"The Pope isn't responsible for the American Congress of Bishops banning trans healthcare" so the thing about the power of the Pope is that he could just overwrite them if BANNING ALL TRANS HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE ADULTS AND MINORS ALIKE was something he cared about
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
since the end of 2024, there's been talk of "Woke 2" that has gotten more serious this year as the trump regime stumbles. much of that discourse takes the form of policy and while important, i think that ignores more interesting possibilities and developments
this essay is about that
society has moved beyond the need for voicemail
Things we tell little girls:
"Boys pick on you because they like you"
"Im hitting you for your own good, because I love you"
"If you upset boys, it's your fault if they lash out"
Things we tell women:
"You’re dating an abuser? Are you too stupid to know what a healthy relationship looks like?"
Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.
Death to woo
aura farming by using the command line in front of normies
feel like this is coming up in a lot of domains at once, but super abstractly: any substantive quality standards are going to result in de facto 'viewpoint discrimination', because certain viewpoints are low quality when judged by those standards. you gotta choose!
Majoritarian democracy offers no avenues for liberation. There's no choice for Parasaurolophus fans but to adopt permanent insurgent footing in this dystopia.
Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this.
This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.
"The right wing has more diversity of thought" is such a funny talking point supposedly in their favor cause like.
There is exactly one correct answer to "What is 4+3" if you're operating with conventional arithmetic, and infinitely many wrong answers. That's also a "diversity of thought" gap
That new California 3D printer censorship bill makes me want to start throwing tomatoes
Reminder that Donald Trump won the popular vote in '24
Texas is losing $3.2 BILLION in tax revenue over the next two years to the tax incentives it's handing out to data centers, and this is probably an underestimate. Meanwhile, the state is struggling to fund things like education and disaster response.
The comparison of liberal Zionists to Nazis, for instance, is repugnant and not much improved by Piker clarifying that he opposes ethnostates. What made the Nazis notable wasn’t their support for an ethnostate. Ethnostates are common. What made the Nazis notable was their effort to exterminate the Jewish people
I often complain that liberal zionists seem to think this, and then Ezra Klein just outright fucking typed it out.
*Every* ethnostate is founded on genocidal violence, and the nazis were just a purified exemplar of such; to focus solely on their extermination of Jews ignores the Roma etc.
One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification"
So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults
It's also why a lot of the rulling class is so desperate to kill the modern internet and make it into a panopticon. They lost control of international narratives with things like GAZA an queer people and they HATE the internet for it.
My crim professor had to end class early the day we went over sexual assault bc the men in a large lecture hall which was mostly men kept asking the most horrific questions indicating they were just realizing they’d committed sexual assault under the law and deciding the problem was the law not them
This may be a good place to start
When the drummer of a popular punk band in OKC sexually assaulted my best friend in 2012, me and my band vowed we would never play a show with them again. We tried telling people, and all that happened is that my friend and I got ostracized from the scene and literally nobody believed them til 2018
Isn’t it something how this is the default response in every industry, every subculture, every setting, across the political spectrum
they just rebranded it. look closely, they changed the copilot button to a sparkly pencil. don't fall for it. install linux
you hated them while they were happening!!!
One guy in the room standing up meme
Atheism is good actually
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
art002e009298 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. Image Credit: NASA
And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.
To change everything, start anywhere. If you could change anything, what would you change? Would you go on vacation for the rest of your life? Make fossil fuels stop causing climate change? Ask for ethical banks and politicians? Surely nothing could be more unrealistic than to keep everything the way it is and expect different results. Our private financial and emotional struggles mirror global upheaval and disaster. We could spend the rest of our days trying to douse these fires one by one, but they stem from the same source. No piecemeal solution will serve; we need to rethink everything according to a different logic.
To change anything, start everywhere. When we see what all the different institutions and mechanisms of domination have in common, it becomes clear that our individual struggles are also part of something greater than us, something that could connect us. When we come together on the basis of this connection, everything changes: not only our struggles, but also our sense of agency, our capacity for joy, the sense that our lives have meaning. All it takes to find each other is to begin acting according to a different logic.
If you could change anything, what would you change?
We need to rethink everything according to a different logic.
CrimethInc., an int'l network of aspiring revolutionaries, sponsors this project.
To Change Everything: An Anarchist Appeal
crimethinc.com/tce
why. why are you all fucking like this with your fantasy roleplay of politicians as your parents and intimate lovers
