This was almost the plot of Black Panther

Heist to steal the secret wu tang album from Martin Shkreli, put it on youtube

Well that’s TPUSA’s fault for holding an event in a deep blue city like…wait, Waco?!

Robinheist

Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??

This is quite a story:
slate.com/business/202...

one required, but sadly enormous, shift in the way americans view things: recovering an understanding that a democratic government is a collective enterprise that should deliver tangible services and benefits to people

you forgot how to feed yourself that quick?

A local tattoo artist posted a video on Instagram of him asking two blokes in hi-vis not to put up an England flag on the lamp post outside his shop. Consequence: a flood of bad Google reviews including the predictable “paedo” allegations (“he touched my daughter” etc). Truly the shittiest people.

It will be the law of the jungle.

Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South.

Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Latest insane Islamophobic legislation comes from Geneva, Switzerland, where new rules dictate that women at public pools must wear, "one-piece or two-piece swimming costumes whose maximum length is above the knees and which leave the arms bare”.

So, women MUST show arms and legs. That's freedom!

I have to admit, this is "Polish newspaper c. 1979" levels of bad (while Poland was in the grip of a hyperinflation crisis, the headlines were all about hyperinflation... in Argentina)

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

20 out of 80 children forced into rhabdo in February at this Texas charter school because the (straight cis) adults in the room think ball games you play with your friends are better with organ failure

I swear that teaching high school English in America is going to be my 13th reason "why" (which is a book that is outright banned at schools in Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Texas, North Dakota, & Pennsylvania.)

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

Wagner really snapped with "Kill the Wabbit"

Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, US appeals court rules A federal appeals court rules that Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, allowing posters of the religious doctrine to go up throughout the state.

BREAKING: Texas can require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, a U.S. appeals court rules.

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

a handy list you can use to find outlets near you (h/t @laminda.bsky.social )

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

haven't tapped the sign in a while: "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" when and how you are able

I feel like Dave Seville and John Arbuckle are friends in the same universe

I mean that's fine for the aim, but at the end of the day, AI is proving to be a labor time duplicating technology rather than doing anything resembling saving labor time. It's certainly a good cover for budget-motivated mass layoffs to shareholders though

This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work.

Pure hackery.

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

The British left’s abandonment of its Jewish community during the worst upsurge in antisemitism for generations is utterly shameful

I do feel like this prediction is a heavy dose of tech optimism about the potential of AI. Like in use case after use case, AI has proven itself to produce a steady stream of catastrophic errors that can't be ignored for too much longer

Alan Greenspan came up with the underwear index, that when a recession is coming men stop buying new underwear