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helena hind

@cynicalzoomer.bsky.social

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researcher at media matters, oklahoma poster | the brain poison is all-consuming, help | opinions are my own

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · Nov 18

welcome new followers! i write things for media matters dot org and post ridiculous fox news clips www.mediamatters.org/author/helen...

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 5h

all i want is for laura ingraham to listen to an ayesha erotica song bc i'm pretty sure she'd crash out in a spectacular and entertaining fashion

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

let's fucking goooooooo!!!

Screenshot of fox news' "the ingraham angle" shows laura ingraham speaking with great concern next to a graphic with marijuana leaves captioned "consequences of cannabis"

Chyron: "PUSHING POT IS DANGEROUS"

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

jesse watters we know what you are

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

do yall think jesse knows about mpreg

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a clip of Jesse Watters repeatedly asking Jessica Tarlov to impregnate him

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

Jesse: AOC wants to sleep with Stephen Miller. It is so obvious.

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 2d

A FB friend of mine posted this about her aunt. I shared her quote here, there was more to her quote but I didn’t have room to fit it all in. It is now being reported by the media too. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: We compiled some of Jesse Watters' most inflammatory takes — including claims that Dems are "at war" and that their “strategy” is “using bullets to bully us into political submission." Meanwhile, right-wing leaders demand the left tone down their rhetoric.

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Jesse Watters' history of inflammatory and dehumanizing remarks

Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or “mayb...

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 1d

I hate how much this has spread on social media. It even got 22k upvotes on r/journalism before mods removed it. No need to make up fake Fox screenshots when the real ones are just as ridiculous!!

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

Dear friends and internet users, the first two images in this show actual segments that really did appear on Jesse Watters Primetime.

The third image is a joke.

Someone photoshopped the exposed face of the likely fake "antifa" person onto this stock image of a ISIS-affiliated militant.

source: https://wamu.org/story/16/03/10/thousands_of_isis_documents_apparently_leaked_to_british_media/

"Here, an image of a suicide bomber that was taken from a militant website associated with Islamic State last year."

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

Oh you're def right about women being relegated to status symbols. I think both things are true at the same time. Either way, feminism and empathy are the antidotes.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

I often think about how different society would be if we centered platonic relationships instead of romantic ones. Maybe this is my youth and naivete talking, but my relationships with my friends have given me more stability than any romantic relationship. What if we all prioritized them?

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that this rhetoric is being spread on a wellness podcast is especially disconcerting to me, because you can't be truly healthy without emotional wellness. And then the manosphere/health gurus shit all over friendship by saying you're "building nothing" if you're single. Fuck outta here.

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

"Who are you gonna come and talk to about your victories, about your challenges, about your issues?"

These men are setting themselves up for failure by expecting women to be the sole fulfillers of their emotional needs. Y'all are lonely bc you aren't telling the bros you love them!! It's not gay!!

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

This clip is from the April 1, 2025 edition of Gary Brecka's podcast btw.

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 2d

Patrick Bet-David claims that being a single man is a "bigger risk" than being in an unhappy marriage b/c "you're building nothing." Manosphere podcasters blame women/progressives for male loneliness, but they're doing it to themselves by tacitly devaluing platonic friendship and community.

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 5d

i should be at the club

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 5d

the unique hell of living in a trendy neighborhood with monthly block parties and having indie bands doing their prolonged sound checks literally right outside your window

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 5d

illuminating read chicagocrusader.com/lynching-by-...

Lynching by Suicide: The Rebranded Face of America’s Racial Violence

Once carried out in the open by bestial white mobs, activists say lynching of Black Americans has been rebranded in modern America as rulings of suicide,

chicagocrusader.com

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 5d

enjoying watching the stan wars this time around 🍿🤭

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 6d

update: the feds have been thwarted

helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 6d

heartbroken to announce that the okc showing of @theonion.com's acclaimed documentary "JEFFREY EPSTEIN: BAD PEDOPHILE" has been hijacked by the feds (theater is having technical difficulties)

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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 6d

disgusting and heartbreaking. where's the jimmy kimmel energy for mario guevara from the dems??
www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

'Unconstitutional, Un-American, and Wrong': Journalist Mario Guevara to Be Deported to El Salvador Friday | Common Dreams

"Mario's treatment should terrify any person in this country that cares about a free press," said an ACLU attorney.

www.commondreams.org

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