LunchCounterPunch
@theultrasecret.bsky.social
Stale are playmates who play to stalemate.
Made political punk rock once, may again.
Some recent-ish demos here: https://theultrasecret.bandcamp.com/album/the-ultra-secret
Made political punk rock once, may again.
Some recent-ish demos here: https://theultrasecret.bandcamp.com/album/the-ultra-secret
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It's also notable how manufactured this whole panic has been. DEI can be a little silly but it's been a fixture at American corporations since the 1990s. The only reason we're all talking about it constantly is that right-wing media decided to pretend it was left-wing tyranny.
The right-wing has been priming Americans to think of population wide gains in freedom and equality as potentially ill-gotten; a theft against those who are already living with a full suite of rights. It's why attacks on DEI work. The Dems/the left must emphasize that this is a theft of Civil Rights
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It's one crisis after another in America, but it doesn't have to be this way. If we're truly concerned with liberation and the pursuit of individual and collective well-being, white conservatism is a destabilizing force, period. This has to be broadly understood, accepted, and dealt with.
Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's one crisis after another in America, but it doesn't have to be this way. If we're truly concerned with liberation and the pursuit of individual and collective well-being, white conservatism is a destabilizing force, period. This has to be broadly understood, accepted, and dealt with.
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Mamdani should call Trump up tomorrow and tell him it’d be cool to throw Stephen Miller in jail.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Mamdani should call Trump up tomorrow and tell him it’d be cool to throw Stephen Miller in jail.
Mamdani should call Trump up tomorrow and tell him it’d be cool to throw Stephen Miller in jail.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Mamdani should call Trump up tomorrow and tell him it’d be cool to throw Stephen Miller in jail.
It's one crisis after another in America, but it doesn't have to be this way. If we're truly concerned with liberation and the pursuit of individual and collective well-being, white conservatism is a destabilizing force, period. This has to be broadly understood, accepted, and dealt with.
Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's one crisis after another in America, but it doesn't have to be this way. If we're truly concerned with liberation and the pursuit of individual and collective well-being, white conservatism is a destabilizing force, period. This has to be broadly understood, accepted, and dealt with.
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White supremacy isn't just the overtly vile stuff; it's also trying to dictate the terms of argument, agreement, and liberation.
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
White supremacy isn't just the overtly vile stuff; it's also trying to dictate the terms of argument, agreement, and liberation.
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Truly appreciate @dennycarter.bsky.social’s pushback on the usage of the term “crackdowns.” Applied to everything that authoritarians want to criminalize, including houselessness, it makes the innocent criminal by implication, and implies aggression as the solution. The results are clear, and evil.
"Crackdowns" being described as legitimate immigration policy in mainstream discourse has helped get us where we are today. I wrote about it for BFT: badfaithtimes.com/bad-faith-an...
Bad Faith And The Legitimizing Of An Immigration 'Crackdown'
Right-wing framing of immigration depends on us accepting "crackdowns" as reasonable and even necessary
badfaithtimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Truly appreciate @dennycarter.bsky.social’s pushback on the usage of the term “crackdowns.” Applied to everything that authoritarians want to criminalize, including houselessness, it makes the innocent criminal by implication, and implies aggression as the solution. The results are clear, and evil.
Was enjoying this immensely until I laughed so hard I almost choked on my peanut butter and banana sandwich. Maybe that’s how humankind learned to eat and laugh at the same time.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Was enjoying this immensely until I laughed so hard I almost choked on my peanut butter and banana sandwich. Maybe that’s how humankind learned to eat and laugh at the same time.
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The right-wing has been priming Americans to think of population wide gains in freedom and equality as potentially ill-gotten; a theft against those who are already living with a full suite of rights. It's why attacks on DEI work. The Dems/the left must emphasize that this is a theft of Civil Rights
It's also notable how manufactured this whole panic has been. DEI can be a little silly but it's been a fixture at American corporations since the 1990s. The only reason we're all talking about it constantly is that right-wing media decided to pretend it was left-wing tyranny.
February 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The right-wing has been priming Americans to think of population wide gains in freedom and equality as potentially ill-gotten; a theft against those who are already living with a full suite of rights. It's why attacks on DEI work. The Dems/the left must emphasize that this is a theft of Civil Rights
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The town cancel culture criers are fired up and ready to go, but in the face of the Epstein horrors, are only drawing attention to their own nasty immorality and ludicrous logic.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The town cancel culture criers are fired up and ready to go, but in the face of the Epstein horrors, are only drawing attention to their own nasty immorality and ludicrous logic.
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Vaccinations being part of a *collective* public health effort is precisely why fascists want to undermine them.
The fixation on individual habits, all obvious enough, is meant to fracture solidarity, laying the obligations of the state, and the blame for its failures and negligence, on each of us. Thus, an atmosphere ripe for fascism evolves.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Vaccinations being part of a *collective* public health effort is precisely why fascists want to undermine them.
It is why an entire lexicon has emerged to demean those with even a glimmer of social conscience.
Ignorance is supremacy's first sabotage of the act of repair, because it sabotages even the awareness of brokenness.
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Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It is why an entire lexicon has emerged to demean those with even a glimmer of social conscience.
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The work of good anti-fascist politics is to make the denial of evil more uncomfortable than the acceptance of it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The work of good anti-fascist politics is to make the denial of evil more uncomfortable than the acceptance of it.
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If you don’t know how to fight for the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized, you don’t know how to fight for rights at all. Total liberation is strategically clear, and morally imperative.
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
If you don’t know how to fight for the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized, you don’t know how to fight for rights at all. Total liberation is strategically clear, and morally imperative.
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Data and facts are in that wall of carnage as well, whenever Sarah is ready to stop offloading her feeling of obscenity.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Data and facts are in that wall of carnage as well, whenever Sarah is ready to stop offloading her feeling of obscenity.
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As soul destroying as fascism is, anti-fascism sure warms the heart.
September 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
As soul destroying as fascism is, anti-fascism sure warms the heart.
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In a world where men have nearly full spectrum dominance in all areas (academia, the arts, athletics, economics, management, and on and on), it’s *impossible* for their not to be male role models. The whiners seek overtly chauvinistic male role models.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
In a world where men have nearly full spectrum dominance in all areas (academia, the arts, athletics, economics, management, and on and on), it’s *impossible* for their not to be male role models. The whiners seek overtly chauvinistic male role models.
It’s not easy to tie together all of the strands that are contributing to journalism’s multiple collapses — of ethics, of reporting, of mission. But @marisakabas.bsky.social emerges with a cogent bundle.
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It’s not easy to tie together all of the strands that are contributing to journalism’s multiple collapses — of ethics, of reporting, of mission. But @marisakabas.bsky.social emerges with a cogent bundle.
Truly appreciate @dennycarter.bsky.social’s pushback on the usage of the term “crackdowns.” Applied to everything that authoritarians want to criminalize, including houselessness, it makes the innocent criminal by implication, and implies aggression as the solution. The results are clear, and evil.
"Crackdowns" being described as legitimate immigration policy in mainstream discourse has helped get us where we are today. I wrote about it for BFT: badfaithtimes.com/bad-faith-an...
Bad Faith And The Legitimizing Of An Immigration 'Crackdown'
Right-wing framing of immigration depends on us accepting "crackdowns" as reasonable and even necessary
badfaithtimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Truly appreciate @dennycarter.bsky.social’s pushback on the usage of the term “crackdowns.” Applied to everything that authoritarians want to criminalize, including houselessness, it makes the innocent criminal by implication, and implies aggression as the solution. The results are clear, and evil.
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Right. Sexism is an obstacle, to be sure, but that is apart from the country’s preparedness to accept a woman leader. Otherwise why would women get elected anywhere? Why would there be any prominent, even famous/iconic women leaders? It’s a pat way to deflect from failures of agenda and messaging.
that whole 'this country isn't ready for a woman president' line is really upsetting because it shows exactly how neoliberalism works, redirecting blame from issues of policy (or lack thereof) onto a flattened, vague type of sexism in a way that ultimately doesn't even challenge sexism!
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Right. Sexism is an obstacle, to be sure, but that is apart from the country’s preparedness to accept a woman leader. Otherwise why would women get elected anywhere? Why would there be any prominent, even famous/iconic women leaders? It’s a pat way to deflect from failures of agenda and messaging.
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Right, the Conservative movement’s endgame resulted in leaders engaged in and/or encouraging pedophilia, kidnapping, censorship, looting of the Treasury and an assortment of other atrocities; they can all STFU for the rest of the century.
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Right, the Conservative movement’s endgame resulted in leaders engaged in and/or encouraging pedophilia, kidnapping, censorship, looting of the Treasury and an assortment of other atrocities; they can all STFU for the rest of the century.
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Letterman hosting the 2026 Oscars: “Nuzzi. Nazi. Nazi. Nuzzi.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Letterman hosting the 2026 Oscars: “Nuzzi. Nazi. Nazi. Nuzzi.”
Right. Sexism is an obstacle, to be sure, but that is apart from the country’s preparedness to accept a woman leader. Otherwise why would women get elected anywhere? Why would there be any prominent, even famous/iconic women leaders? It’s a pat way to deflect from failures of agenda and messaging.
that whole 'this country isn't ready for a woman president' line is really upsetting because it shows exactly how neoliberalism works, redirecting blame from issues of policy (or lack thereof) onto a flattened, vague type of sexism in a way that ultimately doesn't even challenge sexism!
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Right. Sexism is an obstacle, to be sure, but that is apart from the country’s preparedness to accept a woman leader. Otherwise why would women get elected anywhere? Why would there be any prominent, even famous/iconic women leaders? It’s a pat way to deflect from failures of agenda and messaging.
Almost all forces are pushing Gen Z toward greater exposure to and acceptance of different people and cultures, excluding our reactionary leaders and establishment media.
“Here’s what the data shows: Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”
This absolutely tracks with years of teaching members of Gen Z.
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
This absolutely tracks with years of teaching members of Gen Z.
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Almost all forces are pushing Gen Z toward greater exposure to and acceptance of different people and cultures, excluding our reactionary leaders and establishment media.
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The tragedy of it is that Dem voters are thirsting for a confrontation with the root causes of American fascism — white supremacy, misogyny, elite impunity — but leadership would rather tinker around the margins, thus preventing the enduring pluralistic democracy they keep promising to deliver.
November 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The tragedy of it is that Dem voters are thirsting for a confrontation with the root causes of American fascism — white supremacy, misogyny, elite impunity — but leadership would rather tinker around the margins, thus preventing the enduring pluralistic democracy they keep promising to deliver.
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Moral vulgarity from our leaders subjects us all to moral injury; those wounds fracture us and diminish our ideals and aspirations. Trump and America’s army of nasty elites have done exactly this, and recovery will require so much more than flipping administrations.
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Moral vulgarity from our leaders subjects us all to moral injury; those wounds fracture us and diminish our ideals and aspirations. Trump and America’s army of nasty elites have done exactly this, and recovery will require so much more than flipping administrations.