I have made a decision. This time around, my attention will be placed on the collaborators and the harm that this administration will be doing. I have no interest in showing any photos of the Mango Mussolini.

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

The problem I've seen is that if you say "I'm doing emotional labor in this relationship" people online will assume you mean "I'm doing UNFAIR labor that should be FINANCIALLY COMPENSATED."

New, from me: The American far-right is fascinated with Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of a third-rate power with a declining population.

Why?

Because Orban offers a model of Christian nationalist authoritarianism that Trumpists plan to emulate. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

Bret Stephens literally made up a guy to get mad at

Today is the four year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s murder at the hands of the LMPD and I always love this photo of her that shows how she seemed so fun! Love to all her friends and family and the Breeway people who fight for justice and her memory in Louisville ❤️

I don’t have the expertise to have an informed opinion about what’s going on with this ruling. But if a president threatening a state election official to throw an election isn’t a crime this country is capable of prosecuting, we’re in big fucking trouble.

Whoa, using satellites to map agriculture! The future is now, and by "the future" I mean 1966, when Project EROS was announced. Landsat 1 launched in 1972. Landsat's still going strong, we're up to Landsat 9.

But, hey, more taxpayer dollars in billionaire's pockets, sounds good.

Flint’s school buildings will be closed today after 119 teachers and employees called in sick

The union said the Board of Education rejected a settlement agreement that would have improved pay for Flint teachers, who are among the lowest paid in the state

Rest assured, the GOP has a plan to fix this - which is to get rid of NOAA donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-manda...

People who say of Nazis “deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas” are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy to consider, or that Nazi "ideas" involve bloodless debate.

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Empiricism xkcd.com/2855

this is the funniest reply I’ve ever seen

Picture, if you will, a box. This box, when pressed, will give you ten thousand dollars, instantly, in exchange for killing one police officer currently on duty. The question remains wait, stop pressing it. Let me finish my monologue before we do the Twil- wait. Come on you are just mashing it now.

“A city in Tennessee is using a recently passed ordinance essentially prohibiting homosexuality in public”

I’m really having a hard time with the richest guy in the world goes Nazi, AIPAC plans to spend $100,000,000 to crush the left, and Israel continues murdering hundreds of children combo.

In the midst of a global surge in neo-fascism and antisemitism, the Jewish establishment is on the wrong side.

sorry but "my wife left me for a vaccinated man" is hilarious