Damien Tonkin
@madscitool.bsky.social
I just want to make art but I'll settle for dismantling fascism.
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Damien Tonkin
@madscitool.bsky.social
· Oct 20
I have a degree in game culture, gamer gate happened while I was studying and now I spend my time researching fascism. Put like that it's an entirely linear trajectory but subjectively it's been a hell of a ride. So yes, these guys are total cringe losers.
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
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I know everything sucks right now, and for vulnerable people, it's a million times worse.
But please try to remember that the person on the other side of the screen is a human being. And if they're marginalized, they're going through their own hell right now too.
Be kind, even if they can't be.
But please try to remember that the person on the other side of the screen is a human being. And if they're marginalized, they're going through their own hell right now too.
Be kind, even if they can't be.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I know everything sucks right now, and for vulnerable people, it's a million times worse.
But please try to remember that the person on the other side of the screen is a human being. And if they're marginalized, they're going through their own hell right now too.
Be kind, even if they can't be.
But please try to remember that the person on the other side of the screen is a human being. And if they're marginalized, they're going through their own hell right now too.
Be kind, even if they can't be.
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idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Noted eugenicist, crackpot and possible plagiarist James Watson died.
I'm just balancing out the news.
I'm just balancing out the news.
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Noted eugenicist, crackpot and possible plagiarist James Watson died.
I'm just balancing out the news.
I'm just balancing out the news.
Huh, well whatever works I guess.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Huh, well whatever works I guess.
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WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."
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hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
I was just looking through some costume reference and it struck me how weird it was that Scotty got to keep his staff captain commission after Star Trek 3. He was only on the job for a few days, I know all charges were dropped but you'd think they'd have stopped the paperwork after he went AWOL
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I was just looking through some costume reference and it struck me how weird it was that Scotty got to keep his staff captain commission after Star Trek 3. He was only on the job for a few days, I know all charges were dropped but you'd think they'd have stopped the paperwork after he went AWOL
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Andy Ngo succeeded in inspiring violence yet again
Last night in Portland, Portland city council person @candaceavalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home on fire from suspected arson. She has been a target of the far-right for months, by people like Andy Ngo, who has admitted on court record that his posts targeting people can lead to violence.
October 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Andy Ngo succeeded in inspiring violence yet again
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“A shutdown falls on the president’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak.” – Donald Trump, 2013
October 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“A shutdown falls on the president’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak.” – Donald Trump, 2013
Watching @katmabu.bsky.social play stray on stream and my cat got really into it.
October 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Watching @katmabu.bsky.social play stray on stream and my cat got really into it.
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"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without
“President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”
www.msnbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Chump's Military Dictatorship or
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Chump's Military Dictatorship or
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
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has anyone said "permanent government shutdown" yet
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
has anyone said "permanent government shutdown" yet
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I play an online boardgame site where it is common to type "GG" after a game finishes to mean "Good Game".
I accidentally typed "HH" instead (they are right next to each other on the keyboard) and now I have to decide whether or not to delete my account or run for Senate.
I accidentally typed "HH" instead (they are right next to each other on the keyboard) and now I have to decide whether or not to delete my account or run for Senate.
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I play an online boardgame site where it is common to type "GG" after a game finishes to mean "Good Game".
I accidentally typed "HH" instead (they are right next to each other on the keyboard) and now I have to decide whether or not to delete my account or run for Senate.
I accidentally typed "HH" instead (they are right next to each other on the keyboard) and now I have to decide whether or not to delete my account or run for Senate.
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Trump is summarily executing people suspected of being drug dealers, without providing any proof.
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Trump is summarily executing people suspected of being drug dealers, without providing any proof.
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions
How close are we to Trump ordering the execution of Americans he considers opponents? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-executions