unplanned-obsolescence

New: Couple of guys from Kentucky just put out a new way to track money in politics. Been playing around with it—very impressed.

An incredible report that in detail describes what a genocide looks like…. But never once calls it a genocide. This isn’t on the reporter and photographer who are both in Palestine, it’s on every editor up the chain of NPR who don’t have the integrity to call it what it is. a genocide.

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

🚨NYPD ARREST protesters who are rallying against ICE in NYC. This is taking place outside the hospital where a man is being guarded by ICE agents after being SHOT by them in his car

In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...

This is a signal of what pro-democracy folks here are going to be up against should we prevail in the next two elections. The number one goal here has to be coming and staying together to fight for our democracy and deliver for the people.

this is legitimately very funny

Journalists observe this on a daily basis, and not one of them asks the question: “Why.”

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

lol

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

A must read. A carefully researched report on how the Heritage Foundations promotes networks of truly extremist Christian nationalist schools and seeks public funding for them. civildefenseinstitute.org/features/her...

🔥 @Hamilton4Kansas ends his senate debate against @RogerMarshallMD (who has poor people arrested for not affording bills after pregnancies) with a ‘WIZARD OF OZ’ analogy that sums up Republicans in Washington perfectly

it’s even worse than this. Roberts cut a deal *with the liberals* to trade the exchanges for the mandatory Medicaid expansion, and they agreed to it because judges don’t know shit about policy or have any policy staff

The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

The crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests:

Millions of residents could be excluded from the U.S. census, congressional representation could be reshaped and federal funds could be reallocated across states under changes proposed by the Trump administration. Here’s how:

1/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵

More than 11,000 people have been sickened in a Cyclospora outbreak linked to lettuce. Meanwhile, FDA inspections of foreign food facilities have fallen nearly 35% since 2019. Public health work is often invisible...until it isn’t. Cuts have consequences.

The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

This is a stain on this nation. Especially on the Trump administration of course—but also on every member of Congress who’s failing to step forward to end this. I hope they can sleep at night. Actually, I hope they can’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

Remember when braying media voices said it was extremely scandalous (and antisemitic) to say that Israel had intentionally bombed a Gaza hospital, then Israel bombed almost every Gaza hospital, reduced some to rubble, then trucked away the rubble and decaying bodies & media was silent.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

By joining the pile-on against Hasan Piker, Democrats & liberals are running the Right's disinformation playbook for them-- the same playbook the Right uses before every election. This time around the moral panic was created by a far-right pro-Israel account named Max Nordau/

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

"attempted suicide is attempted desertion" is uh I mean that's pretty fuckin' bleak

On the left: Five times RFK Jr. stated in Senate in Confirmation Hearings the purpose of his 2019 trip to Samoa "had nothing to do with vaccines." On the right: Eight times RFK Jr. 2019's letter to Samoa Prime Minister referenced "vaccines" as proposal for visit (via FOIA).

An indigenous woman was harassed and assaulted by a DHS officer outside of the John E. Moss Federal Building. She was tased and the taser broke off into her bone. Status Coup's Phillip Hawkins investigates.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

An undercover DHS agent attended a meeting of ICE protesters at a Lutheran church in Feb. "The agent captured the license plates of people there and then compiled dossiers including their names, addresses and information about their families and jobs." www.kosu.org/news/2026-08...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

ghoulish. absolutely monstrous.

“Extinction is the elimination of 3.8 billion years of work by evolution.  It is a bonfire that consumes the planet’s chemical and molecular heritage” From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM