Democracy Dies in Dorkness

Even in this ruby red state, resistance to Trump's ICE goons shows he is losing his grip If the Trump administration felt defeated in Minneapolis and thought it could score easy wins in ruby red West Virginia, it couldn’t have been more wrong.It’s true that U.S. Immigration and Customs En...

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i read now OK law is ideosyncratic: he has to pick a bench warmer of the same party immediately, but that person can't run in the actual election.

not at all

This man still has not been held accountable for a double-tap strike, or for strikes on non-VZ citizens of neighboring countries. He is a murderer. He is a religious zealot, unqualified and undisciplined. He should have been out before Noem, but now that we know the no-scalps rule is broken…

I'm 74 and I'm determined to outlive this regime and to see them held accountable.

Are you suggesting that an alcoholic womanizer whose own mom wrote to him about what a piece of shit he is, only to have other family leak they to the New York Times, who only attained the rank of Major in the National Guard may not be the right person for the job?

I think you are both right, and I would only add he sounds like a edgy nazi frat boy from 4-chan who suddenly was invited to this really fancy nazi party in the new WH ballroom, so he’s simultaneously starstruck and eager to please while anxious and overwhelmed.

he's drunk/high as a kite I'm sure

He sounds very scared, almost on the verge of an anxiety attack. Heart pumping fast, breathing unevenly. He doesn't believe a word he's saying.

Disturbing for sure, but also hard not to be amused by him thinking that he sounds like a total badass but really sounds like a cringy, edgelord dweeb.

what the fuck what the fuck oh what the fuck

christ I don't think even Putin used this language about Ukraine.

For those keeping track, we’re at the “secretary of war announces genocide” stage of the US descent into fascism.

Given the products themselves aren't plausibly creating value in the economy at any point soon, it seems more likely that the ideology and the social inequality and submission to the rule of sociopaths that ideology promotes is the point here.

Contrary to a quote skeet saying that these people are terrifying, I think they're court jesters of an unimaginably wealthy elite - multi billionaires can afford to throw a hundred million here, a few tens of millions there, at a bunch of sociopathic pets with projects they'll never deliver.

5. None of this particularly encounters prosaic ideas like "economy", "capital", "labour", "markets" in the way that they used to be understood. Supply? Demand? Neither have anything to do with the will to power that is the root of this ideology.

3. When deciding who to fund rich people prefer obvious sociopaths who have the disregard for social goods that are needed the for rich to remain rich.

4. It doesn't matter if the sociopaths don't have a functioning product now or in the future. They affirm the rich are rich through force of will.

1. Rich people don't really know what is good or bad, and don't like the idea that they are rich because of freak of birth inheritance or luck with market.

2. So rich people like to obsess over the idea that potential for being rich is genetic rather and innate in personality not inherited.

(it is getting to a somewhat existential point for me; I love writing so much but also I increasingly just despise so many journalists and publications! not that it ever was a truly ethical profession to begin with but something about Our Times has made it just so much worse)

many such cases

However, my feeling and Judith's, is that it's a good reason to kick ass with the bookstore & build it up to the point where we won't be panicking when COBRA coverage ends. (For followers in civilized countries: COBRA is a third-party extension of company-sponsored health benefits post-employment.)

I've been depressed since then. I know a lot of you are survivors of many layoffs, used to getting suddenly thrown overboard. if so, my apologies for describing things you've already gone through. But this is new for me. I've jumped jobs or walked out, but never laid off. At 57! Yikes!

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Watched a video of Iraqi Shi'a MPs chanting Death To America and Death To Israel during a plenary session on the emergency security situation in the region and frankly I'm still impressed by just how little public buy-in the US actually has for the regional order it has painstakingly crafted.

The security field has been slow to recognise gendered threats. This highlights a systemic issue stemming from the field's own gendered issues and lack of diverse voices, including women’s. This creates significant blind spots that the field must recognize and address.

Violent Misogyny Is a Security Threat. Women Lead the Response. — Revontulet On International Women's Day, discussions about gender and safety often focus on women as targets, and rightly so. Women and girls continue to face disproportionate violence online and offline worldwi...

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At Revontulet, we see violent misogyny not just as a societal issue; it's a security threat and one of the most reliable early warning signs of radicalisation to violent extremism.

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Ā fluffy baby albatross practicing flapping its stubby little wings

The world is a big and scary place, but this fluffy baby albatross is practicing flapping its wings on a sunny Dunedin afternoon.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

the problem is the consequences never seem to fall on the actual instigators. or, not nearly enough, at best.

just the rest of us.

I really do not want the consequences of Trump's actions but in a way my brain *needs* them to happen because it simply can't be healthy the way we keep living in this state of "nothing really matters ever"

And many reporters take Wall St. pablum slanted firmly away from any analysis that might ‘spook’ investors and use as headlines.

They’ve convinced far too many that Wall St. IS the economy.

Tail wags.