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In case you’re wondering what stage of fascism and global pariah status we’re at… 🫠
A headline from a STAT+ email newsletter that reads: WHO member countries agree on a draft "pandemic treaty" to try to avoid Covid-19 mistakes. American officials were barred from participating in the talks and are not expected to sign the treaty.
April 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Me continuing to read and getting to the second paragraph of the next page: 🤦🏻‍♀️ *sigh* so close yet so far
From the article “Everything We Once Believed In” by David Brooks (The Atlantic, May 2025, p. 51): Instead, history has smiled on them. A prominent publisher of right-wing authors once told me that the way to sell conservative books is not to write a good book—it's to write a book that will offend the left, thereby causing the reactionaries to rally to your side and buy it. That led to books with titles such as The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, and to Ann Coulter's entire career. Owning the libs became a lucrative strategy. Of course, the left made it easy for them. The left really did purge conservatives from universities and other cultural power centers. The left really did valorize a "meritocratic" caste system that privileged the children of the affluent and screwed the working class. The left really did pontificate to their unenlightened moral inferiors on everything from gender to the environment. The left really did create a stifling orthodoxy that stamped out dissent. If you tell half the country that their voices don't matter, then the voiceless are going to flip over the table.
April 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Me reading the May 2025 issue of The Atlantic: Holy crap! David Brooks is finally starting to get it!
Me flipping to the next page…
From the article “Everything We Once Believed In” by David Brooks (The Atlantic, May 2025, p. 50): THE PATHETIC THING is that I didn't see this coming even though I've been living around these people my whole adult life. I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, when I worked in turn at National Review, The Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal editorial page. There were two kinds of people in our movement back then, the conservatives and the reactionaries. We conservatives earnestly read Milton Friedman, James Burnham, Whittaker Chambers, and Edmund Burke. The reactionaries just wanted to shock the left. We conservatives oriented our lives around writing for intellectual magazines; the reactionaries were attracted to TV and radio. We were on the political right but had many liberal friends; they had contempt for anyone not on the anti-establishment right. They were not pro-conservative they were anti-left. I have come to appreciate that this is an important difference. I should have understood this much sooner, because the reactionaries had revealed their true character as far back as January 1986. A group of progressive students at Dartmouth had erected a shantytown on campus to protest apartheid. One night, a group of 12 students, most of them associated with the right-wing Dartmouth Review, descended on the shanties with sledgehammers and smashed them down. Even then I was appalled. Apartheid was evil, and worth opposing. A nighttime raid with sledgehammers seemed more Gestapo than Burkean. But conservative intellectuals didn't take this seriously enough. In large part, I think this was because we looked down on the Dartmouth Review mata, whose members had included Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D'Souza. Their intellectual standards were so obviously third-rate. I don't know how to put this politely, but they just seemed creepy-nakedly ambitious in a way that I thought would destroy them in the end.
April 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Image of an emperor penguin with its head turned to the left with many other penguins in the background. Text over the penguin’s head says “What’s a tariff? Some kind of fish?”
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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In related news, this is a sponsored ad The Atlantic has running on Facebook right now…
February 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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February 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Hmm…these themes of fascist education mentioned in Jason Stanley’s book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future sound awfully familiar… 🤔 #Project2025
An excerpt from the book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (2024), p. 78 by Jason Stanley The excerpt reads as follows: What we can see from this example of Nazi Germany, and from studying other instances of fascist movements around the world, is that there are five major themes of fascist education: 1. National greatness 2. National purity 3. National innocence 4. Strict gender roles 5. Vilification of the left
January 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Sounds to me like this guy is just mad Mango Mussolini made it appear more on the outside like the corrupt, self-interested con game that it always has been 🤣
Text from a New York Times article titled “Trump’s crypto venture divides the industry that he aims to support” The text says: "It makes it all look corrupt and self-interested," said Nic Carter, a vocal supporter of Trump who runs the crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures and was at the Crypto Ball as the new $Trump coin was announced.
January 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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You cannot assume Nazis are engaging in “good faith” discourse. They are not. Tolerating their arguments as “good faith” arguments will lead to the tolerant being systematically destroyed and tolerance along with them. Intolerance wins when the tolerant repeatedly give them the benefit of the doubt
January 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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It’s actively dangerous to assume “good faith” from Nazis
January 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Actually, it also reminds me of some of the awful U.S. propaganda and posters from WWII in the U.S. with FDR’s E.O. 9066 and Presidential Proclamation 2526 that invoked the Alien and Sedition Acts…
January 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder
January 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Apparently @chescaleigh.bsky.social’s latest leopard song is going viral on the newly revived TikTok & got flagged as “low quality” even though it was filmed and edited the way she always does. I wonder how many other posts critical of Derp Führer are going to be suppressed on the “new” TT? 🧐
January 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder
January 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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“Some German Jews voted as the Nazi leaders wanted them to in the hope that this gesture of loyalty would bind the new system to them. That was a vain hope.”
A highlighted quote from the book “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder. The quote, highlighted in yellow, reads “Some German Jews voted as the Nazi leaders wanted them to in the hope that this gesture of loyalty would bind the new system to them. That was a vain hope.”
January 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Finally reading Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny”
Thought I’d share the “Defend Institutions” section. It feels particularly important for Democratic politicians to pay attention to. Institutions cannot defend themselves and capitulation won’t save you.
We need more Dem Senators like @warren.senate.gov
January 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Not me dorking out to my husband because @onthemedia.bsky.social liked and shared a comment I made about their most recent episode 😅
January 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Did you know?

