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Brian Kidwell 🧦 @briankidwell.bsky.social · 14h

Strong concur, it's way too coincidental that fascism is on the rise just as the last generation that saw it slips into becoming a historical past

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 15h

also, sincerely: this is the first generation to turn adult where you probably don't have a close family member who fought in WW2

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4h

It’s literally true but it hurts your feelings to say it

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a fan but this is Stancil at his worst. Needlessly provocative for no good reason.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

No Kings is like an order of magnitude bigger than the civil rights movement, if you want to place it on a scale of historically notable activism. What’s your plan though? I’m all ears!

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 7h

"Tron Ares will kill the franchise!" The average duration between Tron installments is 21 years. Mark your calendars for TRON 4 (2046)

Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 8h

If Tron 4 released in 2039 that would be the shortest time between any two of the Tron movies

Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 8h

I think there is a general YouTube outage (I've had problems playing videos myself)

downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 8h

If Tron 4 released in 2039 that would be the shortest time between any two of the Tron movies

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 15h

A good summary of Trumpist misogyny and patriarchy:

- I don't care if the guy beat his girlfriend, he's on my side
- He's the authority on whether he beat his girlfriend or not
- It's not a big deal if he beat his girlfriend anyway, let's talk about something else

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17h

“… plenty more evidence has surfaced of how immigration officers are abusing the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of US citizens who happen to not look like Brett Kavanaugh or walk around in places other than his fancy wealthy DC neighborhood.”

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head.

ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 17h

Marcotte: Things used to be different in the 90s.
Karl: You moron! They've been exactly the same since 2015!

???

Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 17h

She is describing the situation from well before 2016 and says so explicitly in her thread.

bsky.app/profile/aman...

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17h

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 1d

The hate America rally?

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 1d

Tyler Cowen's "virgin actress" obsession is so appalling it's broken containment. This is a clip from a nerdy but non-political Australian pop culture podcast.

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 5d

"The recent release of a number of unjustly detained immigrants shows there’s power in resistance and speaking out for our neighbors," writes @tusk81.bsky.social.

These victories send a message that the administration cannot arbitrarily detain individuals protected from deportation by law.

Unjustly Detained Immigrants Win Freedom Following Legal Action And Community Pushback: ‘I Am Beyond Grateful’

There’s power in standing up for each other.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 1d

Bezos has functionally unlimited wealth; the money doesn't matter here. WaPo will still be able do to immense damage by lending its prestigious *brand* to Trumpist apologia.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 2d

Sobering reading about Columbus's hideous crimes

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2d

Out of interest, who did far worse? Columbus and his men murdered over a hundred thousand directly.

Quotes from source here:

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of don't like the term "Kavanaugh stops". Kavanaugh was the one Trumpist justice who offered an explanation of the ruling. The rest of the majority were even more cowardly and said nothing. We're unfortunately teaching them to destroy our freedoms without explanation.

Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 2d

I know everyone here will be heartbroken to hear Reddit is shutting down Vault, its "collectible avatar" NFT integration launched back in 2022.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

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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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 3d

The change depicted in the graph is only ~12% of the public though, right? (23% in total changes and divide by two to avoid double counting people.)

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Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social · 3d

If you're quote skeeting Sally Jenkins today you're pushing a link to the Atlantic to your followers. You're part of the reason people like her and Bari Weiss are so powerful and influential. Don't link and don't reskeet links.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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