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we need to destroy kansas

26.02.2026 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.

In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.

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28.01.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2350    πŸ” 974    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 78

Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.

23.11.2024 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5069    πŸ” 1898    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 77
A bus labeled Matt gaetz wrecked by a train labeled also Matt gaetz

A bus labeled Matt gaetz wrecked by a train labeled also Matt gaetz

Happy to all who celebrate

21.11.2024 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1603    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

You claim to be an LGBT ally, yet you refuse to have sex with me? Wow. True colours moment.

21.11.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11496    πŸ” 941    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 51

CHEERS twitter has been reinvented πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ (just got my first replyguy)

21.11.2024 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This is one blocklist I’ll vouch for. CT takes the time to make sure the accounts fit the bill.

If you skim thru you’ll find lots of accounts mimicking real people but then on their page espousing hate speech. Tons and tons of groypers too. Eesh.

20.11.2024 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Only 19 out of 100 U.S. Senators were willing to oppose the blatant violation of U.S. law, showing once more that abject lawlessness at the federal level is a bipartisan project.

21.11.2024 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 266    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
21.11.2024 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. This also explains the bizarre focus on linguistic changes.

A wealthy, middle-aged political pundit cannot imagine being forced to move states to access HRT but he can imagine someone scolding him about misusing they/them pronouns. It's anxiety and animosity all the way down.

19.11.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5060    πŸ” 862    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 16
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Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at β€˜Winner-Take-All’ Election System The bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.

Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed a new task for to look at electoral reforms which could break up the two party system in Congress, expand the number of House districts, and move the House to a form of proportional representation.

It's a very, very good idea.

19.11.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3401    πŸ” 697    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 202
19.11.2024 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1583    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 2
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Punishment on top of punishment All trying their best

"I have met 100s of children like Jose on the streets of LA while handing out supplies with the volunteer group KtownForAll. Children whose parents were sick or injured, and so couldn’t pay rent for a month or two, that have been evicted more times in their short lives than they’ve seen a doctor."

17.11.2024 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8

"Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them." β€” Stuart Hall

19.11.2024 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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PokΓ©mon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World Niantic says it is using data generated by PokΓ©mon Go players to create a β€œLarge Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly mapping the entire world to train a geospatial AI model whose most obvious use cases are for robotic navigation and possibly the military
www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...

19.11.2024 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1263    πŸ” 596    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 451
Green poster where she is wearing her savage good boy costume

Green poster where she is wearing her savage good boy costume

Michelle sitting in a mass of trees and speakers

Michelle sitting in a mass of trees and speakers

My official posters for Japanese Breakfast!!

19.11.2024 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2054    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
Electric Forest poster with caption Rothbury, Michigan, June 20-23 2024. We see stags and deer running across a border of woodland animals, fungi. A whale is seen peaking between the border

Electric Forest poster with caption Rothbury, Michigan, June 20-23 2024. We see stags and deer running across a border of woodland animals, fungi. A whale is seen peaking between the border

Electric Forest official poster 2024! Musical festivals!!!

18.11.2024 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4280    πŸ” 682    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 4

The account (ran by PhD student Claire M. Zagorski) behind this got deactivated suddenly. Here is not only the original image of the alleged UT-Austin emailed list of words they'll surveil & censor and also the link to the OP's Instagram too, this time archived.

archive.ph/HQhkf

18.11.2024 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 11

This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.

18.11.2024 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4265    πŸ” 2480    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 252

Sometimes 'unserious' really does feel like the best descriptor for this timeline

17.11.2024 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 572    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 2
Poster indicating that 37 towns have been completely erased in Lebanon. Poster by @gina_n_k and on the Instagram account of @flyers_for_falastin

Poster indicating that 37 towns have been completely erased in Lebanon. Poster by @gina_n_k and on the Instagram account of @flyers_for_falastin

A reminder that 37 towns & villages have been completely erased by Israel in Lebanon. Ethnic cleansing in action

Most of this destruction is in south Lebanon.

No wonder then that there are those who call for reoccupation and resettlement. Intentions clear www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

17.11.2024 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

hi I'm the most annoying op-ed writer you've ever heard of in your life. I just blew in from Stupidtown and I sure hope this place won't be a left wing echo chamber! I command you gross homos to create a lively and diverse social network, like 2015 twitter

17.11.2024 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2531    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 8
Headline: Centrist Dems seize opening at the
DNC: 'I don't want to be the freak show party'
Recriminations over Kamala Harris' defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.

Headline: Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: 'I don't want to be the freak show party' Recriminations over Kamala Harris' defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.

holy fuck they’re proving in real time the saying β€œscratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

16.11.2024 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 808    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 22

All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while

16.11.2024 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9301    πŸ” 2080    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 32

🚨 THREAD: Project Esther β€” an extension of the broader conservative agenda under Project 2025. It’s a coordinated effort to silence the growing movement for Palestinian rights in U.S. Let’s break it down. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

16.11.2024 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed

16.11.2024 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11924    πŸ” 1420    πŸ’¬ 550    πŸ“Œ 61

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

14.11.2024 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7363    πŸ” 2376    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 44

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

14.11.2024 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11282    πŸ” 1944    πŸ’¬ 331    πŸ“Œ 125

and bookmarks! man, i miss those

15.11.2024 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0