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I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

Surprisingly timely reminder actually that Ana here is in an absolute financial nightmare realm as punishment for whistle-blowing on a lot of said puritanical ridiculousness.

Domino effect meme where the first domino is "Microsoft goes all-in on AI" and last huge domino is "Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Notepad".

"Sparking questions"

I *beg* US journalists to develop SOME spine and at least *pretend* to have a modicum of self-respect.

Goddamn, is there any reason the people are afraid? Think the government, with a monopoly on violence could help?

No? We gonna 'personal responsibility' our way outta the state sanctioned terror campaign and ethnic cleansing?

Yeah, let what is happening to Discord radicalize you against the encroaching of puritan fascism we are seeing in laws world wide.

The US, Canada and a good chunk of the EU like Spain are looking into making laws that will actively do the same for a more expansive area of the internet.

he'd have to buy a trillion tons to make a dent in the poverty of the coalfields.

coal isn't coming back. it's unfeasible, it's uneconomic, it's stupid, it's dirty. there is no world where mining coal makes sense anymore.

It’s an odd phenomenon where the long established red line—criminal abuse and rape of young people—has broken down, in part because of decades of elite corruption and in part because it implicates their demagogic leader. But popular revulsion won’t go away, so they’re trying to jury-rig a new line.

Char taking off his mask...

Char, without a mask, very sexy,

Yesterday I was asked "so when did you first know Char was going to be your all time favorite" and I had to admit it was literally just how took off his mask in episode two and he was hot. That's literally it

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

They really do think "But he gave them candy after molesting them" is a defense.

It does not matter if you take the child you use as bait and then kidnap to McDonald’s!!!!!

Relationships between Jews and Christians definitely are the foundation of this country but perhaps not like that.

The crusades the Christian right in the UK worships so much were funded by expropriating a Jewish underclass while inventing blood libel & Jewish banker stereotypes that persist today.

Tokenisation and maintenance of a Jewish minority that can be scapegoated regularly for profit is a thousand year long industry. It just works out very badly for Jews when we have various conspiracy nuts in the aristocracy stoke up another Hitler or something.

The thing is... a lot of that was predicated on Black culture...

The main thing that protects us from their evil is their incompetence.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

It cannot be overstated that nothing on the ground here in Minneapolis has changed it has gotten worse and continues to get worse and our leadership is lying about it all.

It’s absolutely destabilizing watching the elite class moves back to business as usual as the citizens attempt to maintain

moral panic around sex workers is a distraction from systems run by literal sex pests

Hey boomers! Focus on the one or more nice homes you own & all the other nice property you've accrued. Because your greed is the whole reason nobody else can have anything. Stop scapegoating on your children.

I don’t believe this and even if I did, it just means they’ll go terrorize people in another state who ARE STILL MY NEIGHBORS

House Republicans revolt over GOP’s attempt to hand Trump Congress’ tariff authority In a rare defeat, three House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress’ ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs.

Breaking MS NOW:

In a major defeat for Mike Johnson, 3 House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress' ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs.

The final tally was 214-217, with 3 Republicans joining Democrats in opposition.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

99% of millennial wealth is Mark Zuckerberg. The rest of us are passing the same $20 back & forth because the boomers decided they needed to destroy the planet in their quest to realize the capitalist American dream.

Zuckerberg’s technology doing what it’s always done best

Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it:

Testilying.

Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.

Hey fellow bad brain havers. Reminder that everyone does NOT secretly hate you, they are too busy for that.

Looking around DC which fell out the national narrative for being occupied but still is. Confirmed.

Former Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew of Epstein’s Actions

MeToo might've actually led to systemic change if it included accountability for those who knew and didn't intervene.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...