@profejohncosby.bsky.social
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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Elected officials deserve your snide remarks! Average voter who is just trying to make it day to day may not
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Elected officials deserve your snide remarks! Average voter who is just trying to make it day to day may not
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General strikes don't guarantee anything, nothing does, but they can and have created MAJOR WINS.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
General strikes don't guarantee anything, nothing does, but they can and have created MAJOR WINS.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
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something's going on behind the scenes in MAGA world and you will not catch ME giving any of these assholes credit for being on the right side of history on even one thing until I understand exactly why they've decided there's more safety in going against Trump on some topic than siding with him
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
something's going on behind the scenes in MAGA world and you will not catch ME giving any of these assholes credit for being on the right side of history on even one thing until I understand exactly why they've decided there's more safety in going against Trump on some topic than siding with him
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he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Tear gas everywhere.
September 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Tear gas everywhere.
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"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
www.the-reframe.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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There’s a lot here to think about, and I will, later.
I'm surprised how many people are quick to make a defense of violence in my replies. For them it's necessary, foreclosing on its use is a privilege. For me, non-violence is a powerful tool. It is the lesson of one of my heroes, Bayard Rustin. 1/ wagingnonviolence.org/2022/08/reme...
Remembering the genius of Bayard Rustin
Thirty-five years after his death, the man who mentored Martin Luther King Jr. still has much to teach movements.
wagingnonviolence.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There’s a lot here to think about, and I will, later.
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why is it always "you should try talking with your right wing family" and not "your right wing family maybe needs to stop voting for people who want you dead
September 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
why is it always "you should try talking with your right wing family" and not "your right wing family maybe needs to stop voting for people who want you dead
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So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
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This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
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Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance
1/2
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August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance
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Two things can be true:
1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings
2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed
1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings
2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed
August 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Two things can be true:
1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings
2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed
1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings
2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed
Slightly diminish a band:
Exodus
Exodus
slightly diminish a band:
Probability’s Child
Probability’s Child
slightly diminish a band:
Imagine Lizards
Imagine Lizards
August 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Exodus
Exodus
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My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.
August 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.
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This entire thread is amazing (and yes, evangelism is spam, and evangelism-based religions also serve to reinforce the emotional control the religion has over believers: they KNOW people will react badly and it increases the feeling of persecution and the in-group identity)
Sooo I was at a coffee shop and the girl in line behind me decided to ask if I’d heard about Jesus.
In the United States.
In 2025.
“I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”
In the United States.
In 2025.
“I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”
July 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This entire thread is amazing (and yes, evangelism is spam, and evangelism-based religions also serve to reinforce the emotional control the religion has over believers: they KNOW people will react badly and it increases the feeling of persecution and the in-group identity)
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The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.
And yet the same poll has the 2026 generic congressional ballot at D+3, so that high disapproval is coming entirely from partisan Democrats themselves. If you've ever wanted to challenge an ineffective Democratic incumbent, you're not going to have a better opportunity than next year.
New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
July 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.
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Continued thoughts about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle by resisting the supremacist urge to center darkness.
www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...
www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...
Total Eclipses
Make light, reflect light, don't block light. Advice to fellow people of privilege on not being an obstacle. Part 2 of 2.
www.the-reframe.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Continued thoughts about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle by resisting the supremacist urge to center darkness.
www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...
www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...
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Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
…huh.
And it’s vital to supremacy that they be allowed to enact the abuse while claiming themselves the defenders against it *specifically
because* being able to enforce an obvious hypocrisy upon victims demonstrates dominance in a way moral consistency never could. This is why Trump is their beloved.
because* being able to enforce an obvious hypocrisy upon victims demonstrates dominance in a way moral consistency never could. This is why Trump is their beloved.
July 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
…huh.
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Also, Colbert will be fine. But a staff of 200+ produces the show every night. They are incredible, and almost offensively competent. I had the best experience on that show from the moment I entered the Ed Sullivan Theatre I left. And they will be most affected by this cancellation, whatever it is.
July 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Also, Colbert will be fine. But a staff of 200+ produces the show every night. They are incredible, and almost offensively competent. I had the best experience on that show from the moment I entered the Ed Sullivan Theatre I left. And they will be most affected by this cancellation, whatever it is.