Giving him the red sabre is a chef's kiss little detail here

Totally Delany’s prediction in Babel-17

Literal Fascists: *literal coup*

Dems: *do nothing*

Non-dems who give a fuck: “wtf are you doing? Nothing? I guess we have to protest and riot”

Polls: “everyone hates fascists and wants them stopped”

Dems: “we did it! Donate now or else.”

The other thing is that even if Americans don’t know the word “oligarchy,” now they will. Their preexisting familiarity with the word actually does not matter. After all, “woke” has come to mean something that it never meant before.

these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion

I'm certainly not trying to reassure anyone, it's a race between full or partial state collapse and fascist dictatorship.

"Hope" here is, "maybe they partially collapse the state so quickly they shoot themselves in the foot"

elected democrats act like they were promised protection in exchange for their uselessness

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

I want the public to hear from every university president by 12 noon tomorrow. I am so serious

Being a good soldier who avoided public criticism of Democrats appears to have brought us to a fascist takeover of the USA. I desperately need the Democrats to be better so we actually survive this.

So the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world clumsily fired a bunch of senior air traffic staff, caused the worst domestic air disaster since 9/11, and then tried to blame black people

omg

How the most unpopular US president got reelected Polygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025

How did Kamala Harris lose to the most unpopular US president on record?

Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was.
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...

Ah, as if. LOL. Tariffs until you divest, Columbia!

Guy in the Simpsons saying HE'S RIGHT. GIVE US HELL, QUIMBY!

Everyone reading the Colombian President

‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

“Moving to a single-payer, universal healthcare system would likely cost less than current national healthcare expenditure, according to a 2020 academic analysis – and save tens of thousands of lives each year.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some meritorious things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should unite. I confess that l like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the US as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a drink of whiskey that l accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, l'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which ! reached, after

They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take shelter in its African songs. My land is made of goldsmiths from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, and who is called Bolivar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitan said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA. Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will offer it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA OPENS TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the US, I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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president of colombia, gustavo petro's response to trump

The leftward swing in Latin America has been beautiful, and the fight back against him from Petro and Sheinbaum could hurt his project and help us meaningfully up here.

Computer, set stupidity level to maximum

Shoutout to @teenvogue.bsky.social for this explainer on how to track ICE activity in your neighborhood.

Look, I’m not Catholic, but a lot of (Republican) family members are, and this is kind of a middle finger from the Vatican to these fundie Catholics. A tug on the leash, as it were. People like Vance are going to be put in a position where they have to actively defy the Church.

It’s a good move.

tweet from @hermit_hwarang american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!??? 16:26 • 6/14/21 • Twitter Web App

you’re doing the thing i fear

When I read the news, I was suddenly reminded to check if Tim Gill had migrated over yet. Looking forward to getting tips on writing during every possible second of your life

Youtube algorithms pushed Bolsonaro's extremist videos, helping him get elected in Brazil, which is to say that Google helped destroy the Amazon rainforest and indigenous rights there, eyes wide open. Silicon Valley destructiveness takes many forms.
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/w...

It is an interesting data point that our (progressive) Mayor and DA were successfully recalled on a "not tough enough on crime" campaign even though crime "actually" went down in Oakland and Alameda county in 2024, in terms of the actual statistics people use to measure it.

Japanese American leftists really should take more advantage of kami/commie wordplay