the brewers had this same dynamic and an even better record. they got dismantled in four.

i see cis white people now having the "actually most of us didn't have a nazi edgelord phase and it's weird you think that" convo. who says there's no such thing as collective progress

or like, driving the speed limit

nobody knows what the future holds. the world only keeps spinning because everyone wakes up and decides it should. your beliefs can and will change the future.

re: building parallel systems of news outside social media. is the guardian a good publication to support? i've relied on their reporting heavily the last few months and would like to start paying them a subscription.

weimar punks

pointing out the rights hypocrisy about freedom of speech doesn’t really do too much but i honestly am just stunned how blatantly and quickly they reversed on pretty much every constitutional freedom the moment they gained full power

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

Emerald Fennell Assures Fans ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Be Faithful Adaptation Of ‘Twilight’ https://theonion.com/emerald-fennell-assures-fans-wuthering-heights-will-be-faithful-adaptation-of-twilight/

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.

As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

at its core is anti-intellectualism. reading a book in public? oh you must be doing that for attention! put that book down and go back to scrolling.

“performative male” this is not 2014. They’re not trend tweaking. Hipsters are gone. Obama’s gone. This is literally just the new wave fascists telling men w any troublesome care or conscience left to stop being a pussy and get behind the dictator

if you buy a new metal water bottle after you dent one you're ngmi

very much looking forward to the smug "the trains will run on time" comment from someone in the trump admin

idk maybe i'm too much of a tr4nny but the prospect of becoming a boring old person sounds pretty good to me

google is absolutely suppressing wikipedia in their results to push people towards their ai slop garbage, pathetic

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

Type shit

It’s worth noting that DC, under Mayor Bowser, has been working for years to “clean up” (a gross euphemism) the city by sweeping encampments, bulldozing tents, destroying people’s stuff, and pushing unhoused people into more and more precarious living situations

the analysis in here from people living in encampments is more incisive and direct than a lot of the coverage from national media streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

another week, another reason to boycott WaPo

if you come up to me after my band's set the only thing youre allowed to say to me is "wow you sounded really good youre so pretty and cool your tone was nasty"

looking for album recommendations, all genres. music that involves the following:

- deep, environmental soundscapes
- synthesis between lyrical and sonic content
- cross-album storytelling and concept
- strong emotional & thematic cohesion

20+ people at this event and I’m the only queer person. This should not be statistically possible