@samcone.bsky.social
Former aspiring stunt performer. Recovering lawyer.
#horror + #hopepunk
Currently fighting for justice and health in NC.
#maskup
#horror + #hopepunk
Currently fighting for justice and health in NC.
#maskup
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Everything is eugenics.
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Everything is eugenics.
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“It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable,” she says.
A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.
A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
“It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable,” she says.
A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.
A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
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Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
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Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
September 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
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Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts
The principles of Abuse
The failures of racism
The Special Snowflake chart
The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart
redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...
The principles of Abuse
The failures of racism
The Special Snowflake chart
The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart
redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...
March 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts
The principles of Abuse
The failures of racism
The Special Snowflake chart
The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart
redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...
The principles of Abuse
The failures of racism
The Special Snowflake chart
The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart
redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...
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Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy.
These are desperate moves.
They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.
These are desperate moves.
They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.
These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.'
Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy.
These are desperate moves.
They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.
These are desperate moves.
They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.
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"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts
“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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Straight up Nazi shit, no exaggeration
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Straight up Nazi shit, no exaggeration
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from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
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MAGA, at its core, is a cult of abuse. The right to abuse, the justification for abuse, the dopamine rush they get from abusing others, is built into every policy, every program, every line of rhetoric. They identify with abusers because they want to abuse people.
August 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
MAGA, at its core, is a cult of abuse. The right to abuse, the justification for abuse, the dopamine rush they get from abusing others, is built into every policy, every program, every line of rhetoric. They identify with abusers because they want to abuse people.
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If you watch Hitler speak he seems so fucking silly, and it took me a while to understand that this part of how fascism gets as far as it does.
It doesn't just look silly in retrospect.
It looks silly in real time. So silly that Serious People refuse to take it seriously until it is too late.
It doesn't just look silly in retrospect.
It looks silly in real time. So silly that Serious People refuse to take it seriously until it is too late.
if you're suprised how stupid fascism is it was in Germany in the 30s/40s too, it's just that hollywood makes you believe that they were all extremely put together.
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you watch Hitler speak he seems so fucking silly, and it took me a while to understand that this part of how fascism gets as far as it does.
It doesn't just look silly in retrospect.
It looks silly in real time. So silly that Serious People refuse to take it seriously until it is too late.
It doesn't just look silly in retrospect.
It looks silly in real time. So silly that Serious People refuse to take it seriously until it is too late.
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Free group for queer autistics
No fixing.
No masking.
Just space to be.
Share, process, connect - with people who get it.
Led by an autistic peer support coach, open to all genders + identities.
www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-discu...
No fixing.
No masking.
Just space to be.
Share, process, connect - with people who get it.
Led by an autistic peer support coach, open to all genders + identities.
www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-discu...
July 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Free group for queer autistics
No fixing.
No masking.
Just space to be.
Share, process, connect - with people who get it.
Led by an autistic peer support coach, open to all genders + identities.
www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-discu...
No fixing.
No masking.
Just space to be.
Share, process, connect - with people who get it.
Led by an autistic peer support coach, open to all genders + identities.
www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-discu...
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man: this was his response to Paramount’s demand for changes
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
June 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man: this was his response to Paramount’s demand for changes
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
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This is exactly how a strongman government aspires to function—instead of rules, everything is a favor to be requested from the boss.
June 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is exactly how a strongman government aspires to function—instead of rules, everything is a favor to be requested from the boss.
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43 years ago today, John Carpenter’s THE THING hit theaters—and was instantly rejected.
Now? It's untouchable.
A brutal, brilliant, paranoid descent into isolation and identity.
Sci-fi horror reborn in fire and frost.
Read how it rose from the ice:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/john-carpent...
Now? It's untouchable.
A brutal, brilliant, paranoid descent into isolation and identity.
Sci-fi horror reborn in fire and frost.
Read how it rose from the ice:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/john-carpent...
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: The Story of an SF Horror Game-Changer • Cinephilia & Beyond
The Thing poster art by Christopher Shy By Sven Mikulec I mean, the whole point of the monster is to be monstrous, to be repellent. That’s what makes you sidewith the human beings. I didn’t have a pro...
cinephiliabeyond.org
June 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
43 years ago today, John Carpenter’s THE THING hit theaters—and was instantly rejected.
Now? It's untouchable.
A brutal, brilliant, paranoid descent into isolation and identity.
Sci-fi horror reborn in fire and frost.
Read how it rose from the ice:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/john-carpent...
Now? It's untouchable.
A brutal, brilliant, paranoid descent into isolation and identity.
Sci-fi horror reborn in fire and frost.
Read how it rose from the ice:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/john-carpent...
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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The subway is not scary. Literal children ride it millions of times every day. Fascists and bigots lie about it constantly and have for years because they’re trying to destroy NYC and our subway, and most things wrong with the subway can be traced to their attacks resulting in its underfunding.
TY @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social for saying it louder: The subway is not scary open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
June 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The subway is not scary. Literal children ride it millions of times every day. Fascists and bigots lie about it constantly and have for years because they’re trying to destroy NYC and our subway, and most things wrong with the subway can be traced to their attacks resulting in its underfunding.
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A movie list for morale
let's start here. A production where many performers were Jewish refugees from Europe
They made this movie during the war - in 1941 - before it was over - not knowing that we would win - not knowing the nazis would fall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkL9...
let's start here. A production where many performers were Jewish refugees from Europe
They made this movie during the war - in 1941 - before it was over - not knowing that we would win - not knowing the nazis would fall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkL9...
Casablanca (1942) Official Trailer - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman Movie HD
YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
www.youtube.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”