Paul

One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

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This guy

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Trump denies knowing about Project 2025, his allies' sweeping plan to transform the US governmentapnews.com Former President Donald Trump is seeking to distance himself from a plan for a massive overhaul of the federal government drafted by some of his former administration officials.

Surely reporters will be asking Trump and his campaign to identify the things on Project 2025 he disagrees with and what part are "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal" His own people wrote the fucking thing. So get the answers. Obsess over this for a change

Props to the AP for a headline that contains the whole story apnews.com/article/trum...

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Okay, I'm gonna stop talking about the NYT because it's done institutionally. I absolutely love numerous reporters and writers who work there. But the leaders of the paper are using it to usher authoritarianism into power. Inexcusable.

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Look at this link at the bottom of the New York Times' "Don't vote" opinion piece. They didn't run this as a one-off. They're trying to turn non-voting into a thing. Repugnant.

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Also for context, here's a screenshot of the second post in the thread, which I'm also going to delete to avoid sending that site traffic.

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Folks have noted that including links rewards the NYT with traffic for running this article. They're right! So I'm going to delete the first post in this thread - here it is as a screenshot for context.

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On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.

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NO KINGS. That's the bare minimum these days. NO KINGS. NO KINGS. NO KINGS.

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Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.

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If someone's telling me not to vote, I'd like to know their take on actual policies that are at stake in the election. The NYT, apparently, does not think that's relevant.

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The NYT also allowed him to exclude his partisan inclinations. From the 2018 piece: "In a bland way I hope to see Republicans control various state and national offices. This arises from a single issue: the legality of abortion."

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More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!

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Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.

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I’m no software engineer, just a humanities person who spent 20 years of my life obsessively studying the question “Can reason be automated?” and feeling extreme distress over the catastrophic consequences, for all of us, of this particular iteration of (re)discovering that the answer is “No”

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My priors that the Biden interview would confirm everyone’s priors have been confirmed

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THEY DID IT!!

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Can we please stop posting screenshots of Truth Social posts? I left that place for a reason!

exactly even the perfect meal would be tiresome if you ate it too frequently

chile relleno with rice and beans is the perfect meal, but in a way i guess it's kind of nice that there are also other kinds of meals

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one of the most out-of-nowhere moving experiences in a game I've had was at the end of Wolfenstein: The New Order where (spoiler) Blaskowitz recites The New Colossus. encapsulates the best about this country

just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Threelittlekit6

I worked with asylees from Africa and wow it gave me a different perspective on life. I’m so much more grateful for what I have. These folks are more patriotic than most native-born Americans because they really had to struggle for the freedom we were given at birth.

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b-boy bouiebaisse

People can help others become citizens by becoming a tutor. You help them study to pass the citizenship interview. It’s one of the most meaningful things I’ve done in my life. Search for immigrant or refugee services in your area. If you speak English and took 6th grade civics, you’re good to go.

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