President Trump announces he'll be requesting a record-breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget.

"$1 trillion, and nobody's seen anything like it. We have to build our military and we're very cost conscious. But the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong"

NEWS | Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham blasted the US Academy for refusing to support Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal after Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked and tortured him. Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, said Israeli soldiers mocked his Oscar while beating him.

"Wow, trans violence is EXTREMELY FAR above normal levels!!"

The fact that Elon Musk is still breathing is proof enough to refute this.

tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.

Idiot: good people should be involved in politics
Midwit: politics is all about systems, institutions, and impersonal forces
Genius: good people should be involved in politics

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

I didn’t vote to fund Boeing for multiple decades anymore than I voted to fund Space X, Starlink, or Tesla.

I don’t want to be stuck with this BS!

I want to decide what private corporations get contracts that last multiple decades.

I haven't posted any of my music on here yet.

let's give it a whirl

every time someone posts their fantasy about new england or the PNW seceding, i have to assume they're comfortable with jim crow coming back to a good chunk of the south within a decade of said balkanisation. bc i seem to recall that the south didn't give that up voluntarily the first time around.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the new oligarchy that's coming, and it's full of what seem like contradictions - embracing tariffs, economic pain, etc. - but if you interpret "good for the economy" as "people like me having more power and influence," there's no contradiction.

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a judge blocked the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration — AP

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all dressed up and nowhere to go

I'm beginning to think my rage posts aren't breaking through.