And everyone who could have voted for Harris and didn’t.

Thanks Dirk! Another great artshare this week already!

Frankly I trusted tumblr moderation with identifying female presenting nipples more than I trust the jackals that run this shit hole to know what consent is

it's also a fantasy of domination of those they deem to be their social and cultural enemies. and then, among some of this number, a straightforward belief that the proper place of many millions of americans is servile labor

i don't think there's anything more to this than an ignorant and adolescent need to destroy but to the extent that there is, it's that a closed-off country of poor, low-wage workers is easier to control with imposed hierarchies (see: the american south, 1890 to 1965)

I know that politics here is fucked up, but we have some pretty hard limits on tenure in office for leaders of the country, which, it turns out, is good. Netanyahu has plagued Israel for no joke 30 fucking years.

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

Never forget how absolutely, openly furious so much of our news media was that Biden ended the war in Afghanistan

this platform has labeled me in shorts and a crop top as “explicit sexual content” and then taken weeks to fix that label. they can’t even tell the difference between a bare tummy and hardcore porn, how are they claiming to be able to even recognize *any* distinctions within adult content!

here are some of the scariest things in the world that deserve censorship: TITS

putting this on your timeline again

I keep assessing my presence in other places and I just keep coming up annoyed. I'm on Mastodon and Pillowfort. I have a website. But it means fuckall when the majority of people simply aren't interested in looking for anything.

We're all trapped in the world's shittiest mall, and nobody will go anywhere except the fucking food court to eat. That is, unless you tempt them with Chick-Fil-A, which they simply can't give up because they love the breading more than they hate that tangy zip of bigotry.

And one reason they got replaced is that conservative voters got wise to the fact that their pro-life conservative senators were voting to confirm pro-choice Clinton and Obama judicial nominees. Conservatives openly campaigned on the courts.

This will be an evergreen post I fear.

But also the minute I start asking for flowers, what I do becomes performative. Do what is right because it is right, not because you want recognition. The movement doesn't need millions of leaders. It needs MEMBERS.

Part of that is because social media is monitored, and frankly I don't want certain things to be public. But also, to be perfectly honest...it's not about me. I don't do what I do for an audience or for public consumption. It's about the people who need help, and their needs, and their dignity.

I feel like part of the problem is that in the modern era, especially in the United States, people think that in order to count, they have to post about their activism or what they're doing. But here's the thing: you don't. 99% of what I do is stuff I never mention on social media.

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my fav part of Godwin's Law was the bit a few years ago when Godwin went online to tell people that they should ignore his law

There are things to be worried about/cognizant of/thought through. This is a thing they might try, even just in the soft “launching sixty recount efforts to drag shit out and justify not seating new members and using an illegitimate majority in the meantime” way.

If you’ve got ~60k followers and you’re blasting out shit like this, you are doing fascists’ work for them, making people think they’ve already won. It’s a complete abdication of the responsibility that comes with an audience.

tbh i recommend the "i have general views i want to express" these days because there's so many fuckin things going on sometimes it *is* easier to just say "i'm against any and all censorship or control of the internet. no age verification, none of that" rather than listing every individual bill

made some phone calls to my reps today, very easy to just say "i have some general views i wanna express" and they'll listen and nod. i know i say this every time but i cannot stress enough how easy this is to do. honestly i post this every time half as a reminder for myself how easy it is to do.

The people who died fighting 20th-century totalitarianism watching from heaven as a bunch of Americans preemptively surrender because the president got a comedian taken off the air and said some threatening words

When we told you democracy was on the ballot we weren’t lying.

we are once again in the age of tech tycoons who deep throat the boots of fascists, the sex workers are your comrades. don't you dare let us down.

Rep. Frost: "We cannot let the fear of speaking out become normal. We cannot allow truth telling to become a crime. And we cannot let them silence us."

What pisses me off about the Voters that got us here is that they are acting shocked every time a section of the playbook is enacted. Like, where the fuck were y'all? You said Kamala was fear-mongering you about Project 25. You said the Dems on the Hill were just fearmongering and deflecting.

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

I feel like if fascism actually ends up killing me, I will be somewhere standing over a ditch and in the distance I’ll hear someone else yelling “All she had to do was change her platform and I would have voted for-“ and then there will be bright light and eternal darkness. And sweet silence.

I'm very much prepared to be extremely disappointed in what they actually do get to avert a shutdown but I don't think it's going to be absolutely nothing

Agree and disagree. I agree for example that I personally am in fact worse. I'm angrier. More bitter. But I've always felt the only response to the GOP is GOP DELENDA EST. I want em punished. But I ain't gonna say anger alone makes us worse. Angry is good. Angry gets shit done.

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

They’re all talking like the Democrats are doomed despite only losing the election by 1.5 points and being a few seats away from having a majority in both houses. I can’t help but think this is all an intentional attempt to make liberals believe there’s nothing we can do about this creeping fascism

Yep. It's the same thing with what got us into the situation we're in. Critique the Dems sure... but don't let the damn stupid ass electorate and the fuckers who stayed home off the hook. And too many folks on here are willing to do the first and fail at the second.

In North Carolina right now the Democrat running for Senate - in a state Trump won *three times* (I hate it too) - is leading by 6-8 points. 'Oh, but they'll cancel elections' - then force them to cancel elections and radicalize the normies and then march with the radicalized normies.

Himes: ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air because Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, didn’t like some things Kimmel said.. I’m talking to you now because I’m just getting so damn sick of people who claim to be for free speech but turn out to only support free speech for people they agree with.

Motherfuckers begging to say shit suddenly ain't got shit to say. Sad.

Hardly any decent lawyers are willing to sign their names to Trump & Miller's endless humbugs, & the result is L after L. If they try to crack down harder they're only going fail more. They deserve our contempt, not our fear

Equally grim reminder: their psychology is warped enough that fighting them like a mad bastard will earn the booby prize of what passes for 'respect,' and all working with them does is get you endless nut punches from a sledgehammer. Choose accordingly.

It's the shock of a second win after we thought we were done with him. That voters did this again scared the pants of a lot of fuckers. Doesn't do anything about discovering how easy that fear takes root in fuckers but here we are.

On the one hand, yes, this is potentially scary stuff. On the other... it does feel a little like the thing some advisor drew up for Trump to get him to shut the hell up. "Yes sir, we are recommending you go very hard, go all the way. Go right after ANTIFA. Right to the top, sir. Very hard indeed."

Something I try to keep in mind is that Trump's numbers have collapsed across the board on most every key issue. If the media was less credulous they'd be reporting these policies as a desperate loser trying to recover from a ratings collapse.

This is a further concern because these things take resources and, given the organization of the world by colonialism around whiteness, these resources are overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of whiteness which will result in a replication of the same bullshit unless we're critical about it.

Let me put it bluntly: if the new newsroom has the same composition as the old newsroom, what the fuck has changed except for a shiny progressive coating? How has the situation been transformed such that our news ecosystem is less poisoned, less biased?

I get it: these crackdowns are pushing us to consider moving towards independent/new media. However, if we don't bother to think about the conditions that made possible this situation, and the ways that we replicate those conditions differently in our own spaces, we're going to be fucked.

I’m not sure who deserves more disdain and disgust: Trump and the FCC for their blatant violation of the Constitution or Disney and Nexstar for sacrificing their values and folding to a wannabe Mob Boss. It was Jimmy Kimmel tonight, but dare to criticize the president and it could be you tomorrow.

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.