nicole christine muffitt
@nicolecmuffitt.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Sociology - Work, organizations, and the economy.
Intersectional feminism, radical care, baked goods, music, legend of zelda, national parks.
Intersectional feminism, radical care, baked goods, music, legend of zelda, national parks.
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For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
August 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
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I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use
If you find this confusing you should never comment on American politics ever again.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
July 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use
New Jersey podcaster at that.
a banger post, especially this closer:
May 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New Jersey podcaster at that.
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"Exaggeration"?
If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying.
13.7m. It's a fact.
If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying.
13.7m. It's a fact.
In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
Millions Would Lose Health Coverage Under G.O.P. Bill. But Not as Many as Democrats Say.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"Exaggeration"?
If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying.
13.7m. It's a fact.
If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying.
13.7m. It's a fact.
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I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
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Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
May 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
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and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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Of the American voters who are alleged to be upset about immigration, how many of them are upset because ...
a) their life has been directly impacted in some way by illegal immigrants,
vs.
b) they're immersed in a media system working relentlessly to active their fear, ignorance, & xenophobia?
a) their life has been directly impacted in some way by illegal immigrants,
vs.
b) they're immersed in a media system working relentlessly to active their fear, ignorance, & xenophobia?
May 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Of the American voters who are alleged to be upset about immigration, how many of them are upset because ...
a) their life has been directly impacted in some way by illegal immigrants,
vs.
b) they're immersed in a media system working relentlessly to active their fear, ignorance, & xenophobia?
a) their life has been directly impacted in some way by illegal immigrants,
vs.
b) they're immersed in a media system working relentlessly to active their fear, ignorance, & xenophobia?
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Yup. Privatizing and selling off our public lands. It was explicitly spelled out in Project 2025 but the media thought that was worthy of less coverage than implying a fake scandal around which month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China so here we are bsky.app/profile/gree...
When national parks become unkempt and closed due to staffing issues, Trump Inc. will propose they be privatized, much like how everything "public" was sold to oligarchs after the fall of the Soviet Union. I'd imagine some of the same people will be buying.
May 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yup. Privatizing and selling off our public lands. It was explicitly spelled out in Project 2025 but the media thought that was worthy of less coverage than implying a fake scandal around which month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China so here we are bsky.app/profile/gree...
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The core "ideology" of political liberals for decades has basically been "let's do stuff that helps people." They've often fallen short in the application of it, but that's been the core belief.
The Right built out more ideological lore, but the core belief was "we should rule."
And so.
The Right built out more ideological lore, but the core belief was "we should rule."
And so.
Conservatism succumbed to fascism as easily and rapidly as conservatives long (and inaccurately) warned liberalism would succumb to communism.
the complete collapse of conservatism as an ideological formation in the west feels like it should probably be more remarked on.
March 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The core "ideology" of political liberals for decades has basically been "let's do stuff that helps people." They've often fallen short in the application of it, but that's been the core belief.
The Right built out more ideological lore, but the core belief was "we should rule."
And so.
The Right built out more ideological lore, but the core belief was "we should rule."
And so.
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“sell your product at a loss, or else” was probably not what the business people were expecting from President Business
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“sell your product at a loss, or else” was probably not what the business people were expecting from President Business
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And this historic assault on labor is nowhere to be found on *any* of the major newspapers' front pages today.
March 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And this historic assault on labor is nowhere to be found on *any* of the major newspapers' front pages today.
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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer.
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study (Gift Article)
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
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Also this is just insanely untrue? The US COVID response was incredibly pro poor? Like we just got rid of child poverty. For years we didn’t have child poverty until Republicans and Manchin demanded we bring child poverty back!
Posting about the 'laptop class' or 'PMCs' is the class analysis of fools. Scratch the surface and its really about disdain towards women and feminised men. Also, as with any complaints about how COVID was handled, kids being slightly ahead in school isn't worth trading for a single human life.
March 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Also this is just insanely untrue? The US COVID response was incredibly pro poor? Like we just got rid of child poverty. For years we didn’t have child poverty until Republicans and Manchin demanded we bring child poverty back!
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There are a bunch of articles like this, which argue that Trump is going after institutions because of their failures.
The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
There are a bunch of articles like this, which argue that Trump is going after institutions because of their failures.
The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Duterte shit
And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome.
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...
www.mediamatters.org
March 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Duterte shit
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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
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Schoolhouse Rock but it's me learning about all the activities of government as Trump and Elon destroy them one by one
Gutted to see the Woodrow Wilson Center included in this. It has been a crucial institution in the production, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the U.S. and the world. Its Cold War archives are a priceless teaching and research tool. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent (Gift Article)
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Schoolhouse Rock but it's me learning about all the activities of government as Trump and Elon destroy them one by one
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These are problems but the problem, which dwarfs all others, is that they’re totally swamped by the right’s sprawling propaganda infrastructure.
Their inability to withstand the flood of bullshit contributes to their lack of spine. These things are intertwined.
Their inability to withstand the flood of bullshit contributes to their lack of spine. These things are intertwined.
The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
March 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
These are problems but the problem, which dwarfs all others, is that they’re totally swamped by the right’s sprawling propaganda infrastructure.
Their inability to withstand the flood of bullshit contributes to their lack of spine. These things are intertwined.
Their inability to withstand the flood of bullshit contributes to their lack of spine. These things are intertwined.
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we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
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This is exactly it.
Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
March 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is exactly it.
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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this post says progressives need to address young men’s needs. like what? job security? education? mental health concerns? which side do you think has the better offering for young men in those areas?
March 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
this post says progressives need to address young men’s needs. like what? job security? education? mental health concerns? which side do you think has the better offering for young men in those areas?
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Judges gotta start throwing these people in jail or else they're gonna continue to fuck around. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
February 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Judges gotta start throwing these people in jail or else they're gonna continue to fuck around. bsky.app/profile/kyle...