Fear & Loafing

How long are we going to allow the wealthy to do this to us? Cartoon from 1894...

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

Breaking: Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his team used their personal Gmail accounts for work, including to handle sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems.

Whoopsy! Senator Cassidy accidentally tells the truth.

We speak fluent Republican. “Reform” = CUT.

New Haven, Connecticut. 🤬🤬🤬

Meanwhile on Meta:

Check if they made you follow this account without your input... react accordingly.

Tweet from ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on February 17, 2022: "Outrageous to see a Nazi salute in the European Parliament. Thank you @EP_President Roberta Metsola for taking immediate action to launch sanctions against the Bulgarian MEP. Will his political group @ecrgroup allow him to remain a member?" [photo of man Nazi saluting]

Proof that Jonathan Greenblatt isn't incapable of condemning Nazi salutes. He's just currently choosing not to.

Defeat the Fascist Snake 1930s poster

🆘 Fascism is here… but it will not stand. 🏴

Forever the vibe ✌🏼

Holy shit.

This is real.

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This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı

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We second the apology to Panama.

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Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!

It’s amazing that everyone knows so much about Luigi Mangioni, but couldn’t be bothered to understand the definition or effects of tariffs on the economy and their wallets before the election?

Post from Jojo: Holy fuck. Seb Gorka is his pick to be senior director for counterterrorism. Seb fucking Gorka, who was denied security clearance in the last Trump administration… Seb fucking Gorka who has ties to a Nazi-allied organization in Hungary… The. Director. Of. Counterterrorism.

Well this seems bad.

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."

That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.

There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

The words “Info Wars” where the O is in the shape of an onion.

The Onion has bought a bankrupt Infowars with help from the Sandy Hook families. Please let this be the new logo:

We need to get back to reading and critical thinking Because 2024 feels different from 2016.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

I kinda feel like this picture is maybe our collective nervous systems before we left Twitter and came over here. Yeah?

We got this 🫶🏼

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up.

Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

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GET ALL OF YOUR VACCINES NOW PEOPLE.