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I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

I sign off on this except I wanna clarify one thing: this is not "human nature," this is specifically how authoritarians feel. like, in the Bob Altemeyer, "high right-wing authoritarian score" sense: the desire to be "the norm" is an authoritarian impulse not everyone feels equally.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Gamergate is as big a moment to understanding the modern right in America as 9/11 is and there are still people who think it is insane to say that.

THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.

Every woman has heard it. Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife. We have ALL heard it.

every JD Vance tweet is written in the absolute worst millennial way possible with none of the basic underlying humanity, they're all like:

Hi. Vice President here.

You think Somalis are eligible for driver's licenses? Okay, uhh, you might wanna take se-vuh-ral seats 🧵:

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

Authoritarians want you to despair, they want you to give up Trump is powerful, but only because a lot of people gave him that power. Giving up in advance is one of the worst things you can do.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.

This is not new but it is expanding.

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?

Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

every day there's another story like this. people are so worried about how tik tok or other social media affects kids and that they ban kids from using them, yet chatgpt remains out there, helping kids kill themselves. it's astounding and infuriating

who answers for the death of civilians or do they just chalk it up to collateral damage. fucking murderers

There's studies suggesting that AI usage is causing cognitive decline, even when it's not causing psychosis and encouraging its users to harm themselves and others, just regular old usage is damaging. Far from a "cognitive amplifier" like this slop peddler suggests, it's a cognitive atrophier.

I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.

Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.

“Bethlehem today is surrounded by walls and checkpoints built by an occupier. Its residents live under a system of apartheid and fragmentation.”

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

My annual Christmas reminder: The letters to Santa are not why Santa was found in court to be Santa in "Miracle on 34th Street." It was because prosecuting Santa Claus looked really bad politically for the judge and he was looking for any excuse to let him go. The moral is: Work the refs

this is some evil-ass shit

Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this

there are other, better franchises - let this one go

How to bury your father This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit? This question has been sitting in my...

This week’s newsletter is heavy, and in hindsight probably should’ve come with a content warning? I dunno. I'm on a flight to bury my father. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...