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From a 2022 discussion about how Tolkien had described the elves as having "leaf-shaped" ears but not what kind of leaf. 🍁

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

It sucks that “an actual Nazi working at a new government agency named after a Shiba Inu meme, run by the South African shadow President, is trying to access all your banking information” probably sounds like some Lyndon LaRouche-level insane crank nonsense to normal people.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

This is an excellent thread

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

stares at the entire US Democratic party

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

“not a sprint, not a marathon, a relay” is the best way I’ve ever heard this phrased

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I am begging people to stop using "degenerate" to insult people. It's a term the Nazis and eugenicist movement explicitly used to condemn those people groups they saw as inferior. It means, in that world, that one's genes are such that it is immoral for that person to reproduce.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

CDC layoffs means I would desperately like all of my friends and comrades in the resistance sticking around for the good fight so please consider masking again if you had stopped. These are scary times and our government is NOT here for you if you get sick--even less so than before.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

when people argue for giving in to fascism it's generally because they find fascism appealing. 1

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Okay, we apparently need to have a crash course in food safety because people are still not getting it The mere act of applying heat to food to cook it is not itself sufficient to say "this food is free of foodborne pathogens". "Safety", in this context, is a function of temperature AND time.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

I succumbed to the temptation to argue with my colleague in the groupchat

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I’m getting lots of concerning responses to this: “You’re giving them too much credit! It’s all just Trump hating Biden!” No. No. No. The Trumpists truly believe “the Left” has taken over the major institutions of American life and nothing short of a comprehensive “counter-revolution” will suffice.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Block anyone posting about the LGB or LGBQ+ community. This is an active effort to erase trans people. There is no Pride without trans people. Specifically trans people of colour. Dropping the T is bootlicking. It's throwing them under the bus and waiting happily to be next.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Need a white guy to walk confidently into a federal building and delete all the student loans files

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

Truth and propaganda are not necessarily opposed! Propaganda is just a charged term for emotionally engaging information. FDR is one of the most successful propagandists in executive history, and most of it was good (from our perspective)!

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

Set up an entire shadow government! Other countries do already do this! Let people see how putting you in charge would be different!

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

if right wing weirdos ask you to go on their podcast to debate always say yes then on the day of recording just keep having technical issues and keep telling them it’s almost fixed but then never actually show up this way you waste an enormous amount of their and their nazi guest’s time

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

All these articles about Democrats moaning over their messaging issues make me tired. You know what's more important than messaging? ACTION. Don't TALK about the price of eggs. Tell people "MEET US IN THE PARK - WE'RE GIVING OUT FREE EGGS. THAT'S RIGHT - FREE EGGS FROM THE DEMOCRATS!"

submitted 8 days ago • 101 comments

People who refuse to sanitize what’s going on, who’s in charge on the Right, how extreme their goals are, tend to be discarded as “alarmists” or “hysterics.” Those who sanitize it all are upheld as “reasonable” voices. As a result, the broader public perception constantly underestimates the threat.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

This fact-free, anti-vaccine policy from Trump is straight-out pro-sickness—telling every school in America to pick between funding to keep teachers on the job and keeping students safe. NO WAY! This former Shoreline school board member is NOT sitting by quietly. SPEAK OUT!

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

hakeem jeffries' wife packing up to go stay at her parents because she asked him to wash the dishes and he stood in front of the sink throwing his hands in the air and saying "what can i do, the water isn't even on"

submitted 8 days ago • 214 comments

My congressman is supposedly one of the good guys but I swear his emails are turning me into the Joker: “How do you think the US govt should address federal funding cuts? - Bipartisan compromise by the people’s representatives in the House and Senate - Entrusting Elon Musk - Other/idk”

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Roses are red Violets are blue I just lost the game And so did you

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

None of this is about "efficiency." Mass firings occurred at the CFPB this week — one of the most efficient federal agencies. The goal here is to gut the government entirely and remove any obstacles to the continued consolidation of wealth and power by the oligarchs.

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

i'm annoyed at people's refusal to use alt text around here particularly when they're sharing important information on tiny screenshots with blurry text. come on, man. get it together

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

I wrote about how journalists shouldn’t write about “eliminating DEI” without explaining the clear outcome: resegregation.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

submitted 9 days ago • 98 comments

When you hear “Make America Healthy Again” please remember who the Nazi’s targeted first. They wanted to make Germany healthy and “pure” The Aktion T4 program mass murdered people with disabilities. They tested the gas chambers on us. Please do not obey in advance. Speak out. Save lives.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Everybody imagines they won't break when faced with seemingly unrelenting pressure. But everyone does. Make his staff quit because they hate fielding calls. Make him answer his phone. Become the ocean. Watch him break.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is deranged.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

The CFPB has returned $21 BILLION to consumers. It’s the reason your overdraft fees aren’t 7x the amount. They go after the shitty customer service you love to complain about online and get you refunds. Killing the agency is taking money out of your pocket.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments