#1 gideon nav kinnie

it’s just extremely depressing how the mildest, most unobjectionable efforts to live sustainably are absolutely derided. you can maybe understand suspicion from the general public back in the day when environmentalism was strongly associated with chaining oneself to a tree or blowing up a pipeline. Now it’s like, tweet that says “reusable water bottles are a blatant display of white privilege and body fascism” (15000 likes)

Anti-suffrage postcard showing a group of suffragettes using umbrellas to beat up a policeman, printed inscription front: ‘Suffragists on the warpath. Jump ‘n him, He is only a mere man.’ (c. 1910).

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every news alert about a trump cabinet appointment feels like this

some people just don't understand that (in my head) in my head i do everything right (when you call) when you call i forgive and not fight (because ours) are the moments i play in the dark we were wild and fluorescent come home to my heart

lmaooooooo he changed his number and blurred out his house on google maps apparently… i don’t get why people think blurring out their house does anything, we can still come over for a visit nicholas

don’t you want us to visit you nicholas

LMAO

Nooo mutual don’t put that “men fall down the alt-right pipeline bc women/feminists are too mean” post on my dash nooo mutual don’t try to say women need to be nicer when dealing with misogynistic men nooo mutual nooo

he's only 26??? hate ages you so fast istg

This just make me realize, we should learn about hacking so we can dox these trashbags of men

I'll make a post later but open source information gathering is actually really fun and doesn't require compsci skills! Learning it also helped me protect my own personal info. I'm the go-to person whenever my friends are seeing someone new or have a weird coworker and want to see if he/she's got skeletons in the closet or is who he really says he is.

awwww nawww im gonna be late for work fuckin again

I just found the earliest email I ever sent from my email address, and it’s the funniest goddamn thing I can possibly imagine a fourth grader sending her teacher:

(Context - my fourth grade teacher was on maternity leave, and the state of the classroom fish tank was dire under the substitute teacher’s tyrannical rule. The class convened at recess, and decided to inform our (24yo, new mother) former teacher of the situation. I was selected as the duly appointed representative for this solemn communication.)

Further context: I am now a practicing attorney.

Devastating. RIP

i’m also seeing a lot of young women terrified and posting tiktoks asking which birth control option they could get/which is safest and lowest risk. as someone who has worked a clinical role in women’s healthcare, the answer is unequivocal. the risks of every single contraceptive on the market currently are nothing compared to the risks of the healthiest pregnancy.

the anti-contraceptive fear mongering has been a conservative project for years. i would know, i lived project 2025 in my childhood community before it was put to pen. there are legitimate reasons to advocate and legislate for better birth control options in a political climate where the only alternative is not forced pregnancy. we will lose birth control in the next four years and women need to prepare for that reality now. right now, when women ask you these questions, the answer is not to diminish the risk of birth control nor to dismiss the benefits but to state very clearly what all research on women’s health shows. the risk of every single contraceptive on the market currently does not compare to the gravity of risk in even the healthiest pregnancy.

EDIT: To avoid rampant misinformation, here’s the birth control quizlet i made when i worked at an abortion clinic. this information was verified by multiple doctors i worked with.

In response, many progressives blamed Democrats. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Democrats "abandoned working class people," claiming that is why Harris lost. It's a tempting fiction because it allows progressives to feel a measure of control over the situation. We all would love to believe making different choices will lead to better outcomes. But Sanders knows it's not true. He himself worked closely with Biden to improve labor organizing and reduce healthcare costs. He shared Biden's disappointment that the Build Back Better plan that would have done even more was killed off by centrists who have since left the party. He knows that Democrats would have done more, if not hobbled by Republicans who control the House. And he knows that, if people were voting on policy, they would vote for Democrats. Trump, after all, will actively dismantle existing policies people like.

The problem wasn't Democratic policy or messaging. It's ignorance. As Heather "Digby" Parton wrote at Salon Wednesday, people backed Trump's "aesthetics and attitudes" but knew nothing about his policies. Before the election, Catherine Rampell and Youyou Zhou at the Washington Post polled voters about policies without revealing which candidate proposed them. Harris' were far more popular — even Trump voters generally liked her ideas more, as long as they knew they weren't hers.

When voters have factual information about the candidates, they prefer Democrats. Polls from earlier this year show that people who consume news from journalistic outlets — newspapers, network news programs, and news websites — overwhelmingly planned to vote for the Democratic candidate. Newspaper readers clocked in at 70% Democratic support, and network news viewers were 55% Democratic. News website readers were only less so because the survey didn't distinguish between legitimate sites like Salon and bunk outlets like Breitbart, but still: merely being a person who reads stuff makes you more liberal. In states where heavy ad spending helped educate voters a little more on Harris' plans, she lost less ground than in places where that money wasn't spent.

The problem is most people simply do not absorb quality information. Instead, increasing numbers of Americans have a media diet that is mostly a bunch of lies, conspiracy theories, irrelevant diatribes and other such bunkum that right-wing propagandists use to deceive people. A study released by Pew Research in September showed people were exponentially more likely to get "news" from social media detritus than legitimate news outlets. And those results almost certainly downplay the ratio of nonsense-to-real news, since most people taking the poll won't want to admit that they mostly scroll TikTok all day and haven't read an actual article in eons. Looking at newspaper sales and news site traffic, we can see that the consumption of reality-based news is plummeting.

As Angelo Carusone of Media Matters told MSNBC, "We have a country that is pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage." Political organizers and pundits don't want to face that, because it is such a massive, hard-to-wrangle problem. So they critique Democratic "messaging" that no one hears. They try to figure out if there are rational reasons people worry about immigration or fail to notice improvements in the economy. But what has changed profoundly in our society — and also explains the shift worldwide — is the explosion of social media and the dramatic shift towards an all-propaganda media diet for so many people.

everything that soft mras are telling women to do to “deradicalize” men can be done more effectively and safely by male allies.