Woltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Thanks to global solidarity, the keffiyeh team fed 60 families over three weeks. Together, we fight back against the deliberate starvation and cruel collective punishment of our people. Let us keep feeding hope and standing strong against injustice every single day.❤️‍🩹 chuffed.org/project/gkt

Please help Om Jameel!

Rest in peace to Walter Koenig, best known as the star of MOONTRAP.

Please help Elias with food and warm clothing!

Elias’s eyes are as precious as anyone’s on earth! Remember that and do what you can to save his sight.

Please do what you can! So many families are losing so many loved ones. No one deserves that

Please help Ibrahim. The suffering in Gaza never ended

By rendering politics down into aesthetics, pure team sport, a supermarket of flavours and brands, a river of consumer glurge, a non-stop flow of contentless memetics and catchphrases and consequence-free rhetoric, this stuff entirely buys into the syndrome of which Trump is the ultimate expression.

Good thread on the “Anti”-Trump Grifter Complex. This and the next are where the money shot is for me.

Suck it, alleged revanchist right wing surge.

I love that every now and then people discover/rediscover human pet guy, an actual human being that feels incredibly made up.

I’m still a bit high and just thought “look, I was born in June but I can’t answer this”

That democracy demands compromise over core values like whether genocide is good or not is completely invalidating of the entire project of democracy. Who fucking cares if lots of people voted to seize and bulldoze indigenous land? What's moral will never be up for a vote.

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

Look, what about all those examples of center-right Democratic Party politicians caving into public pressure after being elected, like… uh…

"We can turn them around after" No, you fucking can't. You literally have no leverage once a pol is elected. You gave them power in the face of their promises. You rewarded their messages. You told them that it wasn't a dealbreaker. They have no reason to reverse course once elected.

The only thing protecting us from a bad guy with a hippo is a good guy with tusks.

I just came up for a personal (admittedly American-lensed) rubric for “lower tier actual celebrity” in the UK: “famous enough to be invited on panel shows, but not so famous as to turn them down if she wasn’t busy.”

This reminds me of the horrible scourge of paracetamol in the UK. You’d think they’d take a cue from the US and just take over the counter acetaminophen for their aches and pains.

crazy how badly elon wants to be liked and he thought fascism would do the trick. if I were a billionaire with an “unpopular in high school” complex i’d be solving world hunger and leaving $1,000 tips on every meal. he is fumbling the easiest game in the world right now

Look. You can either have a flip phone or a touchscreen. It’s hubris to attempt otherwise.

Please help!!!

Please help! I see so many of the same wonderful people suffering!

What really sucks about Amy Acton is that trans women have empathy for her after Vivek Ramaswamy got her estranged mother to call her a liar in an ad. But when we express concerns that she may not be safe for trans people due to her actions and statements, we're treated like crazy people.

Please help any way you can!!!

I thought the whole point of their calculation to throw trans people under the bus was there were more votes to get to the right so ones to the left are not worth trying for - you’ve done the math and decided our votes mean less or are insignificant. Just own that!