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huff.bsky.social
Good government researcher in DC. he/him Love the internet, video games, and urbanism; hate fascists, simple as.
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Remember in the early days of the internet how it screamed every time we logged on? We should have paid attention to that.

Who wants to give me a new job?

"Stranger danger" is so nefarious as a propaganda tool, because 1) most sexual violence is committed by people known to the victim and 2) the people imagined to be "the stranger" (trans people, immigrants, Black people) are themselves most at risk for facing violence from people they don't know

There is a very good chance that next year tens of thousands of people will be dead because of an ideological opposition by the Trump administration to doing the basics of governing

how we holding up chat

they're trying to kill all of us

Dear Manager: 1. I was a highwayman 2. Along the coach roads I did ride 3. Sword and pistol by my side 4. Maidens lost their baubles 5. Soldiers shed their lifeblood 6. The bastards hung me 7. I’ll be back again and again and again

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

a lot of people rn are like "I voted for the You're Fired guy and then he fired me, what the hell!"

highwater elegy

we used to be a proper country

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

stop making me say “doge”

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Yeah I know people say anxiety is bad, but mine has just been collecting all the possible things that can go wrong so far. Once it has an exhaustive catalog of every possible mishap, it’ll move on to suggesting solutions and then you better watch out.

If George Soros held an Oval Office press conference explaining his plans for the Biden administration and then the State Department awarded a nine figure contract to the Open Society Foundations then Washington D.C. would’ve consisted of mostly ash and blood within 72 hours.

This is what stings the most. This is a generational setback, assuming Dems even come out the other side with any real interest in rebuilding

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

Section.80 was a start to finish masterpiece in 2011!!

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

This Super Bowl is for the haters

To understand the faction leading America, recognize they think the worst, most terrifying things to happen in recent years are: 1) George Floyd protests 2) Public health treating COVID as real 3) HR saying "we've received complaints about your, um, 'jokes'" 4) Press 1 for English 5) Pronouns in bio

Sorry to the eugenicists in the comments but you do not get to use “fuck around and find out” on kids who are being murdered by their idiot parents

PC Gamer, June 1998

"We obviously can't do anything" is not a tenable response to a crisis brought about by actors using every lever at their disposal to do things no one thought they could do.

"opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits" for when your newspaper wants to make a fascist coup sound like a fun motocross adventure

Loving being taxed without representation

That's cool, Chuck. Do you happen to know anyone in Congress?

You’re in luck, Chuck! You just so happen to be Senate Minority Leader with decades of political experience and connections at your disposal! Oughta do something about that!

The argument against the "do something" crowd is that an opposition party is simply incapable of influencing events outside of their narrow constitutional duties. Like, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries simply cannot generate a media circus.

We need to stop calling these settlements. Seriously. Be a reporter. He will file suit anytime anyone says anything he doesn't like then offer a settlement. And he'll even sue the places who say good things about him. It's a bribe. And if you can't see that then you're not a serous reporter

Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

people keep sneering that rfk jr is a former heroin addict as if that isn’t easily the most human thing about him lol

Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer. Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.

The thing is that the news has to do the same thing with Elon that it does with Trump where you have to constantly go “well what I THINK he meant was…” because if you just look at what is actually done without editorializing it makes you feel really gross if you’re not upset by it

Dawg, what are we even doing here?

simple point i tried to convey in the post I just shared. if someone does a nazi salute at a political rally, i don't need to do a critical biography or do some deep dive on why they did it. if you want a research project, sure, whatever. but that doesn't matter. They did it. Thats all that matters.