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Groupthink-ass take
If the truth is all bad, then it's a skill (read: ethical disparity) issue on the part of the convicted.
I’d like my book to be a tad less prescient brandyschillace.com/book/the-int...
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.
Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.
How about we try valuing writing more. Try saying “Wow this is a skill and it’s cool some people get good at it” instead of thinking barely-functional autocomplete is going to do anything worthwhile.
One of my all-time favorite bands youtu.be/ajG-fo2eB7s
Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer. That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
We need to understand the libidinal composition of anglofascism. It's a carnival, it's pints and packet on a Saturday. It's the feeling the cruelty might finally be worth it, because you get your share, laundered through the images of owned lib, sad migrant, and the cheeky, horny, deporter in chief.
What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.
#krashpatel #kashpatel
New favorite song youtu.be/FRD0W2-tr64
"I've had an escape plan for every classroom I've been in for the last twelve years." Student leaders from Evergreen High School share their candid thoughts with our @marcsallinger.bsky.social following last week's shooting.
What is Jake Tapper doing here?
It's not that we refuse help, it's that institutionalizing people will KILL us and remove all sense of dignity. It's Bedlam all over again.
Disabled people warned you. Y'all who work from paycheck to paycheck and MIDDLE-CLASS, THIS INCLUDES YOU. How close are you to losing your homes???
Fight back AGAINST WHO, MELON???
Praying for adjustment
America has officially entered its Dark Ages. God help us all—because there's no longer any reason to believe Congress or the courts or media will. We have lost our way to a degree I never thought possible, and I am not going to pretend to have any answers about how we find our way back. We may not.
I wrote this song a number of weeks ago. Sadly, with each passing day it becomes even more resonant to me and reflective of my current spirit—as the lyrics draw closer and closer to where I feared we would end up as a nation. Maybe it will speak to how you're feeling as well.
Every political assassin in the US in my life has always been a weirdo fringe nazi who's mad that the government isn't racist and oppressive enough and in response the government gets more racist and oppressive, so i guess political violence really does work 🤷♂️
This just reads like "I have the power of God and Anime on my side! (flails fake lightsaber)"
Getting the Tumblr staff treatment from Bluesky There is no such thing as a decent media platform.
The reality is that universities, faculty and students are living through an unprecedented assault on speech rights. If you care about protecting speech on campus, that is the battle. Weiss mostly doesn't care abt Trump clamping down on campus speech, because she is largely aligned with his goals.
Ha ha Hee hee Hoo hoo Hroo hraa
The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.
Blue Prince players would NEVER
In August, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf cautioned that the Trump Administration could wage war on women's health. Now they have destroyed over $10 million dollars in viable contraceptives.
It's Crybully behavior
Cry harder, maybe we'll laugh less
You don't see _Blue Prince_ gamers getting radicalized and attacking anyone... but maybe that's because there's a lot more nuance (pun intended) to it than Helldivers 2.
This is insane. He did say that. He believed that. They all believe that. Stop apologizing for the truth for one goddamned second. ew.com/stephen-king...
Chronically online Groypers are so far removed from reality and desensitized to violence that they don't know what it's like for that level of pain to happen to them. Anyways, any update on the Epstein files?
Thou, Texas (derogatory)
Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.
But can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
This likely offends those who actually follow and practice Asatru, following the edicts of the Norse gods.
Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a 22 year old white cis man & 4chan groyper. Charlie Kirk’s last words were “gang violence”. he was claiming Black people were inherently violent right before his life was ended by another white man. Here is a description of Kirk’s terrorism by one of his many victims:
It is genuinely funny when shitlibs will talk about being willing to sacrifice trans people, disabled people, and other marginalized and ask risk groups to capitulate to and negotiate with fascism, call everyone who won't throw those people under the bus as traitors, and then try to language police
1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death, many far-right influencers quickly began to call for revenge against the left. But it’s not just random individuals circulating violent fantasies—leaders of prominent extremist groups and pardoned insurrectionists have issued calls to their networks.
We all need to keep the Epstein pressure on. Only open online news stories about Trump’s abuse of power or Epstein stuff Don’t get distracted with Kirk news! Also Google “Trump Epstein files” every day. They were thrilled when searches decreased in number.
Incredible post 9-11 vibes for anyone who remembers Ari Fleischer's "all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do.”
Just a reminder that this Kirk guy said stuff that LINE FOR LINE follows the 14 points that Umberto Eco listed in his essay, "Ur-Fascism."
Some au jus with my MLT (mutton-lettuce-tomato), please
830 new laws from the small government crowd.
Do not let me see you calling people pornsick gooners and shit. I feel like it's not something I've drawn a red line on before now but I'm going to from here on. That shit is standard issue fascism and I will unfollow you if I see it and if I see it after I've unfollowed you, I will block you.
Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
All of the election fraud lies and conspiracy theories have softened the ground underneath our election process, enabling the Trump regime’s next steps… to use those lies to justify changing the rules of elections to (further) tilt them in their favor.
The thing to understand about Chicago is that the people who live here love this fucking city, and we will defend it. Always.
Started with this scoldacious meme, but went into the larger questions.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. US military members will never grow the capacity to go against orders because the fundamental axiom is Never Speak Out.
no God—just us chickens
"American fascism looks like the would-be self-proclaimed king deploying the military on US soil not only not in response to requests by local or state officials but over — and almost specifically to spite — their vociferous objections."
