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cthonides.bsky.social
burnt-out, neurodivergent, polygottal polymath and reconstructed emigré from the right-wing fever-swamps Without a conscience, I could have been Q. Had I been able to conform, I’d have been a pastor. Now I’m some kind of artsy-fartsy, paganish commie.
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submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"Historians called this period, in which the official government competed for power with the council of billionaires and boers, as the Dual Power..."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

giga lulz giga, giga lulz

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A lot of very lazy analysis boils down to assuming all Palestinian accounts are scams and the reason for this is that the cost to the armchair analysts for being wrong is zero. It's not cost-free to the unfairly maligned Gazans however.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

i think it was deleuze or foucault who said that religious garments like the veil and hijab would each far outlive their respective religions as sexual fetishes and i don't think there's a better contemporary anecdote for this than the zoomers who take up the mantel of "trad life"

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

I've been a little quiet. Yes, it's partially because of the aforementioned life changes (including a major misfire), partially because of the depression, and also I forgot my login information so that I can log back on to bsky on my phone. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“This car—why did I keep this car? Ten people, right there! …” I’m not him. I didn’t even save one. But this scene is constantly on my mind. I am so sorry my sisters and brothers. I am so sorry. Do not forgive me, but I pray Allah you endure! Perhaps God even listens to white Americans. Perhaps.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to be quieter for a few weeks/months, starting this weekend—making some big life changes. Free Palestine! Liberate CECOT! Down with fascism! Black lives matter! Trans lives matter! Autism is not an epidemic to be cured! And, your body is beautiful and should be honored. 💚✊🍉

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 49 days ago • 1737 comments

>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end

submitted 50 days ago • 115 comments

going to bed on the high note that for this moment public pressure still works may it multiply every day

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I’m almost starting to not disdain this guy. I mean, I still think that he* is far from a typical Republican and movement conservative, but, ya know, good for him, willing to evolve like this. *Brooks—Sirota’s great

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

submitted 50 days ago • 68 comments

i need some space… and maybe you do too

submitted 50 days ago • 125 comments

emotionally difficult to reckon with the necessity of appeals like "oppression could happen to you too" when "oppression shouldn't happen to anyone" should be enough it feels like we're all nails squabbling about who should be hammered, and the quantity of hammering is only ever preserved

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

This is the heart of it. There are just 100 senators in our system. They’re some of the most powerful people in the country, if not the world. Anyone who acts like they’re just smol bean Americans who can’t do anything about our current national emergency are chumps.

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

one senator insisted on seeing his constituent one that’s all it took to apply pressure what the ever living fuck are the rest of y’all doing???

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe that I am congratulating David Brooks, but here we are. Yes! Thank you! Clearly the Trump gang is executing a Machiavellian strategy to establish a dictatorship. This was predictable. It has been obvious for weeks, and it isn’t stopping.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Look we may no longer have free speech exceptionalism but goddamned if we’re not still absolutely exceptional.

submitted 50 days ago • 16 comments

1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington. It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 50 days ago • 63 comments

if the point of the tariffs was to relocate manufacturing then you can't go around doing "trade deals". conversely if you are doing trade deals nobody is going to want to invest in domestic manufacturing. as Martin Sheen said, I don't see any method here

submitted 50 days ago • 40 comments

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

submitted 51 days ago • 178 comments

I have a story about due process in a mass adjudicatory setting. A while back, there was this group called the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints that had a compound in rural Texas. Well these FLDS folks dressed funny (like bonnets and long dresses and suspenders and corncob pipes funny).

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

One can hope, anyway.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

“Trump is just like (x communist)” no he isn’t but thanks for letting everyone know your brain is held together with glue and duct tape

submitted 51 days ago • 29 comments

americans when their country’s politicians do the most american, imperialist, & capitalist thing ever: “WHAT ARE WE A BUNCHA GODLESS COMMUNISTS?! IS THIS DA NORTH KOREA?!?! BAH GAWD!! REMINDS ME OF AN OLD JOKE ABOUT GENERALISMO STALIN!! FUCKIN TANKIES GLOBO HOMO USA 4EVER”

submitted 71 days ago • 16 comments