Alisha Downs
@jedihistorian.bsky.social
Studying WWII at Arizona State University. Star Wars, plants, books… wherever the hyperfocus leads me. She/ her 🫶
Free 🍉 🇵🇸
Justice for the people
Eat the rich
Free 🍉 🇵🇸
Justice for the people
Eat the rich
You know, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen any maga/ frump merch. The farms around me took down their weird hay bale shrine; the oversized trucks don’t fly the flags anymore. Wonder what the last straw was for all my red neighbors 😂
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
You know, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen any maga/ frump merch. The farms around me took down their weird hay bale shrine; the oversized trucks don’t fly the flags anymore. Wonder what the last straw was for all my red neighbors 😂
Only 38 pages in, and I’m hooked. (And absolutely do not sense the origins of modern conflicts within these pages…/s)
Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)
Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Only 38 pages in, and I’m hooked. (And absolutely do not sense the origins of modern conflicts within these pages…/s)
Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)
Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)
Happy holidays
A member of the neo-Nazi white separatist group PNW Wolf Pack fell to his death trying to pick a mistletoe from a tree this holiday season 🎄❄
December 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Happy holidays
My bestie and I spent years joking about what our ‘designated fbi agents’ thought about our texts. We even named them.
The joke ended without any conversation on our part. It was funny before because we’re just harmless, goofy ladies. It stopped being funny when people started getting detained
The joke ended without any conversation on our part. It was funny before because we’re just harmless, goofy ladies. It stopped being funny when people started getting detained
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My bestie and I spent years joking about what our ‘designated fbi agents’ thought about our texts. We even named them.
The joke ended without any conversation on our part. It was funny before because we’re just harmless, goofy ladies. It stopped being funny when people started getting detained
The joke ended without any conversation on our part. It was funny before because we’re just harmless, goofy ladies. It stopped being funny when people started getting detained
“The new illiberal polity is a state only in appearance, for at its core is not the set of routines, codes, or institutions that comprise a genuine state, but a party-movement and its myths. At the heart of such pseudo-states lie camps, terror, and secret police.”
-Ira Katznelson
-Ira Katznelson
December 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“The new illiberal polity is a state only in appearance, for at its core is not the set of routines, codes, or institutions that comprise a genuine state, but a party-movement and its myths. At the heart of such pseudo-states lie camps, terror, and secret police.”
-Ira Katznelson
-Ira Katznelson
This interests me more than the grifters who do anything he wants.
"Let’s look at the powerful figures who rolled over and played dead."
The "Powerful" who Cowered in 2025
It’s time for the lists!
contrarian.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This interests me more than the grifters who do anything he wants.
I can’t believe I’ve never heard of the Attica Prison Uprising. Why did listening to the @bloodwork.show episode on it feel exactly like listening to the Beslan School Siege that @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social covered 🙃
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I can’t believe I’ve never heard of the Attica Prison Uprising. Why did listening to the @bloodwork.show episode on it feel exactly like listening to the Beslan School Siege that @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social covered 🙃
If you can tell me who Karl Polanyi, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin are (without looking them up), we would probably get along.
(Though, we’d get along even if you don’t, so long as you respect humans, animals, and the Earth 💕)
(Though, we’d get along even if you don’t, so long as you respect humans, animals, and the Earth 💕)
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you can tell me who Karl Polanyi, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin are (without looking them up), we would probably get along.
(Though, we’d get along even if you don’t, so long as you respect humans, animals, and the Earth 💕)
(Though, we’d get along even if you don’t, so long as you respect humans, animals, and the Earth 💕)
The cat distribution system struck again. Someone dumped off a black kitten.
I named him Anakin. It goes well with Boba (cat), Ahsoka, Rex, and Leia (dogs).
My family has never seen Star Wars. But I think they’re catching on. 👀 My suggestion for Vader before Anakin may have given me away…
I named him Anakin. It goes well with Boba (cat), Ahsoka, Rex, and Leia (dogs).
