slobodian last night at Harvard Book Store talking about the Right's long-simmering project of reintroducing and hardening hierarchies of gender, race, and cultural difference... the signs of this project coming to a boil now are awfully tough to miss

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"To me, this is one of Lynch’s best films. Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek are incredible in it. And then it’s got the best one scene performance of all time, right at the end, with Harry Dean Stanton." #RichardDawson on The Straight Story (dir. #DavidLynch) buff.ly/vGeqfcJ

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I know Susan knows this but this is why abortion destigmatization is critical. The boundary between "abortion" and "birth control" is way fuzzier than people want to admit and when you do "abortion bad/birth control good" you are just asking for birth control to be defined as abortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The Vice President of El Salvador has told US Senator Van Hollen that the reason they are still holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due to the Trump regime paying them to do so. Trump needs to be arrested and brought up on human trafficking charges. #3E

submitted 2 days ago • 491 comments

If you get the chance to see 'Secret Mall Apartment,' do. If you were ever a participant in any underground scene that was more about kindness than being cool--music, art, theatre, activism--you'll feel at home. Really funny and poignant, with some pithy critiques: m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OC...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Thoughtful, moving review of my latest Arthur Russell project @thequietus.com @calcash.in 🙏

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

submitted 4 days ago • 588 comments

This is it people. This is the moment of the camps.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 4 days ago • 694 comments

POTUS is telling another world leader he's going to start deporting native-born Americans, and to build more concentration camps for the inflow. This is shocking, even for Trump. I'm sure MAGA will tell us that it was just some jokey chit chat. It's not at all.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

Today, Trump with Bukele, Oval Office: They love you. They love what you do. I want'em to do yeah home grown criminals next. [Louder] I said home growns are next. The home growns. You gotta build about 5 more places. [laughter] It's not big enough. link: x.com/nayibbukele/...

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

JUST IN! 'A City Drowned in God's Black Tears' by Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals The experimental hip-hop duo deal in sharp lyricism and innovative beatwork, linking influences as far afield as Ice Cube and KRS-One to Sade and Max Richter. www.normanrecords.com/records/2076...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you might be interested in a copy of my book of Lego-based robots 'Planet Robotica,' please drop me a message. They'll be sold at cost (inc. tax and shipping). 8.5"x8.5" hardback, 276 pages. If I can get 20+ copies, the cost will be +/-$45 shipped. Here's a PDF: flickr.com/photos/plane...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Transmissions 11 is now LIVE on Kickstarter! A new 40-page, A4 suzed softcover collection of curious robots experiencing the quiet wonder of the world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

these days if you tell me you’re into “wellness” i assume you are too stupid to breathe

submitted 6 days ago • 161 comments

Imagine if we were planning on tearing down freeways instead of giving ODOT billions of dollars to expand them? bsky.app/profile/gett...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So they claim they can kidnap anyone, of any status, for any reason, ship them overseas--then say they've been arrested by El Salvador (or Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Israel) and so they have no power to retrieve them. Outsourcing their concentration camps and gas chambers. Perfect corporate Nazis.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Managed to park in the no-parking loading zone, and the crosswalk. A Porsche, but spiritually a Cybertruck

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Submitted these Classic Space Baby Mechs I designed to the Lego Ideas "A Twist of Nostalgia" challenge. This means they theoretically have a tiny chance of being selected to be voted for to become a real set. beta.ideas.lego.com/challenges/5...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

True in 1945, still true in 2025. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely terrifying. “Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.”

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments