american antifascists from ARA to Torch and on have doxxed, fought against, and sometimes died trying to stop this fascist creep. it's sickening how people are desperate to normalize.

Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback — as a metaverse

Andy Beshear to Bill Maher on why he opposed a ban on trans athletes: "I care too much about sports to let government run them"

Everyone has memoryholed this and thus I'm constantly on about it, but *before 2016* antifascism was incredibly unpopular in The Left. It was basically confined to a minority tendency within anarchism. Virtually everyone else wanted a popular front that didn't create splits over kicking nazis out.

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.

by me @ wired:

This should go without saying, but the American government should be funded by the American people, not anonymous mega-donor friends of the president.

This is not how things should work in a democracy—this raises all sorts of legal and ethical alarms.

Just an incredible stat from @brooklynspoke.bsky.social:

In 1971, the Netherlands had a 20% higher vehicle death rate than the US

Today, their vehicle death rate is 60% lower than ours

Unnecessary early deaths are a policy choice

Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM

An unmitigated disaster.