What this underscores IMO is that this is someone who doesn't believe that his opponents are fascists and that fascism is the threat. Because if you did, then this is not how you come out swinging. You punch the fascists repeatedly, not some staffer at a nonprofit.

Kinda wonder if this will extend to reflecting that *maybe* all those people 'harassing' him about his material were concerned about the obvious consequences of it.

“Dead Raccoon Penis Research Laboratory” is what Frank Zappa would have named his recording studio if he’d thought of it.

I've run a kitchen. I still think of myself as a dish dog. Dish dog's a good dog.

If I were Moffat, I would have had the Capaldi Doctor go to spring of '77 and hit every show at the Greyhound.

Hey @caterpillarinc.bsky.social we see you 🤔😕

Whatever anyone thinks about the Catholic Church aside, strictly in terms of Catholicism, these 'tradcath' and Opus Dei assholes are heretic modern revisionists hellbent on Larping the Crusades. Pete Hegseth has an Opus Dei tattoo.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

was once New Amsterdam.

A note on privilege: Half of learning to fight is knowing you can survive getting hit. Too many privileged people are backing off of fighting right now because they grew up not needing to learn how to fight. And learned to support systems that punish fighting back.

They want you to become listless and hopeless. They know that's easier for many of us than inhabiting uncertainty. I get it. I don't do well with uncertainty. But I'm gonna stay here, in this ugly, messy uncertainty—grieving, refusing, denouncing, and trying to figure out what to do next.

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Ahhh yes... Nothing antisocial happening on reddit.

I've said it 1000 times. Mychal Threets is one of the best symbols of everything the neo-fascists want to destroy. We are currently living through the War on Sesame Street. Which side are you on?

fucking superman over here

Some of my thoughts about some of the critiques of the recent No Kings protests I've seen online:

As is usually the case when someone makes this argument, they never finish this logical train of thought. The bottom line is that this is the same argument as "we have to let the right take some rights from minorities otherwise they'll take them all", except no one ever wants to directly say it.

Support shit like this. We need informed curation of media. We left it up to the internet. The internet was taken over by Nazis. We need to take back curation of media.

My classic favorite: theonion.com/family-dog-b...

We have two choices: 1. Get long term intentional about creating a society prepared to recover and prevent this from happening again. 2. Suffer ineptly while fascists and libs alternate between fuckery like this and hand wringing about how we don't have the resources to assist its casualties.

Hitler started mass arrests of the KPD within hours of the Reichstag fire. Germany passed the enabling act making Hitler dictator, March 1933. The editorial control act of 1933 put all journalism under Nazi control. It became a crime to have a radio We're not there yet, and we can stop it.

It's really hard to figure out how to deal with people who think cause and effect don't apply to them.

when Beastie Boys signed with Capitol, they were offered a big advance, which they turned down in favor of owning their masters - now, years later, they're still making money off those records - always bet on yourself, not a corporation

Francesca Albanese put it best.

And yes the way people talk about Platner’s tattoo and the antisemitism associated with Nazi symbols while never discussing Mills’s racism is problematic and speaks to the way that racism is not treated as disqualifying and antisemitism is treated as uniquely bad Signed, A Black Jew in NH

good morning viet nam!!! here is a piece i wrote for The Small Bow www.thesmallbow.com/p/libraries-...

Is there a word for when folks into traditionally leftist schools of thought go sith and create reactionary variants of their original position. Aside from fascist I mean. Thinking of accelerationists or freaks like Chris Rufo, or Shoeonhead. The postmodern edgelord right generally.

Likely election tampering aside, I don't think the decisive swing state voters that either didn't vote or voted 3rd party are the ones seeing all the posts blaming XYZ and their dog for Harris' loss.

The US has long been a study of toxic patriarchy. But of late it has devolved into an abusive tweaker who constantly bitches about not being treated like the man of the house while he gets fired from his job, gets the cops called for screaming all the time, and fights the cops when they get there.

This is very serious and I hope all the 1A orgs will meet the moment here.

Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work

Hot take: most of the students who you laughed at for majoring in critical theory or comparative lit dense in French theory are more prepared for the 21st Century than computer scientists and engineers.

One thing you might try to tell yourself to recenter your feelings each day is, "How can I be a good ancestor?" You may not live to see it, but there will be future generations, and they will have given anything to fight these bastards here and now like you have the opportunity to.

Flavor Flav going hard to support the US Women's Olympic Teams after the rapist in chief publicly dissing them is a glimpse of what is still alive and pure.

Executive orders do not "allow" Trump to do anything outside of the executive branch; sycophants, quislings, cowards, and toadies in other branches do that.

Iran was more or less a liberal democracy before a US backed coup allowed them to overnight just decide women can't drive anymore.

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist... Yeah, that tracks.

I feel like 'Lefty Media Crit Nerds who are into They Might be Giants, Wu Tang, Indie Hip Hop, and Punk Rock' is a subculture of its own that deserves more recognition as a self standing entity.

So... Today is a good day for a particular kind of person. The new They Might Be Giants single is a love letter to the Wu Tang clan. Rejoice my people! You know who you are. @ me if you're feeling it. youtu.be/Cmo0zczzmyI?...

Behold, the former PBS documentarian who uncovered the conspiracy by the communist super predators who run Sesame Street to trans kids into furries with D&D and feed them to Haitian dog thieves thinks that there is an artificial moral panic to malign 'whiteness' www.city-journal.org/article/jere...

I don't have any strong attachment to being right here, but I'm convinced that we can clock the next moves the right will make in their positioning and framing by watching Chris Rufo. open.substack.com/pub/thomasan...

Undefeated!

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

Am I to understand correctly that for years progressives have lost the fight on green energy initiatives because we would be costing thousands of American jobs in fracking and coal, but now AI is being funded to take over our jobs entirely and we can’t unite on universal basic income?

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Whenever I see @msentropy.bsky.social post this kind of stuff it reminds me that we are going to win. Why? Because we are brilliant, relentless, and whenever we get knocked down, we get back up.

Oppression operates through erasure of the historical memory of the oppressed. To produce a perpetual now where the only ideology that is allowed to be relevant is that which justifies existing power.