Boycotts are [1] really powerful & [2] an Irish invention. They shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed. Authorities & tyrants fear them, yet they are the ultimate feature of Capitalism [according to its defenders] - choice. Learn more about power here*:
“We need to divert attention from the Pretti murder.”
“Gotcha.”
Every bit of western culture popular narrative underlined what is right and wrong and that so many just entirely missed it is so disheartening.
everyone talkes about the work of Gordon Willis in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, for good reason. but I also love the rigorous, oppressive geometry of THE PARALLAX VIEW.
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
This seems unfathomable. Is Josh O’Connor nine? And Jeffrey Wright?
and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
What in the actual fuck. The Nazification of America continues: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
From Charlie Kirk to CCHQ, the right has realised they can lie and not be challenged. Why?
In this week’s column, Stewart Lee looks at the ways populists mislead modern voters
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.
Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
Jimmy Fallon: First they came for the comedians, and I did not speak out - because I was not a comedian.
Jimmy Fallon: First they came for the talk show hosts, and I did not speak for I was Jimmy Fallon.
Today in unhelpful AI suggestions
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
I don’t think, until Gamergate, the edgelord dipshit incel types had a real theory of power. But conservatives they built on that and created that approach to power and then kinda merged it with Pat Buchanan nationalism and now here we are.
The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.
