Lydia Wilkes
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Feed the people.
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Feed the people.
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This is brutal.
This is such a good piece, and the AI part is particularly troubling. Wrote about a more specific example, but especially looking more broadly, it's hard not to read this article and not worry about the easy opportunities for abuse ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
AI Victim Impact Statements Are Here, and They Are Just as Disastrous as You’d Expect
Victim impact statements already lead to harsher sentences for criminal defendants. The use of AI will only make things worse.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is brutal.
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And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
October 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
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In the literature, we call rallies like this "image events" because they help **focus media attention** on a major strain of ideological resistance that is big enough for lots of people to feel comfortable. They create IMAGES that FOCUS our ATTENTION and AFFECT to mobilize frequently.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In the literature, we call rallies like this "image events" because they help **focus media attention** on a major strain of ideological resistance that is big enough for lots of people to feel comfortable. They create IMAGES that FOCUS our ATTENTION and AFFECT to mobilize frequently.
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The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Happy indigenous peoples day please bring your attention to west coast alaska, there is a typhoon that has wiped away homes alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
#indigenouspeoplesday #alaska #aide
#indigenouspeoplesday #alaska #aide
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy indigenous peoples day please bring your attention to west coast alaska, there is a typhoon that has wiped away homes alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
#indigenouspeoplesday #alaska #aide
#indigenouspeoplesday #alaska #aide
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Sesame Street honors Indigenous Peoples Day as Zach McClarnon discusses his family culture and traditions.
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sesame Street honors Indigenous Peoples Day as Zach McClarnon discusses his family culture and traditions.
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Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.
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I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
www.mediaite.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.
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NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
September 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
I don’t live near a Sinclair station I can catalog ads on to contact advertisers about my boycotting of them. Anyone know who’s advertising on the Birmingham, AL, station that isn’t carrying Kimmel? That’s the closest one to me.
Latest numbers for Kimmel, incredible!🤩
YouTube monologue has been viewed 11 million times while I was having breakfast today, more than double with 25 now and still rising...💪
Also boycotting all advertisers of Sinclair and Nexstar is a great idea, check that out! #JimmyKimmel #Sinclair #Nexstar
YouTube monologue has been viewed 11 million times while I was having breakfast today, more than double with 25 now and still rising...💪
Also boycotting all advertisers of Sinclair and Nexstar is a great idea, check that out! #JimmyKimmel #Sinclair #Nexstar
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I don’t live near a Sinclair station I can catalog ads on to contact advertisers about my boycotting of them. Anyone know who’s advertising on the Birmingham, AL, station that isn’t carrying Kimmel? That’s the closest one to me.
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First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
August 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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The deportations are about to turn into detentions.
There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…
There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…
July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The deportations are about to turn into detentions.
There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…
There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…
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NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...
www.propublica.org
July 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
Some good news amid all the bad.
This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday.
It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever.
I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.
It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever.
I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.
July 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Some good news amid all the bad.
Yet another Nazi tactic: call your enemies vermin, then call for their extermination. Build concentration camps to exterminate them. 100% what the Nazis did.
Sen. Ashley Moody cheerleads the political persecutions of Comey and Brennan and says, "this is not retribution. This is fumigation. You have had radicals roaming in these institutions like termites."
July 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Yet another Nazi tactic: call your enemies vermin, then call for their extermination. Build concentration camps to exterminate them. 100% what the Nazis did.
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Disgusting:
Sen. Ashley Moody cheerleads the political persecutions of Comey and Brennan and says, "this is not retribution. This is fumigation. You have had radicals roaming in these institutions like termites."
July 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Disgusting:
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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April 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Lots of speculation about why this catastrophic tariff plan is being enacted. I think it's just motivated by contempt (for immigrants, poor people, experts, etc.). Contempt is a sticky political feeling and its hard to dislodge. But it's *the* motivating political feeling of the administration.
April 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Lots of speculation about why this catastrophic tariff plan is being enacted. I think it's just motivated by contempt (for immigrants, poor people, experts, etc.). Contempt is a sticky political feeling and its hard to dislodge. But it's *the* motivating political feeling of the administration.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, so now you’d like friends and allies after starting nonsensical trade wars? Send nothing, Europe. Please.
Oh, so now you’d like friends and allies after starting nonsensical trade wars? Send nothing, Europe. Please.
How many eggs can you send? U.S. asks countries to help lower soaring prices
The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country's egg association said on Friday.
www.reuters.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, so now you’d like friends and allies after starting nonsensical trade wars? Send nothing, Europe. Please.
Oh, so now you’d like friends and allies after starting nonsensical trade wars? Send nothing, Europe. Please.