In case you don't know, it's very simple. In an authoritarian cycle the "opposition" liberal party is captured by wealth interests and becomes conservative and defenders of a decaying status quo. Fascists come along, offer the critique of the status quo the "opposition" can't and gain converts.
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
hollywoodreporter.com
Every 'rogue AI' headline is a human decision disappearing from the story. Name who built the test, who removed the restraints, and who left the door open.
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
gonna need whoever is doing chuck grassley's social media to familiarize themselves with the house style
elected democrats working themselves up into a dancing plague about a twitch streamer in possibly the most winnable environment for an opposition party in the history of the planet. beautiful stuff
one thing I will say is that if Dems don’t get very aggressive on oversight and play hardball with the admin after they win in November, the success of more lefty candidates in primaries this cycle will absolutely pale in comparison to their success in 2028
There’s no “4D chess.” It’s not “strategy” beyond placating popular discontent and staving off an insurgent Left on behalf of wealth and oligarchical class donors. It is what it looks like and just whipping up these delusional fairytale narratives only ensures this will get worse.
"Under MTA rules, dogs are allowed on the NYC subway only if they are fully enclosed in a container or bag and carried in a way that does not annoy other passengers." 😂
Hey, I have an idea! With apologies to the people who live near Bedminster, NJ.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "If I were the mayor of a town or the governor or a state, and I had a chance to get a big data center, I would absolutely want it"
Hire Alex Garland to do a dark, gritty, Star Wars series to rival a David Lynch fever dream.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2mo agoyouve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
The ocean is now "reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air" Its the end game for arrogant humans as the ocean begins to fail as a carbon sink www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ocean temperatures set to break all-time record: what’s next?
High sea surface temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks and damage coral reefs.
nature.com
it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
Seemingly every government story is awful, so I want you to pay some attention to elected officials who are actually trying to make government function. A puzzle about Mamdani why is he investing so much capital in the details of governing, like potholes or 311 calls. bsky.app/profile/mayo...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo agoEver wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311. 311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small. So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.
Will GOPers Just Expand the Court Too? Probably. And That’s Okay. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...
Will GOPers Just Expand the Court Too? Probably. And That’s Okay.
One of the most encouraging things I have seen recently are complaints...
talkingpointsmemo.com
it’s 1933 all over again: a brown muslim anti-fascist is taking a public stance against genocide and supporting jewish candidates who feel the same
Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhenever the Bari Weiss Brigade don't get their way, their response is IT'S A POGROM!
![The Free Press
Mamdani's Socialist Sweep in New York
On Tuesday radical House candidates won big in the city. *'It doesn't feel safe to be Jewish anymore.'* [emphasis added]
By Olivia Reingold and Peter Savodnik
06.23.26 —New York
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Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing
Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram
Jeff Grubb@grubb.wtf · 4mo agoI thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us
Trump and Musk’s profoundly evil decision to cut off U.S. aid is now making an Ebola outbreak in the DRC much worse. The world will live to regret the cruelty and stupidity of Trump, Musk, their flunkies, and the scumbags and fools in the U.S. who voted them in.
US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled
theguardian.com
Watching her, it looks like she's done something I've never managed yet in my years of music. To love her art so much that everything else just... doesn't matter anymore. It's all background noise. I look at that and see a freedom, a love I want for myself. We all should.
I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.
Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States
YouTube video by Olympics
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This wealthiest people ever to live have convinced themselves they are the victims of people who make $60,000 a year who want to raise their taxes and are savoring every moment of this sick vengeance.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom an IRS employee in Texas, one of thousands still awaiting news on whether they still have jobs: "It's a mess. Lot of tears. Managers also just received an email that there was some glitch and not everyone received their letters."
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
I remember when someone getting coldly dunked like Tucker is here would have mattered.
