Eric Blanc 100% has credibility with me on this because... I did anti-war organizing with him in Santa Cruz. He had a very significant part in founding and guiding the early stages of our group and campaign against the military recruiters.
Harkaway is good! Gnomon was a fun bit of high-concept sci-fi
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
youtu.be/pmkNPOBWdGs?...
The stated mission makes no sense. A few weeks of airstrikes to blow up their ballistic missile capabilities and Trump hangs another Mission Accomplished banner I guess and then Israel faces 10x the insurgency forever
Iran is way way more populous and more wealthy than Iraq or Vietnam were when the US invaded. I know i'm an idiot on geopolitics but it drives me crazy that nobody's talking about about this. Everyone assumes it's as asymmetric as the usual fast food american war and... it's not?
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
Because I love my uncle, for whom I was named, I'll never tell him that he mistyped his email one day and accidentally sent me all his grindr notifications.
After the first third it started to go quicker for me — either because I stopped trying to look up every historical reference or because he stopped including so many. I found a blogger who kept good companion note here if you're interested: biblioklept.org/2025/11/30/n...
People outside CA only see his social media shit and don't understand. It's a cliche to say a politician only cares about themselves but Newsom *tells you this to your face*. Once I started calling him California Cuomo my nyc friends finally started to understand.
My nyc friends don't understand what a piece of shit Newsom is until I describe him as "California Cuomo".
I guested on a couple podcast episodes about it if you wanna check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
With that 1.6m due, do you think they'll try to sneak him through waivers? (And is there any chance they succeed?)
If people will only be evil if they're paid to do it, eventually the only jobs left will be to do evil.
here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam
screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
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Hey what's the name of your spot? I've got a former (and hopefully future) coworker in Dublin, also originally from SB, who's missing good Mexican food so I figured I'd send him over.
I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
A colorful watercolor postcard featuring a barn swallow in a gold circle clutching a banner that reads "No justice, no peace."
A colorful watercolor postcard featuring a barn swallow clutching a banner that reads "No justice, no peace." There's an open watercolor palette on the table nearby.
Hey it's me, your favorite Social Media Cryptid! I'm running a flash fundraiser for our local anti-ICE community network in Ventura County. These postcards are going out for $5 a pop. I'm @Lucy-Bellwood on Venmo. DM me with how many you'd like and a good mailing address and we'll make it happen 💛
Mist forward and Unrivaled Co-founder Breanna Stewart held up a sign with two words during intros today: “Abolish Ice.”
Photo courtesy of @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social .
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re 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
NYT: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man The victim was an American citizen with no criminal record who had a firearms permit, the city police chief said. Videos of the encounter contradict the federal government's description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found.
years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
Experts who have followed authoritarian regimes abroad can tell you a lot about day-after reprisals to mass movements, which look a hell of a lot like today's killing
kid's drawing of a truck
thank you for helping my friends come to school
A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.
At some point, a Democratic governor needs to say, "I want all of our patriotic residents to exercise their constitutional rights to protest the federal government."
Encourage people to protest this authoritarian government instead of trying to reflexively tamp down protests.
a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
They managed to both sides something video taped from 4 different angles
This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.
