Deb W.

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

And you must constantly decimate it. High-maintenance system.

I feel more and more sure that the fight for a better world is won or lost in the fight to define prestige. Hierarchy is here to stay; the job is to constantly decimate it and then ensure that, whatever inevitably survives, it exalts YOUR values.

A dude trying to grab your wrists on the street is a kidnapper and you should react accordingly. Assume zero legitimacy. That is all.

Saw a meme about sin(pi) = 0 and panicked that I'd forgotten why this was and stared into space for like 40 seconds until I remembered the unit circle

Columbia University expels some students who seized building last year, suspends others Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some studen...

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Like e.g. Columbia University. Columbia is going to be the first to demonstrate that absolutely nothing is going to save you from whatever is being threatened. Your choices are to give them more and get hurt the same or give them nothing and get hurt the same.

Thinking about how strategically insisting on your powerlessness is critical to thwarting evil people with evil designs on you, whether that's law enforcement or your abusive partner. Getting you to believe that you have control over something you don't is how they get what they want out of you.

In-person class took one hour and I got a CAT tourniquet out of it.

Something you can do: find and sign up for a Stop the Bleed course. First-aid is community defense.

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I think this might impute too much efficacy to DEI policies in general and too little weight to the fact that, as commander-in-chief, POTUS could always get the most arbitrary with military firings while claiming the most legitimacy for it. But it sure is what I wish DEI policies protected against.

Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in major Pentagon shake-up The US president fires CQ Brown without providing a reason and also announced replacement of five top officers.

So that happened.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

All the buzz finally got me to watch that halftime show and damn.

1) I am too culturally uneducated to fully appreciate it, but that was fantastic.

2) Lamar's little SMIRKS. His GRINS. I think I just witnessed the king of trolls omg I'll never recover.

2) these medical terms can and do lend legitimacy to ideas, habits of thought, and habits of body that are anti-hegemonic and non-conformist. They are being targeted by the openly violent white supremacist party for a reason.

1) I don't deny the reality of clusters of what our society calls "symptoms" and 2/

My thoughts on the recent currency of autism and ADHD discourse are as mixed as the political interests that can and have appropriated that discourse. I have a lot critical to say about it, but 1/

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Four things they will try to do with this:

1) Ban vaccines
2) Pathologize gender nonconformity
3) Pathologize cultural nonconformity
4) Kidnap children from their families

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This is important

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

Oligarchs & Patriarchs A unified theory of at least two things

I tried to draw a line between the push towards AI, the rightward turn of Silicon Valley tech lords, and the quest for "masculine energy" over their feminized workforces

Their pipeline is full of young men who are about feelings and not principle, so any and all footage that comes out of these little trespasses should be maximally humiliating.

The number of white supremacists willing to cross state lines in a U-haul is a tiny percentage of their recruitment pool. Plenty of Americans support them; few have the nerve to actually do a terrorism without mainlining some inspiring victorious footage.

After comparing notes with friends I think the Lincoln Heights (Cincinnati) routing of the Nazis was immaculate counter-propaganda and it is crucial that these fuckers be denied recruitment footage wherever they go.

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
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Today's to-do: install Signal on your phone. Right now, takes five minutes max.

The Dems are masochists in denial that none of this is roleplay.

Remember when people were suggesting that Biden order the deletion of all student loan debt held by the Department of Education and libs were like “you’re so naive, they can’t just delete this stuff”

"...we have at least freed ourselves..." the self-absorbed white Christianity is exhausting.

"Black Message/White Envelope: Genre, Authenticity, and Authority in the Antebellum Slave Narrative" Sekora 1987