i need a needle in my neck so bad

shit i think she’s coming to atl soon

China’s Belt & Road Initiative Expands in Latin America, as Trump’s Bullying Backfires YouTube video by BreakThrough News

✨NEW CHINA REPORT JUST DROPPED✨

At last week’s China-CELAC Forum, China pledged $9 billion toward investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Colombia signed onto Belt and Road. Is Beijing encroaching on "America's backyard"?

Journalist Zoe Alexandra joins this week to discuss!

CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp" New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.

Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,

Imagine living in a country that believed in anything remotely pro-social

those benzos beat his ass so bad

u might be winning

i just followed like 20 ppl and still no updates to my timeline HELP

must be nice to live in a functioning society!

getting on one of my last flights with them 😭

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my sciatic nerve has been BOOMING this trip but i’ve been very brave about it

"Denouncing Biden’s run now ⁠that he’s a political nonentity⁠—out of office and perhaps very near death⁠—isn’t taking a brave stand against the internal culture of the Democratic Party. It’s a reflection of it"

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

For protests to succeed, writes Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, etc—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.

Don't miss this excellent essay by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
time.com/collections/...

Judging by Farage's actual stated aims (in things like the Reform manifesto) and voting behaviour his actual positions amount to: close the borders, give capital a complete free hand to loot everyone left inside. In a world where, like, it mattered what was real, this would count for something.

Tweet by Robert Reich.

The GOP budget: brought to you by the phrase “stop hitting yourself.”

saw tennis for the first and last time last night, crying and throwing up

Runway lights not working before fatal San Diego plane crash, NTSB says Everyone on board, including music executive Dave Shapiro, was killed when the private plane crashed in a San Diego neighborhood, setting homes and cars alight.

The pilot of a small private plane that crashed in a residential neighborhood of San Diego earlier this week faced fog as he attempted to land, while runway lights and a weather alert system at the airport were not working, investigators said.

Since I am officially a dad now I will be updating both my politics and posts accordingly.

in:
earnest climate posting
cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist
discussions of snack praxis

out:
doomerist takes
sectarian squabbling
commentary on anime with excessive fan service

🚨 The FBI agent who visited me just subscribed to my newsletter 🚨

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Blowback Season 6's trailer is out and its going to be about Angola- I'm very excited. I'm a big fan of the program and Noah Kulwin is a good friend. No one seems to have posted it on Bluesky both because it has only appeared on twitter and its more than a minute long (damn Bluesky!), so I will

ok this page….

in chicago, just remembered i have a bluesky account

real music gone shine regardless

Why Did My Brother Die in a New York Prison? I can still remember my brother, Franklyn Dominguez, running through Central Park. At just 13 years old, he was already something of a track prodigy — winning citywide races, racking up medals, even g...

My brother was one of seven people who died during an illegal strike by corrections officers in February. My family is desperate to know why.

it sure is fun [IT IS NOT FUN. I AM BEING FACETIOUS.] how there is no amount of medical history, diagnoses, documentation, or experience that will ever make your insurance company stop treating you like a drug-seeking addict for the crime of "trying to get an ADHD stimulant"

this just threw me back to tumblr so bad

The California grid ran on 100% renewables with no blackouts or cost rises for a record 98 days No blackouts occurred when renewable electricity supply exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for parts of 98 of 116 days.

The California grid ran on 100% renewables with no blackouts or cost rises for parts of a record 98 out of 116 days (and 132 days all year) in 2024

electrek.co/2024/12/31/c... @electrek.co @michelledlewis.bsky.social

Here's the paper:
web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...