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Just reupping this on my main page so I can make it my new pin. For everyone who is ready to move past grief & into the rightful anger that will power us to stand against the worst to come in meaningful ways:

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

I love it when a whole bunch of people all share the same rebellious thought and put it into action.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

This is the most incredible, instructive, and destructive development in modern politics.

So much of the anti-woke vibe shift was just a demand by abusers and their allies that the victims of abuse shut up already, laundered into politesse by magazine editors

We know, the whole world knows. #ettd

Elon and the Epstein class have no intention of repaying the national debt. They are actively trying to crash society in order to set themselves up to be feudal lords. This isn't me joking. It is their literal plan

If you're looking for the extra good fantasy book to give to all your friends this holiday season, my pick is The Raven Scholar. The audiobook is particularly splendid, if that's an option for you or your friends. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

It's been quite a week, and it's only Tuesday. Grateful to the universe though, that the medical specialist my husband had at the top of his preference list had a cancellation, and I managed to get him booked in TOMORROW instead of six weeks from now.

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

We had a sizable tree branch come down in the middle of the night, but thankfully it came down in the middle of the yard and only damaged some of my plant pots and shepard’s hooks. No dealing with pissy neighbors or insurance. 🙏

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

If you do like public executions you should be excluded from polite society.

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

They think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

When you’re thinking that listening to the Mortal Kombat theme song is the right vibe to carry into a meeting with the some scammy fuckos…

Good work Aquaman and friends. Maybe someone can provide you with a list of high priority targets… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

As always, a charming read. Either here, or on Tom’s substack, or buy his books:

My partner told me he dreamed of fat hummingbirds, and we both had quite a giggle about it.