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oh man, this one cuts right to the bone

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Anti-trans disinfo runs on fossil fuels, and hating on Trans people is the new "climate is a hoax". An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Imagine the Western news media coverage if China had illegally intercepted a humanitarian aid vessel in international waters and Chinese soldiers had taken the 12 unarmed crew captive. The Western media is complicit in Israel's genocide. #Madleen #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

These are con-artists. And I feel like I'm going crazy because so few people recognize them when it used to be a very common skill most people had!

submitted 10 hours ago • 96 comments

I am a historian and the consensus as to the start date for Italian fascism is when Mussolini, accused of having his party disappear a leftist member of Parliament, made a speech daring anyone to do anything about it - no one did.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

I'd like to be extremely concerned about the marines being deployed to an American city and the scientific committee that determines vaccine schedules being disbanded, but I'm gonna hold off until the Distraction Knowers give the okay

submitted 15 hours ago • 86 comments

One odd thing about Twitter/ Bluesky discourse from my perspective is… I didn’t leave Twitter for Bluesky. I left twitter. Then well over a year later, there was Bluesky, and I joined it. (In between, tried Threads and Mastadon.) If Bluesky disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t go back to Twitter.

submitted 22 hours ago • 42 comments

This is sort of what happened with DOGE. They were convinced there was a mountain of easily-detectable waste and fraud that a handful of folks equipped with "common sense" could root out & eliminate in a manner of weeks. And there wasn't. But they had promised headlines about big cuts...

submitted 21 hours ago • 39 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 19 hours ago • 192 comments

Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter. While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH. This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line. We should acknowledge that.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

For all the talks about concerns over disinformation, the mainstream media have been a key agent in the mainstreaming of far right politics by: - covering them disproportionately - hyping moral panics - platforming their bad faith actors as legitimate bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

If you've been trying to put words to why all the "big tent" talk about "winning the middle" to defeat fascism that's coming from allegedly moderate alleged pragmatists seems like such wrong-minded nonsense, well I wrote all about that. www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Freedom in the genocide

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thinking of Greta Thunberg (and co) and those being attacked by ICE in LA. Lot of horrible stuff going on right now but also A LOT of people standing up for what's right.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

It’s fucking infuriating that the authoritarian regime has troops in the streets and all you hear in coverage is concern about “anarchists and extremists.” The fascists are fucking extreme. Corporate media is a curse on this society.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

The American version of democracy sausages. As a dual citizen I am very proud of both!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Kooky that a create-your-own-feed-without-an-algorithm site is criticized as “a bubble,” but a spoon-fed, cruise-ship, gated-community algorithm-driven site is treated like a free market of ideas or Mars Hill.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I have a lot of complaints about this place sometimes, I do. But none of my concerns are that it’s not getting big enough or staying big enough. This mindset is a freaking disease. Everything does not have to be infinitely big, keep getting bigger, grow grow grow in size.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

All of the talk about "peaceful protest" makes me think of all the times I have been part of a protest where the police cracked someone over the head and then charged that person with assault. They will call you violent. You can't control that or other people.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Ordinary Germans did not come out in numbers to try to block the troops taking their Jewish neighbors away, so this moment is giving me a lot of hope and pride. Americans aren't ready to capitulate to fascism

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It is so frustrating when people say that Trump needs a pretext to escalate or a reason to be authoritarian. There is no justification for either and he has already done both without needing an excuse. This is what abusers do. They victimize regardless of what their victims do

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

There was minimal coverage or actual footage of yesterday’s events in Los Angeles on the X platform. Everything I saw was here. As a result, Trump and the right-wing information machine are in almost complete control of the narrative on the X platform.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I re-present this piece, given Trump deploying the military to the streets of LA.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Lego art 🍳 😄

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

There are moments with authoritarian takeovers where resistance is met with state power and violence in order to intimidate a population into compliance. What happens then literally defines everything. Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay focused.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

I blogged with some #rstats simulations about the topical question of whether changes in the proportion of p values that fall between 0.01 and 0.05 tells us much about the replication crisis. I conclude 'probably not'. (1/n) freerangestats.info/blog/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 2 days ago • 581 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments