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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Hey Senators! Anybody got some exciting plans for the Ides?
March 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Hey Senators! Anybody got some exciting plans for the Ides?
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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
February 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
I learned a new word from George Conway today. I think we need a new word for when you rebel against your own authority. www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/co...
Thesaurus results for CONTUMACIOUS
Synonyms for CONTUMACIOUS: rebellious, rebel, defiant, willful, stubborn, wilful, disobedient, insubordinate; Antonyms of CONTUMACIOUS: obedient, submissive, docile, amiable, cooperative, tractable, c...
www.merriam-webster.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I learned a new word from George Conway today. I think we need a new word for when you rebel against your own authority. www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/co...
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Part of thriving under collapse has to be to mourn the life that you thought you'd be able to live.
That will take a while. Most of us are not there yet.
That will take a while. Most of us are not there yet.
February 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Part of thriving under collapse has to be to mourn the life that you thought you'd be able to live.
That will take a while. Most of us are not there yet.
That will take a while. Most of us are not there yet.
Apparently, this guy who I've never heard of is pretty important right now. So grateful for Wikimedia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
Curtis Yarvin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Apparently, this guy who I've never heard of is pretty important right now. So grateful for Wikimedia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
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There is absolutely no serious reason to be transphobic. At all.
Furthermore; If you are person of a systemically marginalized classification and you support it, you’re kind of a buster ass traitor.
Furthermore; If you are person of a systemically marginalized classification and you support it, you’re kind of a buster ass traitor.
February 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
There is absolutely no serious reason to be transphobic. At all.
Furthermore; If you are person of a systemically marginalized classification and you support it, you’re kind of a buster ass traitor.
Furthermore; If you are person of a systemically marginalized classification and you support it, you’re kind of a buster ass traitor.
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Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
The audacity of Trump posting this shiny, polished piece of hateful propaganda while Dems are filibustering the Constitutional Crisis. Millions of lives are being thrown in chaos because of Musk and his interns. I truly do not know if Trump understands what's going on but I know he does not care.
February 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The audacity of Trump posting this shiny, polished piece of hateful propaganda while Dems are filibustering the Constitutional Crisis. Millions of lives are being thrown in chaos because of Musk and his interns. I truly do not know if Trump understands what's going on but I know he does not care.
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Government workers when DOGE shows up.
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
Important pep talk from Ezra Klein youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Important pep talk from Ezra Klein youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...
We've been enjoying playing The Crew. It's a cooperative card game, that you play over many nights. We got it at McKay's Mebane - super fun
February 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We've been enjoying playing The Crew. It's a cooperative card game, that you play over many nights. We got it at McKay's Mebane - super fun
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Trump accomplished nothing with his trade war threat. He was talked down like a petulant toddler by the cooler heads of Claudia Sheinbaum and Justin Trudeau. They prioritized averting economic catastrophe above political noise and allowed Trump to think it was his idea. That's what happened.
February 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Trump accomplished nothing with his trade war threat. He was talked down like a petulant toddler by the cooler heads of Claudia Sheinbaum and Justin Trudeau. They prioritized averting economic catastrophe above political noise and allowed Trump to think it was his idea. That's what happened.
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Didn't realize coming for leftists would mean coming for Lutherans out of the gate. If you have 3 min, watch this response from Presiding Bishop Eaton. Her commentary ends with a rousing and harrowing parable of religious and political persecution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqz...
February 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Didn't realize coming for leftists would mean coming for Lutherans out of the gate. If you have 3 min, watch this response from Presiding Bishop Eaton. Her commentary ends with a rousing and harrowing parable of religious and political persecution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqz...
I found this show soothing today www.npr.org/programs/ted...
TED Radio Hour
You don't need to be big and boisterous to pack a punch. This hour, TED speakers explore the surprising strength of all things minuscule and fleeting.
www.npr.org
February 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I found this show soothing today www.npr.org/programs/ted...
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Phil Edwards (formerly of Vox) just made a video about the whole de minimis shipping law. I had never heard of it before, and it's a really good primer on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_w6...
The loophole that made Temu — and could kill it
YouTube video by Phil Edwards
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Phil Edwards (formerly of Vox) just made a video about the whole de minimis shipping law. I had never heard of it before, and it's a really good primer on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_w6...
Like, do we have a "Vote of No Confidence" equivalent? If not, can we get one quick?
February 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Like, do we have a "Vote of No Confidence" equivalent? If not, can we get one quick?
Because I don't think the 25th Amendment will help here.
February 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Because I don't think the 25th Amendment will help here.
Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? Because I don't think our original plan of "just survive the next four years" is going to work out. Like on a National scale.
February 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? Because I don't think our original plan of "just survive the next four years" is going to work out. Like on a National scale.
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Republican former Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson drops his totally bogus lawsuit against @cnn.com.
Everyone knew the lawsuit was garbage. Now, the Republican officials who backed his lies need to answer to the voters. #ncpol
www.wral.com/amp/21836301/
Everyone knew the lawsuit was garbage. Now, the Republican officials who backed his lies need to answer to the voters. #ncpol
www.wral.com/amp/21836301/
Mark Robinson drops lawsuit against CNN
The former North Carolina lieutenant governor and gubernatorial candidate had sued the news network for defamation over its reporting that Robinson allegedly wrote racist comments on a pornographic we...
www.wral.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Republican former Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson drops his totally bogus lawsuit against @cnn.com.
Everyone knew the lawsuit was garbage. Now, the Republican officials who backed his lies need to answer to the voters. #ncpol
www.wral.com/amp/21836301/
Everyone knew the lawsuit was garbage. Now, the Republican officials who backed his lies need to answer to the voters. #ncpol
www.wral.com/amp/21836301/
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Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
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Should go without saying but the point of diversity in hiring is to find _better_-qualified candidates outside of stagnant social networks that don't reward merit, like the kind of network that would put an MTV personality with a marketing degree in charge of the Department of Transportation
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Should go without saying but the point of diversity in hiring is to find _better_-qualified candidates outside of stagnant social networks that don't reward merit, like the kind of network that would put an MTV personality with a marketing degree in charge of the Department of Transportation
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Weird fash nerds running around inside the federal government twiddling knobs and flipping switches and going "what does this one do?" Getting big blobs of jelly on everything. Somehow no one is telling them to fuck off. Cards on the table I don't really care for any of this!
January 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Weird fash nerds running around inside the federal government twiddling knobs and flipping switches and going "what does this one do?" Getting big blobs of jelly on everything. Somehow no one is telling them to fuck off. Cards on the table I don't really care for any of this!
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The American people spoke, and they wanted Elon Musk to be able to share Americans’ personal information from government databases to whatever 19 year old gamers he’s trying to impress on Discord
February 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The American people spoke, and they wanted Elon Musk to be able to share Americans’ personal information from government databases to whatever 19 year old gamers he’s trying to impress on Discord
I've never been happier to live down the street from Costco! www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30
Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I've never been happier to live down the street from Costco! www.reuters.com/business/ret...