My family has never seen Star Wars. But I think they’re catching on. 👀 My suggestion for Vader before Anakin may have given me away…
December 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The cat distribution system struck again. Someone dumped off a black kitten.
I named him Anakin. It goes well with Boba (cat), Ahsoka, Rex, and Leia (dogs).
My family has never seen Star Wars. But I think they’re catching on. 👀 My suggestion for Vader before Anakin may have given me away…
I named him Anakin. It goes well with Boba (cat), Ahsoka, Rex, and Leia (dogs).
My family has never seen Star Wars. But I think they’re catching on. 👀 My suggestion for Vader before Anakin may have given me away…
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
Perhaps I study genocide because it’s so horrific that it makes my own problems seem irrelevant. In other words, I accepted that I’ll never find love again, but who needs love when you spend your days trying to listen to the cries of millions?
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Perhaps I study genocide because it’s so horrific that it makes my own problems seem irrelevant. In other words, I accepted that I’ll never find love again, but who needs love when you spend your days trying to listen to the cries of millions?
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
They did way better than Pantone 😂 it’s relevant cuz it’s mostly all one sees online
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
They did way better than Pantone 😂 it’s relevant cuz it’s mostly all one sees online
I deleted my Facebook to stop doom scrolling, so now I’m here, only slightly less doom scrolling.
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I deleted my Facebook to stop doom scrolling, so now I’m here, only slightly less doom scrolling.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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#Ukraine and President #Zelenskyy, I am so sorry how you were treated by my country’s leaders. We the people still support you. They were right about an absence of diplomacy—but not from you, Mr President.
Дякую за відвідування
Дякую за відвідування
February 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
#Ukraine and President #Zelenskyy, I am so sorry how you were treated by my country’s leaders. We the people still support you. They were right about an absence of diplomacy—but not from you, Mr President.
Дякую за відвідування
Дякую за відвідування
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Just saying.
February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just saying.
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Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
February 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
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Or, and just hear me out, we can tax billionaires.
February 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Or, and just hear me out, we can tax billionaires.
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
Though I’ve been avoiding spending money since January (as much as possible) I haven’t quit Facebook. I just have all my friends and family there.
But I deleted the app yesterday in solidarity with the blackout today.
So, I might get to know Bluesky a little better today 😂
But I deleted the app yesterday in solidarity with the blackout today.
So, I might get to know Bluesky a little better today 😂
February 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Though I’ve been avoiding spending money since January (as much as possible) I haven’t quit Facebook. I just have all my friends and family there.
But I deleted the app yesterday in solidarity with the blackout today.
So, I might get to know Bluesky a little better today 😂
But I deleted the app yesterday in solidarity with the blackout today.
So, I might get to know Bluesky a little better today 😂
Fascist don’t like much pushback, historically.
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Fascist don’t like much pushback, historically.
Well that’s scary.
Cory Mills is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a woman in Washington, D.C.
D.C. police even suggested an arrest warrant for Mills.
If he is not held accountable in court, we can hold him accountable at the polls. He is beatable. www.welcomestack.org/p/dark-maga-...
D.C. police even suggested an arrest warrant for Mills.
If he is not held accountable in court, we can hold him accountable at the polls. He is beatable. www.welcomestack.org/p/dark-maga-...
Dark MAGA Police Reporting
Rep. Cory Mills is Dark MAGA personified
www.welcomestack.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Well that’s scary.
Like, surely the creepy man doesn’t make much of his money from Tesla anymore. He’s getting it from us
I think it’s weird to protest at Tesla. Boycott them, sure, but why tf are we wasting collective energy on Tesla when the government is right there? And since the Tesla protests ARE being covered by major media outlets… maybe that’s a 🚩🚩🚩
February 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Like, surely the creepy man doesn’t make much of his money from Tesla anymore. He’s getting it from us