this is fucked, obviously, but also gee I see the SPLC leadership’s plan of appeasing these assholes by throwing the most effective parts of their org under the bus over the past few years is playing out exactly like anyone who’s not an idiot nonprofit leadership type would have expected.
Don't worry, everyone. We always know what this is really about.
“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”
The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.
Neither does the word "decade."
"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
announcing ILĂšVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
I think the biggest problem with police today is how right-wing they are. They are more and more so each day. Every example of ICE or CBP brutality cements their support. Call a murdered women a bitch, the rank-and-file cheer.
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?
Remember how last September, Trump announced that he would be cracking down on all opposition to fascism, designating it as "terrorism"?
If you are not personally experiencing repression yet, it is thanks to those—for example, in Minnesota—who tied the administration down in other fights.
ICE is still kidnapping people in Minneapolis, and neighbors are still volunteering as rapid responders.
That said I can’t help but feel kind of disgusted that the media and wider urgency goes down when white people are no longer being victimized as openly.
Brown people dying in concentration camps just doesn’t do the trick, I guess.
If you’re around Portland come hang out with us on Thursday to talk about the evolution of policing and how progressive politics sometimes acts as a cover for law enforcement violence, and how we can erode police power in every neighborhood. But like optimistic and happy, not depressed
Straight up “Parable of the Sower” shit
“Parents call 911 for help with mentally ill son, so cops come & kill him” is an EXTREMELY common story
But our elected officials & media live in daily terror of being branded anti-cop, so we’re not allowed to talk about it
Absolutely, part of what we’re seeing is an anti-woke coalition that won, they beat back the organizers and activists pushing for radical change but they have to pretend they didn’t dictate the strategy of the last campaign and the party overall.
this is correct because people who know how to talk to "ordinary people" just actually TALK TO ORDINARY PEOPLE, lol. They don't speak like PUNDITS. That's what Beshear was doing. He sounds like Rahm Emanuel which means he sounds like a loser.
Actually, yeah - I'm going cut Silas for Malcolm. There are enough pirates in the list to make it work
Still a lot of tweaking to do - I may even cut Silas for Malcolm. Trying to keep the power lower, but we'll see how it goes
I've been trying to build a Grixis deck that I find fun, and I finally have a playable list put together. I went with a Max Speed/Vehicle theme, and it turned out more fun than I thought
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The "by Luigi" makes the original meme so much better now
Fittingly, a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat
This is the compromise position, but one I could live with
the Republican war on meaning is intended to ensure people are continually surprised by their horrible behavior by destroying the framework for understanding it
Authoritarians should not be able to get an app censored from hundreds of millions of people's phones by sending an email to two companies.
There is no universe where that will ever be a tenable situation for free expression.
You should have the right to install software on devices you own
There will be lots of discourse on this focused on the egregious hypocrisy of the MAGA crowd endlessly complaining about Biden admin "jawboning" of Big Tech
But imo the real story here is that Apple and Google's app store monopoly is a gift to dictators and a human rights nightmare.
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i would really like people to get over the idea that comedy is particularly dangerous to authoritarians. if it was we wouldn't be here.
It's a nice thought, but the evidence ain't there.
there is a privacy apocalypse coming, and the democrats are just as responsible as the republicans.