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@absolvedbyhistory.bsky.social
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🍉 disabled with no income,
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🧿 incandescent convalescent
hold on i’m tryna remember
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Been logged off for several months. I’m late but there are shirts (still) available with a design I made. Purchasing them benefits orgs that support people directly impacted by the occupation of DC. Thanks @missmouse.bsky.social and @musicologyduck.bsky.social for the pics.
White t shirt with big red letters screenprinted on it that say US OUT OF DC. The same design is repeated on two badges pinned to or sitting on the shirt. There’s also a sticker with the logo of dc record store joint custody on it, which is a lil semi anthropomorphized dentures gadget with eyeballs and a tongue. A white shirt with US OUT OF DC screenprinted on it; it’s being held up in such a way that you can see the shadow it casts on the sidewalk beneath it; and the angle also lets you see the stylistic callbacks in the design (to go-go handbills and letterpressed prints)
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Cover of Omar El Akkad’s book, the red cover black and white text reads: “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” Only the following words are in white forming a concise statement “one day, everyone will have always been against this”
July 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Finally, a poem by Black Mask/Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, which came to mind as I looked at “don’t give them a reason” materials; presented here for cultural consideration & historical archival purposes, rather than instructive ones, of course.
Handwritten text: A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL IS A BOTTLE FILLEDWITH THREE PARTS KeROSENE AND ONE PART MOTOR OIL IT IS CAPPED AND WRAPPED WITH COTTON SOAKED WITH GASOLINE TO USE - LIGHT COTTON THROW BOTTLE FIRE AND EXPLOSION OCCUR ON IMPACT WITH TARGET A "WHITE RADICAL" IS THREE PARTS BULLSHIT AND ONE PART HESITATION. IT IS NOT REVOLUTIONARY AND SHOULD NOT BE STOCKPILED AT THIS TIME
June 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Instead of wasting your breath arguing with these bitchmade online libs about the state’s monopoly on violence and the legitimacy of community self-defense, just build irl with people who already get it.
A tweet from user @eyeballslicer, whose pfp appears to be a baby smoking a cigarette: “A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now.”
June 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Saw a lot of noise about nannies today. Reports about ICE activity should include the time, date, & location of the sighting, number of agents, & a visual description of their uniforms, vehicles, & badges—or better, photographic evidence. Resource: crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/e... @crimethinc.com
A graphic from the linked resource. The text At top reads: “if you want to support immigrants communities…” then the headline “don’t spread unverified reports of ICE sightings.” Creepy hands representing ICE and the police point to a banner reading “fear is a tool of the state.” The body text: “Rumors about ICE sightings spread like wildfire, often circulating online long after the initial post. Sharing false or outdated information is harmful to immigrant communities and can lead to panic and isolation. If you share information that might cause someone to skip getting groceries, pull their kids out of school, or miss out on a day's pay, you should do your best to confirm that it's legit.”
June 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Diagram of animals on a conveyer belt in a slaughterhouse. One sheep says to the next, who is about to be fed into the killing machine, “Shhh! Don’t give them a reason!” This is a response to an image post without alt text; some liberal bullshit policing the behavior of protestors, suggesting they just sit down and be docile in a scenario where the precondition is violence.
June 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Diagram of a conveyor belt at an animal slaughter facility. One sheep tells the next, as it is being fed into the killing machine “shhh! Don’t give them a reason!” as if being docile and obedient will stop the machine from doing what it is built to do. This is an image replying to a post without alt text; it’s some liberal bullshit policing protestors suggesting they just sit down and be peaceful in a scenario where the precondition is violence.
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Political cartoon in the style of the New Yorker cartoons depicts a firing squad. An officer tells the person tied to a stake against the wall,”Don’t give them a reason, that’s exactly what they want you to do” as if being docile and obedient will stop the armed wing of the state from controlling and killing your body (what it is built to do). This is an image replying to a post without alt text; it’s some liberal bullshit policing protestors suggesting they just sit down and be peaceful in a scenario where the precondition is violence.
June 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Political cartoon in the style of the New Yorker cartoons. Salem witch trials, you can see out the window a woman is being hanged as two women sit inside. One woman, presumably a spineless dipshit liberal like the one this comment is responding to, says to the other woman, of the hangmen, “don’t give them a reason,” as if anything you can do (sitting down, behaving) besides standing and fighting will stop the armed wing of the state from controlling and crushing your body (what it is built to do).
June 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Maybe everyone has brain fog from the pandemic Biden declared “over” based on the number of deaths-per-day the American public would accept
Screencap of an article excerpt. Title: Biden White House discusses how many daily COVID deaths would be acceptable to declare the pandemic over. Article excerpt: A report in Politico Monday sheds light on the ruthless and cynical effort by the Biden White House to convince Americans that the COVID pandemic has officially ended. Citing three sources, the website reports internal conversations among Biden aides as to what would be a "general metric" for daily COVID death figures that would be acceptable to the public and provide the basis to declare the pandemic over.
