Swamp Witch
@whimsicalmutant.bsky.social
Eventually, we all get freaked in the 'nomics.
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“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.
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In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
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well, I’m sure that bully was just hard up for lunch money today and everything will return to normal tomorrow
Update: It's not just Nexstar
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson
This is...something
Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":
"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."
Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":
"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."
September 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
well, I’m sure that bully was just hard up for lunch money today and everything will return to normal tomorrow
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
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They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant.
Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
September 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant.
Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
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If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
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People continue to talk as though having feelings about something causes that outcome like it’s magic.
September 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
People continue to talk as though having feelings about something causes that outcome like it’s magic.
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It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
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Trump’s fans *love* that he can get away with being a child rapist. It’s what they want for themselves!
September 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Trump’s fans *love* that he can get away with being a child rapist. It’s what they want for themselves!
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A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.
September 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.
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it is incredibly easy to believe that seven super-wealthy tech CEOs are delusional
September 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
it is incredibly easy to believe that seven super-wealthy tech CEOs are delusional
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White supremacists are always claiming some sort of unified European culture as if you couldn’t pick any random year in European history and find some inter-ethnic/intra-national conflict awash in war crimes.
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
White supremacists are always claiming some sort of unified European culture as if you couldn’t pick any random year in European history and find some inter-ethnic/intra-national conflict awash in war crimes.
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pretty much all civility discourse can be boiled down to “i want to say bigoted shit, and i don’t want to be called a bigot in response. if i use graphs or charts or express it through abstract policies, i should be allowed this.” like there’s almost nothing else to it
August 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
pretty much all civility discourse can be boiled down to “i want to say bigoted shit, and i don’t want to be called a bigot in response. if i use graphs or charts or express it through abstract policies, i should be allowed this.” like there’s almost nothing else to it
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I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response.
Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
August 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response.
Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”
www.motherjones.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
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One of the things I hate about the Dems who are going anti-trans is that it leans in to the models built by the conservatives about how to win voters, and we are fools if we play by their game.
August 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One of the things I hate about the Dems who are going anti-trans is that it leans in to the models built by the conservatives about how to win voters, and we are fools if we play by their game.
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The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
August 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
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Counterpoint: They get it and they give no fucks.
My latest is about Trump killing infrastructure grants intended to undo the harm done to minority communities by earlier infrastructure spending—a problem that complicates the Abundance discussion.
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Abundance Cultists Don’t Get How Infrastructure Can Screw Black People
And the Trump administration, which has been on a spree killing off vital transportation projects, doesn’t care.
newrepublic.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Counterpoint: They get it and they give no fucks.
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61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
Fannie Lou Hamer's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Speech
YouTube video by Northwest African American Museum
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August 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
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WHO’S AFRAID OF GENDER?
August 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
WHO’S AFRAID OF GENDER?