Garnet the Afro Fae

A bit of news: The Chicago Tribune has deemed the post of film critic non-essential, and therefore zeroed-out that post. My options were to take a newsroom reassignment to be named later, or a buyout to be taken more or less immediately. So...(1/3)

The epistemology of ignorance — a campaign of "willful unknowing" that a society is subjected to — begins with exposing children to propaganda. Teaching them the scripture and dogma of the civil religion at as early an age as possible.

Im eating whatever she cooks

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Texas Democrat stages lock-in protest in House chamber over GOP redistricting push Nicole Collier rejects Speaker Dustin Burrows’ pledge to return for Wednesday morning vote on Republican push to redraw state’s electoral map

“Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu and fellow representative Vince Perez stayed with her on the House floor in a show of solidarity, with Wu posting a picture of the snacks he was bringing with him, including dried peaches and grapes and instant ramen noodles.”

Texas State Rep is being DETAINED against her will. If you aren't afraid yet, you should be.

If you aren't taking action, you should be.

If you aren't becoming part of your local community, you should be.

Things are NOT okay in America.

I need to go home

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

Economic Data Has Taken a Dark Turn. That Doesn’t Mean a Crash Is Near. Inflation is up and job creation down, but the U.S. economy could still pull through without too much pain.

When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:

The cover of my upcoming book The Extended Universe How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World, with a drawing of Mickey Mouse with his back turned pulling off his white glove and revealing a monstrous fleshy claw underneath

The Extended Universe cover reveal www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2525-t...

At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November.

“I feel good about that,” Cuomo said.

New Yorkers won’t.

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations

Joining with our friends @knightfoundation.org and others in a new philanthropic effort to help stabilize, support, and revitalize public media.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

I'm not talking about put a timer down.

policing as content creation, content creation as policing

Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood.

He's turning the homes into a compound.

That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.

I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.

once again you think the president's mistress directing impossibly cruel policy would be a bigger story but it does not get much play outside of overtly liberal outlets

J.Free literally wrote the book on political violence leading up to the Civil War. Pay attention to what she says here because she knows what the hell she's talking about.

Microsoft did an update I didn't ask for and closed all my tabs and now everythingis gone!!!!!
I didn't wanna switch to apple, but between this happened multiple times and the un-asked for screen capture stored, I just might drop the funds.

while smiling!

Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.

Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;

Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

Death Becomes Her but it's Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Bruce Wayne as Bruce Willis's character.

Years from now whomever is still alive will look back and point to now as when Democrats totally just missed the moment

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

TTRPG unpopular take: Individual character scenes should never take more than 20 minutes no matter how good the rp. Even if combat happens.
GMs need to move on to other players.
It's a mistake new GMs and new players make.

young James Baldwin: “I’m terrified at the moral apathy”

Keyed-up cops and military told to "subdue crime" in a place where there is not actually that much crime will be more likely to view any and all actions *As Crimes* in order to meet the expectations they hold, and certain people they've been taught to view as inherently criminal will bear the brunt.

New Presidential Fitness Routine just dropped! 😏

As someone with an anglo name that is regularly misspelled and mispronounced, I cannot fathom your frustration. Folks can say longass names with consonants together that shouldn't be, but somehow Xie is too hard.

Teenagers in Washington, D.C., say the federal police takeover makes them feel unsafe When President Trump announced his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., the local U.S. attorney said she wanted to focus on juveniles. But experts say harsher punishments don't deter criminals.

Teenagers in Washington, D.C., worry about the police takeover : NPR share.google/NkWN7BiI7FPB...

what donald trump wants more than anything is video of american soldiers gunning down american citizens