i can’t tell if you’re serious.

some agencies have tried to fight back.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/

anyway

you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.

also, you’re not helping anything.

i don’t give them money but i’m on their email list. i just saw a request to donate that i dismissed and it went right to the article.

i have never known the intercept to paywall stuff?

huh. years ago they had an app and stopped supporting it. i still see radio omg which i haven’t liked as much, but i haven’t been using it lately either (just listen in browser).

i guess i need to look into this again!

i love soma.fm so much! i’m still a little salty about the app. kept it on my phone for a long time for pure nostalgia after it no longer worked.

except that it suggests bipoc people have value and contribute meaningfully to our country.

why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.

yep, looks like mine are back as well. wow.

to me, it seems like a good thing if lots of people refuse to cooperate, refuse to be made instruments of this regime. enough people refuse and the regime is disempowered.

maybe, i’m not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.

they were also children, presumably echoing the narratives of their parents. it is not a foregone conclusion that they are incapable of empathy.

is irc still a thing?

i gotta be honest, i’m not entirely sure what is intended. this decision doesn’t make sense to me!

i know at least three meth addicts right now. two told me they used because they can’t/couldn’t access their mental health medication. one told me that many people don’t start until they are already on the street, and the misery plus being forced by cops to move over and over instead of sleeping encourages use. one told me it was the only way they could stay awake to work enough to support their family.

addicts need real help, like medical/mental health care, housing, a living wage.

but yeah, desperate people will do desperate things.

no fan of chatgpt/llm’s generally.

but i feel comfortable calling this a chatgpt win!

a lot of games do this?

and i will see it repeated endlessly online over the next several years, paired with a lot of “serves them right” style comments.

it doesn’t help women or anyone else.

this is not the way forward.