NEW: Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago. @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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.
A magnificent essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, which every progressive mind should read RIGHT NOW.
I mean it: NOW!
"PARIS -- PARIS (AP) — Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris on Monday, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content."
Vote Reform and this will be your reality.
🏴🇬🇧☕️🫖😷🚑💀
Businesses like Amazon are going to keep doing whatever they can get away with and that's why people should keep suing them and why there should be punitive damages | no paywall
Does she have a name? Does she have an identity beyond „owned by a rich guy“?
Funny how when transit prices go up, the feds aren't falling over themselves to give transit users a break. Despite the fact that by using transit, I'm doing a hell of a lot less harm to society than drivers are doing when they drive.
midlife by Claire Taylor I wish I could go back hold that girl in my arms & tell her sing your off-key songs the world is deaf to the pleasures of women no one's listening anyway
41 today. Woohoo.
If you’d like to help me celebrate, consider getting a copy of my book, or if you’ve read it and liked it, recommend it to a friend, or request a copy through your library. Or just go out and be kind today and try to enjoy your Monday.
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"You're no longer NEEDED, so now it's time to figure out how to be WANTED" is a hurdle some dudes simply cannot get over.
My (in essence, AYFKM?) response at a candidates' forum last week to an opponent's suggestion that we can't impeach and remove Donald Trump
—but somehow instead can and should pass wonderful legislation (which I support!) that will keep him from abusing his power and trashing our democracy ….
"why don't people like AI?"
hmm a real poser...maybe because AI proponents are a collection of the worst people alive bragging about how badly it's going to fuck everything up, which is fine with them because they'll be rich?
that's one possibility
Fuck Your Guns.
All of them.
Eight children killed in Louisiana shooting, police say - BBC www.bbc.com/news/article... via @GoogleNews
“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”
That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.
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Today in social justice toolkit:
A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.
You've given them only bad options.
I give some examples
& then we talk about how to design them.
This one's pretty important.
Read and share, please?
Screenshot of a Substack note by account 'JoJoFromJerz' that says: 'In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.'
None of this is normal.
ALERT: Per Senate source, Jeffrey Clark will be a witness at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing tomorrow into alleged "weaponization" of Justice Dept by Biden Admin
Clark was pivotal figure in Trump's attempt to overturn 2020 election
Mass surveillance company Palantir just demanded mandatory US military service in a newly published manifesto.
Palantir is also currently the recipient of roughly $2.4B worth of military contracts.
Posting this in the hopes it can be manifested:
Palantir's greatest source of profit comes from underpaying its so-called "forward-deployed engineers." They are paid well, but only a fraction of their value to the company. They should be encouraged to unionize.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
the way people were freaking about creepy youtube videos for children a few years ago is the way i feel about ai generated clickbait for the elderly
Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran
Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad.
Coming soon:
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.
Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed.
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We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.
He’s just burning your tax money.
Our military advisers are working AROUND TRUMP because they can't trust him.
He's the President and Commander in Chief.
This is insane.
Imagine if this were Biden and Obama...
The men who are attempting to contextualize the horrific actions of Justin Fairfax are sending a clear signal that violence against women can be justified by supposed stress.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin
The Baldwin line about children gets so much mileage on social media that it risks becoming trite but I refuse to give into the cynicism because at the end of the day he’s 100% right
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
