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Leif Hassell
@leifhassell.bsky.social
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Arkansan, Democratic Socialist. I follow the intersection of fascism, history, and current events. We don't have the luxury of ignoring politics.
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Pass it on...
Facebook post from Eric Brown: "All of the Gannett owned newspapers removed “Doonesbury” from last Sunday’s (2/18/24) comics section — here it is." Panel 1: A teacher writing the word "Slavery" on the board. She says, "Okay. Let's be clear about the cause of the Civil War." Panel 2: A room full of students watching. From out of frame, the teacher continues, "It's cited in seven state declarations of secession!" A student in frame has a thought bubble reading "Hmm... I wonder if I should rat her out..." Panel 3: The teacher stands in front of the class, and continues, "Something else not in your new textbook... Nearly 100,000 white Southerners volunteered to fight for the Union!" Panel 4: Closeup on the teacher. "In fact, it was Alabama cavalry who flanked Sherman on his March through Georgia!" Panel 5: The teacher's silhouette is seen in front of the class. "Unlike their neighbors, these men accepted Lincoln's free and fair election. They fought to preserve democracy!" Panel 6: A group of students at their desks. One boy says, "Whoa. The never-Trumpers of their day." A girl then says, "Mrs. Johnson, this is Florida. Isn't it against the law to teach us the full story?" Panel 7: Close shot of the teacher at the front of the class. She says, "Sadly, yes." A student in frame replies, "Aren't you worried, ma'am? What if someone turns you in?" Panel 8: Side-on shot of the teacher and students. The teacher say, "Well, my husband's waiting outside in the truck." A student replies, "Go now, ma'am! Before it's too late! Another adds, "Take the I-95 North route! Route 1's a mess!" A third says, "Text us when you make the border, okay?"
March 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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We are living in a fascist dictatorship.
"Yet hundreds of German liberals were sentenced to long prison terms on charges of treason because they revealed or denounced in the press or by speech the Army's constant violations of the Versailles Treaty. The treason laws were ruthlessly applied to the supporters of the Republic; those on the Right who tried to overthrow it, as Adolf Hitler was soon to learn, got off either free or with the lightest of sentences. Even the assassins, if they were of the Right and their victims democrats, we're leniently treated by the courts or, as often happened, helped to escape from the custody of the courts by Army officers and right-wing extremists." -William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
March 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Steve Buscemi, dressed as a skate punk holding a skateboard. The caption reads "How do you do, fellow kids?"
February 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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So I called Congressman French Hill's Little Rock office today, to ask if he was going to do a town hall. Not only was I informed that they do not have any scheduled at this time, his office staff informed me that he will only do "telephone town halls."
Arkansas Congressman French Hill, an unabashed coward...
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A picture of a card from the game "Munchkin." The card states: "Kill Some Nazis Because ANY game is better when you can kill some Nazis. Go up a level"
February 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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If you see this, post a knight
A photo of Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano wielding dual white lightsabers.
February 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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TOS had some bangers...
A close up shot of Spock in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," with a quote from the movie: "What you want is irrelevant; what you've chosen is at hand."
February 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Me to every Trumper who is going to be complaining the next 4 years...
A close up shot of Spock in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," with a quote from the movie: "What you want is irrelevant; what you've chosen is at hand."
February 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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If you wonder what you would do in Germany in 1938, or in America in the 50's...

You're doing it now.

Pro tip: if you want your grandchildren to respect your memory, act accordingly.
Photo of Elizabeth Eckford walking into Little Rock Central High School on Sept. 4th, 1957, taken by Arkansas Democrat Photographer Will Counts. The photo also shows the mob harassing Eckford. In the center of the frame among the crowd is seen student Hazel Bryan Massery, shouting "Go home, (n-word)! Go back to Africa” at Eckford.
January 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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We need to all have this energy right now...
A picture of Stephen Furst as Vir Cotton on Babylon 5. He is giving a little wave and grinning. At the top is the question from Mr Morden (not pictured) asking "What do you want?" At the bottom is Vir's response: "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?"
January 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Neutrality in the face of evil only aids the oppressor. Get loud, y'all.
Two panel cartoon. First panel: Three stick figures standing side by side, labeled "Left," "Where centrists think they are," and "Right." Second panel: one figure, labeled "privileged, bigoted people," standing on the upraised hands of the second figure, labeled "Where they really are" and shouting "I'm helping!", who is standing on the back of a prone third figure labeled " marginalized people."
January 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Top panel: Steve Rogers (Captain America) says "They wanted 1933 Germany." Bottom Panel: Tony Stark (Iron Man) says "Let's give them 1788 France."
January 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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When your daughter wants a duck cake for her birthday, you make a duck cake...
A home-made cake in the shape of a crude representation of a duck.
January 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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By the way, my portrait is from when I did a sitting at the Arkansas Arts Center for their life drawing class in my pirate outfit. I wish I could remember the name of the artist!
Oil painting of me (Leif Hassell) made by an artist when I posed at the Arkansas Arts Center in my pirate outfit.
January 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Picture of death standing at an arcade claw machine with people in it. The caption reads "David Lynch? That's not the 78 year old with weird hair that I wanted!"
January 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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All of this...
Tweet from Salem (@aWildSalem) "out: love is love in: (an image showing people holding a sign that reads 'Respect my trans homies or I'm gonna identify as a fucking problem')."
January 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This.
Screen cap of a Tweet by Nina Turner: "64% of Americans support Medicare for all. 63% of swing state voters support Medicare for All. The number one cause of bankruptcy in America is medical debt. Perhaps a political party should run on Medicare for All..." In reply to a Tweet by Adam Jentleson: "There's a 'comforting fiction' circulating that Dems lost by being insufficiently left wing, and that we can win again by moving further left."
January 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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George Orwell is spinning in his grave fast enough to provide electricity to the Eastern seaboard...
"After Donald J. Trump entered the White House in 2017, The Washington Post adopted a slogan that underscored the newspaper's traditional role as a government watchdog: 'Democracy Dies in Darkness.' This week, as Mr. Trump prepares to re-enter the White House, the newspaper debuted a mission statement that evokes a more expansive view of The Post's journalism, without death or darkness: 'Riveting Storytelling for All of America."
January 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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How can a mind be so close to understanding and just... not.
Post from VEX: " Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting 'it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth." Quote from Scott Jennings: "um, yes, that's really a problem." OP (no name): "The problem with left-leaning media is their intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side"
December 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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One of my most treasured possessions... @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I love that you and Sir Terry worked this out ahead!
August 29, 2023 at 12:40 AM