Stephanie Greig

Human beings can know they’re being tricked, consciously try to not be tricked, and still, to some extent, fall for the trick. Good analogy.

One could argue that the death of well-written sitcoms and dramas, and the rise of reality TV, brought us to this point.

And ultimately, that all came down to TV that was cheap to produce but high on returns.

We literally lost more carefully thought-out plot lines and cultural models.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I never thought I’d see the day.

Americans being told by the rest of the world to fight for our own democracy.

We should never have gotten here.

Keep resisting. ✊🏽

#SheShed #Voices4Victory

He has very much been implicated

Best bet is to presume anyone calling for us to just move on from the Epstein files absolutely knows why they are important and they want that truth suppressed.

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:

State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.

I love this with my whole little bubble letter heart!

Darkness Descends in Minneapolis It’s night in America, and the darkness is spreading quickly.

ICE have been goading the people of Minnesota with increasing acts of lawlessness. It is about giving Trump the excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act conferring total state power.
My thoughts on how Minnesota can respond with creative & determined resistance.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-now

So, hypothetically, if you were to make a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message over an overpass, you’d be putting in the letters backwards. And, again hypothetically, you might want a template for that.

Hypothetically.

Oh this was a read 😩😭

A quarter of a million Americans died in the European Theater in WWII, helping to establish the foundation for this alliance. Trump has damaged it irreparably in less than a year. The portion of the US electorate who put him back into office is also to blame.

Hegemonic suicide.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

Every word of this 💔

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

The phrase “fucking bitch” is familiar to millions of women, be it at home or work.

Not uncommonly, “bitch” is the last thing a woman hears before she dies.

Let’s get the second Reconstruction right.

Searching for Bobbie Gentry America’s culture of cruelty and those who dare to notice.

Much as I try and ignore the US, it is very much part of me. Nobody writes about the US like Sarah, and I keep coming back to her work. Reading articles several times over. There is so much in this. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-for-bobbie-gentry

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Hagueseth

Someone who is capable of raping children is capable of anything: Having a former rape club buddy assassinated, faking his own assassination attempt, or arranging a convenient “accident” for his ex-wife.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

If the only way to bring wallets into shops is using a car, that massively limits the numbers of wallets.
If you make it easy, safe, and pleasant for wallets to arrive at shops by foot, bike or public transit, there is no limit to the number of wallets that can access shops.
It’s not rocket science

The 7-Stage Collapse Pattern: Spain, Britain, USSR... USA Is At Stage 5 #storytime TikTok video by Mrs Observer

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMqxxnqG/

Food for thought. We are following the play book on collapse of empire, almost to the word.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.