Their political philosophy hinges on a vision of white supremacy in which people who aren’t white are here at the privilege of white people, which they can revoke at any time, which they expect to be received with gratitude.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...

Mary Shelley when she sees that Lord Byron quote.

If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

one of many reasons i dislike miles o’brien watch him in 2025 and he sticks out among the DS9 crew: under the amiable, quippy exterior is a sullen, angry, unsatisfied man who takes out his miseries on everyone around him (his wife especially)

are we going to settle for this in perpetuity? do you want to do this ad nauseum, ad infinitum? is this the limit of our collective political imagination, of what we want for ourselves and our neighbors and our children and our planet? is this what you want? is it? THIS?

Democrats are capitalists. they like hierarchy. they do not see all human rights as innate. they do not know what year it is. they do not deserve the knee-jerk, full-throated benefit of the doubt many Americans afford them over and over and over again. enough. they’re done. enough.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

just learning about the united states democratic party

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

They would rather live in a poor autocracy than a rich free country, because they believe - unfortunately, not without some justification - that they'd be on top, and much more securely, in the former.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

all of these dudes have sent me the most heinous dick pics you can imagine before, 0.1 megapixel camera in a dark bathroom DIRECTLY downwards on the shitter lil fucker looked like it was chasing me through silent hill, shit looked like a wet toilet paper sculpture, shit looked like a fish gave up

Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...

The Chump Crisis

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

THIS IS SO GOOD

Will Not Let Me Go is something I still think about years later. It is… searingly painful and searingly beautiful.

If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶

Hard agree

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the culture war is elementary no matter how powerful and wealthy a society becomes, there will always be hateful people wanting that society smaller and when confronted with too much change and fear, centrists will backlash and join them

physically itching to read the following books in my active-active TBR, in no order: notes from a regicide (started) the tainted cup on the calculation of volume 1 red heart a confusion of princes how to become a dark lord and die trying blood meridian the quantum thief (started)

“a robot car ran over a cat” is one of those weird revealing moments. we are so much angrier at the robot car than we are a human being who might have done the same, even if the robot car did its best to avoid doing so. it’s worth interrogating why

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

commenters: goat is great, we should actually make this change me: accurate! but more importantly--

Thinking about this again today as I read through the right-wing crash-outs and notice how many center on a fear of what others will do— not necessarily to them, just in general.

If you missed Zohran’s speech live, this is the link to the whole thing from PBS Newshour on YT: www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL... #zohranmamdani #nyc

live view from cuomo hq

if you’re not on TikTok, you may not have witnessed the absolutely insane last 72 hours of Zohran Mamdani’s schedule, but that man was simultaneously in every queer club, music venue, bodega, house of worship, and on-the-street interview in NYC, no one knows how he is still upright

City of Sickos

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw" brother get this through your head NOBODY can draw we are literally ALL BULLSHITTING

Bizarre thought that occurrs to me is that, if Cheney had personally killed half a million people—if he'd stalked Kansas City with an axe until it was awash in gore, empty of all but his snide laughter—*that would be better* than what he did. You can arrest that guy, or shoot him, and it's done.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

New graffiti art in my Rogers Park, Chicago, neighborhood.

What we are going to have to do in the coming years is build out a whole lot of parallel institutions that can do the work previously assigned to the state, most especially civic education. Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me

"girl are you the atlantic meridional overturning circulation because you're collapsing faster than anyone had previously predicted" a girl says into a mirror, crying softly. in another life she would have been a marine biologist. she's not, in this one. she isn't sure who she is. but she's not that

This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.

What It Might Be Like to Live in Viriconium M. JOHN HARRISON