Allison Betus

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Quantitative social scientist. I study media, far-right terrorism & white supremacy. ABD, she/her 🌈

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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today at 4:30 EST (1:30 PST & 21.30 BST) I will have an interview, recorded while I was in London, on the Radio Integral show to talk about how neofolk & industrial musicians contributed to the development of neo-Nazi terrorist ideology. www.resonancefm.com

Resonance FM | Homewww.resonancefm.com Resonance is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world

If your allies cost you more than they benefit you, they ain't your allies.

And yes, even shitty members of our community are still community, but if they have a history of sewing division & lashing out at other community members & folks we should be standing with, they shouldn't be elevated to positions of leadership or influence & I don't get why that's hard to get.

I know the MTG cards story going around is funny but it's fake. OBVIOUSLY. Come on, folks. it takes a second to check these things.

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‘The Most Dangerous Threat Environment That I’ve Seen in 40 Years’

‘The Most Dangerous Threat Environment That I’ve Seen in 40 Years’www.politico.com A former top Homeland Security Department official discusses the fallout from the Trump assassination attempt.

Think of it. An entire *planet* of offspring who won't speak to him. Divorced in infinite directions at a galactic scale. So divorced that God himself might feel it disturb the breeze in Heaven.

"Elon Musk’s Plan to Put a Million Earthlings on Mars in 20 Years... Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm." Parts of the New York Times are great. Some journalists are great. But this is not ...a serious newspaper.

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Here’s the thing about thinking about politics as the art of compromise: you can only find middle ground between two positions each plausibly rooted in actual reality.

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Maybe not the main point, but important to note that Musk's preoccupation with procreating as much as possible is directly linked to the Great Replacement and the other white supremacist doctrines in which he believes (and, here, to colonial frameworks of conquering).

Had some trouble sleeping last night so I wrote some lyrics. Here's an unedited snippet: Annie, Annie What were you thinking? You're not in love You just both like drinking Is it just me or is your social circle shrinking? I hope it's not too long before I'm ready to record again. We'll see.

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I implore people to look at polling data on abortion in swing states www.prri.org/spotlight/ex...

So, if the worst comes to pass, what exactly will the doomers be doing? Expressing relief & gratitude that they spent all their time bawling into their own asses instead of helping when they had a chance? Who benefits from these histrionics?

Good of the medical staff to neuter Trump before releasing him back into the wild. At his size, you'd typically want to do that procedure somewhere between 6 to 9 months old but better late than never.

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They all want their electeds to be Indiana Jones and punch the goddamn Nazi! My folks & their friends have talked more positively about Bernie/AOC in the last few days because they are willing to fight.

Political analysts would probably be shocked at how many normal people have dark fantasies about what should've happened on Sunday. They think Democrats are still the "go high" crew just because electeds act that way

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Yes! This is one of the ways that studies on, for example, video game violence fall short. You don't care as much about how video game violence affects the *typical* person as you care about how it affects people on the fringes.

A good time to read our Nature article - the risk is concentrated exposure to potentially harmful content in the fringes, not by the average person Misunderstanding the Harms of Online Misinformation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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While I do agree with Seth and Sam generally, I think there's a definite subset of the current GOP ruling class that doesn't believe good guys even exist and therefore they should do whatever they want to whomever they want. They know they're bad, they just think everyone else is too.

One of the guiding premises of my research is that most people -- even extremists -- think of themselves as the good guys. @intelwire.bsky.social's Extremism goes a long way in explaining why/how this is so. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253587...

Extremismmitpress.mit.edu What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to de...

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Never forget that this is their idea of governing...

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“In the name of unity, stop taking issue with Jan. 6” is “when you say it’s wrong that I hit you, you’re tearing this family apart” on a national scale.

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

The far-right does not like it when women have agency. The fact the she's Hindu is going to be painted as a sign that Vance is a weak man who can't control his home. A Real Western Man (TM) would have forced her to adopt his religion before they married.

the right-wing backstabbing has begun

Generative AI bros: I'm stealing your creative labor! Pirates: I'm stealing your creative labor! ✊ You're welcome!

How much do you want to bet that the cops who failed to secure a tiny crowd in an open field are going to use this as an excuse to demand a budget increase? I bet $7000 BTW, I need $7000 Venmo: @Allison-Betus

Anyhow here's Wonderwall

Eric Adams does not have a brain & you will not convince me otherwise.

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

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The cops here really want to connect five of them shooting a homeless man with the security demands of the RNC, which was, uh, not that close by and across a highway

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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anyway the "leftists" in my life over time have often hated women as much as the libertarians/far right, they're just quieter about it examine yourselves please

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Are you an indie creator whose head is exploding over all of the incredibly stupid pro-piracy takes lately? Do you like #punk rock? Do you dislike Nazis? If yes to any of those, please consider buying my music or Venmoing a donation to @Allison-Betus . My family needs cash.

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I can't stand spineless people who respond to any & all disapproval with simpering & contrition. Sometimes folks are mad at you because you were an asshole. Sometimes it's because they're an asshole. If you can't or won't distinguish between the two, you're going to put yourself in bad situations.

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What happens to a largely US-controlled internet after fascism? I'm hoping we don't find out, but do these now, not later: - Make sure that you have ways to contact your core groups outside of social media. - Back up everything you don't want to lose online.

I was recently added to a list entitled "block these people on sight - it will make your day better." I am blocked by a whole 50 people. I am blocking 1002 people. Golly, I sure hope I survive 😂