Trumpery derives from the Middle English trompery and ultimately from the Middle French tromper, meaning "to deceive." 🧐

#themoreyouknow #TFG

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t...
Definition of the word trumpery trumpery noun trum·​pery ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē Synonyms of trumpery 1 a : worthless nonsense b : trivial or useless articles : JUNK a wagon loaded with household trumpery —Washington Irving 2 archaic : tawdry finery trumpery adjective
January 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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They see absence of anger as peace
It’s negative peace vs positive peace. It’s a theme MLK Jr spoke on often
“…peace is not merely the absence of this tension, but the presence of justice. And even if we didn’t have this tension, we still wouldn’t have positive peace.”

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The text in the image is a quote from the Martin Luther King Jr. speech "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious," Sermon Delivered on 18 March 1956 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The full quote is as follows: I had a long talk with a man the other day about this bus situation. He discussed the peace being destroyed in the community, the destroying of good race relations. I agree that it is more tension now. But peace is not merely the absence of this tension, but the presence of justice. And even if we didn’t have this tension, we still wouldn’t have positive peace. Yes, it is true that if the Negro accepts his place, accepts exploitation and injustice, there will be peace. But it would be a peace boiled down to stagnant complacency, deadening passivity, and if peace means this, I don’t want peace. 1) If peace means accepting second-class citizenship, I don’t want it. 2) If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it. 3) If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace. 4) If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don’t want peace. So in a passive, non-violent manner, we must revolt against this peace.
January 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I’m so glad Zuck is making changes to Meta’s platforms that make them more similar to X. I’m sure Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will each become just as useful and pleasant a place to be as X
A cartoon hand choosing between two red cartoon buttons. Both buttons say “Make it worse”
January 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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On a related note, I just came across the meme a few moments ago…
It’s more than 7 days now though, so hopefully we can still cancel 😅
A meme that says “I want to cancel my subscription to 2025. I’ve experienced the free 7-day trial and am not interested” over a background image of a monthly planner
January 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Who wore it better —
Coach Pickles or Ted Lasso? 🥸⚽️
A purple and lavender cartoon bird wearing a brown mustache. The bird is wearing a greyish white sun visor, a blue athletic shirt, a whistle on a yellow lanyard, brown pants, and red shoes. She is holding a soccer ball in her left wing and waving hello with her right wing. The character Ted Lasso from the Apple TV show of the same name. The photo is of a white man with brown hair and a brown mustache. He is pictured from the waist up and has a subtle smile on his face. He is wearing a white sun visor, a blue athletic jacket, and a whistle on a yellow lanyard. Both the visor and the jacket have a fictional sports team logo which consists of a silhouette of a greyhound and the words “AFC Richmond.”
December 14, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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No gravy shots for me. I have other plans…
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM