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The Revisionists Podcast
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One person tells the truth. Another tells a lie. The third kinda hangs out. Hosted by Brian/Saoirse Flynn (they/any) and Zach Powers (he/him).

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The level of total cognitive dissonance to type out these two sentences right next to each other.

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Quote from NPR: It remains unclear, however, if President Trump will use military force against Venezuela. The U.S. has conducted 20 strikes on boats in the region so far, saying they were ferrying drugs trafficked from the country.”
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Rolling up to the function in my shoegattis
A row of Bugatti boots
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Oh man, this is just sad
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Tired: “I’m afraid my buttcheeks have turned evil.”

Wired: I got those
A package of Croatian Oreo-like cookies called “Dark Cakes”
October 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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“My god, what influence are those anarchist podcasters having on our child??!”

Their child after listening to @whysophiewhy.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social :

(Also other activities)
A pan of roasted hasselback potatoes
September 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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For reference
Screenshot of a high elf in Thalmor garb standing outside the College of Winterhold. His stringy white hair and pinched face bear a resemblance to deceased racist murderer Joseph Czuba.
July 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Screenshot of a Guardian article with a photo of an emaciated Palestinian child. The child’s skeleton is clearly visible through their skin.
July 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Edited portrait of Samuel Johnston looking disgusted by what he just read on the internet
May 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Daguerreotype of a banner reading “8 hours labour, 8 hours posting, 8 hours rest”
May 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“So much for the tolerant left” written upside down, attributed to Benito Mussolini on the day of his execution: April 28, 1945
April 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Lololololol at Dave Portnoy losing money
Screen grab of Barstool Sports leader and piece of crap Dave Portnoy complaining that he lost 20 million dollars of net worth due to the stock market crash
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Few Clothes Molly
April 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Headline reads: Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli jail after being held six months without charge. Subhead reads: Family of Walid Ahmad, 17, say his health had deteriorated while Palestinian officials say he was denied medical care.
April 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said. According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan district. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied.
March 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Relistening to @iwriteok.bsky.social and @whysophiewhy.bsky.social episode on John C Woods, the executioner of the Nazis convicted at Nuremberg and it’s a real pick me up
Photo of John Woods holding a noose with a knot he just totally made up himself
February 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Google really went from “Don’t be evil” to “Don’t, be evil!”

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Screengrab from The Simpsons with Lionel Hutz holding an edited business card that reads “Works on contingency? No, money down!”
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Possum wearing a cowboy hat with the caption: I spit, I cuss, damn sure raise a fuss; but most of all, I advocate for the total emancipation of the working class
February 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Stills from the scene in Return of the King when Gandalf has to knock out Denethor to keep him from ruining everyone’s morale. Over a still of Denethor is a screen grab of someone saying “Are we ready to admit the world is doomed?” Over a still of a Gandalf is a screen grab of a reply that reads “No cuz I’m not a little bitch”
January 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Thanks to the work of @timothysnyder.bsky.social and Lesley Gill (and the late Milton Mayer): all of whom I cite in this newsletter.
In Black Earth, historian Timothy Snyder spends time looking at a term you may remember from school: lebensraum, or "living space." We're taught that this refers to the territory Hitler set out to conquer to provide more land for Germans. Like many things we learn in history class, this is only part of the truth. See, "living space" doesn't just refer to land on a map. It also refers to a "living room," which was not a luxury most Germans had. They looked across the Atlantic at the comforts of US homes, and believed that, if they gave ordinary people those luxuries, it would be harder to make them resist the Nazi state. So land was gobbled up to increase available food supplies, thereby lowering the price of food, and increasing the buying power of "Aryan" Germans. These households were able to afford more luxury goods, and were more reluctant to risk them. Consumer comfort begets moral cowardice. We see another example of this in the School of the Americas. In her excellent book titled (wait for it) The School of the Americas, Dr. Lesley Gill outlines the way Latin American military officers were introduced to American consumer luxuries to help secure their allegiance to the American economic system. We Don’t Have to Lose the World What are we prepared to sacrifice for the sake of our neighbor? Especially in an alienated society like our own, what would be your breaking point? This is not a far-off hypothetical. This is here. This is now. The Lemkin Institute and Genocide Watch currently have warnings for genocidal rhetoric, legislation, and violence in the US. The latest major happening is Meta allowing hate speech against queer people, migrants, and people of color on their platform under the guise of "free expression." And I get it. I sincerely do. As an artist, performer, organizer, you have been trained to build your livelihood's foundation on these platforms. But whether you choose it yourself or it comes to you as a firestorm outside your home, the end of convenience is imminent. Stop letting bigots and fascists profit off you. Don't let them make you dependent on them. Stand with your neighbors, your loved ones, your community as we ask for your help. We don't have to lose the world.
January 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The Death of Convenience, the first issue of Brian’s newsletter Monster Time! is out. Here’s some excerpts
Monster Time! By Brian/Saoirse Flynn. Issue 1: The Death of Convenience. What does it take to get someone to commit genocide? The answer, it turns out, is as terrifyingly simple as a slightly nicer truck, a new tv, a good couch. All this is at the forefront of my mind right now as I belatedly abandon Instagram - the last Meta product I still use. It's also the only Meta product that still remotely works, but that's another story. In Myanmar, perhaps 43,000 Rohingya were killed, and more than 700,000 made refugees. Possibly as many as 600,000 have been killed in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. And in India, and especially Gujarat state, pogroms against the Muslim population have left uncounted dead in nearly 15 years of social-media fueled violence. By all rights, Mark Zuckerberg, Joel Kaplan, Cheryl Sandberg, and anyone who made decisions at Meta in the last 20 years should be in The Hague. I knew all this. So why did I continue to hang on to Instagram until now? Because it was convenient. For nearly two years now, I've been immersed in Genocide Studies (the subject I would be getting my Master's Degree in right now if that was a practical thing to do). Between large swathes of this newsletter and the podcast launching later this year, there is one thing I want to make sure people understand. If you are reading this, you are capable of committing genocide. That means you are also capable of resisting one. When we think of genocidaires, we often picture a lunatic: someone manic in their drive to eliminate their targeted group of people. We picture Hitler at the lectern, gesticulating and gazing into darkness. We picture RTLM, the radio station that helped to disseminate anti-Tutsi hate speech in Rwanda. Lunatic bigots like this are a feature of genocide without a doubt. They are the people who plant the ideas and craft the architecture of elimination. But they are not the majority of those guilty of genocide by a long shot. For every Hitler, Heydrich, or Habyarimana, there are thousands of people willing to sign forms, staff prisons, or simply continue filling their role in the genocidal society. Without even a fraction of these people, the wheels of violence would not turn.
January 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Always perks me up to remember this
Headline: Top German Neo-Nazi plummets 200 feet to his death while hiking on Hitler’s favorite mountain. Portrait of pre-dead Nazi in outdoor gear, alongside image of search helicopter, and the mountain
January 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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This is gonna be helpful reading for this moment. Jewish journalist Milton Mayer traveled to a German town in 1955, befriended 10 men who “went Nazi” to discover why normal people, even people who opposed the party, went along with it.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer
January 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Very cool and good to know that Musk can just do this @edzitron.com

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January 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Based on a @citizenio.bsky.social post, a gift for Brian/Saoirse from their partner
December 25, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy bit isn’t a selfie. (Brian’s version)
A child’s playhouse on stilts made to look like chicken legs, with a bloody “Beware of the Baba Yaga” sign on the pastel pink door.
November 27, 2024 at 4:03 AM