We should look into the possibility of Angelo being Scottish.

The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.

It feels like a large part of both culture and politics these days is people wondering “why don’t I feel the way I did when I was 12”

Really enjoying Pluribus, a TV show about one woman's fight against a hive mind. Her main personality trait is that she hates hive minds. They will probably reveal that it's because both her parents were murdered by a hive mind when she was a child. #Pluribus #hivemind

CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."

Enjoyed House of Dynamite. The president in the film is rational, moral, and intelligent so it's at odds with the present moment. Something resembling Dr Strangelove would be more appropriate: an insane US president attempts to launch a nuclear missile, though the target could be the same as in HoD.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”

We have an AMA with @eikeexner.com today over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out and learn some history of manga! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

It’s not just that Trump is personally a rapist, though there’s lots of credible evidence to suggest that he is. It’s that he is promoting a fundamentally pro-rape ideology, and that the permissiveness for rape and entitlement to rape that are core to his worldview are central to his appeal for men.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

There are Facebook groups of your average centre-rightish Ukrainian diaspora aunts in Cleveland or Chicago that bounce back and forth between cute cat memes and demands that anyone associated with the Trump regime must be ruthlessly crushed

Archbishop Hincmar justified the judicial ordeal of cold water in the C9. After ordeals were banned at the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, it returned as a test for witches. Almost every demonologist rejected the swimming test but King James I did not, referencing, like Hincmar, the baptismal waters.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.

Halloween, the night when witches drink and make merry. #halloween #witches #witch

This is the first time I've seen a reference to demons having anal sex with witches in a witch-hunting manual. It's from the French city of Arras in 1460, and seems a bit hornier than usual. #witches #witchtrials Excerpt from Gow, Desjardins and Pageau (eds.), "The Arras Witch Treatises" (2016).

I answered the question "What was a witch?" on #askhistorians. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... Also, I requested, and was very pleased to be given, the flair "European Witch Trials" so my username now looks like this:

Apparently there was once a time when certain beliefs were considered disqualifying for an American politician.

I answered a question on #askhistorians about witch trials in the Holy Roman Empire. #witch #witches #witchtrials www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Based on the poster I think this film is probably about 80s UK chart sensation Shakin' Stevens opening a coffee shop. #ItsShaky #80s

The Chad Templar vs the Virgin Knight, as described by Bernard of Clairvaux in the early twelfth century. #medieval #crusades #tousledanddusty

An enlightening answer on #askhistorians by @georgy-k-zhukov.bsky.social to a question about whether the Reichstag fire was a false flag. Zhukov concurs with the academic consensus that it was not. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Such a characteristic dynamic, righties saying the protests were "funded by Soros" and lefties responding with fact checks & empirical observations. Ships passing in the night. What the righties want to say is: the left is fundamentally illegitimate. That, to them, is the core truth.

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... Lol, what a question on #askhistorians! Let's consult the Magic History Eightball to find out the answer...

An important contribution toward answering the question 'Were witches healers?' Excerpt from @magicnotwitches.bsky.social's "Cunning Folk" (2024). #witch #witches #witchtrials

“They had fangs, they were biting people, they had this look in their eyes, totally cold, animal. I think they were Young Republicans.”

@picturesofnixon.com in the American Film Theatre's 1974 production of Eugène Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

Lots of Saltires along the road near Stobhill Hospital, probably put up with racist intent. You can't be certain these days whether a Saint Andrew's Cross represents patriotism, an upcoming Scotland game, support for Scottish independence, or nativism. Exciting times for semioticians.

even more than Trump I, Trump II is distinctive in the extent to which it represents a merger b/w the right-wing media and right-wing government; it is a government that lives within the propaganda bubble it sprang from but also makes policy decisions with an eye to content creation for said bubble

There was a particularly bizarre alleged incident in the records of a 1649 Scottish witch trial. Jean Craig was accused of causing the madness and subsequent death of Beatrix Sandilands by blowing in her face and uttering a curse: “ane blak sicht be upone that face”. 1/3

Taking the weakness "Nose grows whenever I tell a lie" in a roleplaying game and abusing it to generate unlimited amounts of wood. #ttrpg #pinocchio #liar

This isn't what I expected. The relationship between income and voting patterns seems to have switched in the presidential elections contested by Trump, becoming even more pronounced in 2024.

This is particularly weird even by Trump's standards. No sense of shame or humility. Never occurs to him that naval engineers might know more about building ships than he does. Just says whatever comes into his head.

...once again, one of the easier ways to turn up the virality on your post is to go from "[popular thing] is true" to "no one wants to admit it but [popular thing] is true"

pissing off my friends on this San Francisco trip because i won’t stop growling “IT’S A WARZONE” in a right-wing propaganda voice while we walk around some of the most beautiful city streets in America

I answered a question on #askhistorians about whether the claims made by feminist writers such as Andrea Dworkin about numbers of witches executed are correct. TL;DR: they’re not. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Whether it’s a kid at Oberlin asking for a trigger warning for the president of the United States convincing ABC to fire one of its biggest stars, both sides have shown a great deal of disrespect for the principle of free speech

Good evidence that, in US politics, the "polarisation" is all coming from one side.

Think this is my favourite Dee Dee sketch. Also really like this Youtube comment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYo...

God's saving of Donald Trump, but refusing to save Charlie Kirk from an assassin's bullet shows that Kirk wasn't MAGA enough. by Nick Fuentes

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

A great critique of the idea that the Western Roman Empire fell because of sexual libertinism. #askhistorians www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

In a society whose politics are increasingly conducted as entertainment and spectacle, the response to the death of an influencer will be much more dramatic than the response to the death of a public servant. I wish I’d expected it bc then it wouldn’t be so upsetting. Attention economy. Again.