Pinned
#yes
“creating alternatives that are so obviously superior that people switch not because they read Marx but because their lives get materially better.”
“creating alternatives that are so obviously superior that people switch not because they read Marx but because their lives get materially better.”
Project 2026: A Blueprint for Post-Scarcity Politics
open.substack.com/pub/shalasha...
open.substack.com/pub/shalasha...
Project 2026: A Blueprint for Post-Scarcity Politics
How to Engineer Human Flourishing While the Old World Burns
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 AM
#yes
“creating alternatives that are so obviously superior that people switch not because they read Marx but because their lives get materially better.”
“creating alternatives that are so obviously superior that people switch not because they read Marx but because their lives get materially better.”
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Democracy cannot be defended by cowards.
La démocratie ne peut pas être défendue par des lâches.
#centrists
La démocratie ne peut pas être défendue par des lâches.
#centrists
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Democracy cannot be defended by cowards.
La démocratie ne peut pas être défendue par des lâches.
#centrists
La démocratie ne peut pas être défendue par des lâches.
#centrists
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In Gaza, since my childhood, we have suffered from wars, bombings, and deprivation. Despite all this, we have always sought happiness in the simplest things, All we want now is peace, only peace. I pray that this world will grant us peace, for we truly do not deserve all this destruction.
January 24, 2026 at 12:32 PM
In Gaza, since my childhood, we have suffered from wars, bombings, and deprivation. Despite all this, we have always sought happiness in the simplest things, All we want now is peace, only peace. I pray that this world will grant us peace, for we truly do not deserve all this destruction.
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There’s a war going on on our streets. We are being attacked by fellow Americans at the behest of the president of OUR OWN country. Americans are attacking Americans, again, because donald trump told them to. Our own president ordered this attack on fellow Americans. Beating s & killings.
January 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
There’s a war going on on our streets. We are being attacked by fellow Americans at the behest of the president of OUR OWN country. Americans are attacking Americans, again, because donald trump told them to. Our own president ordered this attack on fellow Americans. Beating s & killings.
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The fascists are actively inciting a civil war and they need to feel the repercussions.
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
The fascists are actively inciting a civil war and they need to feel the repercussions.
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what ways can you grind the gears of empire today, tomorrow, the next day?
January 24, 2026 at 11:36 PM
what ways can you grind the gears of empire today, tomorrow, the next day?
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Anne Frank wrote these words in 1943 while hiding, while families were being pulled apart. She wasn’t describing chaos. She was describing process. Normalized cruelty. Systems doing what systems do when nobody stops them.
This is history as a warning. #DefundICE
This is history as a warning. #DefundICE
January 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Anne Frank wrote these words in 1943 while hiding, while families were being pulled apart. She wasn’t describing chaos. She was describing process. Normalized cruelty. Systems doing what systems do when nobody stops them.
This is history as a warning. #DefundICE
This is history as a warning. #DefundICE
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Gov. Tim Walz: 'There's a whole lot of Republicans for whatever reason cannot find their spine, but they might find the ability to know they won't win another election as long as they live unless they stand up for what's right...and the rule of law...and human decency."
January 24, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Gov. Tim Walz: 'There's a whole lot of Republicans for whatever reason cannot find their spine, but they might find the ability to know they won't win another election as long as they live unless they stand up for what's right...and the rule of law...and human decency."
damn Trump, Vance, Miller, Bondi, Noem, Homan, Bovino and all of them to hell! I'm torn up about this good soul who lost his life. RIP Alex Pretti.
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:46 PM
damn Trump, Vance, Miller, Bondi, Noem, Homan, Bovino and all of them to hell! I'm torn up about this good soul who lost his life. RIP Alex Pretti.
“Holy shit, ICE just killed someone else in Minneapolis,” Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic Party and a Minnesota native, wrote on X. “What the actual fuck is going on in this country.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
“Holy shit, ICE just killed someone else in Minneapolis,” Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic Party and a Minnesota native, wrote on X. “What the actual fuck is going on in this country.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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New Yorker cartoon by Ivan Ehlers
January 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
New Yorker cartoon by Ivan Ehlers
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Republicans & Democrats are not JUST alike. But one important trait they have in common: neither will save us.
January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Republicans & Democrats are not JUST alike. But one important trait they have in common: neither will save us.
