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Three posters sit on a brown desk. On top is an ecru poster with an illustration of a grocery cart and an endless receipt marked up with red ink. At the top is the campaign logo and at the bottom in large letters reads: “WHAT IF WE TAXED GREED INSTEAD OF GROCERIES? Vote for the candidate that asks the right questions. PRIMARY ELECTION DAY MARCH 17 2026” Below are two yellow posters partially obscured. Both say “WARNING” at the top with red circles. The visible circle has a picture of an ICE agent with red eyes and a red line through it.

campaign poster sneak peek 👀

@sagantohitchens.bsky.soc… Right but you fail to understand the entire conservative base of America. They recoiled at the thought of prisoners getting sex changes while they couldn't afford a trip to the dentist. Wise the fuck up.

“Wise the fuck up” sneers person who fails to understand that winning elections against conservatives does not involve appealing to the conservative base.

Wait, so just to understand— are you saying the guardian has self-censored here?

That’s what I had thought, too.

The frightening part of this Farage adviser story is that this creepy irredentism for lands that were stolen in the first place, for colonialism, is part of the same exceptionalism, imperial nostalgia, and ignorance that drove Brexit but is a force in Westminster today.

Mr Anderton is 23

i've said it before but a genuine problem for the future is the fact that the NatCon and further right nonsense are basically what entire generation of rightist youth have as their frame of reference

I had no idea about this.

I have perfected the art of being a bitch to ignorant people on Facebook.

I present to you the party that defunds education. 🫣

When my uncle was a kid his second grade teacher put a glass jar on his left hand to "correct" his left handedness. He smashed the jar into a million pieces on the floor and was transferred to a different class. I just like to share this story sometimes.

Sorry, what’s the issue with her?

She’s from County Mayo, lads. They’re proscribed in the UK. The Republic of Ireland remains an independent country with a different legal system

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The debate about asylum seekers in the UK, a country that has a totally insignificant number of asylum seekers, shows that you do not need actual asylum seekers to have people angry at asylum seekers.

It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

... "what did mom do to piss him off this time?" You empowered workers too much, pushed a little too hard for racial & gender equality, even though you *knew* it would make him mad, and now look. You only have yourself to blame.

Anyway, if you're familiar with the dynamic, it is impossible not to notice the way it is playing out on the national stage, with Republicans the daddy party and Democrats the mommy party. Daddy's raging, destroying, lashing out, & most political analysis amounts to ...

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is."

It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.

Queer Materialism “Queer materialism” is a recently developed concept that arose in the wake of several fundamental changes brought about by poststructuralist cultural theory: one was a re-understanding of materialism...

Would anyone be able to get me access to this article (and possibly a few others..? 😳) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So apparently you’re not actually allowed to build this coaster. Would have been nice to know before we started all the paperwork.

Ride update: The Tilt-A-Whirl is now the Whirl-A-Tilt. It did that by itself. We’re looking into it.

Interns are not allowed to “test” the portal again without supervisor approval. Last time we lost a Tuesday.

Just realised I forgot to actually *mention* my neurodivergence and brain fog — I skipped straight to why the form is apt. My god 🤦🏻‍♀️

A card showing a cartoon image of Franklin Pierce as the 14th president (1853-1857) that reads: "Franklin Pierce was a Northerner, with warm feelings for the South. He thought the slavery question had been settled, but passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act thew these two states open to slavery and brought violence and bloodhed. The dispute grew more intense than ever.

A flashcard showing a cartoon image of Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-1853) that reads: "When Millard Fillmore took office, the heated feelings over the slavery question were coming to a boil. Although against slavery, he signed into law the Compromise ACt of 1850 with its harsh clause against slaves who tried to escape. His policies, however, pleased neither the North nor the South.

A flashcard with a cartoon image of James Buchanan, 15th president (1875-1861) that reads, James Buchanan thought that slavery was wrong, but believed it could not be abolished if the Union was to be held together. He tried hard for a peaceful settlement between North and South, but failed. After the election of Lincoln, but before the end of Buchanan's term, seven southern states seceded.

A flashcard with a cartoon image of Lincoln, 16th president (1861-1865) that reads, Four years of war between the states started less than six weeks after Lincoln took office. His magnificent faith and courage in the face of almost unbelievable difficulties preserved the Union. HIs plans to heal the wounds of conflict ended with his tragic death.

Looks like in 1962, companies making flash cards for children were so woke, they thought that the Civil War was about slavery.

27 million tourists voluntarily visit Washington DC annually. Must be a real hell hole.

This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact

A word on form. My use, throughout this introduction, of meandering, paragraph-length, sentences comprising dozens of clauses that branch out into different directions is in keeping with the collection's broader effort to convey the field's non-linear, a-chronological, and fundamentally heterogenous development, which the recent spate of waste studies anthologies, companions, and readers focused specifically on environmental waste, and on scholarship solely within the social sciences, risks erasing. But just as importantly, this style is intended to model at the level of form the kind of constellatory, pluralist, thinking that waste as a subject invites, and that the imperatives of the neoliberal university and the very concept of disciplinarity all too often foreclose. One premised, like the Ellmann passage at the start of this introduction, on attending to a multiplicity of perspectives and interpretations at once, and that cleaves closer to the epistemology of refusal articulated in crip studies scholarship on neurodivergent writing than the linearity of conventional academic writing. To rework Emma Shephard's appropriation, in her articulation of writing through brain fog, of Therí Pickens' account of "cranky inquiry," we might say that at its best, waste studies "pushes against the possibility of cohesion" by "ask|ing] readers to deliberately consider the places" where cohesion isn't possible, and to dwell on the ethical ramifications of this. By extension, the logic of this relates to this relates to this in what follows is intended to encourage the reader to see the discussions at hand as part of a much larger tapestry, and to seek out those other threads for themselves.

Shoutout to @emmas.bsky.social’s fabulous essay “Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy,” which is helping me think through my own process of writing through brain fog, why waste studies needs to remain grounded in the social, &why LITERARY waste matters (@rcolesworthy.bsky.social it’s happening!)