iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10m

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

variety.com

David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

18039

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 2h

If anybody was feeling weak in the knees about shopping at Target with the Christmas season coming up, please don't. Target deserves none of your money.

218683

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29m

Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)

Despite Crockett’s opposition to the institution of slavery in the United States, he did enslave people.

1761483

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 4h

credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written

151098301

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14h

The future as imagined by men lacking the vital spark, who see no value in others' lives, who cannot envision the internalities of anyone unlike them, and who truly believe that everyone wants life to be an endless parade of flattery and yes-men just as they do.

161013206

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 1h

on the bridge battle everyone wants to see the bridge battle. "Where was the bridge battle?" They say. Listen some things are better left to the imagination.

000

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

wired.com

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

281132572

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 1h

I think that the Spanish Inquisition can caution us against more than one thing at a time.

150

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah the Inquisition actually a good lesson about how, once you build a system like this, it doesn't just go away when you finish.

140

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2h

The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts

214560

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 2h

Historically inaccurate in the sense that it is more awesome than history ever could be.

120

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.

151835365

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...

1501770245

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h

Just tomato with cream in it. The real question is where does Hatteras clam chowder fall here

010

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...

542717270

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 14h

What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye

21937186

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Skiddius↙️↙️↙️ @skiddius.bsky.social · 14h

Vindication probably never felt so bad.

18420

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13h

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

621320209141

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

8143781634

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 13h

if you find yourself in a position where you're being asked to be one of these people, either quit or use that access to do something I'm not allowed to say on this website

1273

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13h

this is the actual banality of evil shit. the person who provides the facilitator guide in an interactive pdf. is there a crafts table? someone will set that up. you should not be one of these people.

1203

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h

good lord

116623

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

391745455

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

Your typical nativist is *just* smart enough to realize that the government is never going to let them fulfill their dream of being a slaveowner and the Gulf State model is their favorite among the alternatives they think they can actually get.

918446

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 14h

The thing about all of these guys is that they are so fucking stupid.

051

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h

After ICE agents shot a man in the Bronx today, a call is circulating for people to mobilize to the hospital where the man was taken. Per NYPD an hour ago, “The individual who was shot…is currently conscious and receiving medical attention.”

ICE SHOT A MAN IN THE BRONX
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH
ALL OUT ALLEN HOSPITAL
5141 Broadway at West 220th Street
ICE OUT OF NYC!!
SHOW UP FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS!

7649310

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 14h

Automatically enrolling all Americans with their own Rumble account

030

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 14h

Of course live-streaming the firing squad execution of a Muslim America is beyond sick. But announcing it now, weeks before the election, is also pretty clearly (to me) a campaign move by the GOP. They want the outrage from elected Dems so they can twist it into anti-Dem messaging. Disgusting.

714434

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 14h

They just want to teach people to be evil, that's all.

050

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 14h

There's no coherent law and order belief behind it. Yes, we used to have a lot more executions, and yes they used to be public events. We also had a lot more crime! Crime in the "public hanging" days was extremely high. There is no deterrent effect.

150

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 14h

The deep Fascism chuds have been agitating for this kind of thing for a while. They believe not only that capital punishment is good, but that children should be taught to celebrate it.

362

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing enrages an evil man more than the sight of people doing good. Nothing makes him more furious than the realization that deep down, we aren't all like him. That we find his thoughts abhorrent, his beliefs foul, and his soul festering and corrupt.

09723

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 15h

Just two months after giving birth to her son, Adela Nohemy Castellanos is locked away at the Dilley Trailer Prison with her 10-year-old daughter, Sofia. They are separated from dad and three other siblings.

28343

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

15656001371

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

G.C. Houle @gchoule.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I keep seeing the phrase "social contagion" applied to things that require deep and ongoing commitment, like the decision to not have children, to break with a family member, or to transition. I can't understand this, so it must be a fad rather than the result of complex, layered societal shifts.

716135

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 16h

Wait what were the qualities. What were the qualities we inherited from the Greeks (!!!) that were deeper than democracy and philosophy?

020

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 16h

Hey why DID we call it the Green Lantern theory of politics, and not like Superman theory? Was it because of "willpower" or something?

110

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16h

Isn't this attempted murder?

712936

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 16h

I think also there's a solid half of the Texas GOP that fucking *despises* Paxton and would rather take a build year without him so they can run someone they like against "incumbent Democratic incompetence" a few years from now.

030

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 16h

Humiliating coming away from that show and discovering that I kind of like Hal Jordan, actually

110

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 16h

They actually already did this one like six months ago, I was in the grocery store and saw a box of soda that was like "New Flavor Chosen with the Help of AI!"

010

Reposted by (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats will never learn.

492764566

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 17h

Uh oh we are all going to be under the misapprehension that all the guys who work in SiVal AI jobs are not normal and well-adjusted.

110

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 18h

I think concomitant with accepting that it's not a big deal to have been wrong or hoaxed about something yourself is accepting that it's also not a very big deal to have *not* been hoaxed. Like I'm not sure there's any real merit in not having formed an opinion about something that wasn't real.

000

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 18h

Sure, okay. Are we going *insane* over it? Or just like. Talking about it? "This didn't really happen though!" Okay, great. Hopefully the thoughts I had about it will not be relevant in the future. bsky.app/profile/olde...

240