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It's true. It was the politically-unengaged ("I hate politics, I think it's stupid and nobody ever does anything, anyway") getting squeezed enough financially to spite vote for the Dems and the MAGA faithful being dispirited enough to not want to vote that brought us these results. We need to continue working to stomp out the creep of fascism and re-establish the separation of powers from the executive branch. It would also be really great if we could stop the same handful of billionaires from continuing to pull every nice thing out of the reach of the poors by saying things like, "They don't need to go to resorts and theme parks for their PTO," "nobody needs a to-go cup of coffee," or "there are plenty of other proteins to choose from that aren't beef" and raising prices.

Still, this is a victory, and no one's as capable at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as the Democrats.

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    Content warning: speculation and discussion about dystopianism, US fascism, mass surveillanceAfter ICE murdered Alex Pretti, it became known that he'd had a run in with ICE a week earlier, which was documented as he went to the ER for a broken rib courtesy of ICE. Knowing the prior interaction, the question arose as to how spontaneous the killing of Alex Pretti was. Was a decision to capture or kill him issued, on the day of his murder, as soon as he was recognized by the surveillance apparatus, before any ICE agent interacted with him?

    Based on what this article about 2020 Russian technology used in Iran suggests, I'm more convinced the killing of Alex Pretti was more pre-meditated. My fears of facial recognition in general are pretty piqued after reading this

     

    Some friends and I decided we wanted to start getting to know the cosmic horror genre but were really put off by the hateful whining of Lovecraft. Since we're all people he probably would've hated on, we made a book club to explore the works of minority cosmic horror writers. (We're open to suggestions if anybody has favorites they want to share!)

    I made and sent out these bookmarks to each of our members to celebrate.

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