it's important to remember that destroying the ability to tell truth from fiction is pretty much job one for an aspiring facsist dystopia and that's why the "data centers" are so important to them
So much for traditional media being more reliable than online media
McClatchy has fallen.
NEW: In a scathing ruling describing RFK Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal judge in Oregon issued an order that will protect doctors and hospitals, and the transgender kids they treat.
In late February, the Progressive International deployed a Peace Brigade to Venezuela to stand in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution and witness its communal process firsthand. Read their report online now.
Chris Hedges: Kuwait Holds American Journalist
consortiumnews.com/2026/04/17/c...
Kuwait has arrested a fearless Palestinian-American reporter for doing his job and is threatening to imprison him under a set of new and harsh national security laws.
In 2003, US citizen Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers using a US-provided bulldozer.
Her parents are calling on senators to vote yes today to block $295 million worth of these bulldozers to Israel. Join them by calling your senators TODAY:
apparently they didn’t talk to a single person in minneapolis about this
"But at this point, we can see War for what it really is: as the flailing and obviously doomed effort of a declining power to make its peculiar combination of bureaucratic war machines and speculative financial capitalism into a permanent global condition." . - David Graeber
Speculative Financial Capitalism is always part of the equation.
*taps the North Minneapolis sign again*
Conceptualization +1
Reaction Speed -1
Next week’s news cycle is already exhausting.
In Ep 236, "Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off," we discuss how privatization was rebranded 'Public-Private Partnerships' and unleashed decades of raiding of the public coffers by Wall Street.
with guest Donald Cohen.
Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them.
Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.
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Google places result for "Kimberly Clark, Warehouse in Ontario, California" [3 out of 5 stars, 146 Google reviews] showing a prominent red banner saying "Temporarily closed"
My hot take: Serial predators should not run states or countries.
During the night, Israel attacked a small local diesel power generator in Lebanon.
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
In Bariworld world, Kanye releasing a single literally called "Heil Hitler" is less antisemitic than Ms. Rachel.
I’m tired of watching Israel dominate the news every day with a new genocide. A country of only 9 million people is leading the narrative of this civilisation. Israel does not represent humanity. Israel must end. It’s over. Done. It’s a failed experiment.
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Polar stereographic map showing 2-m air temperature trends over the Arctic for Aprils from 1979 to 2025. There is widespread warming over nearly all locations.
Trend in April temperatures across the #Arctic over the last 47 years...
The greatest warming is along the Siberian coast and in the Barents Sea, especially near Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. For more info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation.
These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.
This is not a normal situation because Netanyahu is worse…or equal to Trump on the Unhinged Scale.
Tragic.
aje.news/8zu5ip
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This stuff is 1000000x worse than the tats btw
Why are the mainstream media, trying to normalize Trump's insane rants and threats?
Where they ever really news media, or have they always just been establishment propagandists?
Let's get this clear. Trump started a clearly illegal war for no good reason. Now he's threatening genocide.
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
as an aft member, no. the only context in which a.i. should be taught outside of computer science is in a media literacy course about how to distinguish reality from manufactured reality.
This U.S. state violence cannot continue.
We must reject and counter this death-making and put pressure on anyone and everyone with power to stop threatening entire families with destruction.
