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Please, tell me again how "other countries do *just fine* without supporting American style free speech."
To reiterate, the UK has just jailed five climate protesters for *discussing* a climate protest. As I've said elsewhere, this isn't just a victory for the fossil fuel industries, but for the most extreme authoritarianism.
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Here is a New York Times journalist recognizing a pretty important thing about this speech, and about Trump in general. Do you think it will be the central theme of the Times' speech coverage? If not, what does that say about the Times?
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Scavengers Reign is the best science fiction that I have seen in years, and it was cancelled after its first season. It has just been nominated for an Emmy. Hopefully that will help it get a season 2. If you haven't seen it yet, it's streaming on Netflix. #scavengersreign #scifi #animation #emmy
Canceled ‘Scavengers Reign’ Makes Case For Season 2 With Animated Program Emmy Nominationdeadline.com Then this morning, Scavengers Reign landed an Emmy nomination in the very competitive, high-profile category of Outstanding Animated Program.
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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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80+ year old reelection-seeking legislators calling on the 80+ year old presidential candidate to drop out of the race is such a masterclass in lacking self-awareness.
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It’s an election year, goddammit. Stop campaigning against your own side at the behest of a bunch of rich assholes and start campaigning against the actual fascists
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"Fascists want you to think things are hopeless precisely because things can get better. This is why they need us to feel hopeless. Because there is hope." From one of my recent pieces
and high res, for your stickering needs
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I’ve said this of DC and their movies but: Disney doesn’t know why it’s doing what it’s doing with its franchises. It’s just trying to commercialize an asset. They need a through line and someone charged with the authority to develop the long-term vision to come up with one.
ok rewatching rise of skywalker and like i think we’re close to halfway to it not ruining the franchise a couple more good tv seasons and it’ll be a bad movie that is somehow justified by the massive edifice of retcons being built to make it not utter nonsense
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So today we learned that Vance wants to track your periods, enforce the Comstock Act, and pass a national abortion ban. Moderation! Softening!
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For those freaking out about Project 2025 now and how the word pornography will be weaponised to silence and imprison people, spare half a thought for the sex workers who have been ringing the alarm bell on this for decades.
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Scavengers Reign got nominated for the best animated series Emmy! Congrats to Joe, Charles and the team. So proud of young's and happy to have been a part of this show. discussingfilm.net/2024/07/17/e...
Emmys 2024: The Nominationsdiscussingfilm.net The full nominations list for the 2024 Emmys, including hit TV shows like The Bear, Shogun, Fallout, Baby Reindeer, and more!
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i can't stop thinking about these drawings by the scavengers reign animation supervisor francisco m. magalhaes
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Always curious about theological setups where god allows the holocaust and the Rwandan genocide but steps in to save a convicted felon who wants to lower taxes and deport “the right people”
Not great.
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We're this far into this and reporters *still* haven't figured out that the lies people like Vance tell to justify their attacks on anyone they deem insufficiently MAGA are not sincere.
what the fuck is this dogshit
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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.
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Trump just named as his #2 a guy who called for insurrection charges against a journalist for writing an op-ed & wants to censor academics and seize the assets of nonprofits he opposes. The "free speech" brigades haven't said a goddamn thing. And their benefactor just pledged $150m to elect him.
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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.
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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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In the immortal words of James Baldwin, "It's not on us to cool it."
Decade after decade of stochastic terror, gun rights fervor, & the foment of conspiratorial thinking by, from, on, & within the right, & yet it's somehow DEMOCRATS & the LEFT who need to "calm things down" or "lower the temperature?" Nah son. We *been* calm, and quite fucking cool and collected. …
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Learning to gather wild garlic 🌿🦊🧄🦊🌿 #foxes #cuteart #art
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Poster seen in Pullman, Washington
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“What is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence but their extraordinary ability in the face of that record to persuade themselves that they are among the best behaved and best regulated of peoples.” - Richard Hofstadter, American Violence, 1970 🗃️
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Do not obey in advance.
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Part of this is that it’s much easier to write a story about “Biden old” than it is to write about policy or risk your peace by writing about fascism.
the vast majority of these critics weren't mad because outlets criticized Biden age, they're mad because the number of "Biden is old" stories out-ratio'd stories about real policy or the looming threat of fascism by like a factor of like forty to one
Big media outlets are questioning Biden’s fitness. Some of their audience is furious.www.semafor.com Liberal-leaning outlets that riveted Democratic audiences through the Trump years are facing a backlash.
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Our new theme is unity
The “Some folks need killing” guy just gave a primetime speech at the RNC.
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I do not believe that Everything Is Fine and Everything Will Absolutely Work Out - I am absolutely an incredibly bleak pessimist at heart - but I also really, really *hate* declaring defeat and doom way before we know what’s going to happen.