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rewatched Inglorious Basterds tonight. fun movie, holds up! no reason in particular

if you are the kind of guy who thinks a lot of big thoughts about how you would TOTALLY punch a Nazi if you ever got the chance, I have great (meaning, terrible) news for you about how many public places you can go now where that’s a genuinely useful attitude to have

So if you get that OPM email, my only advice is to recognize (1) it is asking you to give them an excuse to fire you (2) it will be processed by an LLM. If you want to leave, good luck to you, thank you for your service. If not, reply in a way designed to not give their LLM bot those free excuses.

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

"Fuck ICE, Fuck Trump + Musk, Go Birds" Seen in Philadelphia

I knew a Holocaust survivor who talked about the importance of notetaking under authoritarianism, to track what normal was and how it shifted. Here's that 🧵 with respect to disability, itself a canary in the fascist coal mine: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

firsts “since WWII” sure are piling up

will never forget seeing a maga hat here on D-Day 75. a restless place, that day.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

You beautiful maniacs made my book a Bookshop.org Best Seller of the Week, just below the dang Constitution. 😭

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

Following Trump’s rollout of anti-trans executive orders, Hunter Schafer said in the video that she was “scared of the way this stuff gets slowly implemented,” citing the precedent of “historical rises of fascism and everything this new administration represents.”

This is a great article about how GOP congressmen, instead of drafting policy, call minorities offensive names and investigate random emails for months. There’s a real opening for a party that say, wanted to pass laws that improve people’s lives.

The funniest thing I saw at the Arizona Renaissance festival hands down was this dude in a “Dark MAGA” shirt who gave a tepid little boo when a trained rat hoisted a little LGBTQ flag during a show, and everyone turned and gave him the stink eye until he slinked away. These fuckers are WEAK.

Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

Not killing enough Nazis post WWII is how we ended up with still having to deal with them.

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

A few pics from today's Rally for Trans Visibility at Stonewall National Monument in NYC, organized by The Transexual Menace.

Brian's book is one of the best, most necessary books of the spring that fundamentally changed how I see our current circumstances (and I read it before trump was in office). Preorder it and support his other events.

I’m the problem and not the guy(s) that just did the Nazi salute.

A thoughtful piece from @miasato.bsky.social with banger illustrations from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.

ok i appreciate everyone saying "opt out of the economy, stop buying books, go to your library" bc like YES libraries are awesome but umm as a queer author... please god buy books from (black, queer, trans, palestinian, indigenous, disabled) writers. from b&n or an indie bookstore is best!

anotha one

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

Welcome to affirmative action for white male mediocrity, which has a long, long history but is all ramped up and shouty and sulky right now.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

I like being in charted territory.

ENOUGH already! Some of us are trying to make absurd satirical comedy!

Stay strong @governorwalz.mn.gov.

men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

The only reason to pointedly humiliate a group of people in this way is to make their lives more painful and difficult and, accordingly, to make them feel both vulnerable and disdained. It is the sort of cruelty we should expect from this administration, and it is fucking unacceptable.

Me- *trying to figure out how to help with the current situation in America* What if I dressed as a banana and chained myself to the courthouse? I mean, it couldn’t HURT, right?

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.