joely o’cult

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.

@expedition33.bsky.social hey hello hi. Will there be any accessibility settings for the dodge / parry system? I am disabled and cannot do timing features in gaming. Jrpgs are one of my favorite genres specifically because precise timing is not needed and now i cannot enjoy your beautiful game

Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers

Imagine being so hated that people all over the country march in the streets to say how much you suck.

Being a leftist in America feels like showing up to English class having done the reading, but being forced to listen to kid after kid who didn’t read the book try to sound like they read the book.

And you know they haven’t read the book, because you did.

Anyway, “the book” is history.

I never thought i’d ever be obsessed with a medical drama but holy fuck i love the pitt

please mask at protests disabled people need to be able to fight too

Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43 Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old. The cause and circumstance...

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

Severance ssn 2 captured something truly beautiful. It’s science fiction at its best. I was cheering out loud

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

(Man in bar, just did two shots and is drinking a beer. Gets the bartender’s attention.) “My wife died two years ago. So are you single?”

Might save a life.

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Trump signs order to claim power over independent agencies The action is likely to face court challenges and test a once-fringe legal theory.

Deeply baffling that Trump claiming the power to control all regulations from regulatory agencies and fire anyone who disagrees with him is getting no attention at all

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Ms Casey from Severance

Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies

Metaphor refantazio is my favorite game in a decade. It scratches the chrono trigger spot of my heart and soul

If Trump and Musk continue to get their way it could take years to fix, but the past ten years have shown us you can’t return to normal. There probably is no going back. The options are to hunker down and play it slow and try to survive whatever happens in the next 2-4 years while offering passive resistance. Or accelerate to whatever comes next, put cards on the table, trigger a kinetic confrontation, and fully manifest the results of this constitutional crisis. We are dealing with managing crumbles vs. full systems collapse. Sad face emoji.

“When Congress is willing to hand the keys over to the president, then we really no longer have, you know, a democracy, or at least the constitutional democracy that was created a couple centuries ago,” says Derek Black, a constitutional law professor at the University of South Carolina. “The bigger danger, I think, is that through law itself, Congress cedes more and more power to the president with new legislation, so if Congress were to pass new legislation giving the president more centralized power, that would be a concerning thing to me.”

A deeply sobering but important article here from @hungrybowtie.bsky.social podcast episode to come via It Could Happen Here

shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-fe...

one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

It's been a week. The shock part is over; the awe part never happened. Time to be throwing sand into the fascist gears, y'all.

I feel this Ben Tye. All over in my weird meat body

🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia).

Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for:

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

I’m now involuntarily sober because if i have any alcohol i cannot sleep. Weird thing to suddenly happen to me at age 40 but okay. Terrible timing considering the next phase of the hell that is the US.

Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

F it, here's the email addresses of senior Meta execs. If they want to greenlight pogroms against us, they should at least hear from us.

Lindsay Elin, VP Public policy lindsaye@meta.com

Roy Austin, VP Civil Rights royaustin@meta.com

Cynthia Deitle, General Counsel cmdeitle@meta.com

honestly just ban all social media, then destroy the power substations. light all the cars on fire. return to the woods. die of pneumonia. live the good life.

You will either become a fascist or a communist in the next 20 years so you might as well take your pick now