Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

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*Note: functional in the literal sense, as to a layperson it could look like Legislative (Congress) just argues fruitlessly all day, and Judicial seems to currently be rubber-stamping the MAGA agenda by force of partisan numbers rather than legal precedent.

Probably. It also has the side effect of sidelining Congress, cracking safety nets and oversight, disrupting governmental support systems, and of course making the Executive Branch look like the “most functional.”*

Brb, gotta get disco tattoos

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.”

YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!”

KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

The world is becoming more dangerous for LGBTQ+ people, report warns An eye-opening report into the state of LGBTQ+ rights across the west has revealed how dangerous things are becoming for the community.

“The study showed that homophobic and transphobic rhetoric was on the rise across nearly all aspects of western society.” The spread of far-right populist nationalism is particularly dangerous for trans people, but threatens all LGBTQIA+ people. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/22/l...

False — AI slop is more coherent.

The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.

what do you mean half the hotels in the world, paypal, venmo, the nyt, reddit, and amazon are all down at the same time with no real idea when they'll be operational again

*stares at the symbol quietly, reimagining the storyline if the Skaven from WH Fantasy were involved*

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

'No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

Also, a look back at our unpaywalled story:

Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

I… don’t want to see Marilyn Monroe in GOT?

Let the poor woman rest? You already let men she didn’t even know bury themselves beside and ON TOP OF HER, stop fucking using her, you absolute ghouls

It’s not enough to make AI women that can’t say no, you’ve gotta control dead real women too?

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

Uh. Wait. Is this satire, fortune telling, AI slop, or something else?

Good!

But I’m betting 6 of 9 SCOTUS judges are just waiting to overturn this when it inevitably gets pushed up on appeal.

Forgotten realms bg3 netherse symbol for . . Loss

Shar Lady of Loss symbol

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Want to read the Epstein files? Or important climate reports? You’ll probably need a FOIA office for that.

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I find it fascinating and troubling that when the 🍊💩 attacked Jimmy Kimmel, the public united in outrage, fought back, and won. But when he attacks the rule of law, truth, and democracy itself, that powerful unity disappears. Why do we defend personalities more fiercely than
our democracy?

God in the “vengeful OT”:
- do not oppress the stranger (36x)
- I’m vengeful because you’re abusing the poor (100+ x)
- I will always forgive you if you repent
- You can’t return an escaped slave to their enslaver

The “forgiving NT”:
- Slaves, obey your masters
- You can go to hell forever

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*casually* psst, have you tried SMRY?

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Question:

If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,

what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

There’s a world of space between “can’t” and “shouldn’t,” buddy. Maybe think about your word choice.

Your kitchen cabinets are a national security threat The dumbest things the government has done, or hidden, in the name of national security

Your kitchen cabinets? A national security threat.

Your favorite movie? Also a national security threat.

Your favorite cocktail? Possibly a national security threat.

Here’s our current top five list of the dumbest things officials have done, or hidden, ostensibly to protect national security.

Yeah… so as a man, here are my full unfiltered thoughts:

GIVE HER A MEGAPHONE ALREADY WE CANNOT GO ON LIKE THIS

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