Scotticus
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So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.
March 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.
I drew a clown.
Thinking about whether I should be sorry about it.
Thinking about whether I should be sorry about it.
March 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I drew a clown.
Thinking about whether I should be sorry about it.
Thinking about whether I should be sorry about it.
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
February 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
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I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.
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We have to acknowledge the truth about MAGA: “They do not care about fixing anything. They do not care about running the government. They want to set the Constitution on fire, destroy the federal government, and torture and murder their enemies…” [kottke.org]
“Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?”
Will Stancil on Bluesky:
I don’t know how to say this any louder
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS MORE RADICAL, MORE FASCIST, MORE VIOLENT THAN ANYONE IN MAINSTREAM POLITICS OR MEDIA IS WILLING TO ADMIT OUT LOUD
THEY ARE F
kottke.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We have to acknowledge the truth about MAGA: “They do not care about fixing anything. They do not care about running the government. They want to set the Constitution on fire, destroy the federal government, and torture and murder their enemies…” [kottke.org]
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Sarah McBride is cis people's favorite politician because she gives them permission to ignore attacks on trans people.
McBride is a doofus.
McBride is a doofus.
Rep. Sarah McBride:
"When they're going after trans people, with their right hand they're picking the pocket of American workers, they're fleecing seniors, they're undermining unions. And this is all part of that politics of misdirection and distraction and division."
NAILED IT!
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"When they're going after trans people, with their right hand they're picking the pocket of American workers, they're fleecing seniors, they're undermining unions. And this is all part of that politics of misdirection and distraction and division."
NAILED IT!
🔥
January 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Sarah McBride is cis people's favorite politician because she gives them permission to ignore attacks on trans people.
McBride is a doofus.
McBride is a doofus.
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THE ARISTOCRATS, but for real
very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman
January 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
THE ARISTOCRATS, but for real
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As a Sociologist, I need to tell you
the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.
the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.
January 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As a Sociologist, I need to tell you
the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.
the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.
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When you want to play a terrible song on the guitar but it’s also really important to accompany it with a horrific wheezing noise.
January 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When you want to play a terrible song on the guitar but it’s also really important to accompany it with a horrific wheezing noise.
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Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
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Don't know who said it first but it bears repeating—if you really don't think what Musk repeatedly did was a Nazi salute, please record yourself doing that exact thing and post it across all social media, and make sure your employer sees it.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Don't know who said it first but it bears repeating—if you really don't think what Musk repeatedly did was a Nazi salute, please record yourself doing that exact thing and post it across all social media, and make sure your employer sees it.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
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I realized I should probably share the thing, huh?
I share this with the caveat that:
- It's an incomplete, evolving document, and;
- I'm not an expert, this is just what I'm doing. YMMV.
With that, here you go: minamarkh.am/shits-weird/
I share this with the caveat that:
- It's an incomplete, evolving document, and;
- I'm not an expert, this is just what I'm doing. YMMV.
With that, here you go: minamarkh.am/shits-weird/
January 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I realized I should probably share the thing, huh?
I share this with the caveat that:
- It's an incomplete, evolving document, and;
- I'm not an expert, this is just what I'm doing. YMMV.
With that, here you go: minamarkh.am/shits-weird/
I share this with the caveat that:
- It's an incomplete, evolving document, and;
- I'm not an expert, this is just what I'm doing. YMMV.
With that, here you go: minamarkh.am/shits-weird/
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I was told there would be punch and pie.
three south park characters are sitting at a desk with the words tell them there will be punch and pie
ALT: three south park characters are sitting at a desk with the words tell them there will be punch and pie
media.tenor.com
August 23, 2024 at 3:43 AM
I was told there would be punch and pie.
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Walton Goggins standing over me with his boot firmly planted on my neck, slicing an apple with a switchblade. "Now it seems to me... someone needs to learn their times tables." Neither one of us has any idea what he means in this scenario.
May 5, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Walton Goggins standing over me with his boot firmly planted on my neck, slicing an apple with a switchblade. "Now it seems to me... someone needs to learn their times tables." Neither one of us has any idea what he means in this scenario.