May 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Screencap from Veep S04E01 “Joint Session,” Gary is recoiling in self-disgust and saying “What an old crone!”
May 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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an essential resource confronting the dangerous inefficacy/misguided wastefulness of such boards, from @interruptcrim.bsky.social www.interruptingcriminalization.com/community-co...
Excerpt from linked resource: “But the demand for community control ignores the real problem with police and policing; policing functions to maintain white supremacy and protect property, and its power and violence contribute to and are part of broader structures of inequality. Instead of promoting the kind of change that would protect oppressed communities from individual and structural harm, Community Review Boards (CRBs) legitimize the role of police in this harm. In the current landscape, "community control" does this by suggesting that under the "right" supervision or control, policing (and police) can be separated from this institutional violence and the historic function of policing.”
May 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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A meme that compares republicans and democrats using the song “kill the poor” by Dead Kennedys, with the only difference being democrats have (clean) after the song (as in, not explicit)
May 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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These are from two separate interviews. Aspirational.
Excerpt from “The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations,” I highlighted the interviewee (Deborah Lipstadt) replying to Chotiner’s question by saying “No, no, no, no, no, no.” Excerpt from the interview with Bret Easton Ellis, in which Ellis responds to a question by saying, which I’ve highlighted: “No, no, no, no, no.” Which to be fair is one “no” fewer.
April 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Self-soothing before sleep by revisiting great Chotiner-ings of yore.
An excerpt from Isaac Chotiner’s essay “How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy,” from April 1, 2025. I highlighted the following excerpt from a panicked answer: “I’m about to get lost here.”
April 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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the main flaw in my business plan was that self-satirizing, it turns out, is *not* a booming market
A tote bag for the magazine the New Yorker, a book is in it, the savvy I can tell the book is codependent no more by Melody Beattie. There is a badge on the bag. It says respectability politics in the New Yorker type face and has two finger ornaments, pointing either way above and below the text. A pin back badge that says respectability politics in the New Yorker type face and has two finger ornaments, pointing either way above and below the text. It is attached to a New Yorker tote bag.
April 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Giselle Fetterman, who helps facilitate the distribution of food that is expiring or would otherwise be thrown out, has long charitywashed her husband’s image in the wake of his reckless, racist, and impotent leadership—which has done very little to revitalize Braddock.
A t shirt that says “the fettermans exploited my town and all I got was this community garden and tens of thousands of dead Palestinian children”
April 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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“Attacking a charitable organization that serves those in need crosses a line that should never be approached.” m.jpost.com/american-pol...
A photo accompanying this text from NYT: Days after the United Nations accused Israel of killing 15 humanitarian workers in Gaza, officials who recovered the bodies or carried out the autopsies said some of the rescue workers were shot multiple times before being buried in a mass grave. The Palestine Red Crescent Society, which had eight of its members killed and carried out the recovery mission, said that nearly all 15 bodies showed gunshot wounds, according to a spokeswoman, Nebal Farsakh. One paramedic was found with his hands and feet tied toward his body, Ms. Farsakh said.
April 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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BREAKING: Fetterman is strongly against targeting of aid workers regardless of what side of a conflict they’ve chosen
John and Giselle Fetterman posing for a picture with Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife on a recent trip to Israel where Bibi presented John with a silver pager to symbolize a recent Israeli operation that indiscriminately maimed 3,000 people and killed 12, including 2 children. Of the attack, Fetterman said he “loved” it.
April 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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If you’re going to do “better dead than disabled,” write about the social conditions making people feel that way. Otherwise you’re just printing "better dead than disabled,” which is intellectually lazy and morally incompetent, @engber.bsky.social.
An excerpt from the article: Yet even those alarming figures seem to matter less to COVID-conscious people than the vaguer risk of long-term complications. "It's less about death, because if you die that sucks but you're dead," said Tess, a 35-year-old public-health researcher who asked to use her first name only, so that her professional work would not be connected to her COVID advocacy. "It's disability. It's living through it." Tess told me that she already has long COVID, with brain fog and some loss of function in her lungs.
April 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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lots of you out there fighting the christian nationalist eugenicist technolibertarian hellworld, and i’m just stuck in bed w my teeth falling out. thank you
A still frame from a 1980s news report. A grainy image of a person walking down the street with text that reads “still ahead: staying alive.”
March 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Screen capture of part of the mood tracker apps “year wrapped” sharing, with a sunglass adorned emoji, that my longest “happy day” period was 1 “days” long
December 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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December 6, 2024 at 5:45 AM