any reckoning with the news is just full heartbreak and a burned-in conviction that all these fascists bound to lose www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

made this exact comparison in 2024 in a column knocked as “hysterical”

and when it's over it will be our job to seek justice, not whine that this country is an irretrievably evil entity and so what's the point if we can't have a revolution.

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.

The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

I keep thinking how much conservatives have surrendered in cultural messaging. Bad Bunny's performance was undeniably pro-marriage, pro-family, and the idea of accomplishing big dreams through hard work. All things the conservative movement has claimed to care about in the past.

Their gross domestic products will stagnate. Their public health care and pension systems will suffer. The only option to avoid decline is to integrate migrants in the most orderly and effective way possible." Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

In political philosophy, a central insight of (small-r) republicanism is that a kind master is still a master, and that relationship itself makes the subject unfree. Same with the ultrarich. Counting on them to put the interests of society before their own myopic interests is playing with fire.

You vill drink the agricultural runoff. You vill buy the 0.0001% THC drinks. You vill use no public goods and be happy

"central fiction produced: that Israel exists separately from East Jerusalem, Gaza and the occupied West Bank. [...} “Imagine a future in which there are two states, or there is one state with equal rights. How will historians describe this period now? It would be a period of apartheid.”

briefly during covid, i worked for the company who is contracted by NBC to do Olympic captions. used to be done by a curated team of 10 employees with full benefits. since bought by a shady VC company who has aggressively sold the dream of cutting costs through AI and firing everyone all the time.