McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
Jews are targeted in shuls & online.
Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps.
Muslims are openly targeted by politicians.
Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI.
Trans & queer people are being outlawed.
We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
The establishment is in full panic mode.
When they can’t debate ideas, they have to manufacture doubt.
If anyone wants to come to DC on Monday and welcome back the members of Congress who did NOT stop Trump from sending thousands of marines to the war, we'll gladly take you up to the Hill. We're at 333 Constitution Avenue NW.
We are severely underreacting to this news as a country.
Once more for those in the back: don't fedpost.
They want to scoop you up as easily as possible, and gifting them a reason makes you a soft target.
I struggle to communicate my fury about the easing of sanctions on Russia's oil as a result of the Iran war.
Unlike basically anything suggested as an objective in this fool war, containing Russia's ability to brutalize and dominate Eastern Europe *actually is* a vital US security interest.
Really wasn't ready for how delightful this conversation was. Nor did I know how magically and philosophically aligned I am with Grant Morrison. Highly recommend. #AmListeningTo #TeamHuman
Nope!
On one hand, there's a camp that prizes human intellect (specific forms) & certain ways of knowing & learning. OTOH, there's a camp that wants to de-couple human "intellect" (stolen input data that are then annotated by underpaid workers in LMICs) from human beings & monetize the outputs.
Keoni Mahelona, in Empire of AI:
“AI is just a land grab all over again. Big tech likes to collect your data more or less for free—to build whatever they want to, whatever their endgame is—and then turn it around and sell it back to you as a service.”
“Trump is not in control of the Iran War. Netanyahu is, and Kushner is his lackey.”
Whether or not you fully agree with that statement, this piece is a must-read to understand better the influence of the Kahanist movement on current events and the push for “Greater Israel”:
Red Mafiya names key villains and locales, including Trump Tower, which functioned as a dormitory for organized crime. Mogilevich became an early investor in Trump Tower after fleeing the USSR by getting an Israeli passport in 1988 from Robert Maxwell, the father of Jeffrey Epstein's partner, Ghislaine. To say Red Mafiya is timeless is to acknowledge we've been frozen in hell for forty years. The False Prophet, on the other hand, is largely ignored. It is in demand but hard to find: used copies of the out-of-print book sell for over $100. I bought mine before the Kahanists — Kahane's acolytes — returned to power in Israel. I've been wanting to write about The False Prophet for years. I held back since it scares me more than any other book. If it were only history, I would not be so frightened. But The False Prophet describes current events: the extremism that Kahane espoused, and Friedman documented, now dominates Israel and in turn, the United States.
In discussing Robert Friedman’s 1990 book about Meir Kahane, “The False Prophet,” Sarah Kendzior notes she has been wanting to write about it for years but held back because it scares her. I can attest to that, as @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and I have privately talked about the subject for a decade.
The #WALeg House still has yet to vote on the Millionaires Tax! Our sources say that phone calls to lawmakers’ offices urging them to vote YES are what’s needed right now to keep the bill moving.
We've made that easy by setting up a simple way to plug in your info and call them with one click:
Online behavioral advertising isn’t just creepy–it’s dangerous. eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Every @democrats.org who is part of this "bipartisan" push needs to never work in politics again. Yes, let's give fascists MORE TOOLS to track down the people they don't like, all in the name of "protect the kids." Collaborator cowards are the worst. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Surveillance capitalism:
Valuation uber alles
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)
I really can't with Underground Sound
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@natebowling.com you see the company I keep!
Alex @alex.bsky.team • 2h our userbase is already conspiracy brained enough about our rationale for suspensions without us making it this easy for them to accidentally entrap themselves
Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained.
If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
Reminder: Annualized income is projected income. It's an "estimate of expected yearly income based on data from less than a full year."
What's hilarious about this is that California, which is the tech and AI capital of the country, has a state income tax, the highest rate of which is 12.3% (vs 9.9% in the WA proposal), and the tax is on all income, not just income over $1 million. Yet somehow Silicon Valley is doing just fine.
Since liberal pundits continue to go to the mattresses for The New York Times...
Believe us, trans people see when institutions with plenty of blood on their hands are still revered, even now, over communities facing brutal oppression.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together 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... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
