Me and my opponent when we argue online

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

i’m such a stupid fucking mark for trying to “work” and “follow the law”

bringing back shame and social sanction for being a bigoted asshole is good, actually

Why the AI backlash has turned violent And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.

Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

You'll get it but you need to watch the slide a dozen times and friends, it is worth it

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Can we not just focus on the climate crisis.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

A digital screenshot of a news article from "The Independent" website, dated April 13, 2026. The headline reads: "Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person." Below the headline, the subheader states: "Trump grabs two bags of McDonald’s before issuing threats to Iran over nuclear program." The article features a video still showing Donald Trump standing outdoors in front of a white building, wearing a dark suit and purple tie. Next to him stands a woman wearing a red t-shirt that says "DOORDASH GRANDMA." The video player includes a title overlay that reads: "Trump claims offensive Jesus meme was him 'as a doctor' healing the sick."

Not the onion.

New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.

no yeah please give me a list of desperate hacks to save money while a minuscule sliver of the population hoards all the wealth and our government pisses in our mouths. thank you, newspaper ❤️

Iran accepted Pakistan’s cease-fire proposal after frantic diplomatic efforts by Pakistan and last-minute intervention by China, a key ally, according to three Iranian officials. Iran’s national security council officially confirmed the agreement, casting it as a victory in which the United States accepted Iran’s term

Among the most important details of Trump's backdown: China intervened.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Kids in ICE Detention Up 10x in Trump’s Second Term Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project.

Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

“Families have reported children in mental distress: a two-year-old who hit himself, potty-trained children who began wetting themselves, and a 13-year-old who was put into isolation after attempting suicide.”

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Someone sent me this.

Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business theonion.com/jesus-clarifies-return-w...

Israeli Strike Kills 3 Lebanese Journalists; Committee To Protect Journalists Decries “Disturbing Pattern” Of Targeting Media Workers Three Lebanese journalists have been killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to officials.

Three Lebanese journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a clearly marked press vehicle. We are up to what? 189 journalists killed by Israeli forces at this point?

this is art

It. Is. In. The. Fourteenth. Amendment.

It. Is. A. Right.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

A Dem-sponsored poll of California's governor race shows the two Republicans ahead, at 16% and 14%.

Eight Democrats follow: Swalwell, Porter, Steyer are at 10%, & everyone else below that.

(Reminder this'll go to a 'top 2' runoff, regardless of party. cadem.org/wp-content/u...)

🔴 Stella Creasy nails it 👏

You can’t say our energy system has left us vulnerable… and then oppose the only things that actually make us independent.

Oil and gas tie us to global markets.
Renewables break that link.

It really is that simple.

The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.