Brit Freeze

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

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There are "GenZ" protests in Kenya, Bangladesh, Nepal and now Morocco.

These deliberately leaderless youth movements share the same message: Stop stealing our future! Start respecting our human rights!

Authoritarianism is on the rise, but it seems, so are the youth!

apnews.com/article/moro...

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

And it’s not a coincidence both came to prominence through the liberal media by offering “necessary correctives” to imagined liberal bubbles.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Get their ass, Werner.

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

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The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

Grotesque wealth creates grotesque people

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

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Joel is far and away one of my favorite @iucinema patrons. Support this incredibly kind and talented human. He is a damn good person. And he has fantastic taste in movies.

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TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

A home in San Jose is listed for $500k. 2 beds and 1 bath on a 2,720 square foot lot.

The home looks bad

The home looks bad

The home looks bad

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.

We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

-Assata

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

That presidential tweet about Tylenol and vaccines is completely crazy. How are there no guardrails??? This is so so dangerous and I need these democrats to stop dicking around and at least vocalize some resistance and sanity. This is beyond.

The next X years are going to be so tedious and dumb and painful.

some days I have actual commentary and some days I'm like this is all stupid bullshit and today is one of the latter

this is all stupid bullshit

I’m absolutely not saying it doesn’t have real practical applications in some fields but it seems like a bad sign for the current AI boom that any time I see a practical consumer application of it, my immediate response is “can I turn this off?”

Propaganda works, and Stephen miller and the rest of them know that a constant parade of fear will indeed do much of their work for them

I’m telling you, political violence is the new school shooting - angry and nihilistic young men doing violence for attention. Our years of lead aren’t ideological, they’re byproducts of the attention economy.

The real cure to male loneliness is earnestly giving a shit about literally anything other than being a vague centrist troll

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

China expands Argentina soybean buying to 20 cargoes, traders say Chinese importers kept up a hectic pace of Argentine soybean purchases after the South American supplier's move to abolish export taxes temporarily made its prices competitive, traders said on Wednesday.

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...