So revealing about how the right wing works. They cannot fathom doing something out of conviction for no money

Get off Twitter, it is the only way these oafs investigate anything. It is literally dangerous to your speech rights to be or appear on that website.

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

They wanted a pony* and now look where we are** *to stop slaughtering Palestinian kids **people who actually matter are dying

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

When I'm finished, I will be the world expert on removing black paint from wood surfaces. I have no idea why someone thought Horse Mausoleum would be a good theme to decorate a house but I have to admire their commitment to following through with it on the whole ground floor.

I think a lot about the real life "Lord of the Flies" where all the boys cooperate and build a little community. Westerners would have us believe it's "human nature" to tear each other apart...but that's a premise of Western society, not human nature at all. www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

This country has locked up so many children in one prison that the CHILDREN ARE LEADING PRISON UPRISINGS. As a country we are not furious enough yet.

Honestly at this point we've learned that humans do holocausts & associated horrors, unless sufficient other humans are prepared to give their lives to violently stop them. And that at time of writing, most people aren't interested in stopping them.

the last year has left me with unending faith in the courage of ordinary people and bottomless contempt for the fecklessness of our ruling class

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

The piece, which doesn't mention Rowling's toxic politics at all, is by a conservative anti-trans opinion writer, because who else would the NYT tap to write about Potter?

"Outlawing masks" is again about the illusion of control. Think about why Democrats are okay with little kids in jail. (Don't come at me with "it's a good start." That little boy whose picture y'all passed around is in jail. Did you forget?)

one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces

We go back to my generations sacred text

Younger generations have fallen out of love with Laura Ingalls Wilder because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents; which is to say young people have fallen out of love with settler-colonialism

“In an era when conservative-leaning journalism is racing to the bottom to become far-right propaganda, the National Post sets a new standard for debasing themselves and the profession of journalism. They are traitors to Canada’s Fourth Estate.”

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

Today I’m helping out at my job from 20+ years ago, helping Greg & the DreamHaven crew ship books across the country to folks who inundated their webstore after seeing him on TV. Website is still down, but later try DreamHavenbooks.com for all your sci-fi, horror, fantasy, film, & comics needs!

Converts should always be welcomed, but never placed in positions of prominence. The only things we know for sure about them is that their judgment is impaired, and that they’re willing to switch sides. So you start them out on scut work to determine if their newfound commitment is authentic.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

it’s also just quite a bit difference between being wrong in private and being wrong in the opinion section of national media in a way that influences other people’s opinions, your whole life, without consequences.

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

It stretches credibility that the Government of Canada travel advisory guidance for the USA still advises normal precautions. The page hasn't been updated since the two high profile executions of protesters by ICE. France is listed as more dangerous than the US!

Sorry to import this to bluesky but it was brought to my attention. Rosie Duffield, my MP, is truly morally bankrupt

It is absolutely by design. Theyr’e tired of white people sympathizing with Black and brown folks. That’s why they’re so mad and confused in Minnesota. All the nice white people yelling at them to get fucked. It’s like their dads are yelling at them in a bathrobe. They can’t cope.

We are raising a nation of dumbasses. It’s on purpose

“Shut up!” screamed Toad.

Show us your enfloofenated Juncos #Birds🪶 #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography📸 #Ontario🇨🇦

if i had spent my journalistic career doing PR for fascism and criticizing the left as 'unrealistic' then had a change of heart when the fascism became too overt to continue excusing, I would simply accept all criticism as my due, not snivel like a little baby about how unfair everyone is being

I will be spending the entire day parked in front of the wood stove, jostling for the best spot with the dog, with a side helping of hostile staring out of the window at the snow.

White people stunned that fascism affects them too.

We have to let people change and come on side. We don't have to let in the propagandists who dragged us here kicking and screaming.

literally yes

"The British monarchy directly enslaved thousands of women, men and children in the Caribbean. Even as the king headed an imperial government newly committed to the ultimate extinction of slavery, he personally profited from the forced labor and sale of human beings."

Toronto!

26th January and now especially fucking done with winter.

People talking about Nuremberg trials for ICE should be reminded that Lt William Calley, who carried out the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam, served 3 days in prison before Nixon commuted his sentence to house arrest, where he spent 3 years at home. His defence was that he had been poorly trained.

There is a fundamental difference between coming to agree with a point of view you previously disagreed with and blatantly lying to enable fascist atrocities up until the very moment you realize your social class of public intellectuals might also become victims.

That’s a bit like outpacing, outmanoeuvring and outplaying a goldfish though. Utterly gormless and deeply mean-spirited. Chip on her shoulder a mile wide. Intellectual nonentity. Nothing but spite behind the eyes. Actually that’s unfair to goldfish. What are those fish that swim up willies?

ICE is not acting like Gestapo. They are acting like the slave catchers many of their ancestors were. If you go right to calling them Gestapo without knowing the Gestapo was modeled after slave catchers and this was the model for US law enforcement, you don't know American history and we are f'd!

Graham Linehan proves the point that trans liberationists have been saying from the start: If you'll permit dehumanising and stripping the rights of trans people, you will dehumanise and strip the rights of anyone on a long enough timeline.

This reminds of a quote I saw online, that the reason ADHD appeared to disappear in adulthood is that men outsourced their executive function issues to their secretaries and wives, and ouch (and ADHD women were either undiagnosed or burnt out by trying to compensate without support)

Unless liberals realize the connection between fascism and capitalism - the merging of the state and the corporation in a final attempt to preserve out of control inequality through scapegoating of an outgroup - it'll keep happening

What is truly so jarring about liberal elites like Hillary Clinton is just how boundlessly greedy they are. Imagine being 78 years old, with a net worth of 10s of millions, and thinking "what I need to do is shill for Saudi Real Estate for a bit of cash" instead of just going fishing or whatever.

It's so cool how the VP, who unlike POTUS is neither senile nor tricked by AI videos all the time, will just make shit up and lie about it to incite hatred

Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles