We’re never gonna be able to undo the damage caused by this administration barring an ecosocialist revolution that will also never happen because libs will fight against it as hard as the rightwing will, despite it being our only chance for long-term survival.
ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.
Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.
No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.
Shut up, Carl.
Wham City Presents
Hard to imagine it being satirical if it works. The purpose of a system is what it does.
It's always "car kills stupid fucking idiot pedestrian" "gun kills stupid crying baby" until it's "unknown gunman murdered five living breathing precious police officers in terrifying act of mysterious unmotivated crime nobody could ever understand it's so mysterious and evil"
The police are always asserting that ackshually it's impossible to be responsible for killing people if the inanimate thing you're controlling is what did the killing.
Very surprising headlines if you test that assertion at a police station, though. Funny how that works.
“The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a relationship with Gen Alpha and the upcoming generation of adolescents in the U.S.”
It's not just an environmental disaster. This is also the input water into the hundreds of desalination plants along the Persian Gulf, the drinking water supply of millions in several countries
The Extended Universe by Vicky Osterweil
With the numerous layoffs at a certain corporation, I have bumped this up on my to read list.
Consuming media uncritically is greatly contributing to the rise of fascism. We're giving power to the 1% every time we interact with one of their properties.
Oh joy, the fash have figured out they can use bottom tier influencers to engage these little sovereignty checks instead of more important regime insiders.
I'd expect a lot more of these stunt against nominal allies of the US going forward, depending on how this one goes.
"what is love?" "does it have to bounce or is that more of a suggestion?" "that's a lot more lines than I thought there'd be" "what about your other hand?" "is that a knuckle?"
Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.
Israel is expanding its genocide
the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
Two pages from The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Michael Steinberger. The highlighted section reads: "But what was perhaps Karp’s most notorious interview was with someone who got the job. Louis Mosley was an Oxford graduate who had hoped to pursue a political career in Britain. But his family history made that an impossibility: his grandfather was Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader during World War II, and his grandmother was Diana Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters and who is best remembered for her close friendship with Hitler. A group of historians once named Oswald Mosley the worst Briton of the twentieth century, and while Louis had rejected his grandparents’ views, his surname proved to be an insurmountable liability—Conservative Party insiders ultimately made clear that they would never be able to put him up for office because he was tainted by association. Through a friend, he was introduced to Palantir, and after several rounds of interviews, he flew to Palo Alto to meet with Karp. As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. (“Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside….”) Karp didn’t just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family’s dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn’t: he was hired and ended up running Palantir’s UK business."
Wait until you hear how he got the job.
One of the more insane facts about palantir is Louis Mosley the grandson of wannabe British hitler Oswald Mosley, is the head of palantir's UK branch. youtu.be/IOekgrWfJxE?...
Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant
Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one
If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now
palantir really is just a corporatized mass shooter, complete with the manifesto and race hate
Turns out racism is curable. Go figure
W all due respect, being horny for The Rock does not constitute monsterfuckery.
It’s interesting how socialists should always be managing their politics and criticism in reference to what Democratic leaders find acceptable because they might be deemed ungettable voters when 1/3+ of the country already consistently opt out of standard bourgeois electoral politics (voting D or R)
Keaton Siebenaler of Joplin killed a 2-year-old girl
Painted tiles with strangely grinning faces in an outdoor setting. Some have old modified phones on top. A sign says”The YOU NEW’S.”
A large sign is hand painted with “The Time is Now.” A cartoonish naked lady is painted next to it. A smiling face with a bar for eyes is painted on the sidewalk with a heart.
A large pile of a variety of kinds of footwear is haphazardly piled in front of a stack of shopping carts. A wood piece in the foreground is painted with a red plus sign on an abstract background.
A house covered in brightly colored painted polka dots.
Artist Tyree Guyton’s open-air installation, the Heidelberg Project, in Detroit’s McDougall Hunt neighborhood. So much to see!
NEW: Justice Dept demands Wayne County, Michigan turn over all ballots, ballot receipts & envelopes from 2024 election
"This request is as absurd as it is baseless,” said Michigan Atty General Dana Nessel
State says letter cites allegations that are “incorrect and not credible"
lmfao it absolutely does. Especially in the States, where more than half of all adults are functionally illiterate.
