NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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‘His legacy is cringe’: how Charlie Kirk became a meme among the young – even his supporters

‘His legacy is cringe’: how Charlie Kirk became a meme among the young – even his supporters

Crude jokes about the Maga luminary are exploding online – less than a year after conservatives were suppressing any slander against him

theguardian.com

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

A few minutes ago, two ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Eswatini, likely another third-country removal of immigrants to a maximum security prison there. Nineteen people have already been sent there on previous ICE flights in the last nine months. Only two have been released.

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

This is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

🚨🚨🚨 Punchbowl News reports a bipartisan deal on KIDS Act, which includes KOSA 🚨🚨🚨 The House vote could come as soon as next week. Meanwhile, Sen. Blackburn is working with the White House on linking KOSA with AI regulation, and Senate markup is expected in July. FYI @omarsbigsister.bsky.social

Punchbowl News@punchbowlnews.bsky.social · last mo.

NEWS: The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online harms, including a long-sought compromise on the Kids Online Safety Act. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

If i dont leave the midwestern suburbs im going to kill myself

This was actually fascinating. I learned a lot. An interactive explainer that walks you through exactly how solar panels convert sunlight into electricity, step by step: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

An interactive exploration of how solar panels work: from photons and the bandgap of silicon to Wright’s Law and the political will problem.

perthirtysix.com

Unless they nailed it this time, I don’t wanna hear it.

what if we all agreed there should be a one week moratorium on new news so everyone could get caught up. everybody just take 5. no more stuff happening for a sec. i didn’t even know about bibi’s prostate cancer, for example.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

lowkey like idrc this time

the people on this site are sooo corny

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

Tucker Carlson issued a more direct and clear repudiation than 98% of elected Democrats.

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Democrats truly do need to use moral language to condemn republicans The right is the side of moral evil. No other group in the country is more objectively evil than right wing evangelical christians Do not let evangelicals own the concept of “morality”. Use moral language and people will respond

Theres no point voting for Democrats anymore because they don't even do anything

All I can think about is that aerial shot of the White House surrounded by No Kings protestors who did nothing but stand there with signs for a few hours.

Imagine if the roles were reversed and Iran had the madman with nukes. A guy who destroyed a 250 year old democracy in about a year. Started a war for no reason. And then he posted that he was gonna end American civilization. How would you feel about Iranians saying "relax he's not serious"

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

Is it inevitable? Were we always going to end up here?

Wow this is insane. The BBC posted a story yesterday with a supposed quote from an Iranian citizen saying he is okay with the US dropping an atomic bomb on Iran. After pushback, without public acknowledgment, they just changed the quote in the story to something completely different.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.