Goddamnit, Google. For shame. Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Oh, fuck off. Spare us Elon lecturing on democracy & unelected bureaucrats when he's neither elected nor properly appointed but is running a coup. God bless Nicolle Wallace: "We're going to interrupt this pablum to fact check it. No. 1: Irony died while he was talking." image
Good Lord. As if Thiel and his AI billionaires weren't bad enough, now they say they have God on their side: prosperity theology meets #TESCREAL. Good reporting by Emma Goldman. Gift link: Seeking God, or Peter Thiel, in Silicon Valley
Corruption. Pure corruption. Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors to Drop Federal Corruption Case Against Eric Adams
This is a small, late step in the right direction. We are certainly in a constitutional crisis but deeper: a totalitarian coup. How long will it take the Times to recognize that? Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say
In Austria, the right-wing extremist part FPÖ is attacking mainstream media in Orbán's model. Weapons include public media and govt subsidies/advertising. This is why media dependence on government is so perilous. Propaganda im Sinne der Partei
Hundreds of thousands of Germans are on the streets demonstrating against right-wing extremism. (This photo from Munich.) Let's get off our asses, America. Hunderttausende gegen Rechtsextremismus https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2025-02/demonstrationen-gegen-rechtsextremismus-deutschland-fs image
Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-billions-dollars-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately/
#BrokenTimes makes this passive: Trump merely joins a war (of mere skepticism, not bigotry) on trans rights and feminism. He is an adjudicated sexual assaulter and misogynist but The Times casts him as a warrior. image
The Musk/Thiel/Sacks axis: The model for their destruction is not just German fascism, it is South African apartheid, rolling back Reconstruction: Jim Crow with an accent. Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-aid-afrikaners/