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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1h

When stories start popping up in multiple outlets saying liberals are warming to MTG or Nick Fuentes, and they’re not, it’s probably a good thing to start asking why.

And then, remember that Bush Era Republicans and the Cheneys were embraced and then liberal think tanks got funded by the Koch’s.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1h

It’s important to realize that while the GOP went full fascist, there was a concerted, relentless, and obscenely well-funded campaign to pull the Dems to the Right.

They became the conservative party and the project isn’t even close to being finished.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 12h

Reminder for those attending 50501 SoCal’s No Kings protest this Saturday. The organizers have a history of coordinating with LAPD pigs ahead of their parades. Here’s communication between the 50501 SoCal founders and LAPD regarding last April’s protest.

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Brendon Yuen <
Tuesday, March 25, 20254:06 PM
BRIAN CORWIN
EVAN MARTINEZ;CHRISTOPHER SUK;MICHAEL BOYLE;Joann Calderon (DOT Spcl Events);Gerardo Cervantes;Justin Rong:justin.m.kim@lacity.org;Tyler, John W@CHP;Velasquez, Steven P.;bwclinks@lasd.org
Re: 50501 SoCal Unites
ATTENTION: This email originated outside of LAPD. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
I will be attending the meeting.
I will have also asked a few other individuals in charge of planning to attend as well.
Brendon
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM BRIAN CORWIN <35723 @lapd.online> wrote:
Good morning,
I sent out the invite for the meeting tomorrow for the event 50501 SoCal Unites scheduled on April 5, 2025. The meeting is over TEAMS and is set for 930am. If you are able to attend it please rsvp. If you have any questions please let me know.
Thank you,
Brian Corwin
Sergeant I Special Events
35723 @lapd.online

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Brendon Yuen <
Thursday, March 27, 2025 10:24 AM
BRIAN CORWIN
EVAN MARTINEZ; CHRISTOPHER SUK:MICHAEL
BOYLE;pierre.riotoc@lacity.orgjjasmine.hy@lacity.org;bwclinks@lasd.org;Velasquez,
Steven P.;Tyler, John W@CHP;emily@50501socal.org;Joann Calderon (DOT Spcl Events);Brenda Mariona;Gerardo Cervantesjustin.m.kim@lacity.org;Justin Rong;shawn.connolly@lacity.org
Re: 50501 SoCal Unites
ATTENTION: This email originated outside of LAPD. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
I will be attending the meeting.
Brendon
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM BRIAN CORWIN <35723@lapd.online> wrote:
This is a follow-up meeting prior to the event on Saturday April 5, 2025.
Microsoft Teams Need help?
Join the meeting now
Meeting ID:
Passcode:
Dial in by phone
United States, Los Angeles
Find a local number
Phone conference ID:
For organizers: Meeting options | Reset dial-in

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 19h

Newsom is allowing trans rights on paper to keep the cis liberals satisfied, which they will be, while ensuring trans people (and queer cis people!) don't actually get to have rights in a material sense

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 1d

there are a lot of things in TWO THOUSAND AND LATE that are directly inspired by my life. this episode probably has the biggest one: Awesome Chicken

jk, it's this huge rant that Harper gives about how we've learned all the wrong lessons from the last 5 years + it's totally screwed up our priorities

A screenshot from a script to Two Thousand and Late:
HARPER: I blame a lot of different people for a lot of ways that things have been totally and irretrievably fucked up these last few years, but I don't blame anyone for that. If anything...I don't know, Mac, it feels like that's the last time that human beings were collectively giving a shit. We were all so scared and more separate than we'd ever been but we knew- we knew that everyone was trying their best to help those who were sick, to figure out a vaccine, all of it. (then) And we were scared together. We mourned together. We celebrated the people who were putting their lives on the line to try and help people like Chuck, even when they knew it was hopeless. Hell, even our fucking government coughed up some of that money they've been spending on bombs and corporate bail-outs and fucking trillion dollar jets and they actually gave it to people who were struggling and then- then-
MAC: It all went to shit.
HARPER: It all went to shit! Everyone lost their goddamn minds and decided that actually, it wasn't really that bad in the first place and we all over-reacted and that the real problem was too little AI clogging up our life and too much civil liberty for people who have never bothered anybody!

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 2d

I really, really want to put this quote in front of Alan Moore and ask him about Thiel's interpretation of Watchmen

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 2d

It was an interesting viewing experience. Still not my favorite Kubrick or horror film but there are certain things I appreciate more now

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to read more about this version, see here. It's a pretty fascinating experiment www.screenslate.com/articles/shi...

The Shining Forwards and Backwards

A hallucinatory, Dark Side of the Rainbow for the 21st century, The Shining Forwards and Backwards is a hallucinatory palindromic mindfuck resulting from musician John Fell Ryan’s literal interpretati...

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 2d

Last night myself and a couple of others watched The Shining Forwards and Backwards (this version of The Shining that overlays the film in reverse over the film playing out as normal) and boy, did the juxtaposition REALLY hone in on Jack Torrance as abusive monster from the get-go.

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 3d

Superman says Truth, Justice, and "Corporate Militias get the laser eyes right in the face"

Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 3d

THE PEOPLE OF STEEL

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 3d

"I received an invite from the JSA - which I suppose is some sort of social club for superheroes, where we all are supposed to sit around and talk about bally nonsense as which fellows Hawkman bashed with his mace last week. He and Tuppy Glossop would get on like a house on fire: total devastation."

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of exciting DC title announcements today but when will they let me do a 1940s-set Johnny Thunder miniseries, it's Jeeves and Wooster except Jeeves is a literal genie and they fight Nazis! It's a goldmine, Jim Lee! A goldmine!

Johnny Thunder and the Thunderbolt genie

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 3d

Time gets away from us.

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Bryan Ward @bryaneward.bsky.social · 3d

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 3d

An incredible performance that really grows over the course of the film

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 3d

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 4d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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Christopher Dole @chrisdole86.bsky.social · 4d

Joker's gonna get Nigel-ed. It's happening, baby.

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