It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable
It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable
βCan we have class outsideβ no absolutely not. we are discussing The Yellow Wallpaper under sickly fluorescent lights and please do not open or look out the window.
over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.
ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.
The americans will make rubble and call it liberation
This is what federal terror forces were doing here in Minneapolis when it was -30
These have a name and itβs called a starlight tour. Itβs what the rcmp and others have done for decades to kill First Nations folks and others with plausible deniability.
Itβs murder and itβs intentional.
"Insofar as 'people' would be defined as individuals possessing souls..."
Is RFK Jr a never-nude?
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Tenure enables freedom of speech, which is why aspiring tyrants donβt like it.
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Epsteinβs economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
I keep thinking βmy god the people theyβve killed seem like exceptionally good folksβ and I think the lesson there is that theyβre not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
To this day I am amazed by how pervasive some myths about 1948 are in America when they were debunked by Israeli Jewish historians themselves a little over a decade before I was born
Thereβs an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter.
Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.
What are we doing.
Itβs common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with βhow is this not illegal,β presuming that if it were, the thing wouldnβt happen. But that isnβt how law works.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Israel says it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
In todayβs depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
Casual reminder that the myth of βpulling yourself up by your bootstrapsβ is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.
People acting shocked at Chomsky's questionable loyalties seem to forget he used to enthusiastically endorse the Khmer Rouge...
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and β¨believeπ«
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Those eyes are terrifying....
Stealworkers
"Tomorrow belongs to me" π΅
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
I assume the "Lady's" portions will cost more, as well...
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio qualityβyou name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify: