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If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.
January 27, 2026 at 7:14 AM
If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.
'Extreme inequality creates an “Epstein class” of global predators, exploiting the rest financially – and in other ways. It creates an ethos that no longer recognises our common humanity, that sees other people, as Musk puts it, as “non-player characters”' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 PM
'Extreme inequality creates an “Epstein class” of global predators, exploiting the rest financially – and in other ways. It creates an ethos that no longer recognises our common humanity, that sees other people, as Musk puts it, as “non-player characters”' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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8. You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes.
January 23, 2026 at 11:36 AM
8. You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes.
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On Sale to Members Tomorrow 1PM – Don’t miss GAME on 25th March, featuring Post-Film Q&A with John Minton (Director), Marc Bessant (lead actor) and Geoff Barrow (Producer). Written and produced by Portishead co-founder Geoff Barrow, Game is an unpredictable thriller set in the 90s rave scene.
January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
On Sale to Members Tomorrow 1PM – Don’t miss GAME on 25th March, featuring Post-Film Q&A with John Minton (Director), Marc Bessant (lead actor) and Geoff Barrow (Producer). Written and produced by Portishead co-founder Geoff Barrow, Game is an unpredictable thriller set in the 90s rave scene.
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No president should be able to get away with doing this stuff month after month, least of all one with a 35% approval rating.
Too many enablers in government, far too much complicity in big business.
Too many enablers in government, far too much complicity in big business.
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM
No president should be able to get away with doing this stuff month after month, least of all one with a 35% approval rating.
Too many enablers in government, far too much complicity in big business.
Too many enablers in government, far too much complicity in big business.
Almost feeling sorry for his supporters and apologists.
We already accept ageism in presidential elections, you can’t run til 35. It’s maybe time to consider an upper limit.
January 22, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Almost feeling sorry for his supporters and apologists.
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We've seen what ICE does in public. Imagine what they do in private.
The Washington Post just reported that the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at the detention facility in El Paso known as Camp East Montana on January 3 may have been a homicide. Coroner reports suggest that he died from asphyxiation — possibly from a choke hold.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
We've seen what ICE does in public. Imagine what they do in private.
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
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2000-2025: facts over feelings, no safe spaces, be a fucking man
2026: your dismissive body language has left the fourth Minneapolis infantry with anxiety
2026: your dismissive body language has left the fourth Minneapolis infantry with anxiety
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
2000-2025: facts over feelings, no safe spaces, be a fucking man
2026: your dismissive body language has left the fourth Minneapolis infantry with anxiety
2026: your dismissive body language has left the fourth Minneapolis infantry with anxiety
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"Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples."
~Wilhelm Reich
~Wilhelm Reich
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
"Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples."
~Wilhelm Reich
~Wilhelm Reich
Happily, there's an episodes guide too: thetvdb.com/series/snub-...
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Happily, there's an episodes guide too: thetvdb.com/series/snub-...
Great piece on Bowie's relationship to imagery of violence, taking in fascism, A Clockwork Orange and punk. I did not know Bowie's mother was a supporter of the British Union of Fascists. www.travellerintheevening.com/p/david-bowi...
David Bowie and the Droog Superior: Violence and the Dame
Memories of the young Bowie are of his glamour, otherworldliness, and gay / bisexual advocacy. But that's not the whole story – another part being quietly forgotten by a sanitising media.
www.travellerintheevening.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Great piece on Bowie's relationship to imagery of violence, taking in fascism, A Clockwork Orange and punk. I did not know Bowie's mother was a supporter of the British Union of Fascists. www.travellerintheevening.com/p/david-bowi...
'We humbly apologize that the last batch was not young enough.'
“We have traveled south to the White House steps to present you with these three Kayleighs,” said Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch
Fox News Sends Trump Quarterly Tithe Of 3 Blond Anchors
WASHINGTON—Saying the sumptuous gift should slake the administration’s thirst for the next few months, Fox News sent President Donald Trump its quarterly tithe of three blond anchors, White House sour...
theonion.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:49 AM
'We humbly apologize that the last batch was not young enough.'
