Stay at home trad dad. Degenerate Bibliophile. Historian and all that.
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Collecting art made in response to Operation Metro Surge, the Rebel Loon Archive is making a record of the recent past. mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/…
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It’s spooky season so it’s time to help people with the scariest thing of all… cops pulling folks over for garbage reasons. 🙀
Come out to the Brake Light Clinic - be fixing community members’ head and tail lights free of charge. No experience needed!
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DHS raiding a member of congress's home to search for immigration paperwork filled out decades ago by her now-deceased father really checks all the fascist police state boxes.
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Livestreaming an execution to a nation is vile and shameful. It perverts our justice, turning it into spectacle. Even death is mere digital entertainment streaming in our feeds. God help us.
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Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch.
They're proposing to broadcast a man being shot to death, even if deserved by our system, and even if you agree with this version of the death penalty, knowing that the footage will be clipped, shared, and pushed into social media feeds.
Including those of our children. The gruesome image will be everywhere.
Parents will have virtually no control over whether their kids see it. Once those images are released, there is no taking them back.
Hope all the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that.
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NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”
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The moral injury being done to our nation, celebrated by the howling of those already deformed by their habituated hatred now celebrating this: it’s not something I thought would happen to America. But I was wrong. I should have guessed. This is grotesque. We may in fact be lost.
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said.
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
Seth Torpin retweeted
The same guy who wants to sell off your public lands—Senator Mike Lee—wants to gut the Wilderness Act to allow DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across the entire National Wilderness Preservation System.
ACT NOW!
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In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
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The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.
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"The Great Irish Famine skilfully unpicks the contested histories of the tragic years 1845–49, years which have shaped Irish and diasporic nationalisms as well as British ‘forgettings’, and which live on in collective myths and memories."
—Catherine Hall
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