"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Frank Herbert, 1965
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States.
"In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct."
Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.
Interesting fact about this is no he absolutely did not win MN, but lost the state 3 times, against 3 different democrats, decisively each time. Biden beat him by over 7%
The PURL program works like this: Ukraine makes a list of needed military stuff (it's where ~all the ground defense missiles come from) and then NATO governments contribute money to BUY THEM from the US. That has happened, but the US won't authorize the transfer of the missiles! Wild
The elites dropping unprecedented sums on an election is starting to look an enough rope situation. I can see 3 ways this works out for republicans:
1.They're actually brilliant and they're losing on purpose as part of a strategy to move on from the senile guy everyone hates
2.They cheat
3.Both
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem
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.
Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
The kids’ changing tastes are reordering every facet of society. The gumball machine in the strange & barren entryway of the grocery store was dispensing pearl onions.
The French revolution happened because life became impossible. The elites are preparing to defend themselves at the moment our lives are impossible. They're putting all their resources into not needing other humans anymore, and then they'll just need a few robot guard dogs around their compounds
Miller deserves everything that's coming. He's afraid of state prosecutors because a presidential pardon only covers federal offenses; and beyond prison, there's also future congressional investigations and civil lawsuits.
www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...
As someone who’s always been artistically gifted, I always make a point to carve at least one pumpkin per year to really humble myself and put my limitations into context
Over the course of the last 20 years, Barack Obama has gone from seeming 20 years younger than me to seeming 20 years older than me, which is going to be really embarrassing when he lives 20 years longer than me
More evidence of collusion between French security services and Far Right militias, this time in #Montpellier
Député Thomas Portes:
"As more footage emerges from Montpellier, the links between the police and the fascist militants who attacked the protesters are becoming increasingly clear. ..
Trying so hard yet failing to just enjoy it when somebody makes a joke post about a song from the previous century and somebody else comes in with "actually that's like a serious problem, lemme raise your awareness a bit here"
We say "the human heart" when we want to discuss it as a collective abstract but if we do not individually and concretely talk about collective abstract health it'll DIE
Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..."
I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota
www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...