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I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.

In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.

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Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.

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#Mouthwashing #fanart

A bus labeled Matt gaetz wrecked by a train labeled also Matt gaetz

Happy to all who celebrate

You claim to be an LGBT ally, yet you refuse to have sex with me? Wow. True colours moment.

CHEERS twitter has been reinvented 🎉🎉🎉 (just got my first replyguy)

This is one blocklist I’ll vouch for. CT takes the time to make sure the accounts fit the bill.

If you skim thru you’ll find lots of accounts mimicking real people but then on their page espousing hate speech. Tons and tons of groypers too. Eesh.

Only 19 out of 100 U.S. Senators were willing to oppose the blatant violation of U.S. law, showing once more that abject lawlessness at the federal level is a bipartisan project.

our current system is despicable, yet i do see some hope for change in the coming years. but to have our intl politics shift only at the behest of hundreds of thousands of dead palestinians and the continued production of endless war in the middle east... this is reprehensible.

i met a lot of US queer people who only figured themselves out after gay marriage was legalized, and many trans folks who cracked their eggs during the early pandemic. we've grown so much as a community, even as our social rights regress. there may be hell ahead of us, but we can make it through.

Yep. This also explains the bizarre focus on linguistic changes.

A wealthy, middle-aged political pundit cannot imagine being forced to move states to access HRT but he can imagine someone scolding him about misusing they/them pronouns. It's anxiety and animosity all the way down.

Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System The bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.

Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed a new task for to look at electoral reforms which could break up the two party system in Congress, expand the number of House districts, and move the House to a form of proportional representation.

It's a very, very good idea.

Punishment on top of punishment All trying their best

"I have met 100s of children like Jose on the streets of LA while handing out supplies with the volunteer group KtownForAll. Children whose parents were sick or injured, and so couldn’t pay rent for a month or two, that have been evicted more times in their short lives than they’ve seen a doctor."

"Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them." — Stuart Hall

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly mapping the entire world to train a geospatial AI model whose most obvious use cases are for robotic navigation and possibly the military
www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...

Green poster where she is wearing her savage good boy costume

Michelle sitting in a mass of trees and speakers

My official posters for Japanese Breakfast!!

Electric Forest poster with caption Rothbury, Michigan, June 20-23 2024. We see stags and deer running across a border of woodland animals, fungi. A whale is seen peaking between the border

Electric Forest official poster 2024! Musical festivals!!!

The account (ran by PhD student Claire M. Zagorski) behind this got deactivated suddenly. Here is not only the original image of the alleged UT-Austin emailed list of words they'll surveil & censor and also the link to the OP's Instagram too, this time archived.

archive.ph/HQhkf

This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.

Sometimes 'unserious' really does feel like the best descriptor for this timeline

Poster indicating that 37 towns have been completely erased in Lebanon. Poster by @gina_n_k and on the Instagram account of @flyers_for_falastin

A reminder that 37 towns & villages have been completely erased by Israel in Lebanon. Ethnic cleansing in action

Most of this destruction is in south Lebanon.

No wonder then that there are those who call for reoccupation and resettlement. Intentions clear www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

hi I'm the most annoying op-ed writer you've ever heard of in your life. I just blew in from Stupidtown and I sure hope this place won't be a left wing echo chamber! I command you gross homos to create a lively and diverse social network, like 2015 twitter

Headline: Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: 'I don't want to be the freak show party' Recriminations over Kamala Harris' defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.

holy fuck they’re proving in real time the saying “scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while

🚨 THREAD: Project Esther — an extension of the broader conservative agenda under Project 2025. It’s a coordinated effort to silence the growing movement for Palestinian rights in U.S. Let’s break it down. 🧵👇

once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement