Real democracy would mean proportional representation and power rooted in workplaces and communities, not districts engineered for partisan advantage.

Artist Je Shen.

His works are characterized by a "sedimentation" of color; he does not apply it uniformly, but rather gradually deposits it with thousands of small touches, creating vibrant surfaces that call for pointillism.

Obv most of this is reactions to an increasingly pedophilic and predatory form of patriarchy in the west, but that should only serve as further fuel to us who want patriarchy to be transcended.

Gender essentialism and the mystification of social reproduction as a biological phenomenon will become unavoidable obstacles to the feminist movement if freaks like this aren’t treated as pariahs.

My wife and I see this with her friends, especially the single ones, more and more each year.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

I thought it was named that in the 60s?

Idk, say what you want about whiteness, but non-college educated Americans mostly just don’t vote, and if they did at a freq similar to their college educated neighbors, we could be looking at a totally diff landscape, and assumptions of what the WWC’s politics actually are.

When this comes up with liberal friends irl, I start with noting the sig disparities in voter turnout by percentage amongst non- vs college educated, and they’re always shocked by the diff (eg 2024 non- 47%, college 72%). The other thing that matters? Only 28% of Americans have high school or less

First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits Edward Zitron Apr 20, 2026 4 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to Github Copilot, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing. The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year. Microsoft also intends to reduce the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.

Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.
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For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

The "private prisons" line many people use is well-intended but misleading. For-profit prisons incarcerate less than 10% of the prison population. The problem isn't for-profit prisons... it's the American institution of prison altogether.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Earlier in the thread this guy was lamenting an alleged red-brown alliance, and here he says *Democrats* should pass the most right-wing immigration bill at the time of its proposal that was allegedly only engineered to call the GOP's fascist bluff.

Centrism!

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
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History will ask: why did no one send armies to liberate Palestine?

It's complicated isn't an answer.

Whenever someone who doesn’t watch the NBA asks me about Wemby, all I can say is that he does at least 2-3 things every game that I’ve never seen anyone do before at his size

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)

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Truth, right here…👇

Pass. It. On. 😎✨

Congrats to everyone who fell for this just because Anthropic said it lol

wait till they figure out how much faster the airplane, a machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, can traverse the same distance

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says “When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

"I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.” www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Worth noting here that Roger’s County Sheriff’s Office were the first to hire Betty Shelby, the Tulsa PD cop who killed Terrence Crutcher.

If that doesn’t scream authoritarian in your ear, enough to not need orientalist comparisons to “what are we, communist china?”, I don’t know what will.

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

It’s embarrassing shit like this that should disqualify liberals from claiming the mantle of “rational politics”.

There’s a claim in liberal discourses around how the left has abandoned analysis + study for vibes + anecdote. It’s been alive long before 2024. And yet, like clockwork, we get studies like this that go ignored by such discourses.

When the expanded CTC expired in 2022, each $1,000 in lost benefits reduced consumer sentiment by 1.7 points—with effects lasting nearly two years—long after the checks stopped, from @jacobbastian.bsky.social and Melody Harvey www.nber.org/papers/w35059

Can you imagine if we actually prosecuted the Epstein class? Like 85% of societies ills would vanish overnight.