hello 29k followers, time for my periodic reintro to find lefty friends etc! i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫡

Decoherence Media is publishing the first article in our 3 part investigation of the leaked web server for Rope Culture, the in-house magazine of notorious Nazi forum Iron March. There are hundreds of new Nazi email addresses and comments for researchers and journalists to dig through.

Dead internet theory is one of my extreme pet peeves. It's a conspiracy theory. The tech isn't there. It doesn't make logical sense. It's another way to dehumanize whoever might be on the other side of an account you disagree with.

This week’s premium episode is out. Sign up for our Patreon to hear @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I talk Red Scare, read a a bad article about Nick Fuentes, and examine the MAGA-friendly music scene. Plus, the pod debuts its first song “Sorrow / Antifa Reprise” www.patreon.com/posts/141119...

My new chapter “Save our children from Satanists”: Women, Motherhood, and Satanic Moral Panic” is now out in ‘Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture’ edited by Dr Miranda Corcoran. SO excited to have been included in this amazing collection & can’t wait to read the other papers!!

IF SLACK DOESN'T COME BACK UP IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES YOU ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO LEAVE WORK

How do I explain to my therapist that even though "locked in" isn't on the emotion wheel, it's the most accurate way to describe how I'm feeling

Bluesky y'all should listen to the new album from @friendsinreallife.bsky.social it's very good and put a big smile on my face

Walking is lowkey goated when the vibe is having spontaneous low stakes conversations with those around you and feeling a potent sense of community

ATLANTA -- The City of Atlanta Department of Law carried out a raid of the once-independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) this week following former-Inspector General Shannon Manigault’s resignation on Monday, according to multiple sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Did you floss yet today???

DID YOU FLOSS YET TODAY

Every time I do Wahl-O-Mat (I've done it a couple times over the years) I get Tierschutzparty. Not sure what this says about me and I am not a German voter but I do find it interesting.

I started a (free) Substack publication. For its first post, I got a scoop about a Canadian-American Nazi who claims he campaigned with Kash Patel coming out tomorrow. Sign up if you want to read that. As you were. open.substack.com/pub/spineles...

An excellent piece from @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social explaining what can be said right now about the Nashville & Madison shooters' SAVF network interactions that me & @hereticmasked.bsky.social have been working on for months. @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social gives a great description of specific behaviors

Me and @hereticmasked.bsky.social have been tracking an international hybrid threat network which we're calling the Soyjak Attacker Video Fandom (SAVF.) 4 people w/in it have committed attacks or attempted to. This is part 1 in our series. Many thanks to @maargentino.com for hosting our work.

I'm normal and can sit with my back to the door in a restaurant

The only way to honor Holocaust remembrance is to center historical memory, combat antisemitism & fight contemporary genocides.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

They don't want you to know the secret to ultimate gains is listening Jimmy Buffet while lifting. The relaxing sound of his gulf and western music primes the muscles to get the most out of the workout.

Neat

Having religious revelations listening to shape note singing by myself in the Costco food court

Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...

“Did you recognize the Candace Owens shoutout in the Nashville shooter manifesto for what is was” feels like it was a good case test for people who know their shit about extremist movements and people who only sort of know their shit about extremist movements

Hey it's actually cool and normal to not read a bunch of manifestos if it's bad for your mental health at the moment, especially if it isn't your job to read them

Most, if not all, songs would be improved by the addition of slide guitar

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Hey it's actually cool and normal to not read a bunch of manifestos if it's bad for your mental health at the moment, especially if it isn't your job to read them

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THERE IS SO MUCH PAIN IN THE WORLD BUT THE PAIN ALLOWS FOR A DEEPER LOVE AND CARING WHEN I AM OPEN TO RECIEVE LOVE AND CARE FROM OTHERS IT IS A BLESSING TO BE HELPED AND TO HELP OTHERS I WILL USE THESE EXPERIENCES TO GROW SOFTER AND KINDER NOT HARDER AND MEANER

Never commit suicide

If you have dealt with becoming a caretaker for a parent, transitioning them to assisted living, or clearing out a hoarder house, I would love to talk to you.

Insights and data from Graphika were part of a recent story from CBS News' @60minutes.bsky.social on "nudify" websites and apps creating issues in schools as students learn to use the inexpensive and easily accessible artificial intelligence technology. See below to watch the full story!

AI technology is being used to continue giving alleged shooter Luigi Mangione a voice through chatbots. Graphika spoke with @forbes.com to share Graphika ATLAS insights on the creation and dissemination of more than a dozen chatbots modeled after him on a popular app for creating AI characters.

There's so much going on in the world, I know this is really inconsequential. Paid over $1000 the past week in car repairs- which was every cent (+2200) I had for my 7 kids & granbebe Christmas. If you have a few bucks and wanna help out , I would be very grateful 🙏🏻 venmo.com/code?user_id...

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Leftists stop sharing GiveSendGo links challenge 2024

It's a true miracle to see the doors of prisons thrown open

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 occurred off the Northern California coast. A tsunami warning has been issued.

Northern California/Bay Area peeps please play it safe, seek higher ground if you're by the water

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

Insights from #Graphika are featured in a new report from @financialtimes.com on the troubling use of generative AI to create non-consensual intimate imagery. To read insights from Graphika's Chief Intelligence Officer on how advances in technology have contributed to this issue, see below.

"The white supremacists assaulted bystanders, sent one person to the hospital, assaulted women, openly spoke racial slurs, flashed white supremacist hand symbols and assaulted and robbed an indigenous friend of the band." #Atlanta www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

Yesterday a racist attack against Black members of a band occurred in Atlanta, Georgia. Please contribute to the fundraiser of one of the people hospitalized due to the attack. At this time we do not believe the individual pictured is part of a known group. www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

Shawty is impressed i can do Believe by Cher at karaoke without looking at the lyrics screen

Shawty is disappointed but unsurprised my two books to read on the plane are "Blood Meridian" and "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"

Shawty is upset and confused about me eating Pizza Hut at 9am in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport