there were all these sci fi movies and books and tv shows about hitler coming back and it was the scariest thing and then hitler came back and people were like DOPE. COOL. and the political opposition was like SEND HIM A LETTER

And then he does not have a meeting

The value of a good librarian ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/TRIvb...

If only we had a functional opposition party to throw up as many roadblocks as possible.

Politicians are not celebrities. They are not idols or heroes or people to be praised, defended, and worshiped. They are public fucking servants, answerable to the people and no one should forget they are here to make things better for *us*, not the other way around.

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Back on my #NirvanaInFire bullshit and Prince Yu’s temper tantrum over Prince Jing getting the Capitol Patrol and being allowed into the palace whenever he wants is so funny. Prince Yu: Wah! My baby brother is competent & popular! Woe is me! Me: You are *also* competent & popular? Calm down, Jan.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

I will be out and about tomorrow, so early Happy 10th Anniversary to the second great love of my fannish life (after my beloved Smallville), Nirvana in Fire! One of the best tv series EVER, with a whole cast of All Time Characters™️. She really is That Girl. youtu.be/vYSZpTICPzs?...

ICE has always acted like this, though. Both it and DHS’s founding as a whole were predicated on the ‘othering’ of people. This is why it has always been a deeply questionable institution. The only difference here is that South Korea has the very real power to make this a problem for Trump.

"Regret" for what? Every bit of this was Trump admin policy, including the arbitrary rounding up of everyone in sight, the appalling conditions of their confinement, and the delayed release. Is anyone in the Trump admin / DHS / ICE getting fired over it? No. Are any policies being changed? Also no.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

I just said this a few minutes ago, but I’ll say it to you directly: Your site, which was supposed to be an alternative to all of the problems wrong with Twitter, just got *lapped by Twitter* with respect to protecting free speech. Twitter didn’t ban people or delete posts over Kirk. But y’all did.

And yet, you never spared a word for Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated along with her husband earlier this year. So is it only violence against certain people or nah?

The most consistent attribute of self-styled free speech advocates is their belief that “free speech” only includes things that don’t make them personally uncomfortable.

IMAGINE positioning yourself as an alternative to Twitter and then getting lapped by Twitter on something as straightforward as protecting free speech. LAPPED BY TWITTER re: letting people express whatever they want to about the murder of a handmaiden for white supremacy. I’d walk into the sea.

If only so many of the writers we need right now hadn't lost their jobs aftermath.site/tyler-robinson...

We need more games and internet journalists. And also more trans journalists. And also more journalists. aftermath.site/tyler-robins...

This is extra wild when you remember that Tori Branum, the white woman who called ICE, did so because she claimed the 450+ workers were here illegally and they were trafficked and suffering human rights abuses, and she saved their lives.

Also racism

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ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

Almost every single HBCU is under a bomb threat There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

Trump publicly praises a murdered white supremacist. But refuses to even acknowledge the domestic terrorism attack on a federal institution—or the police officer murdered protecting fed employees. His silence speaks volumes. (Thx to whoever made this image - apologies for not giving you credit!)

American conservatives have always been like this, though. It is an unspoken core of the ideology: they can engage in all manner of rotten, bad faith actions but should never experience social, material or emotional consequences for it. But let anyone match energy and suddenly it’s a tragedy.

If you're represented by a Republican in the House, call their offices to demand they join this. Be sure to tell them you know it just needs one more signature and it should be theirs.

Their little president got shot last year and even they moved on in 5 business days.

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Listen: no one progressive would wear a t-shirt like that. An American flag with a gun superimposed on it? PLEASE.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

“We interrupt news of this shooting to bring you news of another shooting. Don’t be sad about the second shooting though, it was just some kids at a school. Be sad about the first guy, an adult man who encouraged shooting kids at schools“

On this anniversary of 9/11, I would like to highlight that Trump and RFK Jr. are actively cutting the programs that have supported 9/11 responders' access to healthcare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Gavin Newsom wants to "continue the work" of a White Supremacist. and when Campaign season hits, ya'll are going to try to shame me into voting for him?? really?

He never engaged in good faith! Are you OKAY?!?!

I do not know why there’s always an expectation of Black people to show empathy to literal racists.

And to expect communities that Kirk targeted to show decorum and reverence is abhorrent and offensive

I gotta roll up on black ppl’s internet cause I don’t want to suffer liberals/centrists tonight insisting that everyone send performative condolences to this rat bastard

Arendt never said this And Arendt was well known for not believing in desegregation and thinking of Black people as subhuman She and Kirk seemed to agree on that So you’re incorrectly quoting her to tone police people about someone who that empathy was too woke

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

see also: walter lübcke getting murdered by a nazi for having basic human compassion for refugees and now all german parties working together on furthering his murderer's views on migrants

Let’s keep it a stack: Bluesky once let people include the n-word — hard R — in their usernames and did nothing about it for DAYS until the outcry got too loud to ignore. It was always a site that would carry water for the likes of Kirk.

how can we put our faith in a political party that defends its mortal enemies more vigorously than it defends the lives of its own officials?

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

the main traffic of misinformation was to guarantee racism. The misinformation community mounted no real challenge and now the US doesn't need it They just assured that any non white person can be targeted and everyone is signaling they will accept it

I don’t think we should take this, y’all. 1. It’s the square root of fuck all 2. They offered it in a trice: scared 3. If they had asked me for licensing in advance, 10x this fee wouldn’t have been acceptable 4. This is more than just our jobs. It’s everybody’s jobs and the planet 5. We can *win*

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