Brendan O’Connor

my head is spinning reading this

hmmmmmmm

hm!

spurs supporter

and not a moment too soon

for Lent I should give up reading essays about what "the left" is or isn't doing, or does or doesn't need to do. I won't! but I really should.

“Gender Ideology,” Bodily Mutilation, and End of the Masculine West – Spectre Journal Taking Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies as a starting point, Tiffany Berruti looks at the reactionary right's fixation on trans persecution.

"Much like the red woman, trans women are both the cause and corporal symptom of the organic crisis, then experienced by the fascists as a crisis of the organic." spectrejournal.com/gender-ideol...

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails The Trump administration is planning to spend more than $38 billion to acquire warehouses across the U.S. in order to retrofit them into new ICE jails with capacity for tens of thousands of prisoners.

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails

Marx never missed

Regardless of genre the self-evident axiom remains: if nobody bothered to write this, nobody should be bothered to read it

Fato

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promine...

that's some graphic

absent the ritualistic sexual violence that he facilitated, different factions of capital and the ruling classes were not able to achieve social cohesion, leading to increased competition between national and international capitals, etc……. but this is so much more insidious

a pet conspiracy theory / conjunctural analysis of mine was that the collapse of neoliberal hegemony was a consequence of Epstein getting sidelined by all of the media attention and criminal investigations…

we're all trying to find the guy who did this

no way

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

they were complaining about this on the Libero podcast this week lol

Meet the new spatial fix, same as the old spatial fix

The only ppl more checked out of this season than me are the people running our club

you’re telling me an object oriented this ontology??

before AI we didn't have Nintendo, or Studio Ghibli. thank you AI

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

Tom Homan is a wannabe profiteer.

While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement Is a Deportation Hard-Liner The most notable difference between Tom Homan and Greg Bovino is that Homan has deported a lot more people — and done it at a national scale.

While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement Is a Deportation Hard-Liner
theintercept.com/2026/01/28/g...

Today will see scattered flurries, a high of 22 degrees, and a low chance of Bonapartist palace coup

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.

Border Patrol shot someone in Arizona www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Every paragraph of this story makes me feel more disconnected from reality

many such cases

Finally a sensible voice