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Elana Levin

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Digital & narrative trainings @NewMediaMentors. Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️‍🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2d

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 2d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

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Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1h

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 5m

even tho Duff is FAMOUSLY from Seattle my DC-area native brain read that as people from DC and got really confused if there was someone from bad brains or something.

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That oOooOootter Sarah @simsarah.bsky.social · 39m

In case the actual serious reasons to be disgusted with the NYT aren't enough for you, Wirecutter posted this article and did not reference Sam Vimes ONCE:

Screenshot from NYT Wirecutter headlined "These Boots Have Lasted Me 12 Years. Unfortunately, They're $600" with a graphic of a pair of (presumably quite nice) boots.

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Qimir Thoughts @qimirthoughts.bsky.social · Jun 3

Creature designer:
“What should we call the backstabbing, greedy, treacherous, business leader of the Trade Federation?”

George Lucas:
“Something like Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan”

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1h

We really are a most malleable people

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly, if I were Jewish, I would think it very unfair that really, really hating non-white people ends up in Jew hatred, but also that really, really hating white people *also* ends up in Jew hatred.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1h

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1h

Love It!
The words “Dark Side of the Spoon” and “teach history” in close proximity to each other is very Al.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1h

In terms of ice spice clause, Ministry debuted in 83, so no. In terms of NK clause tho? Al is Cuban so… I am not qualified to say. But anyway I will have plenty of diverse artists to pass the NK clause so I decided not to think too hard on this. Enjoy his new disco version of Everyday is Halloween

Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween (Squirrely Version) [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Cleopatra Records

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2h

So good!

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2h

The lyrics to Cult of Suffering explain the damage Putin has done and how Trump replicates it. Given the fact that this year’s Bread and Puppet repeated Putinist propaganda that Ukraine deserved to be invaded, Ukrainian ex-pat rock star Eugene Hütz is someone my fellow leftists need to listen to.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2h

The song is a warning from former Soviet citizens to Americans who think Putin and Trump are a-ok. Ministry's 2024 album is incredibly good. Uncle Al Jourgensen's shouts his anger towards incels, proudboys & polluters. He literally has a feminist anthem too & it's all solid groovy industrial metal.

MINISTRY - B.D.E (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2h

Ministry - Cult of Suffering 2024 #TheTwen2ie5 D 10
"You never know how it's gonna strike
When for centuries your water been spiked
When you're livin' and dreamin' in a bigot's Klondike
Where nobody knows what protest even looks like"

@ministryband.bsky.social & Eugene Hütz give words of warning.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 4h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 3h

And @flamecon.bsky.social !

Chris Williams @gaffa.bsky.social · 7h

It is possible for everybody at a Con to mask.

As proof, I offer this shot of everybody at Combo Breaker 2023.

Wide angle shot of a very large crowd filling a convention center, the vast majority of whom are wearing masks or respirators.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 10h

If not, it takes courage to imagine yourself (a healthy capable person) transformed into someone incapacitated and not wearing a mask is maybe how you preserve admitting that everyone does eventually die and most of us will eventually to some extent be disabled.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 8h

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 8h

I just assumed that they always come in cans. The ocean is just full of little cans with keys that kind of swim around, but I guess not.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 8h

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 8h

Donald Trump and House Republicans gutted health care — and now families are paying the price. Hospitals are closing, premiums are skyrocketing, and care is harder to afford. I’m fighting to reverse these cuts and lower costs for Maryland families.

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Midlands LikeMinded @midlandslikeminded.bsky.social · 12h

Reporters aren’t asking these questions! Thank you caller from CO 👏

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 11h

Don't forget your ballot questions this year, New York!

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025

Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 10h

Here's an example of it.

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Facebook amplified Myanmar military propaganda following coup

A month after Myanmar’s military seized power, we found that Facebook’s page recommendation algorithm was amplifying content that violated its own policies

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 9h

Even Killing Machine? The guy who looks like Halford is a statue

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 9h

No, no the right is due to the fact that they hate Jews. But otherwise I agree with your post.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

This is really what it comes down to - every instrument of state power available to them cannot force people to hold a political opinion on the state of Israel that a growing share of Americans no longer hold. And that limit to their power is driving a share of people insane.

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