A thing is that conspiracy theories are FAR from new. What is/was “new” is/was their ostensible categorical/genre stigmatization and decreased acceptability. Hence ability to (circumstances obtaining) deploy “conspiracy theory” as a per se dismissal of claims.

Today I learned “grandfather clause” referred to practice of exempting from poll taxes/literacy tests/other barriers to voting… …of people whose grandparents would have been allowed to vote before Emancipation/imposition of barriers, to disenfranchise Black people See Guinn (& Beale) v US (1915):

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

"Movements that abandon core supporters in pursuit of mythical moderate voters often end up with neither. Energy drains away, activists stay home, and the authentic moral voice gets replaced by calculated positioning that convinces no one." data4democracy.substack.com/p/you-cant-e...

"If you weren't willing to push the button, you wouldn't stay in the program." - Tommy Metcalf, former nuclear sub tech and convicted killer. www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows. Aid request. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

@muddycat.bsky.social thank you, that was generous & kind of you.

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You know, i imagine that Palestinians in Gaza also felt like the Biden administration policies were like “a long nightmare that never really ended.” The State of Israel is carrying out blatant and open warcrimes and genocide with USA weapons, aid, funding, & elite bipartisan political support.

@newsguy.bsky.social glad to see you back in the saddle.

If you're asking "didn't California sue over a very similar title 10 usage? And win in federal court?" Yes. Yes they did. The federal government appealed it but a district court found Trump's orders violated Posse Comitatus.

This is from the "Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-72, Nuclear Operations," released in August 2025: "To achieve theater-level objectives, CCDRs [Combatant Commanders] may request the use of CONUS-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)..." h/t Al Mauroni, links ⬇️ 1/

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🎶Arby’s employees more people in USA than entire coal industry🎶 www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... More people die each year from flu & COVID than coal industry employs. #Priorities Trump regime is existential threat to a humanity. Call Congress as part of diversity of tactics.

"Has your country ever been so xenophobic it's easier to imagine elder care robots than permissive immigration?" is a real test of our time

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

Strong smell of petrichor. Have been enjoying the thunder.

@conelrad6401240.bsky.social @wellerstein.bsky.social @atomicanalyst.bsky.social @nuclearanthro.bsky.social @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social So not just school desks!

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speaking from experience, i think most health & climate communicators could benefit from at least some high-level training in disaster/emergency response comms

i love these guys, they look like flying moose

"Gentlemen, we have a problem." www.motherjones.com/politics/199... Great @kensilverstein1.bsky.social piece from '98.

sucks shit that we spent 22 years building up a federal force of masked goons to do disappearsnces and despite democrats holding the white house for 12 of those years never scaled them back

I hired a professional military records specialist who tells me that aside from a final pay document from Cunningham's first hitch in the service (Army) during WW 2, he has no record whatsoever at the Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Onward to a USAF records FOIA.

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In 1982, UK military planners had added a nuclear option for the Falklands war “for completeness.” x.com/pinstripedli...

…I mean, I justify talking some obscure shit in a chapter of my dissertation for completeness & b/c otw someone will ask where it is.. …and uh. There are places that the PICK ME PICK ME or “oh gosh I have to include everything” urges do not well serve us.

This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.

It’s the control panel for courtroom 600 in Nuremberg. THAT courtroom. THE courtroom

Or at least, that such an organized group has higher leverage in the primary process than in yelling at a general election candidate

Reposted from @conelrad6401240.bsky.social Ping @nuclearanthro.bsky.social

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So you've been summoned to a purge. Your questions answered.

I keep wondering if Kash Patel has looked in a mirror lately.

There are many video games featuring clams, but perhaps the best with a clam protagonist is Clam Man, a point and click narrative clamedic adventure from @sidebyinteractive.bsky.social ! It's a good time, give it a look! (Not sponsored) (276)

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

While there are exceptions you can look at how votes break down historically to see that poor white people & white people of all classes eagerly uphold systems such as fascism that inflict harm upon them & theirs in order to feel as if they’re better than Black people go cry to your mother about it

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I am so fucking annoyed about this.

This might sound silly from someone who builds clusters for a living, but you should *absolutely* confine your system to a single computer if you can manage it.

*sighs heavily* “military use at home” This is looking less frivolous than I had hoped.

Wow Starmer is tripping over his own dick so bad it's like he somehow managed to tie it to both sets of shoelaces

@yourstorymatters.bsky.social has been doing phenomenal work OTG in Chicago (mostly over on Instagram), documenting assaults on the press and protesters. Last night a needed lens disappeared in the chaos. If you picked up this Sigma, get in touch! account.venmo.com/u/jon_stegenga

Great thread from Stephen, KNOWER OF NUKES AND COUNTER OF COSTS as usual. I just finished “Way Out there in the Blue” about Reagan & SDI & hoooollllyyyy fuck.

This is a great question. The president’s official account posted an AI video of him promising a magic bed that can cure all disease. Every Sunday political show needs to lead with “medbed” tomorrow.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

To be clear… …the same fuckers who distrust vaccines & mRNA tech & medical companies & antidepressants… …somehow are cool with a device that cures their illnesses with—not genetic tech or pharmaceuticals?—magic and expect this will be provided free? IS THAT NOT THE FUCKING SITUATION HERE?!?

Classic sphinx pose for #Caturday.

Good night Bluesky. Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows. Moreover we must destroy ICE & smash fascism. Also, I saw 4 cats on my constitutional walk this twilight. -fluffy, w (1) -fluffy, b&w, tux (1) -shorthair, b&w, tux (1) -shorthair, b&w, cow (1)