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no one gives a SHIT about your “electability” in 2028 if you dont fix the state economy NOW rather than lett joe pittman push it off a cliff for no damn reason

josh shapiro PLEASE do some nationally disqualifying corruption to save the pennsylvania commonwealth economy from republican wreckers

despite disney ip being the most obnoxiously over documented collective knowledge on this capitalist earth, i believe with enough power of will we could successfully foment a rumor that the national treasure films originated as a tie in for the abortive attempt at a themed attraction in philadelphia

If the Western press wants to show us that they care about the lives of their colleagues in Gaza, the least they can do is to stop platforming a single Israeli official as long as the Israelis prevent international journalists from entering the Ghetto.

Hal Schrieve’s Fawn’s Blood is making me ACHE. great fucking work

we still call the parking lot at 8th and market southwest corner “the disney hole”

despite disney ip being the most obnoxiously over documented collective knowledge on this capitalist earth, i believe with enough power of will we could successfully foment a rumor that the national treasure films originated as a tie in for the abortive attempt at a themed attraction in philadelphia

i think with the dubai boosterism of it all mi:gp might be the most randian of all his movies

i havent seen the movie but i got this one right

thank you for this. also the message of tomorrowland is that galts gulching your technological progress is Bad and will lead to sad girlchild robots

im so glad someone just quote skeeted alexandra petri so i could block on sight

the thing about clanker is it should be the pejorative for the guys who use “ai” waifus, because it sounds like a pejorative for someone who fucks something or in some way objectionable to the speaker

BLACK FLAME, Felker-Martin (2025)

you have to know how funny this particular psychic recombination was when in the dream, it was my independent bookseller partner who was the one-time Bezos mentee

we may not have “a democracy” “anymore”, but what we do have is vivid social dreams about jeff bezos crashing a queer family vacation and it being “too awkward” to ask him to leave or to moderate his jerky straight man behavior because “he was a work friend once”

said with luv, but i’m putting some four on the floor type beats in my ears now

you know ur at the lesbian café when you can get a vegan pastry at any hour of the day and also never hear a song by a woman because its just hozier albums in a cycle

And!!! I get to say this without also being in a fight or ever being in contact again!

someone who said bizarre transphobic things about me to our friends, published a transmisogynist manifesto to out someone they were in a fight with, and has slashed and burned thru a lot of relationships doesn’t get an out for subsequently identifying as non-binary

ive decided that its been 8 years and i can say that the worst most unethical breakup of my life was in fact substantively harmful to me, BUT ALSO it doesn’t matter to me at all in my present material conditions.

i have decided today that i want to get back on tumblr and investigate once and for all if i can write like the queer faggot-woman i was realizing i was when i abandoned fanfic fandom and fiction writing because of suicidal depression caused in part by trump 1.0 and in part by many other things

SO ANYWAY. new blog: nerys-is-hidden. its probably gonna be robin hobb and narnia and ds9 and dragon age but may also be a place for personal shit

one of which was…as i found by logging back into tumblr…being in library grad school during the worst break up of my life to that point at the peak of #MeToo infohazard triggers

i have decided today that i want to get back on tumblr and investigate once and for all if i can write like the queer faggot-woman i was realizing i was when i abandoned fanfic fandom and fiction writing because of suicidal depression caused in part by trump 1.0 and in part by many other things

if anyone on earth would be interested in seeing me there, just let me know and I’ll dm you the new url

i just logged onto tumblr, accidentally deleted my fifteen year old account, and started a new one

There is, I think, a compelling case to be made that the American political tradition thinks of free speech not as the basis of a free press but as an instance of it. A newspaper is not a giant person; a person is more like a little newspaper. If this is so, then the vast majority of Americans have low budgets, limited circulation, and few dedicated readers, even in the age of social media. In other words, speech is a resource, not an inalienable property, and as such it is subject to the same regimes of theft, privatization, and accumulation that have swallowed up the labor of workers and the fruits of the earth. We have heard much lately about when free speech ends: the moment when protesting for Palestine becomes grounds for detention or deportation in the eyes of the police state, for instance. Less often asked, but equally important, is when speech begins. Did

instance. Less often asked, but equally important, is when speech begins. Did Cotton's speech begin the moment that the Times published his op-ed? During the editorial process? When Bennet's deputies pitched the idea? At what point, in other words, did the ordinary flow of money, labor, and influence through civil society stop? Well, never. To say that Cotton was too important not to publish is to say that he enjoyed a certain social position that deserved the paper's famously discriminating attention. From the start, Cotton had more than free speech: He had actual speech, the very thing that protesters were being denied all across the country.

One of the principal goals of the protests of 2020 was therefore to seize the means of expression: protesters were not exercising their right to speak freely so much as they were trying to amass a form of social influence that could meaningfully compete at a national level. In other words, they were starting a newspaper; what Williams hates is that people started reading it. The fact is that telling a voiceless person they have free speech is like telling a poor person they have freedom of money: Nice work if you can get it! Williams might respond that a person who finds their ability to speak curtailed does not thereby lose their capacity to think.

"Expression is the exterior form and, if I can express myself so, the body of thought, but it is not thought itself, writes Tocqueville. It is seductive, I know, and highly flattering to those of us who write for a living, to suppose that thought "makes sport of all tyrannies," as Tocqueville puts it. (At least the slave, Buckley had the gall to imply, had retained his freedom of thought under the whip.) But a thought without expression, like a soul without a body, is just as good as dead. Surely we cannot comfort ourselves with the idea that the brutal neck restraint that kept George Floyd from breathing nonetheless could not keep him from thinking. For in the end, we know it did.

Obviously yes you should read Andrea Long Chu’s latest for all the usual reasons (thrillingly blistering assessment of worthy target) — but these two somewhat standalone paragraphs exploring the true nature of American free speech left me absolutely gobsmacked www.vulture.com/article/post...

a bitch averaged 1 page an hour all day and turned this bitch in

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