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firmly anti-Nazi. BA in latin, MA in political psychology. she/her. my toddler niece staged my profile pic.
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A third of people just like fascism, it was that way in Nazi Germany, it's that way today
As was clear during Trump 1, roughly 37% of Americans are committed to white supremacy &/or Christian nationalism, no matter the cost. Very much reminds me of the Reconstruction South, which doubled down on the plantation regime that had destroyed the country in the aftermath of emancipation.
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A third of people just like fascism, it was that way in Nazi Germany, it's that way today
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This campaign is about more than politics.
It’s about loving our neighbors — not just in words, but in work.
I was proud to join our volunteers in serving warm meals to our neighbors in Dallas.
It’s about loving our neighbors — not just in words, but in work.
I was proud to join our volunteers in serving warm meals to our neighbors in Dallas.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This campaign is about more than politics.
It’s about loving our neighbors — not just in words, but in work.
I was proud to join our volunteers in serving warm meals to our neighbors in Dallas.
It’s about loving our neighbors — not just in words, but in work.
I was proud to join our volunteers in serving warm meals to our neighbors in Dallas.
won't see me endorsing a candidate who makes fun of someone for using a wheelchair or because of the shape of their body.
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
won't see me endorsing a candidate who makes fun of someone for using a wheelchair or because of the shape of their body.
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Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
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Not to worry, I'm sure the Trump Administration's antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto and coming up with measures to counteract this trend.
Survey of GOP voters: nearly four in ten (37%) "believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe. Younger men are especially likely to hold this view (54% of men under 50 vs. 39% of women under 50)." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/repu...
Republican voters and conspiracism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
“Conspiracism” is the neologism that Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead have invented to describe what they call “conspiracy theory without the theory,” that is, the classic Trumpian claim that “a l...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Not to worry, I'm sure the Trump Administration's antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto and coming up with measures to counteract this trend.
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as with gaza, i think democrats are deeply out of touch with both the electorate and their base on immigration.
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
as with gaza, i think democrats are deeply out of touch with both the electorate and their base on immigration.
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"Are you impressed by Richard Hanania?" has become a good litmus test.
Value debate over substance? Influenced by X? Have trouble with bad faith? Taken in by fancier words? Think showing you're open to toxic ideas makes you better than people who aren't?
Matt Yglesias, Jared Polis — any others?
Value debate over substance? Influenced by X? Have trouble with bad faith? Taken in by fancier words? Think showing you're open to toxic ideas makes you better than people who aren't?
Matt Yglesias, Jared Polis — any others?
it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Are you impressed by Richard Hanania?" has become a good litmus test.
Value debate over substance? Influenced by X? Have trouble with bad faith? Taken in by fancier words? Think showing you're open to toxic ideas makes you better than people who aren't?
Matt Yglesias, Jared Polis — any others?
Value debate over substance? Influenced by X? Have trouble with bad faith? Taken in by fancier words? Think showing you're open to toxic ideas makes you better than people who aren't?
Matt Yglesias, Jared Polis — any others?
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None of the people in the boats the US has illegally bombed are "in the fight" because the US is not at war, no matter how much the Trump regime insists
December 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
None of the people in the boats the US has illegally bombed are "in the fight" because the US is not at war, no matter how much the Trump regime insists
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We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
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Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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Yeah, you and me and a table set for three
Just in case our assassin should finally come through
Just in case our assassin should finally come through
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Yeah, you and me and a table set for three
Just in case our assassin should finally come through
Just in case our assassin should finally come through
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Not dissimilar to ‘Russia invading Ukraine makes no sense!’
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
People who say Israel's posture towards Syria makes no sense are stupid and just refuse to accept what Israel's logic is
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Not dissimilar to ‘Russia invading Ukraine makes no sense!’
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
wrong! Jesus was Jewish, which means Saturday was the Sabbath, and one IS permitted to do 'work' on the Sabbath to save a life. In fact using the fact that it's the Sabbath as an excuse NOT to save a life would be 'breaking religious rules.'
Left out the best part:
"She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."
"She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
wrong! Jesus was Jewish, which means Saturday was the Sabbath, and one IS permitted to do 'work' on the Sabbath to save a life. In fact using the fact that it's the Sabbath as an excuse NOT to save a life would be 'breaking religious rules.'
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
sewing day. all by hand. as one does.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
sewing day. all by hand. as one does.
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A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
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I HOPE YOU ARE FEELING BETTER MRS GRISTY?
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I HOPE YOU ARE FEELING BETTER MRS GRISTY?
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there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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Van Hollen was already one of the leading critics of the Israeli state in the Senate but you can really tell Mamdani's victory has emboldened him, among others.
Fascinating flash-point here, liberal stalwart Senator Chris Van Hollen's office is explicitly attacking the CEO of the "Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington" for being "an apologist for the Netanyahu government".
Sen. Van Hollen attacks Maryland Jewish community liaison Ron Halber as Netanyahu 'apologist'
Halber, at a JCRC breakfast, had lamented the Maryland senator’s worsening relationship with his Jewish constituents
jewishinsider.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Van Hollen was already one of the leading critics of the Israeli state in the Senate but you can really tell Mamdani's victory has emboldened him, among others.
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this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.
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A lot of these people who keep popping up as “even so and so!” were various strains of never Trump at different points. Even BaseballCrank guy, yk?
The Judge used to be a kind of principled libertarian voice on Fox so it’s not that strange to see him challenging talking points esp on this issue.
The Judge used to be a kind of principled libertarian voice on Fox so it’s not that strange to see him challenging talking points esp on this issue.
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A lot of these people who keep popping up as “even so and so!” were various strains of never Trump at different points. Even BaseballCrank guy, yk?
The Judge used to be a kind of principled libertarian voice on Fox so it’s not that strange to see him challenging talking points esp on this issue.
The Judge used to be a kind of principled libertarian voice on Fox so it’s not that strange to see him challenging talking points esp on this issue.
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There was a tweet some years back that was like "Being a Democrat is like going to a concert where the band is telling everyone to calm down the whole time" and I think about it a lot
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There was a tweet some years back that was like "Being a Democrat is like going to a concert where the band is telling everyone to calm down the whole time" and I think about it a lot