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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7m

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29m

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

At a press conference today, the mayor of Everett said there was a knife found in the child’s possession but *no* gun. I followed up with ICE and asked if they stand by the screenshot shared yesterday. Spokesperson said DHS was working on a response. Five hours later, still nothing.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 2h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yeah, that'd fuck with me too

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undeadeleine 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @webway.bsky.social · 16h

i would be fine if i read the king in yellow. even the second act. you should just let me read it

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 12h

Note that the people who typically participate in Black blocs know this. Contrary to the impression of tons of liberals,people generally do Black blocs strategically. David Graeber discusses this quite a lot in "Direct Action An Ethnography". There is a direct line to inflatable frogs from Ya Basta!

THIRD EXAMPLE: STREET PARTY
Direct action aims to confront what it sees as an unjust or illegitimate form of
authority in a way that, in its very internal structure, suggests a viable alternative
to it. Actually, the same is probably true, in some sense, of protest in generaL The
result, as we've seen, is that it's often difficult to determine how much any given
action should be seen as primarily a performance meant to make an impression
on an outside audience, and how much it is better seen as a collective ritual meant
to educate, inspire, entertain, and transform the sense of possibilities of the participants themselves. Certainly, there is always a little of both. But some types of
action lean much more heavily towards one than towards the other.
If picket lines lean very much in the first direction-they are primarily about
communicating a message of defiance to specific opponents, and convincing a
broader audience to act in solidarity-street parties might be said to represent
the opposite extreme. While they are certainly intended to make a political statement or achieve a political end, they are also designed to afford participants every
possible opportunity to enjoy themselves. lhat element of pleasure-above all,
of collective, social pleasure-is really the main point. Even insofar as those taking part in a street party are trying to impress an audience, they are doing so in
such a way as to blur the boundaries, not to draw lines in the sand. Onlookers are
offered a show, with music and jugglers and clowns. The ideal is for the pleasure
of the experience to become infectious, so that the audience spontaneously finds
itself drawn in, to either mentally or, better, physically enter the festivaL
This element of pleasure is considered a crucial to what makes new forms of
protest new-almost as much as principles of self-organization and autonomy.

In activist circles that year, Ya Basta! had something of the quality ofa Next
Big Thing. Probably, this was most of all for their spectacularly innovative tactics:
members of the group were famous for covering themselves in all sorts of elaborate padding, made from everything from foam rubber sheeting to rubber ducky
flotation devices, combining it with helmets and plastic shields, so one looked
like some kind of futuristic Greek hoplite, then topping the whole thing with gas
masks and white chemical protective suits. The idea is that, so suited up, there's
relatively little the cops can do that will actually hurt you. Of course, you are rendered so clumsy there's probably not that much you could do to hurt anyone else;
but that's kind of the point. Its exponents claim the tactic is rooted in a new philosophy of civil disobedience. Where the old-fashioned, masochistic, Gandhian
approach encourages activists to hold out their willingness to let the police beat
them up as a sign of moral superiority, the "white overalls" proposed an ethos of
protection: as long as you refuse to harm others, it is completely legitimate to take
whatever measures necessary to avoid harm to yourself The costume also makes
one look rather ridiculous, but that's kind of the point too. Ya Basta! columns would often play on it by, for instance, attacking police lines with balloons or water pistols. What really impressed a lot of activists in America, though, was that
such groups had a real social base.

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eevee @eev.ee · 15h

when i was just a little girl
i asked my mother, what should i be?
maybe a fennec?
how 'bout a wolf?
here's what she said to me:

¿por qué no los dos?
you're allowed to have two ocs
or as many as you please
¿por qué no los dos?

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

This creates a much better environment for disease spread. Even today, we can see disruption of lifestyles driving disease (see the Pima nation)

Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

This. Indigenous deaths due to disease is treated as an inevitability but that basically serves to whitewash the actions of colonists. These were often indirect and preceded actual colonisation of a particular area - such as refugees from colonies or slave raids crowding into other nations' land

Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14h

This is not true and the latest scholarship has overturned such ideas. Actually, as it happens, @stephaniekelton.bsky.social's husband Paul Kelton is a prominent and important scholar in this area. Highly recommend his work.

Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox, 1518–182

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14h

This is not true and the latest scholarship has overturned such ideas. Actually, as it happens, @stephaniekelton.bsky.social's husband Paul Kelton is a prominent and important scholar in this area. Highly recommend his work.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 3d

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

They built railways...

...which ran from the mines to the sea ports

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

I've seen people try to reappraise the CGI Tarkin and Leia in that film in the light of AI, trying to say this food while AI is bad and for gods sake no, it was ghoulish and also an aesthetic disaster

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Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 16h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

It's a particular interpretation of Maoism by western leftists who try desperately to show that China is actually communist right now, and ends up creating an even more bleak version instead

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

She also feels that things like individual rights, being the basis of liberalism, are SOLELY the property of liberalism

In reality, a key problem of liberalism is that it fails to spread these rights to everyone due to prioritising property rights, so rich people have more access to their rights

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 12h

She has roughly the same view of communism as McCarthy, she just things it's good, lol

She's swallowed the anticommunist propaganda, but thinks it's good

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

This is what social media was *supposed* to be for: expert deep dives. And porn, of course.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, I'm actually proud of this one. Really good Hera/Hestia/Demeter combo combined with defensive powers (axe, scorch on attack, whirlwind frenzy, demeter power to instantly do all scorch damage at once if frozen - important since I discovered there's a 999 cap XD

After-action report from Hades 2, showing 63,430 damage inflicted by scorch and only 252 damage taken from Chronos.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 21h

Don't mind if I do

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 1d

I will also pretend this is a post about baseball because it amuses me.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

JUST RUN THE BALL UP THE MIDDLE GODDAMNIT

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

hated that fourth down playcall. Your OL is winning. Tush push. Sneak. Do the thing.

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Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 21h

There's a huge problem with people trying to oppose the patriarchy without understanding it, so they end up recreating it

Patriarchy isn't just "men good women bad" and going "men bad women good" isn't opposing it because that is ALSO a message patriarchy gives

The contradiction is deliberate

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