Corporatist fascism, plain and simple.
DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics.
This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany.
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I hate him.
I can and should hate this malevolence.
All decent, loving, compassionate people should.
Every person claiming to care about what Jesus cared about should hate it.
Christians should be fighting it instead of cultivating it.
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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
Power isn't an aphrodisiac, it's a steroid. Lots of people that have it think that they should be able to do what they want and not be limited by rules, or decency, or what other people might actually want, and people in their circle want the power enough to pay with other people's lives for it.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead
Deep down, he knows that they are better than him in every way, and it drives his nasty old racist ass crazy.
"It is an old point in the literature on fascism that if you allow fascism somewhere – in Guantánamo Bay, in Israel, on the streets of American cities – it will soon leak out everywhere."--Jason Stanley
I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Holy fuck... Epstein helped Jean-François Gariépy start his Youtube channel?
Gariépy is a white nationalist who most likely murdered his mentally deficient wife...
The far right is an artificial movement backed by billionaires.
He's met my mother.
Informational Autocracy: Authoritarianism Looks Different Now #news #analysis #authoritarianism
Every time an authoritarian con-artist is held accountable, every time the mask slips in a courtroom, the spell weakens.
It takes pressure. It takes a public that doesn't flinch when the volume gets turned up. It takes faith - not in the perfection of institutions, but in their potential.
Mural on a wall with a peace sign and the words "just love everybody, y'all means all."
Hell yeah, Austin.
Alnur Mussayev, 72, who headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleges Donald Trump was recruited when he was a 40-year-old New York real estate developer. His code name was Krasnov
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The chaos is the point. The cruelty is the point. The uncertainty is the point. These are all points, not objectives.
But the grift, the power, the taming of the people, the survival of the fittest, and the emergence and perpetuation of a new world order, these are the underlying objectives.
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Book cover: Orwell's Roses, by Rebecca Solnit
Book cover: The Prepper's Long Term Pantry in 72 Hours, by Jim Grylls
Book cover: Start a Community Food Garden, by LaManda Joy
Book cover: The Art of Barter - How to Trade for Almost Anything, by Karen S. Hoffman and Shera D. Dalin
Relevant reading.
an orange cat calmly looking out the window. a battery candle is lit on window next to him
What a weird time. Hold onto your butts
A short thread with some tips about Trump fatigue and the next few years:
1. Be prepared to pace yourself. Had too much for one day? Shut it down. Dig into work and hobbies. Find enjoyment.
I admit it, I had a crush on Boy George when I was, what, 13? I was chock full of hormones and he was really *pretty.* Between Boy George and Annie Lennox I was deeply confused and willing to go with it.
An app that matches up ND people by pairing one person who’s currently hyperfixating on a subject with another who’s dying to infodump on that same subject
there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Googly eyes have been added to the cover artwork
Reader, I googlied him
jacob sansbury @jsnnsa having kids in the next 5 years might be a tragic mistake every smart bio founder/scientist i’ve talked to seems to think embryo editing for things like short sleeper, reduced cancer risk, etc is possible on a near term horizon imagine having two kids a couple years apart, one is a super human and the other isn’t “sorry jim, little timmy won’t get cancer, only needs 4 hours of sleep and you’re normal you were just born in the wrong order 🤷🏻 “
Tech bros know what every parent wants: children who sleep less
