Erica Posey

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.

If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Stickers.

This insight brought to you by the number of people on that quiz who disagreed with Trump's policy positions but voted for him anyway, on the absolutely absurd basis of believing his claims about being able to improve the economy.

Further support for my 5th grade student elections theory of government: it doesn't matter how smart people are or how obviously the candidate js lying. If you promise the electorate free popsicles on Fridays, the majority will close their eyes, cross their fingers, and vote for free popsicles.

i feel like basically every culture has stories about treasure that turns you mad for some reason?

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.

Bernie's wrong. Lots of nations don't have borders.

What needs borders is a nation-*state*. It's not the same thing at all.

The talking point uses fear to help people forget that a nation-state can have open borders.

But open borders is the correct policy, and our nation-state should have them.

Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

given that the vast majority of their wealth is not in rubies and precious metals, and is instead in stock certificates issued by their US companies, i must once again question the wisdom or smarts in their efforts to crater the american economy

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

xAI is *literally* trying to create a LLM-based, right-wing coded version of wikipedia. It's just a relentless attack on communal knowledge

This applies to every service, AI or not: If you are designing a popup window and neither of the response options is "no," you don't actually believe in your product's ability to stand on its own feet and also you are the baddies

Frogs united will never be defeated!!

You need to chill out about other people's behavior most of the time. If they're not hurting you, just being annoying in a way you can cope with, then cope. It's probably not a problem with them, but wider systems. Get zen with people being people.

Took the Myers-Briggs personality test and it said I’m Antifa

I don't really have pictures myself because I couldn't walk a block without a dozen people asking for pictures! But it was nice to be able to make people smile. Dogs on the other hand... not fans.

I wore an inflatable frog suit to a protest today. I just felt like I really needed something to bring some novelty into going into the streets for the umpteenth time to protest this fucking bullshit. And honestly, it was really sweaty in there. But it was also really joyful and hopeful.

just go to the protests

take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

cow standing in the ocean on the beach “i am cringe but i am free” also with a wine glass

them: the no kings protest is cringe and just a bunch of wine moms
me:

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

The objectively correct answer

We all need to get weirder, more nonsensical and fluid, and hornier, in response to the moralistic, rigid, fascistic, traditional backslide were trapped in.

i think we should bring dadaism back as a response to The Horrors. it made sense during world war one

Tremendous reporting by @nicolefoy.bsky.social @propublica.org- ICE has arrested & detained 170+ US citizens & many have harrowing stories. So many #KavanaughStops.

I'm quoted for something I wish wasn't true: it's nearly impossible for people to sue the federal officers who violated their rights.

I forgot alt text on the images, I'm sorry. The two images are quotes from a Wired article interviewing Cybertruck owners. In the first, a man says that he is no longer married and "women don't like the vehicle." In the second, he reveals that he uses feminized AI software in the car as a therapist.

The ad placement in that wired article really fucks up any effort to show these questions together, but the one-two punch here is really something.
Women don't like the vehicle, but the company made me an AI woman to talk to me while I'm driving so it's fine.
"Her name is Aura"

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social