Martin Kerstein

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

They should be impeaching him every single day. New crime, new impeachment. They should keep impeaching him once he’s out of office. They should keep impeaching him after he’s dead.

Rage Against the Machine reunion tour and they just cancel the game for a three hour set

Still no word on the transfer fee?

CHOTINER: You were an early riser today.

PHIL: The 2nd is a big day; it's important I get it right.

CHOTINER: Six more weeks of winter—is that exact, or...?

PHIL: I mean, it's science.

CHOTINER: The data I have shows you're correct only 35% of the time, less than random guesses.

PHIL: Look—

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.

Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

Started watching the latest episode of Fallout, and the line "Don't think of them as humans, think of them as Americans" is hitting pretty hard.

#SeaKraken final sequence of the game.

Would you say Joey Daccord is excited or would you say he's not excited

The Seattle Kraken hold on after an ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS effort at the end and have defeated the Vegas Golden Knights in regulation!

Final score:
#SeaKraken 3
#NoKnightsNo 2

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Just watched Bugonia. That was a weird, disturbing, and very good movie. Got me a bit to get used to the old aspect ratio. Superb acting, camera work, and soundtrack.

just ran through a brick wall after watching this

I usually go with Sixt, but I am not sure if they operate in the US.

The UK's Independent gives the film one star out of five, saying: "[The] First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda ... Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving - with the country on the verge of an irreparable schism - the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring's staring up at his looted Monet." The publication continued: "The "film" is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact - like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will - of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly."

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Literally half the country wants to abolish ICE and the Democrats are going to make them pinky swear not to deport U.S. citizens anymore

Why do ICE officials wear masks? ICE law enforcement officers wear masks to prevent doxing, which can (and has) placed them and their families at risk. All ICE law enforcement officers carry badges and credentials and will identify themselves when required for public safety or legal necessity.

Bitch ass Nazis need to wear masks but I spent two years dealing with people threatening to kill my family because I posted on main that people should get a COVID vaccine.

it's 2035. the only jobs available are gluing shoes together in the under armor company town or pretending to be an optimus robot. your boss is a chatbot that tells you to kill yourself. rent on your studio apartment is $90000 doge coin. premiere jd vance is screaming at you to be whiter

Are there any rumors about a new shirt sponsorship?

Bread And Butter And Bad Faith Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the ultimate “kitchen table” politician, whether Republicans like it nor not (they do not).

Wrote about AOC, who both deflects public anger from marginalized groups that are blamed for GOP-induced economic horrors *and* redirects that anger toward the rich guys who happily dance on the broken backs of working people.

badfaithtimes.com/bread-and-bu...

We Must Establish The Run Against Authoritarianism It's the little stuff that adds up to victory over the bad guys

We lose when we give into despair and doomerism. We need to establish the run badfaithtimes.com/we-must-esta...

We’re just not a free country.

Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Looks like it was a great party though! 😆

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Mini pet peeve: Star Trek universe has basically computer/AI integrated into everything, but on a shuttle detecting a dangerous,out of control flight path, there are no sub routines/fail saves to handle it. Heck, most cars now have lane control, etc. (welcome to my TED talk)

Today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the 6 million Jewish lives and countless others murdered by the Nazis.

It’s on all of us to learn from this dark period in history, reject hatred and division, and work to stamp out antisemitism in all its forms.

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over.

In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

When companies say "connecting you with a live agent" means that I could also connect with a dead one?
I think I should stop reading @cstross.bsky.social for a few months