Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

An absolutely MASSIVE peaceful rally like #NoKings is part of an organizing strategy and movement that could lead to what this sign maker wants.

All of it matters. All of it builds.

I'm not saying it was Assane Diop but it was definitely Assane Diop
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Where is FEMA?

Alright. I’m going to say it.

The most powerful military in the history of the world set out to destroy a jerry-rigged submarine in uncontested waters and

…

Failed.

And then…

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...