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
Yet another BANGER from Lindsay Ellis: Viewer Discretion is Advised. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4
DC Cover of the Day If you see this, post a DC Cover you love. Love those two guys. And Major Disaster and Big Sir too. Justice League of America #34 by #AdamHughes #BlueBeetle #BoosterGold
I know many of you haven’t had a Covid shot in years but please, this is so important to call your reps and yell at them about. This is one of the few safeguards immunocompromised and disabled people have against this disease that everyone seems to not be afraid of anymore. Covid still kills people.
LLMs are not conscious, and they are not capable of producing consciousness. To claim otherwise is to claim you know what consciousness is, and I doubt you do; it is to claim you can refute the null hypothesis, and I doubt you can. Further, you demean me and yourself if you claim these things.
“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign," Lisa Cook said tonight in response to Trump
“Law enforcement” says NPR, sanewashing this illegal garbage of sending the US military after the civilians they were sworn to protect.
Two court rulings last week laid bare both the MAGA Supreme Court’s partisan lawlessness and the enduring strength of the First Amendment. Jen Rubin highlights what pro-democracy Americans can do to fight back against authoritarianism.
“But Congress passed laws after Katrina to protect Americans and FEMA from inadequate leadership, inaction, and unpreparedness, but I don’t think Congress realizes how many of those laws have been broken, been violated.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
just like you guys, i put my pants on one leg at a time, leaning against a wall, losing my balance, falling to my knees, yelling “FUCK”, rolling over onto my butt, turning back onto my knees, trying to get back up, grabbing the TV stand for support, attempting to catch the TV, yelling “FUCK” again,
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"The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, will be published in the autumn, a publisher has announced... The 400-page book will be released on 21 October, according to the Associated Press."
A Brazilian trans woman, in the US legally under asylum, has been taken and disappeared by ICE.
Why I choose not to play the game
![“As a Gen Z American, here’s my two cents on delayed gratification: we’ve watched the promise fail Gen X and Millennials repeatedly in real time because we’ve had access to the Internet since childhood. […] I don’t have it in me to put up with the same shit. Maybe it’s bratty and short-sighted, but I’ve watched enough people older than me have enough of their decades of life ripped from them with the false promises of later rewards, so to my mind saying ‘this will pay off in the future’ means you’re not actually planning on paying out, you’re hoping you can take advantage of my patience and goodwill. Pay me my rewards now, or I’ll assume you’ll never intend to actually reward me.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vh3svhahabkiknsd53dsi5lp/bafkreihlrzx7j3vxxyspkuwjagfd4dxrcvifnapungpa7ioqtwshxgmtxu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
While Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the US, it’s not a crime for a woman to obtain or seek abortion care. This didn't stop the state from charging Lizelle Gonzalez with murder in 2022. Now, she's suing a local sheriff and prosecutors for violating her constitutional rights.
LaRon hits with this one! #DcComics #DCCU youtu.be/qsTRVHIHWqc
May the second oak tree finish what the first started.
"Putin is a predator – an ogre at our gates." President Emmanuel Macron
GOP-Trump Policy caused catastrophic fatal flooding. But instead of doing anything to prevent the next climate disaster they are targeting trans people. If you don’t look sufficiently “female” some Texas Yahoo can sue you? Texas is backwards AF! open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
The first time I learned anything substantive about slavery (beyond the sanitized stuff they tell you in grade school) was in high school. We had an assignment to read an American novel set in the past and research the historical accuracy of events in the story. I read Beloved.
“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
Six Republican-led states sending National Guard troops to D.C. under the guise of a fake crisis. Texas Republicans using police to impose a rigged map on Texans and steal an election. Congressional Republicans funneling taxpayer dollars into kidnappings and concentration camps. This is fascism.
The men selling their own children born of rape: that's what the Confederate flag stands for.
SKELETOOOOOOOUR
Whether or not all this fascist spectacle is effective will depend on how hard we fight back. It will prove to have been a pathetic backwards hollow image-first joke, or a rocky start to the building of an authoritarian regime (or some third thing that intervenes history is weird) but it's up to us
Book time :3 I'm busy scouting books for my 2025 rec list, so let's give @elierlick.bsky.social's 2025 history title a whirl!
In any other country they would write: "Paramilitary groups loyal to the President patrol the capital. In another opposition stronghold, thousands have been kidnapped & disappeared by the regime. All this chaos happening just months after opposition lawmakers were murdered in their homes."
Slow ICE down by applying but never following through with showing up. SLOW THEM DOWN. ELBOWS UP.
The same Republicans and conservatives who have spent the past few days insisting we don’t mention Jan 6th because ‘it was four years ago!’ have also spent the past few weeks obsessing over the *2016* election and indicting Obama for treason.
o7
There is no "or" about it. It is a fascist hero/death cult display of authoritarian oppression and political theater. Big Brother propaganda and the Schutzstaffel all in one package.
Arby's has been battling mixed opinions on the new menu since Chef Dahmer announced it on Monday. Some love the added variety, while others decry it as a psychopathic orgy of cannibalism.
hate to backseat post war reconstruction, but I would have just hung all the nazis like fred trump
Jeffrey Epstein raped children regularly. Donald Trump was his closest friend. Draw your own conclusions.
Newsom is a gutless, spineless coward, a cruel neoliberal jackass obviously delighted by violence against the homeless and totally unconcerned with trans lives. A new and inferior iteration of Obama.
ALL GENERATIONS ARE FICTIONAL MARKETING CATEGORIES AAAAAAHHHHH
this is the section to watch and i’ll tell you that if they revise community guidelines 3A i & ii to be milder the way every other social media site has done & punt to labelers and “composable moderation,” i am the fuck out of here.
theonion.com/conservative...
