costrike
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Matters will not improve of their own accord.
Lecturer, writer, & socent interested in inequality, sustainability, systems thinking, & renewing democracy. Enjoy cooking, gardening, writing & wandering.
Lecturer, writer, & socent interested in inequality, sustainability, systems thinking, & renewing democracy. Enjoy cooking, gardening, writing & wandering.
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· Feb 10
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I know we're all pretty damn jaded at this point, but shouldn't this still be erupting rn? The fig leaf is off. Let's get rid of him and move on to the next challenge.
Whiskeytown has a new release on the way??!!!
September 17, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Whiskeytown has a new release on the way??!!!
"What's the Streisand Effect?" -Robert Kraft
September 17, 2026 at 4:01 AM
"What's the Streisand Effect?" -Robert Kraft
Just saw that Sheeran's touring band, and all 4 openers, walked in solidarity with Macklemore. Absolutely beautiful
September 17, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Just saw that Sheeran's touring band, and all 4 openers, walked in solidarity with Macklemore. Absolutely beautiful
Johnson does it on first down
As a professional punter, I’m in absolute awe at the masterclass put on by this Congress. Just punt after punt after punt, it’s like rewatching the 0-16 Lions.
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
September 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Johnson does it on first down
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So scary machine rebellion and the end of days is more narratively valuable than the ordinary material questions like whose work was taken, whose job was eliminated, whose water and electricity were consumed, whose population is being surveilled, and whose wars are being increasingly automated.
September 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM
So scary machine rebellion and the end of days is more narratively valuable than the ordinary material questions like whose work was taken, whose job was eliminated, whose water and electricity were consumed, whose population is being surveilled, and whose wars are being increasingly automated.
We are wildly serious
If we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution”
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September 17, 2026 at 2:17 AM
We are wildly serious
WTF is he talking about????????
Are they down to making shit up and hoping people believe them or does he really not know that the price of ground beef hit a record high last month? Probably hasn't gone grocery shopping or looked at this chart in over 2 decades.
Are they down to making shit up and hoping people believe them or does he really not know that the price of ground beef hit a record high last month? Probably hasn't gone grocery shopping or looked at this chart in over 2 decades.
September 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
WTF is he talking about????????
Are they down to making shit up and hoping people believe them or does he really not know that the price of ground beef hit a record high last month? Probably hasn't gone grocery shopping or looked at this chart in over 2 decades.
Are they down to making shit up and hoping people believe them or does he really not know that the price of ground beef hit a record high last month? Probably hasn't gone grocery shopping or looked at this chart in over 2 decades.
Fine art.
September 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Fine art.
"Colgate-Palmolive's director of corporate communications, Thomas DiPiazza, said the company 'does not use algorithmic wage-setting tools to make compensation decisions for our employees or to set new-hire salaries.'"
That's some high-quality corporate doublespeak.
That's some high-quality corporate doublespeak.
September 16, 2026 at 3:38 AM
"Colgate-Palmolive's director of corporate communications, Thomas DiPiazza, said the company 'does not use algorithmic wage-setting tools to make compensation decisions for our employees or to set new-hire salaries.'"
That's some high-quality corporate doublespeak.
That's some high-quality corporate doublespeak.
Sounds bad when you put it that way
history is genuinely going to look back on this era and ask what a society has to do to be debauched enough to freely elect an admin whose no 1 agenda was international protection of and solidarity with sexual assaulters irrespective of the species they assaulted
September 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Sounds bad when you put it that way
I watched this live earlier and thought maybe I was hallucinating. Might still be
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
September 16, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I watched this live earlier and thought maybe I was hallucinating. Might still be
A flock of flunkies?
herd of lackeys?
swarm of sycophants?
multitude of minions?
herd of lackeys?
swarm of sycophants?
multitude of minions?
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
The best and the brightest.
September 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
A flock of flunkies?
herd of lackeys?
swarm of sycophants?
multitude of minions?
herd of lackeys?
swarm of sycophants?
multitude of minions?
It's coming
🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇
WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls?
PATEL: Nope
W: So you are sending FBI agents?
P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance
WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls?
PATEL: Nope
W: So you are sending FBI agents?
P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance
September 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
It's coming
LFG!
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September 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
LFG!
Just learned Chuck Grassley is 92.
September 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Just learned Chuck Grassley is 92.
"My views are very good, strongly held, and well justified. I support causes in my own way, by not bringing attention to them. I totally would, but my audience 'includes young people, often children.' Touring with Macklemore does not repudiate this claim in anyway."
The Ed Sheeran statement is everything I feared (yet suspected) it would be ☹️
September 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"My views are very good, strongly held, and well justified. I support causes in my own way, by not bringing attention to them. I totally would, but my audience 'includes young people, often children.' Touring with Macklemore does not repudiate this claim in anyway."
Seems like he's slipping back into survival mode
September 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Seems like he's slipping back into survival mode
Can we stop 'fearlessly' regurgitating whatever he says? It's worse than useless
September 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Can we stop 'fearlessly' regurgitating whatever he says? It's worse than useless
When you want to punish people for making a documentary you haven't seen
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir instructed the army's top legal adviser on Monday to examine possible legal action against the filmmakers behind the documentary "NAZA," despite not having seen the film in full.
September 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
When you want to punish people for making a documentary you haven't seen
I promised my wife I'd take her to see Pink the next chance we had when we couldn't make her last show here. I hope she doesn't mind me taking her to see Macklemore instead.
Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran's Tour After 'Free Palestine' Speech
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September 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I promised my wife I'd take her to see Pink the next chance we had when we couldn't make her last show here. I hope she doesn't mind me taking her to see Macklemore instead.
Just in: Trump is still batshit and Axios is still doing "Trump says..."
JUST IN: President Trump says a strong, smart president is the only "guardrail" AI needs
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only "guardrail" AI needs
It's the third time is as many days that Trump has pushed back against calls for AI safety regulations.
www.axios.com
September 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Just in: Trump is still batshit and Axios is still doing "Trump says..."
How's your day going? 🌱🧄🍽️
September 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
How's your day going? 🌱🧄🍽️
Starting the Church of AI. Where are my apostles?
September 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Starting the Church of AI. Where are my apostles?
Too Overvalued To Fail
"needs to have a stake". You mean... an equity stake? I'm pretty sure that is actually a surreptitious reference to an equity stake...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "My view here is it has always been very strange that this technology is being built by a private company ... I think the government and the public needs to have a stake. And that's why we've supported regulation."
September 14, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Too Overvalued To Fail
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Israeli journalists win prize for film detailing the IDF’s “calculated mass killing” of Palestinians in Gaza; the culture minister says the film is “vile” and “constitutes treason”, and threatens to revoke the filmmakers’ Israeli citizenship
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel's culture minister threatens to revoke citizenship of Gaza doc filmmakers
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. It reveals 'in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza' following the e...
www.haaretz.com
September 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Israeli journalists win prize for film detailing the IDF’s “calculated mass killing” of Palestinians in Gaza; the culture minister says the film is “vile” and “constitutes treason”, and threatens to revoke the filmmakers’ Israeli citizenship
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...