Tackman Babcock

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Recovering from blinders of STEM, neoliberalism & fundamentalism. Enjoy film, sci-fi, literary nonfiction, feminism, philosophy, cats. Wish: dismantle reactionary targeting of trans people, Māori, Muslims, Jewish people, etc.
Tangata Tiriti, NZ

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Dan in his mensch era

No he’s at one-eyed jacks

Unforgivable

He needs to breathe into it dramatically first

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Kelsey Atherton

People also need to demand their media cover it

The Project 2025 author of the ‘Intelligence Community’ section is Daniel J Carmack, who was chief of staff to DNI, chief of staff for Ron DeSantis, and since 2 months ago, now works at Meta (Facebook!) as Director, Public Policy, Southern and Southeastern U.S.

One of Meta’s policy directors is a Project 2025 author.

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WSJ has fired Hong Kong-based journalist Selina Cheng after she was elected chair of a local journalism union. She was told advocating for press freedom “would be incompatible with my job.” Cheng’s full statement (posted via twitter):

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A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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Ian Boudreau

This man spent years selling his bloodthirsty fans lurid tales of executing Muslims with bullets soaked in pigs blood, tipping their bodies into a mass grave—to cheers and applause—thinking, for the first time, about bullets with his own precious brain matter hanging in the balance.

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They are really like this. Once I said that I think kids should learn the proper terms for their anatomy and some Glem Greenwald/Libs of Tik Tok followers emailed me employer to try to get me fired

According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

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Snowden St.

Is that Ian Wishart??

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Laura Helmuth

This is quite neat. I’ve wondered whether the tendency of people to stick to their first door choice even when they’ve had the math explained to them .. if that maybe disappears if they didn’t get to choose the initial door, but had it assigned randomly for them. We humans dislike reevaluating.

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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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Take Back the Court

These reforms cannot be watery half measures if it’s supposed to stop the country being sold out by Clearance Thomas and his mates in *checks watch* less than 4 months

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LurkyMcLurk

For a lot of wistful bootlickers, ‘other folk don’t get to disagree or they get stomped’ was the best part, more than all the war crimes and the illegal invasion itself. These exact same people will have some *fascinating* opinions about the dangers of ‘cancel culture’

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This is of course hateful rhetoric but I can't get past how, if you say or believe such a thing, then your brain is obviously made up entirely of soggy farts.

In 2022, Vance unleashed an unhinged theory on Tucker Carlson's show that his Dem opponent was planning on "flooding America with illegal aliens and then using American tax dollars to fund gender reassignment surgeries for those aliens" www.advocate.com/news/2022/11...

GOP Senate Hopeful Says Dems Want to Turn Immigrants Transgenderwww.advocate.com Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, says that Democrats are bringing "illegal immigrants" to the U.S. to turn them trans.

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It is impressive that Trump is so willing to renounce one of the few good things his first-term administration did. www.axios.com/2024/07/16/t...

Trump echoes Kennedy's vaccine conspiracies in leaked phone callwww.axios.com Kennedy apologized to Trump for the leaked video.

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Nails Nathan

If you wonder how they think they can get away with this - not enough people will read the fine print before the election, and because they also plan on not permitting any more elections after this one.

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While we’re on the topic of Vance and neoreactionary nonsense, here’s a piece I wrote a while back: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...

Opinion | A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the Worldwww.nytimes.com It’s no mystery why Marc Andreessen thinks people like him should be in charge. But how did he get so many of the rest of us to sign on?

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Pauline Dawson

Are there *any* health equity academics willing to go on record to endorse David Seymours dismantling of Te Tiriti obligations as likely to lead to improved health equity? I highly doubt it—and Id have seen only a fraction of the research you have. Hope academics organise against ACTs racist idiocy

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Bevan Holloway

I mean the links are there, Christopher Rufo was employed by Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Manhattan Institute and the Atlas Network share the same founder: Sir Anthony Fisher, who while he was at it is also responsible for IEA, Center for Independent Studies, and Adam Smith Institute

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"The emails sent to RNZ anonymously indicate a ministerial advisory group tried to take control of rewriting the curriculum." Absolute scandal: that group is headed an employee of a rightwing thinktank, is made up of his personal picks, and all indications are that they have seized control.

Leaked emails deepen teachers' curriculum fearswww.rnz.co.nz Leaked emails have deepened teachers' fears about the future of the secondary school English curriculum. The emails sent to RNZ anonymously indicate a ministerial advisory group tried to take control ...

Re-upping this now academic freakshow Elizabeth Rata has leapfrogged from her already inappropriate position at the advisory board reviewing English curriculum (not even consulting the relevant teacher associations!) to directly seizing the curriculum to rewrite it herself with her handpicked goons

A critique of Rata on the politics of knowledge and Māori education wje.org.nz/index.php/WJ...

A critique of Rata on the politics of knowledge and Māori education | Waikato Journal of ...wje.org.nz

Imminent destruction of the nation aside, Trump eating this voting bloc like a fascist pac-man is fascinating. That church allowed its identity to become its delusions of persecution and celebration of ignorance; they had no defences when an obvious crook took charge & ejected their supposed values

Trump is himself now the Christian Nationalist’s candidate, even though that has required 95-100 million Americans to completely sell out whatever that Christ fellow was rambling on about—all in the space of only a few short years.

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they will proudly defend the Forgotten Man (owners of a chain of Chrysler dealerships) from the raw power of the predatory Elite (gay third grade teachers with student loans)

A great illustration of how class is just vibes is that only one major party ticket is entirely Ivy League alumni and it’s the one that yells about the elites selling you out

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Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Is this… based on the premise that the problem has been his language, not actions and policies and stated plans?

Trump Allies Try to Bully Dems, Media to Shut Up About His Fascist Planswww.rollingstone.com Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy.

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bouie singlehandedly forcing this site to implement features that make it usable for anyone with more than a few hundred followers

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Vance is the frontrunner to be trumps VP. This is what he says. At least on this, folks should take them seriously

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.