Ellin Stein
@ellinst.bsky.social
Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times),
MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
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As the saying goes: If Ukraine fights Russia, thousands die. If Ukraine is occupied by Russia, millions die.
Genocide just as Lemkin defined it.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 - Euromaidan Press
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036, setting 95% "Russian identity" targets for four oblasts.
euromaidanpress.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As the saying goes: If Ukraine fights Russia, thousands die. If Ukraine is occupied by Russia, millions die.
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Yeah and let’s not overlook typeface, which is klan all the way
DHS and ICE just going all out with KKK imagery, language, and typeface.
“Save America. join ice url” is a direct callback to longtime KKK slogan “Save our land. Join the Klan.” (See below)
In second group, compare DHS’s “Protect the homeland” meme to a recent KKK “defend our homeland” flyer.
“Save America. join ice url” is a direct callback to longtime KKK slogan “Save our land. Join the Klan.” (See below)
In second group, compare DHS’s “Protect the homeland” meme to a recent KKK “defend our homeland” flyer.
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Yeah and let’s not overlook typeface, which is klan all the way
WTF is "Americanism"?
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
WTF is "Americanism"?
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Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
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There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
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During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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Trump and his administration have targeted at least 470 people, organizations and institutions for retribution since he took office, according to a @reuters.com tally – an average of more than one a day. www.reuters.com/investigates...
Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting
A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Trump and his administration have targeted at least 470 people, organizations and institutions for retribution since he took office, according to a @reuters.com tally – an average of more than one a day. www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
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Very hard for immigrants to violate an oath to defend thee constitutional but Musk’s ignoring of the law and constitution with DOGE might actually qualify
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Very hard for immigrants to violate an oath to defend thee constitutional but Musk’s ignoring of the law and constitution with DOGE might actually qualify
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I'm late to this powerful, detailed article, but it's well worth a read. What we're doing to these people is an atrocity. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I'm late to this powerful, detailed article, but it's well worth a read. What we're doing to these people is an atrocity. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
Trump pardons massive fraudster. Birds of a feather, etc.
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Trump pardons massive fraudster. Birds of a feather, etc.
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Nigel Farage, of Cambridge Analytica fame? The UKIP Russian asset Farage? That one? You are going to hand your government over to that? Madness! Have you not had enough of the wonders of Brexit? Have you not seen what the Russian assets are doing to America? Are you daft?
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Nigel Farage, of Cambridge Analytica fame? The UKIP Russian asset Farage? That one? You are going to hand your government over to that? Madness! Have you not had enough of the wonders of Brexit? Have you not seen what the Russian assets are doing to America? Are you daft?
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Absolutely.
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bylinetimes.com/2021/12/23/c...
Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Ignores Demands for Inquiry into Peter Thiel’s Far-Right Influence
Cambridge University fails to answer questions raised by staff and students after Byline Times’ revelation that racist pseudoscience is being promoted on campus under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’
bylinetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Absolutely.
bylinetimes.com/2021/12/23/c...
bylinetimes.com/2021/12/23/c...
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First they went for the independence of the broadcast media and still they attack them despite the obvious shift to the right. Now they go for the educational institutions and will continue to attack them despite any appeasement measures they put in place.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
First they went for the independence of the broadcast media and still they attack them despite the obvious shift to the right. Now they go for the educational institutions and will continue to attack them despite any appeasement measures they put in place.
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Hungary has an election in April and the opposition needs huge support! Orbán is desperate as the polls are against him/ he’ll fight dirty! Please, support the fight of the Tisza party for honest, united politics! Look on YouTube Kontrol and Partizan news about Peter Magyar. Message me if interested
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hungary has an election in April and the opposition needs huge support! Orbán is desperate as the polls are against him/ he’ll fight dirty! Please, support the fight of the Tisza party for honest, united politics! Look on YouTube Kontrol and Partizan news about Peter Magyar. Message me if interested
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It’s a major theme in 1936’s “It Can’t Happen Here” —written after the author and his journalist wife traveled through Europe to study fascism first hand—with so many prophetic parallels to how we got to Trumpism, the book was revived after 9/11 but too many chose to call it “alarmism” here…
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s a major theme in 1936’s “It Can’t Happen Here” —written after the author and his journalist wife traveled through Europe to study fascism first hand—with so many prophetic parallels to how we got to Trumpism, the book was revived after 9/11 but too many chose to call it “alarmism” here…
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Jason Stanley’s new book Erasing History goes into detail about how authoritarians make taking down educational institutions their first priority. Which we really all should know by now.
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Jason Stanley’s new book Erasing History goes into detail about how authoritarians make taking down educational institutions their first priority. Which we really all should know by now.
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OTD in 1951 3rd wave of Operation Osen deportations began. 20,000 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended
Imagine mass deportations happening today...
Imagine mass deportations happening today...
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
OTD in 1951 3rd wave of Operation Osen deportations began. 20,000 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended
Imagine mass deportations happening today...
Imagine mass deportations happening today...
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
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Reform UK councillor wanted to fly 'I Love Jesus' flag from public building on Christmas Day
Reform UK councillor wanted to fly 'I Love Jesus' flag on Christmas Day
The unusual request was made by a member of the Reform UK cabinet but the proposal has been declined by the county council
www.coventrytelegraph.net
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reform UK councillor wanted to fly 'I Love Jesus' flag from public building on Christmas Day