LunchCounterPunch
@theultrasecret.bsky.social
Stale are playmates who play to stalemate.
Made political punk rock once, may again.
Some recent-ish demos here: https://theultrasecret.bandcamp.com/album/the-ultra-secret
Made political punk rock once, may again.
Some recent-ish demos here: https://theultrasecret.bandcamp.com/album/the-ultra-secret
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It's also notable how manufactured this whole panic has been. DEI can be a little silly but it's been a fixture at American corporations since the 1990s. The only reason we're all talking about it constantly is that right-wing media decided to pretend it was left-wing tyranny.
The right-wing has been priming Americans to think of population wide gains in freedom and equality as potentially ill-gotten; a theft against those who are already living with a full suite of rights. It's why attacks on DEI work. The Dems/the left must emphasize that this is a theft of Civil Rights
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Dems can keep blaming their losses on movements like "Uncommitted," but it's the moral rot of their iconic leaders that does the most broad and long-lasting damage.
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Dems can keep blaming their losses on movements like "Uncommitted," but it's the moral rot of their iconic leaders that does the most broad and long-lasting damage.
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Throwing the country off a cliff and dislodging rocks on the way down is not “efficient boulder removal.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Throwing the country off a cliff and dislodging rocks on the way down is not “efficient boulder removal.”
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Because profane charlatans like Hegseth take no pride in their work, their blind spots are those who do.
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Because profane charlatans like Hegseth take no pride in their work, their blind spots are those who do.
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ChatGPT is less an introduction of a new tool to enhance institutional performance, and more an infiltration of institutions by nefarious actors, in an effort to diminish them. Either way, “it’s here, so use it” is morally vacuous reasoning.
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ChatGPT is less an introduction of a new tool to enhance institutional performance, and more an infiltration of institutions by nefarious actors, in an effort to diminish them. Either way, “it’s here, so use it” is morally vacuous reasoning.
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The more profane and blasphemous the shitheads running this country, the more they need to brandish their Christian bona fides via the sorts of activities @marisakabas.bsky.social documents here.
“There is a difference between being surrounded by a religion & having it foisted upon you. The efforts of the Trump administration are the latter, creating uncomfortable & unsafe working conditions for federal employees who either practice a religion that is not Christianity—or no religion at all.”
RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden
Employees received a survey Monday asking them to rat on each other.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The more profane and blasphemous the shitheads running this country, the more they need to brandish their Christian bona fides via the sorts of activities @marisakabas.bsky.social documents here.
The more profane and blasphemous the shitheads running this country, the more they need to brandish their Christian bona fides via the sorts of activities @marisakabas.bsky.social documents here.
“There is a difference between being surrounded by a religion & having it foisted upon you. The efforts of the Trump administration are the latter, creating uncomfortable & unsafe working conditions for federal employees who either practice a religion that is not Christianity—or no religion at all.”
RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden
Employees received a survey Monday asking them to rat on each other.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The more profane and blasphemous the shitheads running this country, the more they need to brandish their Christian bona fides via the sorts of activities @marisakabas.bsky.social documents here.
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The spirit shattering “Work hard and play by the rules” pitch. Flat and condescending; I don’t know how they do it.
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The spirit shattering “Work hard and play by the rules” pitch. Flat and condescending; I don’t know how they do it.
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What they like about America is how easily exploitable it is internally, and how much power it has to exploit externally.
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What they like about America is how easily exploitable it is internally, and how much power it has to exploit externally.
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What Hegseth has, and most people who serve absolutely do not, is bloodlust. He thinks there’s something inherently cool about getting to kill people. Dems must understand, as an existential matter, that this can’t be allowed to fester.
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What Hegseth has, and most people who serve absolutely do not, is bloodlust. He thinks there’s something inherently cool about getting to kill people. Dems must understand, as an existential matter, that this can’t be allowed to fester.
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This analysis is loathsome, yes, but deeply saddening as well. Yet another generation being led by its elders to doubt the horror they feel at witnessing a genocide. As if revulsion toward war crimes and wanton murder is not completely natural, but rather something to be suspicious of. It's tragic.
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This analysis is loathsome, yes, but deeply saddening as well. Yet another generation being led by its elders to doubt the horror they feel at witnessing a genocide. As if revulsion toward war crimes and wanton murder is not completely natural, but rather something to be suspicious of. It's tragic.
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Planned, but this is also just the Conservative movement running on automatic. Without their frauds and manipulations, without their targets, without their bigotries and snot-nosed grievances, what would they have? Nothing. This is their plan because it’s their existence.
It was definitely planned, this is exactly how they do it every time. It's the Libs of TikTok faux outrage pipeline
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Planned, but this is also just the Conservative movement running on automatic. Without their frauds and manipulations, without their targets, without their bigotries and snot-nosed grievances, what would they have? Nothing. This is their plan because it’s their existence.
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It's one crisis after another in America, but it doesn't have to be this way. If we're truly concerned with liberation and the pursuit of individual and collective well-being, white conservatism is a destabilizing force, period. This has to be broadly understood, accepted, and dealt with.
Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's one crisis after another in America, but it doesn't have to be this way. If we're truly concerned with liberation and the pursuit of individual and collective well-being, white conservatism is a destabilizing force, period. This has to be broadly understood, accepted, and dealt with.
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The Secretary of Dewar’s is a vicious, vulgar fool; it’s a disgrace to this country that he has any title and position whatsoever.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind…”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The Secretary of Dewar’s is a vicious, vulgar fool; it’s a disgrace to this country that he has any title and position whatsoever.
Planned, but this is also just the Conservative movement running on automatic. Without their frauds and manipulations, without their targets, without their bigotries and snot-nosed grievances, what would they have? Nothing. This is their plan because it’s their existence.
It was definitely planned, this is exactly how they do it every time. It's the Libs of TikTok faux outrage pipeline
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Planned, but this is also just the Conservative movement running on automatic. Without their frauds and manipulations, without their targets, without their bigotries and snot-nosed grievances, what would they have? Nothing. This is their plan because it’s their existence.
A sick inversion of the usual imperial blowback; here, Stand Your Ground and adjacent nonsense deployed at home is being used as cover to randomly murder people in boats.
Calling this "self-defense" is so flagrantly dishonest, a continued war on any belief that words actually have meanings. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
White House confirms second strike that killed alleged drug boat survivors
Trump administration refuses to say whether survivors on suspected drug-trafficking vessels posed imminent threat
www.the-independent.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A sick inversion of the usual imperial blowback; here, Stand Your Ground and adjacent nonsense deployed at home is being used as cover to randomly murder people in boats.
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If people correctly understood that the entire structure of American life, physical and emotional, is a monument to cis white manhood, they wouldn't find these quiet, inclusionary gestures so offensive.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If people correctly understood that the entire structure of American life, physical and emotional, is a monument to cis white manhood, they wouldn't find these quiet, inclusionary gestures so offensive.
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As a bonus, conservatives offer a pipeline to 15 minutes of sloppy fame, where the moment and your soul are juiced until completely shriveled. A truly loathsome spectacle.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
As a bonus, conservatives offer a pipeline to 15 minutes of sloppy fame, where the moment and your soul are juiced until completely shriveled. A truly loathsome spectacle.
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Destroying DEI because they will never be FEI (funny, esteemed, or included).
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Destroying DEI because they will never be FEI (funny, esteemed, or included).
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White supremacy isn't just the overtly vile stuff; it's also trying to dictate the terms of argument, agreement, and liberation.
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
White supremacy isn't just the overtly vile stuff; it's also trying to dictate the terms of argument, agreement, and liberation.
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Presupposing that immigration presents a threat, as opposed to it being an integral part of our freedoms, reinforces the worst in us, mainly fear and suspicion of one another. It doesn’t matter how noble sounding the solutions or intent; you are funneling good will toward bad.
The problem with center-left parties embracing xenophobic politics is that they are a race to the bottom. There is no point at which the racists that you are pandering to will be okay with the level of immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Presupposing that immigration presents a threat, as opposed to it being an integral part of our freedoms, reinforces the worst in us, mainly fear and suspicion of one another. It doesn’t matter how noble sounding the solutions or intent; you are funneling good will toward bad.
Destroying Amazon while restoring the Amazon would provide nice symmetrical justice though.
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Destroying Amazon while restoring the Amazon would provide nice symmetrical justice though.
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“Why are liars allowed on television?” is a question we need to spend more time grappling with.
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Why are liars allowed on television?” is a question we need to spend more time grappling with.
Taking cars out of cities, pedestrianizing more areas, and providing quality public transportation yield positive, easy to feel dividends quickly (the drop in noise and traffic tension alone can be transformative for the collective mood). Go at it hard, and make sure people know why life got better.
This is why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social needs to go all in on street safety, bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrians plazas and more. The Post – and the Right in general – is going to call anything he does a “war on drivers” no matter what, so why not just do what’s right and go for it?
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Taking cars out of cities, pedestrianizing more areas, and providing quality public transportation yield positive, easy to feel dividends quickly (the drop in noise and traffic tension alone can be transformative for the collective mood). Go at it hard, and make sure people know why life got better.
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This is the decimation of truth, in the sense that the acquisition and the spread of new knowledge are being kneecapped, and also the fracturing of camaraderie and spirit, in the sense that fewer people will connect over such pursuits. Simply evil.
Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is the decimation of truth, in the sense that the acquisition and the spread of new knowledge are being kneecapped, and also the fracturing of camaraderie and spirit, in the sense that fewer people will connect over such pursuits. Simply evil.
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It may feel ludicrous to have to reaffirm this constantly, but it’s also just plainly necessary. The lure of fascism and domination exists; so too must remembrances of its horrors.
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It may feel ludicrous to have to reaffirm this constantly, but it’s also just plainly necessary. The lure of fascism and domination exists; so too must remembrances of its horrors.