slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

I knew a public defender who said cops lied under oath so often that it was known as 'testilying' and everyone at every level knew and expected it.

To the AI evangelists out there: I was raised on Star Trek TNG. Telling me it's futile to resist soulless technological assimilation is not gonna go well for you

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

Ah. When I went Aldi we lived in an area where you’d be approached in the parking lot and either asked if they could return your cart or asked for the quarter for bus fare

Got your quarter?

The gnarlier the spot the fewer people skating

That last sentence

“Since one cannot know a radically better world
is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by
insisting on continuing to justify, and reproduce,
the mess we have today? And anyway, even if
we’re wrong, we might well get a lot closer.”

- David Graeber

I forgot who said it, but “genocide by rug pull” really is an apt phrase for this outcome.

Two screenshots of news articles from oxnard and minneapolis showing ICE lying and charges dismissed against people who had themselves been victims of ICE violence.

THREAD. Every day new evidence emerges of ICE agents committing the *most serious violent crimes* in our criminal code and then *lying about it.* It's important to draw correct lessons from this, but anyone with sense is excluded from mainstream news.

I'll believe it when Minnesota folks confirm it. Otherwise I'll assume it's just an Israeli-style ceasefire

The world would be a much better place if all the AI/techbro CEOs would shutter their companies and go be the pompous guy in the seminar who thinks he’s the only person who “gets” Wittgenstein

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

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.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

We’re so cooked as a country. We need accountability for the genuinely bad faith manipulators and mass deprogramming for the brain-fried manipulated if we’re ever going to live the the same reality again

The State of Skate Studies 2025 Professor Brian Glenney's annual compendium catalogues and analyzes 141 scholarly skateboarding-related books and papers published last year.

The skate studies community dropped some academic hammers last year. @skateorphi.bsky.social takes us on a comprehensive journey through their work, the trends found within it, and reveals the 2025 SSSOTY.

www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

They have tried everything they can think of to distract us and prevent the truth from coming out — posting racist memes and even shutting down the House. But we will not stop until all involved are held accountable and the survivors get justice.

Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis | Common Dreams The US government simply has not done enough to ensure that the livelihoods of all Americans are protected or improved in this new Gilded Age. What it has done is made sure the rich get richer by the ...

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.

one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.

Remember. Your Ring camera is fascist.

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Only thing close to natural talent can be how fast someone picks something up or how fast they improve but for real everyone you think of as Talented has worked at it. Ai sloppers just mad they have to work like At All