Alex
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I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...
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79. American citizen.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
79. American citizen.
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The conflation of politician and journalist remains once of Fox News signature accomplishments.
There’s also, as Perry points out, the “we” problem.
I’m a journalist, not a politician. I plan to continue pointing out that the entire conservative movement is obsessed with phantom problems and conspiracy theories. I think this is an extremely salient fact that voters should know.
I’m a journalist, not a politician. I plan to continue pointing out that the entire conservative movement is obsessed with phantom problems and conspiracy theories. I think this is an extremely salient fact that voters should know.
September 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The conflation of politician and journalist remains once of Fox News signature accomplishments.
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Today, our hero is a skateboard 🫡
Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today, our hero is a skateboard 🫡
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It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
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Plainclothes Beaufort County Deputy brutalizes and threatens to kill 2 teens with his service weapon in Hilton Head, SC.
September 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Plainclothes Beaufort County Deputy brutalizes and threatens to kill 2 teens with his service weapon in Hilton Head, SC.
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When world hunger is brought up the usual response is to grow more food.
The problem is in distribution not in underproduction.
When the housing shortage is brought up the usual response is to build more housing.
There is plenty of vacant housing, the problem comes from profiteering.
The problem is in distribution not in underproduction.
When the housing shortage is brought up the usual response is to build more housing.
There is plenty of vacant housing, the problem comes from profiteering.
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
When world hunger is brought up the usual response is to grow more food.
The problem is in distribution not in underproduction.
When the housing shortage is brought up the usual response is to build more housing.
There is plenty of vacant housing, the problem comes from profiteering.
The problem is in distribution not in underproduction.
When the housing shortage is brought up the usual response is to build more housing.
There is plenty of vacant housing, the problem comes from profiteering.
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The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
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Milder no, long covid cases doubled in children after Omicron
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Milder no, long covid cases doubled in children after Omicron
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230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery’ at Maryland’s House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a juvenile detention facility with a documented history of abuse and neglect. Officials knew, and didn’t act. They even grossly undercounted the boys who died. wapo.st/4mphCCv
230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery.’ Officials knew, and didn’t act.
The House of Reformation juvenile detention facility was known for cases of neglect and abuse. Maryland officials allowed a graveyard next to the facility to deteriorate over decades, a Washington Pos...
wapo.st
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery’ at Maryland’s House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a juvenile detention facility with a documented history of abuse and neglect. Officials knew, and didn’t act. They even grossly undercounted the boys who died. wapo.st/4mphCCv
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Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the United States. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and deadly than left-wing violence, data shows
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the United States. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
www.pbs.org
September 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the United States. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
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Okay the conservative argument on abortion and birth control being bad for women is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the link between vaccines and autism is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the anti COVID vaccine stuff is based on bunk cherrypicked science. But this one is legit!
many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Okay the conservative argument on abortion and birth control being bad for women is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the link between vaccines and autism is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the anti COVID vaccine stuff is based on bunk cherrypicked science. But this one is legit!
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new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
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The first secret police organization in fascist Italy—the precursor to the German Gestapo—was the OVRA, the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism.
Those who fear-monger about "Antifa" are walking directly in Mussolini's footsteps.
Background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVRA
Those who fear-monger about "Antifa" are walking directly in Mussolini's footsteps.
Background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVRA
June 7, 2023 at 6:12 AM
The first secret police organization in fascist Italy—the precursor to the German Gestapo—was the OVRA, the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism.
Those who fear-monger about "Antifa" are walking directly in Mussolini's footsteps.
Background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVRA
Those who fear-monger about "Antifa" are walking directly in Mussolini's footsteps.
Background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVRA
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EXCLUSIVE: Israel is ‘Gaslighting’ Us, Says ‘Andor’ Star After Trip to Occupied West Bank
Mehdi talks to Irish actor Denise Gough about her breakout role on the ‘Star Wars’ TV series, the ties between Ireland and Palestine, and the horrors she saw in Hebron.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
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Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger
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“Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.” 🥵🥵🥵8/25/25
Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists
Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.
www.reuters.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.” 🥵🥵🥵8/25/25
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If you are an immigrant, a woman, Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, Jewish, queer, trans, disabled, poor, a worker, a protester, or anyone who resists authoritarian rule - they are coming after you. No one is safe when power thrives on fear and division. Solidarity is the only method of survival.
August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you are an immigrant, a woman, Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, Jewish, queer, trans, disabled, poor, a worker, a protester, or anyone who resists authoritarian rule - they are coming after you. No one is safe when power thrives on fear and division. Solidarity is the only method of survival.
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“If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.”
-Jonathan Foster, journalism professor
-Jonathan Foster, journalism professor
August 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.”
-Jonathan Foster, journalism professor
-Jonathan Foster, journalism professor
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Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists.
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
In Memory of Rosebud, Defender of People's Park
On the 30th anniversary of her death at the hands of police, a poster in memory of anarchist and People’s Park defender Rosebud Abigail Denovo.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists.
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
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The fascists aim to relegate those who will not be complicit in genocide to sacrifice zones, to carve up the whole world into privileged butchers and brutalized victims, to suppress all capacity for solidarity.
If we let them do that, the circle of the included can only shrink. Better to fight now.
If we let them do that, the circle of the included can only shrink. Better to fight now.
Not the main thread of this edition of FOREVER WARS, but a grim and honest aside: "Meanwhile, if you live in one of the few places in America that has voted to divest itself from Israel, FEMA said today that it will leave you to die."
The ADL's Descent And The Trajectory of Zionism
Noah Shachtman's New York Magazine piece doesn't just reveal what the ADL has become, it highlights the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement with elite respectability
www.forever-wars.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The fascists aim to relegate those who will not be complicit in genocide to sacrifice zones, to carve up the whole world into privileged butchers and brutalized victims, to suppress all capacity for solidarity.
If we let them do that, the circle of the included can only shrink. Better to fight now.
If we let them do that, the circle of the included can only shrink. Better to fight now.
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The most polite quote I can pull tonight is from a young a doctor who simply said “I plead with any democrat to please stop this moderate nonsense”
August 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The most polite quote I can pull tonight is from a young a doctor who simply said “I plead with any democrat to please stop this moderate nonsense”