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they’re already calling for eradication openly in friendly ABC news interviews

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Joshua Lee Atwood, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, was in court last week for a "status hearing on charges connected with a stabbing at a Chester restaurant in April 2023." Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Guess I need to say this is loudly and as bluntly as possible but: effective altruism has always just been fascist social Darwinism in a techno fascist newspeak paint job.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I, for one, am shocked to discover that the big metrics, attractive name, hot takes journal that makes you pay APCs cares more about workflow efficiency than quality of scholarship.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The 3€ bottles of Evian water at the Segovia train station hate to see me coming...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Merchet, qui retweete des fascistes et des réacs à tout-va, a fait un post – effacé depuis (on se demande pourquoi ?) – sur la symbolique nazie, qui était très pertinent. Sémantique et "dog whistling" nazi dans la propagande de l'AfD, en images 🧵⏬⏬

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Some of us called this out a few weeks ago... www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

There’s a corrupt bargain in the offing. Chunks of E Europe for Taiwan S China Sea and Panama & more Some will reluctantly accept it because it appears to avoid war. But it actually cements war itself at the heart of our international system. All the suffering & lessons of the 20th C forgotten

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

submitted 61 days ago • 59 comments

I am not as excited for the new Lady Gaga album as I wish I was. She is trying to return to form (finally) but this new music feels MUCH safer than The Fame/Born This Way.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You have to wonder what the assassinated Boeing whistleblower would be telling us right now.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Covering fascist expansionism like fantasy sports

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 23 days ago • 144 comments

Realizing that I can take care of tricky sections in my writing with this simple trick: Delete them.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …

submitted 33 days ago • 134 comments

At this point, what's stopping him from stealing the personal information of all U.S. citizens and residents?? Because clearly the Democrats are not stopping him.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Last year I noticed a troubling idea crop up in academic spaces: "We need less scholarship about the oppressors and more work on resistance." Aged like milk. Field-defining ideas about the oppressors are wrong and demand correction. Maybe we can start with the above dichotomy.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

it feels like deja vu for a reason! at Twitter, Musk demanded code reviews. in the government, a Tesla engineer is asking employees to submit "technical accomplishments." at Twitter, he stopped paying rent. in government, leases are getting cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 38 days ago • 35 comments

Guys I'm starting to get the sense that people didn't vote for Trump because they care about the price of eggs...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Despite the continued outrage on here, I haven't seen any policy measures (including executive orders) that will upset any of his voters. #perspective

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

WHINY PISSY AMERICAN TECH OVERLORD: In an effort to miss our climate targets we've invented the Mind Stealer. Your children are now considered proprietary software. We're charging you $78 a month for this. The social contract must be rewritten. Even gods may die wh [China does something] MODS? DAD??

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

so with altman bending at the knees does that mean that people will stop arguing with me when i point out that genAI is the ecocidal handmaiden of fascism

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

Unbelievably petty! The Spanish language version of the White House website was deleted after the inauguration yesterday. Look what happens when you hit the “go home” button!

submitted 47 days ago • 1620 comments

A key reason voters don't believe the fascists are fascists is that major media outlets keep normalizing them with cover stories cueing the public they are just like Hollywood celebrities. Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

submitted 108 days ago • 74 comments

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

submitted 47 days ago • 787 comments

Muslims for Just Futures has put out some printable resources that are very good. www.muslimsforjustfutures.org/blog/immigra...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is: "No, make me." They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.

submitted 47 days ago • 80 comments

Overton window status: Roman salutes are not Nazi shit but keffiyehs are.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

my favorite post of the year so far

submitted 48 days ago • 353 comments

January 19, 2025: Online, power transitioned early. TikTok shut down in the USA & sent a message to everyone who tried to log-in that praised Trump. Trump posted on TruthSocial. TikTok has restarted, & praised Trump again. What we don’t know: if the 47th POTUS can direct DoJ not to enforce the law.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I'm sure this messaging won't have any consequences on young people's attitudes toward the incoming administration.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

One of Meta’s attorney’s walking away. I like his strategy.

submitted 52 days ago • 103 comments

The TikTok "refugee" move to Xiaohongshu shows that the data hypocrisy behind the TikTok ban is not lost on folks. This policy gives the GOP the opportunity to reverse it, characterize the Democrats as censorial (a message that has been working for them), and gain more credibility with young people.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

There is an inherent contradiction between the ownership and surveillance of the data of US citizens by the US government and US corporations and subsequent claims that our data should be “protected” from foreign governments. The TikTok ban has heightened that contradiction in many people’s minds.

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 58 days ago • 26 comments

We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild

submitted 59 days ago • 348 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 60 days ago • 676 comments

The X-ification of Facebook should be the final nail in the coffin for the "mainstream vs. fringe" dichotomy of social media platforms.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Did fact checking accomplish everything it promised? No. Too little investment and the post-hoc correction problem. But this move exemplifies Meta’s larger shift: Cowering to the Trump admin, yes, but really also implementing policies they’ve wanted. They don’t have to pretend to care anymore.