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Watcher.Guru on Twitter writes: JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says "prices and inflation are way down, stock market and your 401ks are way up." Just below it on the timeline, Kalshi on Twitter writes: JUST IN: US housing market reaches most "unaffordable" level in history

thank you, algorithm

Goddamn I love listening to zydeco music this time of year

The LOTR meme but it says "I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a NIMBY"

Please stop checking my snap count….😂

Turning Point USA Announces Alternative Puerto Rico

Turning Point USA Announces Alternative Puerto Rico https://theonion.com/turning-point-usa-announces-alternative-puerto-rico/

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

In any case, everyone to the left of anything: Get passports and notarized docs ready now to get through rightwing illegal voter suppression. And also get ~THOSE THINGS~ in case the police state yanks the whole constitution. And hey find an offline community that suits you. Sumus parati ad omnia …

Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych Writes New Chapter in the Olympic Protest Tradition The flag bearer’s disqualification over a helmet featuring athletes killed in the war is another example of how politics and the Olympics cannot be separated.

Column: Tears, anger and disillusionment at the sliding venue. Ukrainian fans who showed up to support skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych were greeted with an IOC DQ. He sacrificed an Olympic dream to make a statement for a war-torn country. www.si.com/winter-olymp...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror.

It's up to us. Just us.

Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

finally, AI can help writers with the boring business of world- building so we can get down to the fun stuff: search-engine optimization

The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy What is violence? Who gets to define it? Does it have a place in the pursuit of liberation? This discussion never takes place on a level playing field.

What is violence?

Is it tossing a tear gas canister back to the mercenaries who shot it at you?

Is it blowing a whistle at bounty hunters who are trying to abduct someone?

Perhaps, rather than asking whether an action is "violent," we should ask—

Does it perpetrate oppression? Or interrupt it?

Oh interesting

this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink

met this legend yesterday!

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.

Related story today: Ammon Bundy found out that none of his allies really believed any of that shit about personal liberty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Can't be exaggerated: every bully believes themselves a victim. Even Hitler! Even US slave owners!

It's part of the psychology. There is no amount of power or privilege that can ameliorate it.

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

Federal agents tear-gassed families and children today in Portland.

There are two approaches to counterinsurgency strategy: either you try to win the hearts and minds of the general population, or you set out to intimidate or exterminate them.

This administration has clearly chosen the latter.

A trailer carrying a bunch of cars painted with the ICE logo on the side.

Democrats are seeking "reforms" like bodycams for federal agents (so they have more footage to make commercials promoting mercenary violence), marked ICE vehicles (so we can't pressure car rental agencies), stricter codes of conduct (while thousands of bounty hunters go on terrorizing us).

Garbage.

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

a gangster government cowering in fear of a decrepit man, misery incarnate, himself terrified of the long black shadow of his life behind him, one riddled with crime and a deep hatred of other people, a man with no virtue, no soul, a man of nothing, a specter.

We are deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Magic legend Kai Budde. His achievements in the game and community go beyond what we could say in one post. Our thoughts go out to Kai's friends and family in this moment.

Remembering Kai Budde: magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...

"Violence" is always when non-state actors do something that the state doesn't like. The state can never do violence, violence can only be done upon it.

authoritarian dictatorship is the logical conclusion to conservative ideology. you cannot separate the two; one births the next, and the next, and the next, and the next. it is the deepest nesting doll.