Hal Schrieve - writer and librarian

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

Senator Markey 🎯

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.

And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.

Pearls before swine and all of that.

This is pretty shocking even by the standards of modern racist politicians.

Directly attacking a member of the press no less

On top of the concentration camps, kidnapping, and murders, the news now reports ICE is buying microwave tech to kill the car engines of first amendment legal observers. And Democrats are still not even asking to claw back the 2025 budget increases.

The usa directly or indirectly causing death by war everywhere from sri lanka to beirut sure seems like a great recipe for international relations huh

Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.

I would just quit after this.

This is the first ship sank by an American submarine since WW2. Unrestricted submarine warfare is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.

I ain't reposting Jesse Singal onto the TL but it is truly hilarious to see that little shitbird try and do a "I'm just a simple country transphobe" act by bemoaning how many people with "fancy letters and titles after their names" (IE doctors and lawyers and scientists) who disagree with him

Rereading the lathe of heaven on the train and i do think it continues to be my favorite le guin book and her most directly prescient re masculinity, white knuckle grip on power and the trap we are in unless we exit our need for control

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

so the whole concept of this company is “What if we made the Lathe of Heaven but for insider trading?”

consider this my response to “gay guys were a mistake”— gay guys committed to a project of masculinism over a project of liberation are a mistake in the sense all guys are a mistake but theyre all dudes who can rock in the right conditions. of true stateless communism.

the best thing about men is when you crack the shell and find out theyre moved by beauty and terrified by the world and themselves and have no idea what theyre doing just like you. Worst thing is when they do violence to others despite this

Manhood isnt real but what is real is a category of person whose shower contains only doctor bronners peppermint soap and a category of person who finds this disturbing

daring thing to say but not only does the archetypal father not exist but personally i think men, in terms of a positivist masculinism, dont even exist. all of thats fake

this is what would happen when you took your effeminate son to the largest clinical study of childhood gender variance in the 1970s just by the way

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

I think the takeaway a lot of people are missing is that the state is keeping a database of trans folks by tracking everything from gender markers to name changes and attaching corresponding flags to their record.

It should be pretty evident where they're going with this:

Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.

NEW: In Minneapolis, @cameronoakes.bsky.social and Sam Donndelinger report, ICE’s Operation Metro Surge is preventing Latino patients from accessing HIV care. This story was produced in collaboration with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication.

Guest Post: Hal Schrieve on the Fight to Fund NYC Libraries The Seven Stories author and librarian makes the case for prioritizing library funding

If you have three minutes and live in NYC, you should read this about our public libraries. sevenstories.substack.com/p/guest-post...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts

Screenshot of a tweet quoting an Aljazeera interview with a Saudi Official. A translation of the text is: Saudi official to Al Jazeera: America has abandoned us, and focused its defense systems on protecting Israel, leaving the Gulf states that host its military bases at the mercy of Iranian missiles and drones.

As one Saudi official put it to Aljazeera:

"America has abandoned us, and focused its defense systems on protecting Israel, leaving the Gulf states that host its military bases at the mercy of Iranian missiles and drones."

Iran

For people needing podcasts on iran:

thedigradio.com/History%20of...