David Kaib

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

“America’s Golden Goose” - ummm, what?

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

Kid came home with a 3D printed ICE whistle one of her classmates gave out to everyone and knew exactly what to do and what it is used for. I'm happy she has one, but I'm sad she needs to.

My 9 year old does active shooter drills and knows the government is kidnapping her friends and their parents

Aliquot.
Quotidian.
Alacrity.

public opinion doesn't DO anything. It's just a resource.

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

If you're cool and you live in Kensington, MD or the bottom of Silver Spring / Chevy Chase (basically Einstein HS but a little bit of BCC turf) then I'd like to talk to you.

- Rosa Luxemburg, 1915

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

archive.ph/4NboB

Bombing elementary schools I guess.

This isn’t just erasure of African American history, it’s abject lies about white American history

Always wild to watch the warmongers be shocked that people react when you bomb them.

The things is, it shouldn’t be up to him.

It's very easy for me to relate to that last repost, as I likewise hate the regime I live under, and would like to see it fall, but also don't want to be bombed. Seems straightforward as hell to me.

Bezos didn’t make a mistake. He gutted the newsroom because he wanted to kill off the news.

I get it but you have to have some discipline

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who are your favorite theorists of anti-imperialism? what should we be reading?

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

in a Boots on the Ground situation I would simply use Technology and HUMINT to build rapport with local stakeholders, isolate the active minority in the battlespace, and rally the passive majority to create a new State that enjoyed Legitimacy. Simple as tomato seeds really

Stop taking unserious people making unserious arguments seriously.

I think they don’t want you do that

Microslop indeed

Literally every day.

pundit brain among regular people is a scourge.

Speaking of the New York Times…