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She/her, Ph.D. Reader, writer, teacher, talker. Propaganda works.
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Science is pretty good, let's keep it 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In case you are interested, this is what a German ballot paper looks like. Two votes - first goes to the candidate in your constituency. As you can see, only some, usually the bigger parties, put up these “direct” candidates. Second vote determines the % of the party in your Land. #BTW2025

On my Substack I wrote the first part of a three-part essay about THE AGE OF CHRISTIANE F. It’s a long piece about a book that’s been obsessing me for some time — what it says about its era and what it means that that era lasted so long adriandaub.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

AOC is the best kind of elected official. youtu.be/vSilE1oyQYM?...

We need to create a culture of solidarity. Boycotts and strikes are effective. February 28th, join us.

Ever since I was a boy I knew I wanted to participate in an asynchronous online discussion forum

#KeinRechtAufNaziPropaganda

Fantastic video/transcript of the conversation between the indispensable @anandwrites.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social 'So what do we say? We say: “This is a government of the bullies for the billionaires.” He is coming for your freedom. He is coming for your privacy.'

I loved talking right wing sex positivity and the contradictory landscape of MAGA desire with @adriandaub.bsky.social and the hilarious and lovely @mattxiv.bsky.social ✨ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

See you out there

Follow their lead. And Pritzker’s.

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

I have decided to call @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social EVERY DAY to tell him to fight harder. The days of being cautious and timid have led us to fascism. I will remind him he works for us and that he needs to ramp it up. I called and left a message today. Please join me. His number: 202-225-5936

FOLLOW HER LEAD

I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

It should've ended when he made fun of a disabled reporter. To this day I remember how I felt watching it on TV. To this day.

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

beyond parody

When a country would rather have a king than elect a woman.

this is a lie. the federal government can literally print money. we are not going to run out of money. Musk wants to gut the federal government because he doesn't want people to have democratic means of reigning in billionaires.

If this is populism, it’s the sado kind

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

Pritzker gets it

Governor JB Pritzker, Illinois State of the State address February 19, 2025. "If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

I hate Space Twitter

And now we will. Score one for himpathy!

Sure, NYT, we can call it “rewriting history.” We can also call it “lying shamelessly.”

I am the kind of friend who will send you lots of links but also absolutely read everything you send me

No lies detected

Sputtering with rage 😡

Inshallah

Dawg they Freedom Fried us, it’s so over

You should beware stanning any politician but Pritzker is one of the few Democrats who I think has come out better in the last few months

The rapidity with which I am becoming a Pritzker stan ...

Pritzker stepping into the gap left by Schumer and Jeffries.

BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...