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Lisa Rokusek
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Yep that’s my starting link! Any others are appreciated too.
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Lisa Rokusek@lisarokusek.bsky.social |
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tired but trying systemic to my core agitator dissident - in the havel sense disintegrating - i hope positively developer-friendly magical queer mostly benevolent pushing the rock of persuasion I'm in STL. We make it harder here.
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Lisa Rokusek
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Yep that’s my starting link! Any others are appreciated too.
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Lisa Rokusek
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What is a good resource for people just waking up to the prevalence of extremist/hate/supremacy language and symbolism in American culture? Anything any of you might recommend?
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Convolver
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Just to be clear, this is Silicon Valley VC bro/Musk acolyte David Sacks coming down on the side of the Le Pen family, whose patriarch called Nazi gas chambers a "minor detail" of history and whose ex-wife alleged he nicknamed Hitler "Uncle Dolfie" while snarling "The Jews are invading France."
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gossip göre
@britneyspheres.bsky.social
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poland, too
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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It’s such a tell that one candidate is allowed to be old with his brains leaking out while the other is subjected to a weeks long whisper campaign to knee cap him out of the race because of a bad debate performance. Almost like there’s no principle at work beyond attacking Democrats.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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I was agreeing with him.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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One can't fight Trump effectively by ignoring the realities of the media landscape shaping the current narratives.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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our political nerd class spent too much time learning how to do regressions and not nearly enough time learning about postmodernism www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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Oh look. Expertise based on analysis and reality.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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Narratives are how we move through the world. Watching those narratives get built and amplified is pretty terrifying right now.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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I can’t get this out of my head.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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We have always been our greatest security risk
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Matthew Walther is the gender-neutral Phyllis Schlafly
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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The NYT running a conservative Catholic freak proud of not voting on July 4 is not a big old statement or anything, right?
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Lisa Rokusek
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Right? It is a fucking epidemic of disappointment. The ones who have not hopped on fascism express are a small treasured group.
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Faine Greenwood
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.
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Lisa Rokusek
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And if the NYT (or anyone else) seems to be carrying water for the Heritage Foundation perhaps develop a little self-awareness before parroting their positions.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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Adam Serwer. :(
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Lisa Rokusek
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Hey, listen the hell up.
"We make something more likely, more widely believed, by saying and repeating it. Our rhetoric encourages or discourages. Which is why sports teams chant a version of “I believe we will win.”
lithub.com/word-are-dee...
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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crazymaking. rage inducing. just woof.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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Look, I'm just saying, after reading the way the mainstream press has "covered" the debate these past two weeks I am really not surprised that a financial reporter got scammed out of $50,000.
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Lisa Rokusek
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I just spent an alarming amount of time remembering the word pluralistic. Brain so tired, folks.
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Sarah Walsh
@bigdamnherossir.bsky.social
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The big one is to keep Trump out of office. After that is a little things- local elections, participating in city council meetings, being a visible, vocal pain in the ass opposition to the freaks in the GOP. We're fighting a hydra. There's no one easy trick, alas, and it will not be fixed in one day
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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to clarify: life under authoritarians is often boring and normal for many people until it all of a sudden isn’t, and of course it’s that uncertainty that causes the corrosion.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.
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Seth Cotlar
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You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.
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Jesse Berney
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Think about all the actually interesting and important op-eds the NYT rejects every day so it has the room to print this.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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Yay team! Let’s implement this with more and more stuff REALLY REALLY FAST!
www.the74million.org/article/whis...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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me on friday: “none of the strongest candidates are going to participate in a brokered convention”
the pundit class: “of course they will”
the candidates:
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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Ugh just seeing that face made my brain shrivel in a protective reflex.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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Again and again, the conservative movement organizes itself around hating queer people, and because they’re loud and aggressive and violent the respectable and genteel liberal queer groups have no idea what to do, so a bigoted fringe manages to box us out of space after space.
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Bradford Vivian
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I think this is a good microcosm of why many political journalists + pundits resent professors.
Academics are trained to make evidence-based arguments while identifying speculation and mere opinion—the main currency of much political journalism now—as immaterial.
x.com/therickydavi...
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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I will just reiterate if America falls to fascism the world burns. No where will be safe from what will come to pass. The most beautiful places and species you can think of will be reduced to memories and ash under the feet of billionaire fascists and their cadre of sycophants.
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Lisa Rokusek
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Of course, climate change is as political as any other issue. It’s just one more way our institutions fail us and we fail each other. But what a lovely way for you to think of me! We should meet up sometime. The book looks greats thanks for the recommendation!
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Lisa Rokusek
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I truly think the antidote to the rising horrors of our now is to over emphasize the value of all that is human-just go all in. We become better humans by insisting every single person has worth, should be treated with dignity, and deserves to exist. If we do that everyone else is better off too.
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Faine Greenwood
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I strongly believe that the Trump era ushered in a truly horrific era of general ethical backsliding and nihilism in the US across all fronts, one that we still can’t even entirely wrap our brains around. (And Trump’s grotesquely evil approach to Covid made it even worse).
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Paul Duane
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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.
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Paul Crider
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Radicalism becomes pragmatic in moments when institutions are tearing apart under strain. It didn't start this way, but my work in progress on Douglass is becoming a case for normies to see the stark necessity of radical action.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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yep. whew.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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Oh yeah. Gonna be a very rough ride.
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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I'm so sorry. This is so awful.
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Lisa Rokusek
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Today is A LOT.
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Lisa Rokusek
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We have to see reality clearly in order to imagine a path to better. We have to be brave enough to do both.
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Lisa Rokusek
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Today's SCOTUS is A WHOLE LOT. Drink extra water. Breathe out longer than you breathe in. Find your footing. Set your intention. Build community in your locality. Develop the capacity to be preset with awfulness without collapsing or denying.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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more building community support networks right now, less hoping lawyers will sort it out someday
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Do you all see what I mean when I say we're under attack yet
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Lisa Rokusek
@lisarokusek.bsky.social
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"...It's not about building perfect futures; it's about preventing terrible pasts. I think that is something that Europeans in the second half of the 20th century knew in their bones and Americans never did, and it's one of the big differences between the two Western cultures. ---Tony Judt
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