HelenenenBack

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Into stuff, more stuff. And things. Anti-fascism, anti-anti-science, anti-misinformation, anti-antidisestablishmentarianism, anti-ants living in my stove.
It's a larf innit?

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I am so grateful. The GFM is less than $400 from funded. Thank you so, so much.

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Another one! The LA Times is hiring a film critic. They're looking for someone experienced (as they should), but damn, there are so many outstanding critics out there. Spread the word, if you would be so kind filmsky! 🔥🎬https://us241.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/nantmedia/Posting/View/178

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Maybe you need this today.

A little levity.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - "Wuthering Heights"youtu.be The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - "Wuthering Heights"from the DVD 'Anarchy in the Ukulele', available to buy from http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com

Omg omg! Plant bombs!

Omg!

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Help Walaa, who is paraplegic, and family in Gaza, organised by Amanda Graywww.gofundme.com Hi, I am Amanda and I am a Brit who has become friends with a family and… Amanda Gray needs your support for Help Walaa, who is paraplegic, and family in Gaza

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I've got a phobia of over-engineered buildings. It's a complex complex complex.

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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If any of these governors appear on any news show the first question they get needs to be "why do you want poor children to starve?"

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Ignore the punditocracy; pay attention to real political scientists & historians & people who have actually managed successful political campaigns & know how the political calculus actually works. The punditocracy is the largest source of natural gas known to man. They're a locked echo-chamber.

Shark Fin Blues by Missy Higgins.

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

I'm binging Lost and finding it funny how it's so low quality and also high quality. For example they overspent on the orchestra and had nothing left for accent coaches.

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Canadian Antifa

Puberty blockers are now halted in Scotland.

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He has arrived.

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This means the discourse on Project 2025 is having an effect. Every media outlet should hammer this. Biden ads and other Democrat ads should flash highlights from Project 2025 with scary voice-overs.

Today in "Trump didn't write this, someone on his campaign staff did." I don't know if Kellyanne Conway is working for Trump these days but this feels more like her style, voice, and syntax than Trump or those posting on his behalf recently.

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Totally normal country

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Hey folks! I became technologically brave today and launched a YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@joannefreem... It's in its early teeny tiny phase. Not much on it yet. But it's there if you want to subscribe!

Dr. Joanne Freemanwww.youtube.com Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us to the pres...

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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håkan managed to slip a little reference to it into their zine about affinity fraud lol bsky.app/profile/riot...

i also recommend Håkan Geijar's excellent zine "Affinity Fraud and Exploitable Empathy" for understanding the dynamics of people using marginalized identity to dodge accountability or manipulate & abuse others: immerautonom.noblogs.org/files/2024/0...

immerautonom.noblogs.org

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Shit like this and the opening theme for Old Gods of Appalachia make me mad that I spent so long avoiding country music because of how bad most of the commercial stuff is. I want to hear a man play a banjo in a way that suggests he has seen the devil

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"Not dropping out" is extremely potent political magic.

Trump gritting through the pussy tape is illustrative here. He refused to drop out & a few weeks later his polls rebounded & the press just dropped it. Obviously the fact that the press likes fascism & wants it to win is a factor but the fact it didn't change anything was EMBARRASSING for them.

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⚡️ 🇦🇺 Child protection workers in NSW have gone on strike due to the unacceptable risk faced by vulnerable children. Only one in four children at risk of serious harm are being seen by caseworkers. The workers are concerned that the broken system may cause even more harm to the children. Union…

Nsw Child Protection Workers Strike As System Reaches Crisis Pointwww.riskmap.com 🇦🇺 Child protection workers in NSW have gone on strike due to the unacceptable risk faced by vulnerable children. Only one in four children at risk of serious harm are being seen by caseworkers. The workers are concerned that the broken system may cause…

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I'm worried about the presidential immunity decision.

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I hate this piece of shit.