I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Going to my city's Open Archives Day today, because I know how to party 😎

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

María Corina Machado is a worthy laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, but I can't help thinking the Nobel Committee chose her, at least in part, to avoid the backlash of snubbing Trump by awarding the Peace Prize to a Trump ally

Back to work for the first time since my surgery 🫡

“why do all the Trump billionaires spent all their time buying media outlets” say rich liberals “oh well! probably nothing to see here, now to take a big sip of coffee and donate 50 million dollars to a Dem superPAC”

if Musk and others want to run social media platforms as instruments of a particular political faction's will, they are turning them into something very different than what US tech companies worked assiduously to protect from regulatory controls

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Bishop of Antwerp to fast for Gaza

I'm not trying to imply anything, but I've been on paracetamol for a full week now and I'm increasingly feeling the urge to buy a model railway set

We won! 🥳 Leuven will be European Capital of Culture in 2030 🇪🇺

I'm home again 😊, the pain is under control so long as I don't make sudden movements

Everything went okay 😊 I'm back in my room but still a bit woozy

Off to theatre, wish me luck

Having surgery tomorrow and I'm kinda nervous tbh

Less than 12 hours to go before my boyfriend arrives in Belgium again, I'm so excited 😁

Mittens would have been fine as a president but there was something about him losing that broke the establishment

it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy

The only thing I have to add to this is that we are what we pretend to be. There really isn't any practical difference between working with the Trump Administration reluctantly and working with them enthusiastically; you cannot call it a crisis if you don't act like it.

I can

Went to Bruges for the Pride and Solace exhibition about medieval books of hours at the Groeningemuseum Aren't they beautiful? 🥰

You'll never guess which seat is still available

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

"I even gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is an Action Bronson line

Now that peace looks closer (we're not there yet...) people being all smug about opposing military aid for Ukraine in favour of a negotiated settlement back in March 2022 seem to be forgetting that all of these blue parts were still occupied. "Fighting back was always hopeless" is some revisionism.

I find this to be so debasing and frankly just pathetic. the Biden administration gave Teamsters everything they asked for from a policy standpoint but most of the Teamsters voted for Trump simply because Trump hates the same people they hate

Only 250 emails to get through after two weeks off

He's going home again today, and I'm so not ready for it 😭

At Chocolate Nation in Antwerp 😍🍫

My boyfriend is turning me into a Doctor Who fan

De meeste dromen zijn bedrog, maar als ik wakker word naast jou dan droom ik nog. Ik voel je adem en zie je gezicht, je bent een droom die naast me ligt. Je kijkt me aan en rekt je uit, een keer in de zoveel tijd komen dromen uit.

I can't go into an independent bookshop to browse without buying something 😭

Counting down the minutes till my bf lands 🥰

Happy Belgian National Day, everyone! 😎🇧🇪

"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened." Morning all!

The thing no one in charge wants to say is that conservative scholarship simply does not exist, because the entire modern conservative movement is built on lies. There is nothing that resembles research that can be done in the bullshit world they've imagined

Een gelukkig feest van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap aan al mijn Vlaamse oomfies ☺️

By repeatedly, I mean almost automatically. Of the ~80 cases where federal judges (including many conservative ones) issued injunctions, SCOTUS has now intervened to lift them for 60 cases.

This will have a cascading effect

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

when trying on a suit, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG oldhollywoodmusicals

Last month was for queer pride, this month is for queer wrath

I never thought it was possible to love someone this much 😭