Casey
@caseymcd08.bsky.social
Love to learn from other people. Writer, fangirl, social worker, and imaginging a more compassionate society.
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I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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The fear of someone's life being made moderately easier by accident has prevented us from making a lot of peoples lives livable on purpose.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The fear of someone's life being made moderately easier by accident has prevented us from making a lot of peoples lives livable on purpose.
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
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Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
A few takeaways...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
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american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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It’s horrifying how many people seem convinced by the “the victims were mostly teens—so it’s not that bad!” argument.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s horrifying how many people seem convinced by the “the victims were mostly teens—so it’s not that bad!” argument.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious.
We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.
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Some people thought that genocide should be a red line for a party's politics. If both parties think that it isn't, why is anything else not on the table? Why wouldn't they collude on anything else horrible?
Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Some people thought that genocide should be a red line for a party's politics. If both parties think that it isn't, why is anything else not on the table? Why wouldn't they collude on anything else horrible?
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Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
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A boomer recently asked me why more “young people” aren’t protesting. I told him that they in fact are, but also that the consequences of even mild protest have changed a LOT since he was in college.
UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A boomer recently asked me why more “young people” aren’t protesting. I told him that they in fact are, but also that the consequences of even mild protest have changed a LOT since he was in college.
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Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
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oh right and dick cheney died too
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
oh right and dick cheney died too
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“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
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Part of how you know the left-wing media is primarily focused on winning factional fights *within* the Democratic coalition is that while they all credulously reported that Project 2025 wasn't Trump policy, when it clearly was, they'll report these are Democratic policies, when they mostly are not.
Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Part of how you know the left-wing media is primarily focused on winning factional fights *within* the Democratic coalition is that while they all credulously reported that Project 2025 wasn't Trump policy, when it clearly was, they'll report these are Democratic policies, when they mostly are not.
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
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$40 billion to Argentina’s right-wing government.
The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.
The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.
ARGENTINE PESO COLLAPSES TO RECORD LOW — DOWN 99.8% SINCE 2009
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
$40 billion to Argentina’s right-wing government.
The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.
The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.
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There was nothing that helped me understand authoritarianism better than books on domestic violence and the psychology of abusers. There is no distinction between the two groups.
Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.
Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.
One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
October 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
There was nothing that helped me understand authoritarianism better than books on domestic violence and the psychology of abusers. There is no distinction between the two groups.
Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.
Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.
'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
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2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.
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Fascism is never full. It eats laws, neighbors, memory, until there’s nothing left but the chewing. It will never stop on its own—only when enough people say “no” together, loudly, stubbornly, even stupidly, refusing to be swallowed. Mass noncompliance is the only diet fascism can’t stomach.
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Fascism is never full. It eats laws, neighbors, memory, until there’s nothing left but the chewing. It will never stop on its own—only when enough people say “no” together, loudly, stubbornly, even stupidly, refusing to be swallowed. Mass noncompliance is the only diet fascism can’t stomach.
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We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
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everything comes back to work.
work determines your wages and resources (health insurance, etc.) and that in turn determines what neighborhoods you live in, the type of other resources (housing, food, etc.) you can access, get, and maintain and that’s why it is the main place you’ll be pressured.
work determines your wages and resources (health insurance, etc.) and that in turn determines what neighborhoods you live in, the type of other resources (housing, food, etc.) you can access, get, and maintain and that’s why it is the main place you’ll be pressured.
People don’t like it when I say it, but the main place you’ll be pressured to participate in fascism is work. Especially if you work in a battleground space like government or academia.
None of your weekend organizing can ever make up for active participation in the fascist project at your day job.
None of your weekend organizing can ever make up for active participation in the fascist project at your day job.
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everything comes back to work.
work determines your wages and resources (health insurance, etc.) and that in turn determines what neighborhoods you live in, the type of other resources (housing, food, etc.) you can access, get, and maintain and that’s why it is the main place you’ll be pressured.
work determines your wages and resources (health insurance, etc.) and that in turn determines what neighborhoods you live in, the type of other resources (housing, food, etc.) you can access, get, and maintain and that’s why it is the main place you’ll be pressured.
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Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.