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Start w/ the Golden Rule. Identity traits we're born w/into don't determine character. Nationalism makes neighbors into enemies to benefit the ruling classes. Equal rights for ALL, everywhere. Migration = survival adaptation. Anti-migrant = psychopathy.

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Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 1d

We like to cordon evil off to make evil the domain of a few demented individuals... who seem quite different from us. But whether it's the transatlantic slave trade or Nazism or genocide... We see again and again that evil... is the product of demented social orders.

-John Green

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 26d

The current(illegitimate) occupants of the US White House led a violent, attempted self-coup. Afterward, the Supreme Court forced him onto the ballots —in contravention of the US Constitution— and the highest-ranking Dem politicians didn't even protest the ruling. MSM normalized it all and moved on.

Wide Mind | Fierce Heart 🦓🥄 @wydmindfeersart.bsky.social · 27d

The abdication by US for-profit media to inform society about sociology, philosophy, or human rights; whilst nurturing support for ultranationalism, militarism, worship of wealth and physical strength, and everything as competition cultivated support for fascism.
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Sir Not Appearing In This Feed @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 55m

It’s still weird that this kind of thing 1) is not surprising and 2) gets barely any news coverage.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

POLITICO: Ingrassia “told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be ‘tossed into the seventh circle of hell’ and said he has ‘a Nazi streak,’ according to a text chat ..

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www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Eric Chenoweth @ericdchenoweth.bsky.social · 32m

Yes, it most certainly is.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 8h

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 8h

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 5h

The Confederacy collapsed from within after enslaved people abandoned plantations en masse & demanded the right to take up arms against slavery while white Southern women started doing bread riots, none of which had been anticipated by enslavers, political leaders, or even most abolitionists.

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 6h

The Czar was brought down because a slightly warm International Women's Day after a *super* cold winter got all the women on the street and it took even the Professional Revolutionaries by surprise.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Aug 23

In our own era, Republicans have worked alongside white paramilitary orgs & weaponized law enforcement & the courts for decades, making democracy & dissent increasingly dangerous. Democrats have done almost nothing to counter these efforts. And that, my friends, is how democracy dies.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Aug 23

Black Southerners & their political allies suffered overwhelming violence in election after election, amid which they still pulled off an incredible string of victories to rewrite their state constitutions. It is a wonder that they accomplished so much w so little support.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Aug 23

Reconstruction saw mass mobilization by formerly enslaved ppl w the opportunity to fully include Asian & Hispanic Americans into the body politic. Yet doing so represented a significant threat to those in power, who consistently refused to penalize ex-enslavers & their white paramilitary allies.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · Aug 23

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · Aug 23

the problem for Ds right now is not winning elections. they are doing fine at winning elections.

the problem is what happens *between elections.* as in, if you don't fight fascism between elections, election outcomes start not to matter. 1

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Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner13.bsky.social · 13d

"The evidence suggests that compromising on basic humanity doesn’t broaden coalitions; it hollows them out."

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21d

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 20d

"Movements that abandon their core supporters in pursuit of mythical moderate voters often end up with neither."

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21d

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 21d

“There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It’s important we don’t let those in power succeed in this endeavor.”

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21d

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 4d

Mass shootings, prisons, and denied healthcare don’t dominate headlines, but the death of a pundit like Charlie Kirk becomes a national drama. Owen and I went into why outrage is always selective. Find the episode here:

Capitalism's Gospel of Greed

Owen Macdonald joins me to talk through capitalism’s gospel of greed. We open with AI replacing “qualified” jobs, then look at the exploitation hidden in our supply chains, from mines in the Congo to migrant workers in Qatar and prison labor in the US. We discuss Christian nationalism, Owen’s debate

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Owen Macdonald @owenmacdonald.bsky.social · 2d

This doctor would dismiss the autonomy, support and healthcare of neurodivergent people because "the world won't continue to accommodate people" a dismissal of a societal injustice to affirm conservative attitudes about work and cooperation.

Once again, science without social science is worthless!

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

More I read of this piece the more I feel how few "experts" on neurodivergent individuals ever speak to us. It's hard enough to get reasonable accommodations as it is. Rather than reducing those available we should be working to increase them, including for adults.

www.thetimes.com/article/acda...

