For example, I texted this news to my mom, including how scared it makes me feel, how concerned I am about my own neighbors, how angry and sad I am for my future kids. Sheisn't going to listen to me shouting at her about what's happening if she has no emotional touchstone for why she should care.

I am directly texting family members who are in the bubble but still not in the cult. We have to be willing to have difficult, one on one conversations with folks in good faith (when possible), presenting them with emotional, personal testimony and THEN backing it up with evidence.

And making the gun part of the headline makes it the story.

From my understanding there was a gun in his car, not on his person. Obviously details still coming out. There’s just almost zero chance that in the moment when they decided to beat and kill him a gun had anything to do with it.

what does his gun ownership have to do with anything? there's a video of him clearly holding a phone recording the agents - not a fucking gun.

Alyssa IS already famous and a comeback story, she deserves the attention, but Amber is the reigning champ and very significant representation and the press are like, barely mentioning her

Opened my hotel window when I stayed there a few years ago and had a seagull pretty immediately fly inside and squak at me and my grandma.

I see a lot of AI edits of non-AI content (one of Hasan’s most popular clip channels is AI), and occasionally will engage, but the purely generative stuff is so off putting. Anecdotally I’ve noticed a lot of friends who used to be extremely online log off. But it’s hard to tell if it’s a trend.

why are we playing ball with fascists?

I can only speak to anecdotal and personal evidence, but i think these kinds of figures absolutely move peoples' opinons. it 100% happened on the right last election and it's happening on the left now. especially re: palestine, i think hasan has had a huge impact on moving very online libs left

that song was such a snooze for me last year but it's become easily one of my favorite songs in her entire discography

You would be talking to me

i love that these dudes' idea of "saying whatever the fuck you want" is only about insulting marginalized people and never about anything that matters

(thank you) (not a nepo) (just a transplant)

(.... what are we supposed to call it?)

and what about the hostile takeover of the government by a Nazi billionaire?