Lindsey Decker

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general.

The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals.

John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

Movie poster for Machine Gun Kelly (Corman, 1958)

First movie up for Noirvember: Machine Gun Kelly (Corman, 1958). My first Roger Corman film and like the third or fourth Bronson I've seen this year, after having never seen any of his films. This one has some surprising character work that kept me interested and a couple of quite good lines.

Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90 Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

“I hope that in the not too distant future, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will react to this moment with horror, rather than denial, and want to know more. They’ll want to know what you were doing. What will you tell them?”

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her.

For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.

Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

It's a great day to establish a monthly donation to Wikipedia. Even a small amount helps!

I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.

Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women."

But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.

"We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count."

you probably haven’t seen CONFESS, FLETCH but you definitely should, and also there should be at least 3 more of these

Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

New Academic Year SALE! 70% Discount Code: AC25 Offer ends: 31 October

The new academic term is well underway! But why not add some more books to your reading list…?

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This book explores how zombie stories, movies, and TV shows help us understand modern problems like Covid-19, political conflicts and social issues. Bringing together different experts, it demonstrates how zombies remain powerful symbols for discussing society’s biggest challenges.

Out now!

'Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics', edited by Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin, and Linda Flores Ohlson examines how the undead reflect and contribute to contemporary social anxieties

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I agree we need a big coalition. So if transphobes want to fight fascism, I'd say they need to recognize that antifascism is going to need a big tent, so they're going to have to stop issuing political purity test and let trans people live their lives. We can't afford to shrink the tent for them.

It definitely takes practice! I just tanked it out for awhile but eventually figured it out.

It's so good! The rhythm and pattern-based combat is pretty fun, the imagery is gorgeous, and the story is really moving. Great voice and mo-cap acting too!

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: September 2025: Atrocities 417-466 Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

ICYMI: We've updated our list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes to include September, which was another doozy of a month in the artrocity space. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Yikes! What a creep! Good on you for getting out of there. I only dated one person who was that fucked up while we were together, but I feel like I have several stories about guys I'd recently broken up with who would be in good company with that warlock. 😬

Premiere of Cat People in 1942 at the Rialto Theatre in Manhattan.

The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence. What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.

Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Once you notice that they never mention the first-order content that is either allegedly censored or students must be compelled to listen to, but only talk about second-order ‘controversial’ or ‘upsetting’ speech, you can’t unsee it. Is it ISIS propaganda or instructions on how to build a car bomb?

NY’s highest court upholds Even Year Election Law that Onondaga County fought County Executive Ryan McMahon led efforts to fight the law.

“Now more people will choose their representatives,’’ Czarny said. “And however that turns out, whoever they choose, it’s better for democracy.”

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/10...

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

YouTube video by Hank Green I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social: