Tommy Gilboy

This is a beautiful story.

Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.

🔥 @grahamformaine.bsky.social : “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

A Helpful explainer about our wildly misunderstood immigration laws from @sawyerhackett.bsky.social

Deepfake videos of George Will on Trump, Supreme Court spread misinformation Online users discussed numerous videos allegedly showing the conservative columnist sounding off about Trump's administration and court opinions.

Even though the message is good, the messenger is fake:
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Michigan J Frog

Boss: And who should be the face of this sexy new network for teens?

Me, first time I've spoken all meeting:

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

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IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

help my entire economy is run on guys trying to ape musk tweets

Leach Botanical Garden Aerial Tree Walk, four season Pollinator Garden, native plants, meandering, wooded trails, and riparian area pathways along Johnson Creek.

my birthday was last week and if you didn't get me anything and you have stupid money you should give a donation to or become a member of the botanical garden in my disenfranchised neighborhood, they're in real financial trouble and need help

www.leachgarden.org

Congress has the power to subpoena witnesses, hold public hearings, and establish an independent commission to review the Epstein files.

What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.

increasingly convinced that executives are ablative shields who can be disposed when their usefulness has run its course

"(or learn yourself)"

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

please watch:

itstheheyman 15h First they came for my neighbor and I was like fuck you leave my neighbor alone. 13.3K • 76 C 1.2K 165

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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Family of Minneapolis nurse killed by Border Patrol demand answers - Sentinel Colorado "The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."

'The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting'

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#AlexPretti #Minneapolis #ICEraids #NoPaywall

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.

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.

🚨 Special counsel Jack Smith:

“President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol…does not happen without him”

I dunno, always thought your pieces on The Drive stood out.

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the po

The Trump regime in a nutshell: gut critical programs, cause devastating harm, celebrate doing so, and lie about causing harm.

The cruelty is endless.

Trump’s Appalling Reiner Reaction Is a Sign of Something Deeply Wrong | National Review Yes, we must talk about what President Trump posted on Truth Social about the brutal murders of the Reiners.

Please read this piece by the National Review’s Jim Geraghty, if you never read anything else.

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This is a sketch of a Borneo Oliphant, #7 on the Periodic Table. DNA evidence points to this oliphant as having become genetically different from other oliphants after wandering away from its cousins on the mainland 3,000 centuries ago. The smallest of the subspecies, Borneos have long tails that may touch the ground, larger ears, and straighter tusks. They are also remarkably tame. The population has declined by more than half over the last three generations.

DNA evidence points to the Borneo Oliphant as having become genetically different from other oliphants after wandering away from its cousins on the mainland 3,000 centuries ago. They are remarkably tame. The population has declined by more than half over the last three generations.

No.

Follow There's this whole story unfolding on TikTok right now about this account that got popular - a woman in the US who calls up churches & pretends to have a starving newborn that hasn't eaten since last evening & asks them if they could help her out with a can of formula. Unsurprisingly, none of the ridiculous megachurches actually ever say yes, and the churches & other religious institutions that did say yes are getting lots of support from people. But I just saw a video of a TT user explaining that they decided to do their own little social experiment - by walking up to drug dealers on the street, telling them there's a young woman with a baby who needs help with formula, and literally all of them immediately reached into their pockets. In this story, the OP did have a real neighbor with a baby who ended up getting some much needed baby supplies. Thanks to the charity of local drug dealers. A lot of Americans are learning that their rich white Christian churches are less willing to help their communities than black churches, mosques, buddhist temples, the satanic temple & apparently also crack dealers.

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