Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews
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An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some academics worried
The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.
www.insidehighered.com
I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge
Gavin really cannot stop saying the thing out loud he is only working for one group wealthy bigots
Gavin cannot and will not be president he is an autocrat.
Gavin cannot and will not be president he is an autocrat.
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Gavin really cannot stop saying the thing out loud he is only working for one group wealthy bigots
Gavin cannot and will not be president he is an autocrat.
Gavin cannot and will not be president he is an autocrat.
Americans really need to wake up to what is happening outside of America right now in terms of Americas messaging to leadership across the globe but specifically Europe. America is a white power fascist dictatorship and the world outside of the unreality bubble is getting a fire hose at the moment.
I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Americans really need to wake up to what is happening outside of America right now in terms of Americas messaging to leadership across the globe but specifically Europe. America is a white power fascist dictatorship and the world outside of the unreality bubble is getting a fire hose at the moment.
Hyper normalizing extrajudicial murder abroad in the way we are now means that same extrajudicial murder will be deployed at home within months if not sooner.
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Hyper normalizing extrajudicial murder abroad in the way we are now means that same extrajudicial murder will be deployed at home within months if not sooner.
Hundreds of trillions of dollars need to be returned to the people of the world
Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Hundreds of trillions of dollars need to be returned to the people of the world
Fascisms gleeful banality of mass murder and brutality as religion all wrapped into one exchange.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Fascisms gleeful banality of mass murder and brutality as religion all wrapped into one exchange.
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The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
Exposing corruption only works if there is a functional method to hold those acting outside of the law accountable, and it is increasingly unlikely that we have that form of Democratic apparatus for decades.
Repeatedly being shown corruption without accountability will only bread despair.
Repeatedly being shown corruption without accountability will only bread despair.
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Exposing corruption only works if there is a functional method to hold those acting outside of the law accountable, and it is increasingly unlikely that we have that form of Democratic apparatus for decades.
Repeatedly being shown corruption without accountability will only bread despair.
Repeatedly being shown corruption without accountability will only bread despair.
People are getting walked like a dog by the authoritarian media apparatus in this country and they don’t even understand it
It’s driving me nuts that the Trump admin shifted the focus to solely the 2nd strike, & the press & many Dems are just going along with that.
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
People are getting walked like a dog by the authoritarian media apparatus in this country and they don’t even understand it
That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
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Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.
American fascism has now transitioned the military to being fully comfortable with extrajudicial murder abroad and it will be coming home fast
We killed four more people in the Pacific Ocean today, according to a video just posted to DVIDS, the military's media distribution channel
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
American fascism has now transitioned the military to being fully comfortable with extrajudicial murder abroad and it will be coming home fast
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They’re gonna bring back slavery and back alley abortions and folks will still be thinking joining a racist Substack will save them
Not sure if I have attempted to explain this but…the latter part of Project 2025 relies on a tagteam from the Supreme Court.
So, when the Court eliminates the Constitutional right to same-sex marriage, eviscerates the Voting Rights Act, they unlocks the final, more-sweeping, stages of Project 2025.
So, when the Court eliminates the Constitutional right to same-sex marriage, eviscerates the Voting Rights Act, they unlocks the final, more-sweeping, stages of Project 2025.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
They’re gonna bring back slavery and back alley abortions and folks will still be thinking joining a racist Substack will save them
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These are open fascists and they are attempting to accelerate America into open totalitarian fascism and forever war against he world.
These people must be stopped no matter the cost.
These people must be stopped no matter the cost.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
These are open fascists and they are attempting to accelerate America into open totalitarian fascism and forever war against he world.
These people must be stopped no matter the cost.
These people must be stopped no matter the cost.
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Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...
ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb...
share.google
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...
America is going to become one of the most openly repressive police states in history before this is over and people with power will continue to downplay it as conspiracy theory or doomerism to point it out. Because the people downplay what is happening are now part of the process of it happening.
When I traveled in China I had to get a letter from my editor confirming that I wasn’t on assignment and wouldn’t be reporting while in the country. I was also advised not to travel with pens or notebooks.
This new US rule IS MUCH WORSE
This new US rule IS MUCH WORSE
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
America is going to become one of the most openly repressive police states in history before this is over and people with power will continue to downplay it as conspiracy theory or doomerism to point it out. Because the people downplay what is happening are now part of the process of it happening.
More of this please.
Newsom will never win the presidency he is an authoritarian bigot and a misogynist.
Newsom will never win the presidency he is an authoritarian bigot and a misogynist.
"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
More of this please.
Newsom will never win the presidency he is an authoritarian bigot and a misogynist.
Newsom will never win the presidency he is an authoritarian bigot and a misogynist.
Things are deteriorating so quickly as the full weight of American fascism comes to bear it’s really hard to fully explain to people even having done this for years now.
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Things are deteriorating so quickly as the full weight of American fascism comes to bear it’s really hard to fully explain to people even having done this for years now.
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
Americans have no understanding what it is going to take to destroy the machinery of fascism and the scaffolding it is building
American fascism may be one of the most incompetent forms of autocracy ever imagined.
Make no mistake its damage is enormous and compounding and it’s a terror organization but we are incredibly lucky they are still this incompetent.
Make no mistake its damage is enormous and compounding and it’s a terror organization but we are incredibly lucky they are still this incompetent.
NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
American fascism may be one of the most incompetent forms of autocracy ever imagined.
Make no mistake its damage is enormous and compounding and it’s a terror organization but we are incredibly lucky they are still this incompetent.
Make no mistake its damage is enormous and compounding and it’s a terror organization but we are incredibly lucky they are still this incompetent.
It’s absolutely astounding watching the population get lead from one thing to another by the news all while massive raids are unfolding nationwide disappearing people and the Gestapo is further terrorizing the country at an accelerated rate while public protest has disappeared in media.
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It’s absolutely astounding watching the population get lead from one thing to another by the news all while massive raids are unfolding nationwide disappearing people and the Gestapo is further terrorizing the country at an accelerated rate while public protest has disappeared in media.
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Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport
www.anarchistfederation.net
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport
Satire is dead.
That is all.
That is all.
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Satire is dead.
That is all.
That is all.
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Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?
The world is already in a worldwide war with fascism. They just won’t call it that yet, but we will come to look back at moments like this as part of a longer term fascist war against Democratic Society and opening shots in a global war for the future.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The world is already in a worldwide war with fascism. They just won’t call it that yet, but we will come to look back at moments like this as part of a longer term fascist war against Democratic Society and opening shots in a global war for the future.
If we want fascism to end in America, people like Alex Karp have to go to prison forever and palentir must be destroyed their databases erased, and its tools destroyed.
Anyone in a high level at the company must go to prison as well. This is bare minimum stuff for rebuilding democracy at some point
Anyone in a high level at the company must go to prison as well. This is bare minimum stuff for rebuilding democracy at some point
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If we want fascism to end in America, people like Alex Karp have to go to prison forever and palentir must be destroyed their databases erased, and its tools destroyed.
Anyone in a high level at the company must go to prison as well. This is bare minimum stuff for rebuilding democracy at some point
Anyone in a high level at the company must go to prison as well. This is bare minimum stuff for rebuilding democracy at some point
Funny you say that considering you literally voted for the Leiken reiley act, are working to strip legal rights from your constituents and pal around with literal fascists like alpha news as we can see in this picture of you. Angie you’re a liar who’s working with Nazis. Stfu
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Funny you say that considering you literally voted for the Leiken reiley act, are working to strip legal rights from your constituents and pal around with literal fascists like alpha news as we can see in this picture of you. Angie you’re a liar who’s working with Nazis. Stfu