Stephen Miller is trying to start a civil war. This is a crime against every citizen of the United States. Abolish ICE, and imprison all those responsible for this abomination taking place in the streets of our nation.
January 24, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Stephen Miller is trying to start a civil war. This is a crime against every citizen of the United States. Abolish ICE, and imprison all those responsible for this abomination taking place in the streets of our nation.
why was the gun in the ICE agent's hand when the victim was murdered?
The pistol the officer walks away with has an optic mounted on it and looks very likely to be a match to the weapon it is stated that the man was carrying.
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
why was the gun in the ICE agent's hand when the victim was murdered?
the murder victim wielded a camera. not a gun. there is no possible justification for armed federales to tackle and murder US citizens. remove the entire Trump regime!
Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
the murder victim wielded a camera. not a gun. there is no possible justification for armed federales to tackle and murder US citizens. remove the entire Trump regime!
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Murder squads, nothing more nothing less.
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Murder squads, nothing more nothing less.
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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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I was trained by the FBI in 92 in tactics, weapons, crowd control etc etc for my work overseas as a United States Marine at US Embassies.
What I am watching, witnessing is NOT what or how I was trained in what is called 'The progression of force'.
That policy is nowhere to be seen. 1/2
What I am watching, witnessing is NOT what or how I was trained in what is called 'The progression of force'.
That policy is nowhere to be seen. 1/2
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I was trained by the FBI in 92 in tactics, weapons, crowd control etc etc for my work overseas as a United States Marine at US Embassies.
What I am watching, witnessing is NOT what or how I was trained in what is called 'The progression of force'.
That policy is nowhere to be seen. 1/2
What I am watching, witnessing is NOT what or how I was trained in what is called 'The progression of force'.
That policy is nowhere to be seen. 1/2
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Worth a listen pals.
youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...
youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...
Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate (Live at The Current)
YouTube video by The Current
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Worth a listen pals.
youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...
youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...
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We need an amendment prohibiting any president from creating a Gestapo.
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 AM
We need an amendment prohibiting any president from creating a Gestapo.
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
Norman Spinrad joke (told by Randall Garrett on 1971 Eastercon panel)
RG: If Ace published the Old Testament and the New Testament as an Ace Double, one side would be titled "Master of Chaos" and the other side would be "The Thing With Three Souls."
Don Wollheim: That isn't a bad idea.
RG: If Ace published the Old Testament and the New Testament as an Ace Double, one side would be titled "Master of Chaos" and the other side would be "The Thing With Three Souls."
Don Wollheim: That isn't a bad idea.
January 24, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Norman Spinrad joke (told by Randall Garrett on 1971 Eastercon panel)
RG: If Ace published the Old Testament and the New Testament as an Ace Double, one side would be titled "Master of Chaos" and the other side would be "The Thing With Three Souls."
Don Wollheim: That isn't a bad idea.
RG: If Ace published the Old Testament and the New Testament as an Ace Double, one side would be titled "Master of Chaos" and the other side would be "The Thing With Three Souls."
Don Wollheim: That isn't a bad idea.
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After weeks of threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can’t prove their citizenship, Trump told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that “sometimes you need a dictator.”
January 23, 2026 at 7:34 AM
After weeks of threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can’t prove their citizenship, Trump told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that “sometimes you need a dictator.”
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Don't Cry For No Hipster
youtu.be/0jA6shappUw?...
youtu.be/0jA6shappUw?...
BEN SIDRAN - DON'T CRY FOR NO HIPSTER
YouTube video by BONSAIMUSIC
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Don't Cry For No Hipster
youtu.be/0jA6shappUw?...
youtu.be/0jA6shappUw?...
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#Horror365Challenge 27/365
#Gialloday
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
After directing what many have considered the first giallo, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava gave us what would be the archetype for many Gialli that followed.
#Gialloday
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
After directing what many have considered the first giallo, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava gave us what would be the archetype for many Gialli that followed.
January 23, 2026 at 1:04 AM
#Horror365Challenge 27/365
#Gialloday
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
After directing what many have considered the first giallo, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava gave us what would be the archetype for many Gialli that followed.
#Gialloday
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
After directing what many have considered the first giallo, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava gave us what would be the archetype for many Gialli that followed.