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Paramount (the Ellisons) buying CBS, then blowing up CBS news, kneecapping 60 minutes, and killing the Late Show is not culture warfare. It's suicide bombing.

We should be dusking daylight savings. The sun has set on its usefulness. Let the agrarian's idea enter twilight, what has sprung no longer fall, and the ritual fade to black.

Timeline cleanse: Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches. If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo. But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

So, being blackmailed by two intelligence organizations and spending most of your life in debt is considered winning at 4D chess? OK, let's do a play-by-play analysis of your game.

ICE’s tactics have been terrifying and tragic, but Minneapolis is responding in incredible ways. Residents are organizing, feeding and housing their neighbors, and putting real social infrastructure in place. What’s taking shape isn’t just a reaction, it’s a blueprint for resistance.

Minneapolis' Community-Driven Anti-ICE Organizing Is Showing The Way

What Minneapolis activists have to teach us about organizing communities to resist ICE

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

A photo that encapsulates Texas: Longhorn cattle graze in the foreground of the NASA - Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC) campus in Clear Lake, TX. In the background is Space Shuttle 'Independence', a replica shuttle on display, near Space Center Houston's education center. SPACE-COWS! 🧑‍🚀🐮

Three Longhorns in the foreground, a space shuttle in the background.

“Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping in response to Operation Metro Surge.”

Minnesota faith, union, community leaders call for economic blackout on Jan. 23

Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping.

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We have developed sophisticated machines which stimulate, reward, and amplify compulsive behavior. The parallels to substance use disorder are glaring and multiform.

When someone claims social media brings out the worst in people, they must mean the compulsion to reply to every post which makes us emotional with a fragment of an idea and sharp criticism of that which we superficially understand. What if our worst is also our most common act?

The laziest, weakest attitude is "I don't give a fuck." Hey child, I wasn't asking you for one. On the contrary, I'm out here collecting fucks, and in my expert opinion, your fuck isn't worth shit.