I'm seeing a whole mountain of memes and I moments from the MAGA faithful, all expressing the same idea, namely that us No Kings protesters are too dumb to understand that we already have a president, not a king.

I think I know what they were going for with Trump’s ridiculous AI generated “portrait.” (If you zoom in on his left lapel you can see they altered his jawline).

What do you think?

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What many students don’t understand is humanities profs don’t assign writing to get the product. We are extending invitations to know yourself. If you conjure AI, it doesn’t impact us. You cheat only yourself. And knowing yourself today is the best defense you’ve got against fascism.

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

<—I’m rereading my Jan 6=alt-right larping chapter, for class today. A shred of hope: Although we are now living in Kekistan (“LOL Land”), they got here with shitposting and larping. You can’t be taken seriously when all your power comes from LOLz. We are right to ridicule and dismiss them.

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

"And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended." @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

JD Vance went to Greenland, a territory of Denmark, and gave a speech criticizing the Danish government. Implying there could be violence if Greenland and Demark didn't give in to his political demands regarding the ownership of territory.

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How comfortable are you with digital activism? ICE has a new snitch App. If you have the skills, remember this: random inputs will do more good than cute ones targeting Musk.

When the world is viewed as an apocalyptic game, it can become one. When people want to believe the end is near, they will try to bring it on. When their world is disrupted, when they begin to lose power, they will view events through a cosmic lens. Quotes from #cowboyapocalypse

The real problem for this administration is that what they intend and what they want to be SEEN as intending are not the same. Thus any breach of the inside voice is a vulnerability.

“If education is about anything other than being able to earn more money (and it may not be about any other thing), that other thing is intelligent problem-solving and humans relating to one another in mutually constructive ways.” Toni Morrison, 1976.

As the conservative philosopher Richard Weaver wrote, "ideas have consequences", which is proven nowhere so well as in Objectivism.

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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