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This is Ben. He writes about how to end America's meltdown and save democracy. Give him a follow

One of the reasons that I get extremely angry when Trump's goons, or the Democratic Party's "Third Way" consultants call the democratic socialists / DSA "Extremists" is I lived in Italy for three years during the Years of Lead; My father's CO was kidnapped by the Brigate Rosse, _actual_ extremists.

I'm told that this indictment is structured around an allegation of funding the Unite the Right race riot via paying informants UTR got _millions of dollars worth of free advertising_ by being promoted by the operators of the r/The_Donald subreddit Guess who they *aren't* prosecuting

It seems clear to me that the 2028 POTUS elections aren't going to be between the Democratic party and the Republican party, but between the Violating Other Peoples' Liberties With Face Eating Leopards Party, vs the Right To A Job, Housing, Food, Clean Water, And Healthcare Party

Hello to everyone following me because of @trans.bsky.social "Chaotic Good Starter Pack". It's true, I am both chaotic and good. Sometimes I talk about social media moderation and neoNazi / transphobes. Sometimes I talk about soup. Yesterday I reposted a bunch of informative & fun posts. GLHF

Happy Eclipse

some of them want to abuse you some of them want to be abuuuuuuuused ooooooooooooooooooooooo

So on Reddit, Today, I have learned that some Flock cameras are configured to wipe the operating system partition if the device fails to boot, and run commands to restore the system partition from a Known Good Configuration image stored on another partition - and sometimes left that partition empty

To the MAGA / evangelical base, this would PROVE to them that he has the special blessing / favour / protection of their deity And he could give any orders, & they would follow them

I'm verging on Sarcasm Posting so I need to close this window and ... I dunno ... fold a Miura-ori out of recycled kraft paper, or something

The difference between an Employee and an at-arm's-length Third Party is sufficient here. These folks aren't contractors. They are clearly W-2 Employees of Amazon. The only reason a municipality has to address this is because the federal Executive - sworn to enforce the law - won't, here

ISTFG the entire "We want to end autism" bullshit of the Trump Regime is the institutionalisation of a got-damned 4chan meme of sneering at "autistic behaviour" i.e. anything that didn't center the fucking bullies it is a thinly veiled anti-intellectual pogrom being booted up

True. I looked at TERFs' arguments, & then looked at the eldritch, non-Euclidean shapes of their arguments, & then looked at the eldritch, non-Euclidean shapes of institutionally powerful misogynists' equivalent arguments, & now I am less than 100% sane, & even reading bell hooks isn't helping

The last time I was in a theater it was to watch Avengers: Endgame with my kiddo, at Alamo Drafthouse. We had burgers, popcorn, and sodas. We cheered when Cap did the thing. We cheered when Sam said "On your left". We had a great time.

"... have these conversations and normalize them" Chris Rufo is going to celebrate this. His foundational propaganda mechanic is "Teach the Controversy". When we normalise "Is women's healthcare [right|just|normal|good]?", he has a field day. Because then, we're playing defense.

‘One Night Only’ director will gluck cut-out so much nudity becau— waitaminute this sentence is not grammatical, did I just have a stro— ohhh that’s the director’s name. right. Right

“Flames. Flames…on the side of my face…”

Do you like science fiction? Do you want a novel to read? Peter Watts' Blindsight - available FOR FREE under Creative Commons licensing www.rifters.com/real/shorts/...

Beastie Boys' Ill Communication is an album in which every track beginning with the letter S is a hit track

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An unfortunate consequence of researching the far right is also having to understand Toxic Masculinity Culture. (the kind of culture one finds on a petri dish) It's no more sophisticated than mere Malignant Moaning. It is Ressentiment culture, through and through.

PSA: Chaya Raichik is a badged ICE agent, meaning she is Federal Law Enforcement. FYI. PSA. She's a Fed. With a badge. And everything that goes along with that.

This is probably only the third time I've seen someone with the attention of the public, mention the Powell Memorandum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F...

mmmm yesssss $150k to take down a $1k kitbashed drone Your tax $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in the pockets of some crony capitalist

BlueSky -- and I cannot stress this enough -- **is not** an echo chamber. There are no Content Policies / Sitewide Rules / Community Guidelines prohibiting Republicans from using the site The **Republicans** are incapable of community

She’s back; Hopefully the underlying issues have been sorted

Speaking of subverting T&S, weaponisation of reporting, and getting transgender people suspended, In the past 14 hours, sometime, @gwenpepperoni.bsky.social got suspended by BSky moderation No doubt because of a deluge of reports

I am skankin' in my living room