Extra time in exams ‘unhealthy' for children with ADHD and autism

Suzanne O'Sullivan, a neurologist, tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that 'accommodating' pupils could do more harm than good

Peter Chappell

Friday October 17 2025, 8.15pm, The Times

Extra time in exams is "not healthy" for children with disorders, a neurologist has said.

Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan warned that it was the wrong approach to “accommodate” children at schools by giving them 25 per cent additional time to complete their answers.

She said it was “really concerning" that an emphasis had been placed on “accommodating" pupils with disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, rather than addressing the root cause of a condition, or questioning whether a pupil has it at all.

“Your child gets a diagnosis and they get extra time in exams, for example. I feel that isn't a very healthy way forward. I think that we should be looking at interventions rather than accommodations,” O'Sullivan, the author of Age of Diagnosis: How the Overdiagnosis Epidemic is Making Us Sick, told the Cheltenham Literature Festival.

"What accommodation does, it says, well, we'll give you extra time in exams so you can manage better, but there's going to be a point in the future when extra time will not exist, and by giving it to young people in school I feel like you're creating first of all the impression that they need the extra time, that they perhaps cannot learn any other way.

"You're also setting up an idea that the world will accommodate them. Let's face it, the world is not going to continue to accommodate people.

"We really need to look at what we're doing when we identify children with problems. We should be helping them to work within a messy, difficult world, not setting them up to believe that the world will change to accommodate them."

Surge in ADHD diagnoses attributed to TikTok

O'Sullivan said that the adult world was at risk of telling young people that the "difficulty as you face your A-levels is to do with a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality when there's no scientific evidence for a neurodevelopmental brain abnormality in people

with mild autism or ADHD".

She added: "Imagine how difficult that is if you are defining a person according to a brain abnormality in teenagers, how difficult that will be to overcome in the future."

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13h

States like Russia can only "weaponise" migration because of other states utter hostility towards those seeking a safer life. The answer isn't to make it harder for people to seek asylum. It's to invest in systems which make it easier, and support everyone.
#r4today
www.thetimes.com/article/470c...

Russia and left-wingers ‘trying to flood Europe with illegal migrants'

Daniel Mitov, Bulgaria's interior minister, said hostile states were teaming up with criminals 'to destabilise Europe' - helped unwittingly by aid organisations

Matt Dathan, Sofia

Sunday October 19 2025, 6.30pm, The Times

Russian spies and hard-left humanitarian groups are working with people smugglers to flood Europe with illegal migrants, a Bulgarian minister says.

Daniel Mitov, the interior minister, said his government had evidence that Russia's foreign intelligence service had direct links with the criminal gangs facilitating illegal immigration into the European Union.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 7d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 6d

White nationalists in Britain see themselves as sharing more with white nationalists in the US than they do with any of their not-white neighbours or colleagues; similarly white nationalists in the US believe they have greater claim to British identity than do Asian or Black or Jewish British ppl

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 6d

White nationalism is an ideology where white ppl everywhere are deeply connected thru a shared identity & belief in their superiority over all not-white ppl

It may vary in the specfics country by country but it's no surprise white nationalists in South Africa, Australia, UK, US support each other

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5d

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Martin Luther King III @officialmlk3.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the International Day for Poverty Eradication. I think back on Dad's teachings regarding poverty. In Strength to Love he wrote: “God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 12h

Dehumanising disabled people, migrants, minorities and political opponents

We must be clear about violations of the principles of humanity, freedom, dignity, which apply to everyone, including those who deny those principles to us and others

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 1d

“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.”

We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.

Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds

During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is pa...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 15h

I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Over 700 million people hungry. 2 billion in food insecurity

🌐 UN Special Rapporteur @michaelfakhri.bsky.social presents report to #UNGA today on global food system designed to maximize corporate profits.

📢 Time for governments to act.

#FoodSovereignty #WorldFoodDay

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Flexed it on whom? You do understand that the Marines are a branch of the US military. Flexed on citizens of the United States is what you mean.

You really want to be The Fascist Times lol.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Vice President JD Vance used a speech at a military base in California on Saturday to attack Democrats over the government shutdown, as people in cities across the U.S. gathered to protest the Trump administration.

Vance Flexes Marines’ Might as Mass Protests Against Trump’s Agenda Take Place

Vice President JD Vance’s trip to a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders.

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graveyard raven hi-fi @shrike17.bsky.social · May 11

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