Stumbling forward

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Trained from the cradle to ‘lie for the lord’
Not enough political analysis has been applied to exposing this phenomenon

The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.

It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Something that being involved in abolitionist work taught me is that people can be very critical of state violence and of specific types of law enforcement and police actions but still be anti-abolitionist and anti-leftist.

couldn’t agree with this more. conservatives in casual conversation will say the most out of pocket shit you’ve heard in your life but we’re out of touch if we call them out or judge them for it because they get a benefit of the doubt never afforded to progressives.

Eby not getting ahead of the bonafide coordinated freak out of the global far right influencer talking shop over the Cowichan decision is going to have bad consequences.
They are pumping everything they have into this one. Most of whom have never heard of Richmond British Columbia in their lives.

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

Maybe if you've never been handcuffed by cops & dropped off to be held in conditions of torture in a psych ward, & have only been the one calling those shots, fascism in medicine is a new phenomenon for you.

Do not be fooled by the title "Fighting Climate Change." I was not prepared for the absurdity of the follow up question.

As the past months have made clear, the crisis at NIH is part of a disseminated attack on the bedrock of our society — institutions, laws, expertise, & the noise (joyful or otherwise) that citizens in a democracy are allowed to make

I don’t see how to rebuild science w/o wholesale reconstruction

75 million people voted for Harris. About 6 million people attended the last No Kings mobilization. That's 8%. Just a reminder of how difficult it is to mobilize people for rallies, protests, any sort of direct action.

Prince Andrew gives up royal titles and talking to the King

Or you could just abolish the monarchy

In the past 24 hours, Mark Carney has promised to boost the number of security agents (RCMP + CBSA) by 2000.

Has a single journalist talked with @sandela.bsky.social or Robyn Maynard about what this means for canadian society?

Indigenous leaders ‘not allowed’ to fully partake in ministers’ meeting on public safety, says national chief | CBC News The head of the Assembly of First Nations says she’s disappointed Indigenous leaders aren’t allowed to fully participate in this week’s first ministers’ meeting on public safety. Instead, Indigenous p...

oh jeez i wonder why they aren't invited to the meeting that's about how to continue stealing their land www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Osage Nation celebrates reacquisition of sacred site near St. Louis Arch Osage Nation reacquired a sacred site near the St. Louis Arch in Missouri. The site, known as “Suglarloaf Mound,” is now fully under Osage control and is the oldest known human-made structure in the c...

St Louis was originally called Mound City bc over 200 earthen works spanned both sides of the Mississippi River. The largest one at Cahokia is comparable in size to Egyptian pyramids. Early archaeologists thought Native Americans were too primitive to have constructed the mounds and theorized

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

After Savagery Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization. Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET

After Savagery

Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization.

Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET

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some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

So the "next frontier" is that they will keep kidnapping our neighbors, terrorizing our communities, and pulling guns on us in the street, but Dems will fight for them to be unmasked while doing it? I bet they'll just put those gas masks on a little more often. They love gassing our neighborhoods.

what north america really needs is to experience the superiority of japanese toilet seats and put one on every toilet on the continent

Funny how many of them happen to be committed zionists. It’s almost like the ideology has glaring downsides

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops.

There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done."

And no, he isn't.

Zionism teaches jewish supremacy.
It’s about as clearcut an example of supremacist ideology as ever was.

after they tasered him, the cops charged him with refusal to comply with a demand, two counts of assaulting police officers and resisting arrest