Go if you've not been before, or not been in a while. Wonderful cinema.
Some recent favourite reviews of your favourite cinema from both regulars and newcomers. We love you all, see you at the movies...
January 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Go if you've not been before, or not been in a while. Wonderful cinema.
'I lost her way back at “sovereign wealth fund.” I shouldn’t have used the term. ... The whole premise of a sovereign wealth fund sounds like a conspiracy. In fact, all finance sounds like conspiracy if you try to explain it out loud.' rushkoff.substack.com/p/you-are-no...
You Are Not Crazy
Reality has become absurd. Those of us who see it for what it is, who know its origins, and who know that it is constructed? We are the sane ones here.
rushkoff.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
'I lost her way back at “sovereign wealth fund.” I shouldn’t have used the term. ... The whole premise of a sovereign wealth fund sounds like a conspiracy. In fact, all finance sounds like conspiracy if you try to explain it out loud.' rushkoff.substack.com/p/you-are-no...
Just caught a showing of this, worth seeing. I thought it'd be in-detail about the last album, but it's also a journey through his career with the end always in mind. Moonage Daydream had a bit of that. This is more sober, sombre, and quietly emotional. www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Ju...
Bowie: The Final Act - Official UK Trailer
YouTube video by Dogwoof
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Just caught a showing of this, worth seeing. I thought it'd be in-detail about the last album, but it's also a journey through his career with the end always in mind. Moonage Daydream had a bit of that. This is more sober, sombre, and quietly emotional. www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Ju...
'For an administration that is building its defining legacy around upsetting the world order for the short-term opportunity to enrich an inner circle of family, cronies, and hangers-on ... Venezuela’s oil and Greenland’s rare earths look more the same than different.' www.wired.com/story/3-keys...
The 3 Keys to Understanding Trump’s Retro Coup in Venezuela
This weekend’s invasion was both a throwback to the last century and a new, uniquely Trumpian nightmare—one that’s just beginning.
www.wired.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
'For an administration that is building its defining legacy around upsetting the world order for the short-term opportunity to enrich an inner circle of family, cronies, and hangers-on ... Venezuela’s oil and Greenland’s rare earths look more the same than different.' www.wired.com/story/3-keys...
'We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.'
What are the odds that this will be blamed on the postmodern left & Foucault?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...
What are the odds that this will be blamed on the postmodern left & Foucault?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...
Analysis: Trump’s new US mission statement: Strength, force, power | CNN Politics
Look out, world.
edition.cnn.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
'We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.'
What are the odds that this will be blamed on the postmodern left & Foucault?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...
What are the odds that this will be blamed on the postmodern left & Foucault?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...
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Local Church Opens Doors To Any Single Mothers In Need Of Judgment https://theonion.com/local-church-opens-doors-to-any-single-mothers-in-need-of-judgment/
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Local Church Opens Doors To Any Single Mothers In Need Of Judgment https://theonion.com/local-church-opens-doors-to-any-single-mothers-in-need-of-judgment/
This breakdown of some of the 'information' broached in a Joe Rogan interview with Mel Gibson is shocking & not surprising. Two of the many dumb rich men making the world worse. www.monbiot.com/2026/01/05/d...
Dumb and Dumber
How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.
www.monbiot.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 AM
This breakdown of some of the 'information' broached in a Joe Rogan interview with Mel Gibson is shocking & not surprising. Two of the many dumb rich men making the world worse. www.monbiot.com/2026/01/05/d...
Great interview www.podchaser.com/podcasts/dis...
39. Dissociation (w/ McKenzie Wark) by Disintegrator
39. Dissociation (w/ McKenzie Wark) from Disintegrator on Podchaser, aired Tuesday, 2nd December 2025. We're so so so honored to be joined by McKenzie Wark, the writer, theorist, and unmissable figure...
www.podchaser.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Great interview www.podchaser.com/podcasts/dis...