I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Come on, it's been almost 20 years since US petroleum companies got to fabricate a war to pump up the defense and fossil fuel industries. They were getting bored. 😭

I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke What the Georgia representative learned in Washington

How long do you repeat things until you start to believe them? You're probably right that it's closer to Abramoff's "The Joke" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Maybe the 20-somethings being recruited to disguise these initiatives are "true believers". I don't think the a16z crowd is though

Interference in Honduras' upcoming election by the US is ramping up

Honduras is fighting the Network State colony of Prospera; elections are a critical point in that fight. Like in history, the US is interfering in Central America to secure US investments.

progressive.international/observatory/...

Basically asked Grok "whitewash the network state", based on that headline. They're not even thoughtful - it's pure greed and disregard for society/humanity/other people

Trump rarely makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, side effect of the tech fascism gig, but the "quiet, piggy!" when asked about Epstein really got to me.

Because the way he acted is exactly what is right below the surface of a pedophile.

Under what authority? Goddamn the war on terror, from Bush through Obama through Trump and Biden for abject failure to follow American wartime constitutional law. Reminds me of a certain writer who said “we‘ve always been at war with Oceania”

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds.

apnews.com/article/snap...

we haven‘t had a government decision focused on helping most Americans since the ACA and the COVID cash supplements. The 80s-90s Dems bought into billionaire supply-side economics and forgot that most Americans want “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” style politics 🍻

It’s like they replaced a lovely if boring rules-based spellcheck tool with an LLM. What if tech companies only added GenAI to things when it makes them better? 🤯

i do not think that they’re listening to the things that they are saying. Also dafuq

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Disney gunna sue or…?

So blatantly illegal?

Good god, they brought in a Vulture Capitalist to opine about higher eduction? How the gray lady has fallen

what are Qatar's military interests in *checks notes* the Rocky Mountains and the PacNorthwest? Replenishing their strategic spud reserves? Securing the Edmonton Stampede in Alberta? Amphibious white water rafting?

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I dunno... do you see his posts? are we sure there wasn't lasting cognitive impairment?

A meme of a little boy and girl standing in a corner terrified. They are labeled “ICE” and “Trump” respectively. On the floor near them and from which they are pulled away is the person in the frog suit from the Portland protests.

Andy's from Portland. If he's so concerned, he should head on down with his froggin' net!

How long until countries update their travel advisories for the US again and recommend "do not visit unless necessary"?

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

three hoover dams worth of power may be no longer coming online to meet a coming power crunch and i can’t get info from the govt because of congress

Anyone editors want to update the professional bio on wikipedia? He seems to have had a lot of jobs that aren't listed and I think he should be credited

Not to mention Platner worked in private military contracting for less than a year before leaving it because he claims that he become even more disillusioned and it turned him anti-private military contracting (which is the morally correct stance IMO)

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.