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4. I had forgotten the omnipresent ads for various Time Life products, all first-one-free.

Someone uploaded 3+ hrs of late-night MTV from 1990 to YouTube.

1. I did not recall the relentless ads for Playboy.
2. I did not recall the sheer normality of grown men purporting to have sex with teens or dubious legality in the ads, the MVs, the everything.
3. We did Sinead O'Connor dirty.

Once again, attending my weekly community meeting replenishes my energy and will for the ongoing struggle of collective liberation.

The alchemy that turns fear and rage into care for other people is *magic* to me, even as I am *doing* it.

Life is the process of realizing you're doing something.

"Mom's and Aunties wear a camouflage that works because it's *real*."

Yes. This.

Sometimes I hear calls for a more aggressive response. I always say that THAT is a game WE CANNOT WIN. But caring for each other is a game they don't even know how to PLAY. So we win it.

YouTube video by Step Back they sent 3,000 agents. they weren't ready for the PTA.

"The state's threat model is calibrated for militants. ... It's not expecting to track Susan armed with a tater-tot hotdish!"

Points disscussed:

The Black Panther Party and comms
The Underground Railroad & 4-person affinity group
The State's threat model & mutual aid

youtu.be/t8LjsiLi1q0

(Shades of "how do these people know how to organize, it must be a directed conspiracy!!!" Like. Y'all. I have been reading fiction by The Greatest Generation and the Boomers *my entire life*. These folks put their military and protest experience INTO THEIR FICTION.)

Also, I first learned about the 4-people network from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Just learned the phrase "Asphixyating Cognitive Dissonance," and, yeah.

Yeah.

Constant. Relentless. Lies.

During 2021 my eldest and I had mutual hair-dyeing days.

Beaten to death by rubber chickens. Globally.

I am very stoned.

My neighborhood bake sale raised $6000 for mutual aid funds today.

Amen.

It is really good for me, personally, to decenter my American anger about TFG and hear global voices, especially those of Iranians who have been standing up against a horrific regime.

Do I think the US involvement is going to end well? No. But at least there is potential for the Iranian resistance.

I am entirely opposed to That Fucking Guy pissing on the Constitution to kill hundreds-thousands of people to make corrupt deals for his personal benefit.

I'm not sure I would be in favor of this if Congress debated it and approved a declaration of war.

But a LOT of Iranians are really happy.

Photos show global reaction to US and Israeli strikes Demonstrators took to the streets in cities around the world after the United States and Israel launched a major strike on Iran.

In the interest of centering the voices of Iranians and the Iranian diaspora, here is a series of photos of global reaction to the situation.

Read each caption to tell the difference between demonstrations supporting the US and Israeli strikes and the ones against it.

apnews.com/photo-galler...

The video display at Ridder Arena at the University of Minnesota displaying a graphic depicting the number 140 with Murphy superimposed over it.

With 140 career goals (37 this season so far) Abby Murphy becomes the all time leading goal scorer for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers!

#WoHo #UofMN

....

Right, then.

An image of smoke rising from airstrikes in Tehran with the text "The attack on Iran is an attack on all of us."

The attack on Iranians is meant to strike terror into Trump's foes all around the world, including in the United States. The same weapons Trump and Netanyahu use against Iranians today will be turned on anyone who resists them tomorrow—unless we stand up to them together.

crimethinc.com/IranWar2026

I kinda think I love this entire sentence

I love those.

LIVE STILL NEED ICE OUT of Minnesota March | LIVE From Minneapolis YouTube video by Status Coup News

Andrew Mercado is LIVE on Mercado Media and our channel as protesters continue demonstrating in Minneapolis demanding ICE GET OUT (contrary to Trump admin lies, ICE still in Minnesota)

youtube.com/live/Q4G-oJV...

Second, in order to get the amount of protein that RFK Jr. specifically recommends (1.2 - 1.6 g of protein per kg of body weight), a 150 lb person would need to eat 300 g of liver.

This would provide approximately 210,000 IU of vitamin A and would lead to vitamin A poisoning.

Also: the amount of background information - political, cultural, medical, whatever - that is fabricated LLM slop is increasing faster than we can really recognize it.

MAGA billionaire David Ellison is about to control CBS, Paramount, Warner Bros, Discovery, CNN, HBO, HBOMax, DC, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TBS, TNT, HGTV, Food Network, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, OWN, Investigation Discovery, Cinemax, & more.

Prepare for overwhelming propaganda.

Thirty years ago I stopped biting my nails. I had been a compulsive nail-chewer and -picker since early childhood. I worked really hard to stop, and eventually it worked. I maintained that, effortlessly, for DECADES.

This winter. The winter of '26.

I'm biting my nails again.

I think about that book constantly.

I recall a story from William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich about what it’s like to be—for example—a journalist in Berlin during the Nazi era, knowing the truth and knowing you are surrounded by lies and finding those lies embedding in your brain anyway simply because they surround you