This 'crusadercore' aesthetic and its fascist connections has been in my radar for a long time through its connection to the @crusaderkings.com fan-base. But what I found striking reading this and looking at their examples is how seamlessly the ideology shifts between multiple-choice bigotries.

Since we're talking about how men like Jon Stewart feel entitled to what's worn on other people's bodies, please read and share the only book that gives practical strategies to counter men like him while keeping your personal health boundaries strong and intact: linktr.ee/covidbook

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Firefox's AI "features" were *not* clearly labeled, were automatically opted into, and they've been bragging about more on the way. So off to @vivaldi.com I guess? It's a pain to switch browsers and I wish Vivaldi were open source, but Firefox has managed to lose a few decades worth of my trust :/

leave me alone 😭

🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now. This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!

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I've posted my 'Terok Nor' art here before, but I wanted to port across the thread I wrote on Twitter for it, as it is perhaps still the best - and certainly the most elaborate - Star Trek work I've done to date. 🧵

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

You know what they say about grudges. They make a gr out of u and dges ok im sorry that doesn’t actually work

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people. I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people. Let me explain:

The US cannot do harm because it is definitionally Good, therefore the people it tortures cannot be “migrants” they have to be enemy combatants or illegals, they have to be Bad

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

“If we get lucky enough save democracy, then the people who excused, and covered, and enabled Trump’s autocratic attempt—will take it as proof that Trump was never a real danger to begin with. The people who did this to America will never pay a price.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is exactly what my white empiricism paper was about!!! The paper they freaked out about!!!

missed this the other day because been offline (preparing to share some 2026 ~updates~) — thank you @evanurquhart.bsky.social and the team @assignedmedia.org for including my story on how LGBTQ and Native Oklahomans healed in the year after Nex Benedict's death in their best trans stories of 2025 ❤️

Truth is no longer truth, facts are no longer facts. It was always going to get here. This is the Birtherism Administration.

Obama on civil unions is the current Democratic Party on immigration: GOP lite shit that inspires nobody and actively hurts the party’s electoral prospects

Assuming public opinion is static and must be chased, never led? Flies in the face of evidence. Concede to an opponent’s strength rather than attack to reduce the advantage? Bad strategy. Doing both of those on issues that have moved in favor of politicians you supposedly want to win? Nonsensical.

Why would a political writer keep arguing that Dems should go along with Trump’s harsh immigration crackdown, cruelty to trans people, and climate change-worsening stances as politically necessary, no matter what public opinion data shows? One logical answer is the writer agrees with those stances.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up

When I sit down to write I'm not consciously pulling from my notes, I'm drawing on the 6 months I spent reading biographies, watching hours of interviews, etc. There is a volume of research, of effort & time that is required to create something meaningful to draw from.

So many details from IMMORTALITY & key inspirations came from out of print books, archive recordings of TV shows that aren't online, etc. Every detail I LOVED was one that could never be surfaced by AI because it was mentioned once in 1 place, could not be hallucinated out of averages

I did not see the twist coming in this timely, powerful thread:

Maybe it's easy to forget this as we all wade through the shit-flooded zone that is 2025 but "this country sucked and I, personally, made it great again" is basic entry-level fascism, and "this country sucked because of dirty criminal immigrants who I am now punishing" is actual fascism

I am so sick of this man and the constant chaos and cruelty. He creates the former because he is empty inside and indulges in the latter because it makes him feel something. I cannot wait for him to be gone from our lives.

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

It's giving the same vibes as the early War on Terror where places were being blown up that were just vaguely "in the Middle-East". Except now it's literally on America's doorstep but it's still too foreign to care about the details apparently.

Your terms are acceptable

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

@alsobrooks.senate.gov your position here is abhorrent and infuriating.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Yeah, every year those bigots will be there with bells on.

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The US voted for a policy of mass deportation because they felt entitled in defining what American values are. The British are no different, and the term “British values” even become educational policy. It’s enshrining isolation and racism as a factor of social unity.

The criminalization of migration is nothing but population control and white supremacy. This requires reflection and few of those anti-immigration figures bother, but it helps consolidating power by also spreading fear and distrust. They are not genuine. They do not care.

If I ever write another academic legal article, this is 100% getting a cite somehow. (Along with A Theory Of Law ofc.)

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

WELP

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...