LCWebs, Pumpkin Spice Bitch

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

Love this new wrinkle on the “bread and circuses” theme where the authoritarian ruler is both the creator of the circus and its primary audience…meanwhile he and his family are consuming all the bread themselves.

This stage of capitalism in a nutshell

If I were one of the wealthiest people in human history, living in a country with ever growing wealth inequality, I might think twice about advocating ritual execution

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

What in the actual hell

barring some sort of society-wide denazification effort I am basically not at all interested in reintegrating anyone involved in this administration after it all comes crashing down. if someone comes to me with DOGE on their resume I will tell them to fuck off until my dying day

My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

They sure do love lying.

This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.

I will keep saying.

If you have the means, make preparations now for likely emergencies in your area.

Plan for help to arrive very late, if it arrives at all.

I hope all the energy companies blaming AI data centers on rising energy bill costs makes more people reject AI and they have to shut them all down.

Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show to show how Trump’s push for war in Venezuela is Iraq all over again #DailyShow #JonStewart #Venezuela TikTok video by The Daily Show

Great @thedailyshow.com comparing the propaganda that led us to war with Iraq and what’s being said about. Venezuela now www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrx4To1S/

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Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.

This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

the very rich people currently trying to rewrite our media consumption: what the people want is more canceled comedians whining about trans people

the audience, voting with their eyeballs: bring us more gay hockey sex

a guillotine made from gingerbread, decorated with white icing snow and icicles

I am brimming with holiday spirit

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.

Key thing to remember is: They want these fascist fortress cities because *they believe existing nations are going to collapse*

These are escape hatches for a post-democracy world they seek to create. I would argue that they have gotten much farther than they should have. See: DOGE, crypto, etc

Please understand that as an American, I'm asking this from my uncomfortable position trapped in the trunk of a careening clown car, but uh... UK, you guys doing alright?

The UK of all places shaming those who take. Wow.

COVID-19 is still present as well. Therefore, it is important to continue vaccinations, wear masks, and ensure proper air filtration.

* There is no such thing as "just a flu". Viral infections are bad for us.

* Viruses are variable. Non-evolutionary, typological thinking does not work.

* Viruses evolve. They don't automatically get milder. More infections means more evolution.

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* The immune system is not like a muscle and immunity debt is bullshit.

* There are various ways that repeated COVID infections could be causing short- and/or longer-term immunity theft, making people more vulnerable to other infections.

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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:

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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.

* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.

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