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It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 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 2 days ago • 338 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

Huge congratulations to the Marxists on the total victory tonight

submitted 12 days ago • 177 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 12 days ago • 119 comments

Reminds me of the end of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Which, if you haven’t read it, is about his time fighting the fascists in Spain.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

submitted 20 days ago • 78 comments

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 20 days ago • 328 comments

What's really annoying on an existential level is knowing that Elon isn't actually destroying the federal government for ideological reasons, he's doing it for the same reason he lies about playing Path of Exile, which is to impress the shitty little dickheads on the website he ruined

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Weird fash nerds running around inside the federal government twiddling knobs and flipping switches and going "what does this one do?" Getting big blobs of jelly on everything. Somehow no one is telling them to fuck off. Cards on the table I don't really care for any of this!

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one: Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are. Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group. Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025. There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.

submitted 27 days ago • 347 comments

China appears set to become the world's first clean tech hegemon, their global influence & domestic economy secured through a network of minerals, batteries, EVs, solar, wind & nuclear production & exports. Meanwhile, the US under Trump tries to hang on to its role as 20th century petro-hegemon. 🔌💡

submitted 31 days ago • 20 comments

The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

submitted 32 days ago • 60 comments

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

submitted 32 days ago • 787 comments

Decades ago, I lived in a small town that was on the verge of being wiped off the map by a fire. Literally got to the edge of town with a road separating it on one side and downhill a river on the other. The only thing that saved it was the wind shifted direction, blowing it back to what had burned.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The fun part about the conservatives I’ve run into on facebook is that they don’t ever appear to leave facebook and have know idea that the Trump Admin is already selling them out.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Hundreds of my friends in LA are out feeding people displaced by the fires, but apparently this guy decided to grab his podcast mic when evacuating and spend the time when his community needs help bitching about planning permission. www.mediaite.com/politics/ada...

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

Posting this @iwriteok.bsky.social episode for absolutely no reason

submitted 43 days ago • 28 comments

Based on early data, it seems like in 2024 America had its sixth lowest murder rate in 60 years. That is to say 54 of the past 60 years had a higher murder rate. jasher.substack.com/p/crime-in-2...

submitted 49 days ago • 47 comments