Jane Why
@janeseewhy.bsky.social
writer, translator, Californian in Germany
"Ask Berlin what fascism costs": No Kings rally outside the U.S. embassy #nokings #october18
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Ask Berlin what fascism costs": No Kings rally outside the U.S. embassy #nokings #october18
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Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Friendly Nazis Next Door
Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)
September 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)
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This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
etsc.eu
August 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
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I just can't help but note how incredibly intellectually disqualifying it is for anyone to have been in that room while Yarvin said that thing and not immediately either call him a wicked fool or walk out.
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.
It's amusing to observe Curtis Yarvin in this setting. He seems quite in love with the sound of his own voice. And most of his utterances are the sort of banalities you'd expect of a recent autodidact—wowed by the most superficial connections, and lacking deeper contextual knowledge.
August 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I just can't help but note how incredibly intellectually disqualifying it is for anyone to have been in that room while Yarvin said that thing and not immediately either call him a wicked fool or walk out.
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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The current crisis of the German constitutional court nominations process is based on the far right successfully selling the nomination of a very mainstream female law professor as an attack on the Basic Law and German society so that they can effective choose an alternative.
Für die schwarz-rote Koalition birgt die Neubesetzung der von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf geräumten Stelle große Risiken. 1/7
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The current crisis of the German constitutional court nominations process is based on the far right successfully selling the nomination of a very mainstream female law professor as an attack on the Basic Law and German society so that they can effective choose an alternative.
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The politics of authoritarianism are binary in a way that is foreign to so many American institutions. You either fight back or they destroy you, and the search for some third way that exchanges compromises for security is folly.
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April 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The politics of authoritarianism are binary in a way that is foreign to so many American institutions. You either fight back or they destroy you, and the search for some third way that exchanges compromises for security is folly.
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The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
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.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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There used to be a general consensus around “sticking it to the man” and now an entire side of the political spectrum loves the man and will do anything for the man and gets their feelings very hurt if the man has to pay taxes.
March 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
There used to be a general consensus around “sticking it to the man” and now an entire side of the political spectrum loves the man and will do anything for the man and gets their feelings very hurt if the man has to pay taxes.
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Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs
Trump: "The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, that's the purpose of it. And they've done a good job of it. But now I'm president."
February 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs
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What makes the current crop of rich people in this country so intolerable is that they could easily bail this institute out–and who doesn't like dinosaurs–and gain some popularity. But they are so greedy, they just won't help anyone but themselves.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
What makes the current crop of rich people in this country so intolerable is that they could easily bail this institute out–and who doesn't like dinosaurs–and gain some popularity. But they are so greedy, they just won't help anyone but themselves.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
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fascism is the kicking in of a rotted door, and the dem party has been committed for the last 15 years to insisting that the door we can all see is rotten and falling off the hinges is actually fine and good and maybe the best door in the world
The situation we are in right now is that the forces of the right are nearly the only ones willing to point out institutional failures. That they're lying about the reasons and won't fix it doesn't really matter. They are willing to call broken things broken, and that's enough.
February 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
fascism is the kicking in of a rotted door, and the dem party has been committed for the last 15 years to insisting that the door we can all see is rotten and falling off the hinges is actually fine and good and maybe the best door in the world
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chris rufo: is harvard doing an antisemitism?
new york times: WE WILL TALK ABOUT NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT
elon musk: sieg heil! also, all my tween nazis run your government agencies now
new york times: boring tussles about bureaucracy are underway
new york times: WE WILL TALK ABOUT NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT
elon musk: sieg heil! also, all my tween nazis run your government agencies now
new york times: boring tussles about bureaucracy are underway
February 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
chris rufo: is harvard doing an antisemitism?
new york times: WE WILL TALK ABOUT NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT
elon musk: sieg heil! also, all my tween nazis run your government agencies now
new york times: boring tussles about bureaucracy are underway
new york times: WE WILL TALK ABOUT NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT
elon musk: sieg heil! also, all my tween nazis run your government agencies now
new york times: boring tussles about bureaucracy are underway
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i've come to think that "musk tries to take away medicare" is going to be the iron test for who is in charge here. i guess we may get to find out
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
i've come to think that "musk tries to take away medicare" is going to be the iron test for who is in charge here. i guess we may get to find out
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Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.
I’m in Oversight Committee right now. Ranking Member Connolly just called for a vote to subpoena Elon Musk. Republicans out-number us on this committee, but many aren’t in the room. We’ll see who wins this vote. We deserve transparency and answers.
February 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.
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Dante described a special place in hell for NYT headline writers, where they experience burning pain but there are no devils, no agents of torment, just weird ‘undercurrents’ like bad smells. Who is torturing them? No one in particular
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Dante described a special place in hell for NYT headline writers, where they experience burning pain but there are no devils, no agents of torment, just weird ‘undercurrents’ like bad smells. Who is torturing them? No one in particular
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“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.”
Send him to the fucking Hague
Send him to the fucking Hague
February 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.”
Send him to the fucking Hague
Send him to the fucking Hague
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In his takeover of the U.S. government, Elon Musk has prioritized going after programs most despised by Putin. (He has also taken down the USAID website so that you cannot read its reports.)
February 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In his takeover of the U.S. government, Elon Musk has prioritized going after programs most despised by Putin. (He has also taken down the USAID website so that you cannot read its reports.)
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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
February 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
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boys really — adult brain development doesn’t happen until age 25, particularly in males
so much of the appeal of edgelords, incel culture, and other extremism is more about susceptibility to cognitive and emotional hijacking
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
so much of the appeal of edgelords, incel culture, and other extremism is more about susceptibility to cognitive and emotional hijacking
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
February 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
boys really — adult brain development doesn’t happen until age 25, particularly in males
so much of the appeal of edgelords, incel culture, and other extremism is more about susceptibility to cognitive and emotional hijacking
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
so much of the appeal of edgelords, incel culture, and other extremism is more about susceptibility to cognitive and emotional hijacking
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Sorry but saying what people's manners toward Trump voters should or shouldn't be on the far side of this is basically a comforting fantasy about having magically gotten to the far side of this
February 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Sorry but saying what people's manners toward Trump voters should or shouldn't be on the far side of this is basically a comforting fantasy about having magically gotten to the far side of this