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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Word is Hoosier lawmakers are balking at convening a special session to cheat Indiana's maps and hand Trump up to two more congressional seats. So they are sending JD Vance back on Friday to try to bully them some more.

Anybody wanna come hang out with me on […]

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Black and white image of JD Vance speaking. With text:

Guess who's back?

Bossy Washington Outsiders who want to redraw our maps.

Tell Indiana lawmakers to stay focused on issues that matter to Hoosiers.

Rally (AGAIN)ST Redistring

Friday, Oct. 10, 12pm, Statehouse

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Word is Hoosier lawmakers are balking at convening a special session to cheat Indiana's maps and hand Trump up to two more congressional seats. So they are sending JD Vance back on Friday to try to bully them some more.

Anybody wanna come hang out with me on […]

[Original post on hoosier.social]

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I tried to watch the Bondi hearing but honestly watching her and Blackburn together just riffing on fascism has proved to be far too much for me

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

REDISTRICTING ACTION ALERT!

My friends at Common Cause of #indiana are hosting a virtual phone-bank to get out the word in opposition to Trump's redistricting power grab in Indiana. We need your help!

It's virtual, so you can make calls right from your home from anywhere, and slots are still […]

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

before this weekend I had never heard of "skeeter syndrome" and after being eaten alive at an outdoor wedding I'm getting an unfortunately personal primer

Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

One way to resist is to question people on any side of this fight who want you to presume the worst of your family, neighbors, coworkers, and community. Who want to increase your sense of isolation by drawing an ever growing circle for you to fill with enemies.

The only direction that leads is […]

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Rusty Ring @rustyring.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@thekitmalone

That's the most succinct yet complete definition of social media I've ever seen,

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

You know who hasn't ever been helpful in doing anything real? Namecalling sideliners who are more focused on identifying in-groups and out-groups than on accomplishing anything real.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Don't like that reality? Get used to losing.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

You know who has been useful to me in killing bathroom bills, fighting anti-immigrant legis, beating ID change bans, mobilizing against pro-life weirdos and anything else I've done that's worth a damn?

1. A small core of committed leftists who know how to organize real coalitions and understand […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 8d

In a 161-page ruling, Federal District Court Judge William Young finds that noncitizens in the US have the same First Amendment rights as citizens, and the State and DHS secretaries violated the law by arresting and deporting pro-Palestinian protesters […]

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Rhetorical division -- using language to separate the entire block of their opposition into specific identifies that they can turn on one another?

That's like the most standard fascist play and it's disheartening to see how many folks still fall for it.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Rhetorical division -- using language to separate the entire block of their opposition into specific identifies that they can turn on one another?

That's like the most standard fascist play and it's disheartening to see how many folks still fall for it.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Fascists love jargon because it allows them to decouple ideas from reality. To create situations in which a clearly unreasonable proposition suddenly flows easily from a rhetorical position.

If they decouple "liberal" and "fascist" and just make them sorta standins for "things we don't like" […]

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Weston 🎃 @mastodon.weston.lol · 4d

@thekitmalone I think CEO said something anti-trans by comparing that trans / anti trans argument on Bluesky to liking waffles vs pancakes.

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@weston actually it turns out that's as much as I was able to care about it 😅

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Will somebody tell me in like one toot what the big #bluesky controversy is? I estimate I'll be able to care about it for about 500 characters.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

"I was beaten by horse mounted cops to march across the bridge at Selma and all I got was a bunch of white queers with cartoon animal avatars calling me a fascist."

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@countablenewt I absolutely believe that much of that narrative is constructed, planted, and pushed by far right operatives.

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Sam Clemente @countablenewt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@thekitmalone the same people who, not 18 months ago, were fighting against “same side–ism” partaking in the same thing that got us in this mess

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

"I was beaten by horse mounted cops to march across the bridge at Selma and all I got was a bunch of white queers with cartoon animal avatars calling me a fascist."

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I'm much further left than is represented by the Democratic party but if you are telling me that someone like, say, John Lewis is even in the same category as, say, Stephen Miller, then fuck you. You are either a disinfo actor working for the enemy or you are stupid.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This thing online leftists do where they spend more time equating moderate liberals to fascists than they do talking about the actual fascists?

Yeah I'm suspicious of those people. They are either profoundly unserious or they are spies.

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Too many folks on my tl blindly resharing disinfo that's obviously designed to target liberals and leftists. Please check before you hit reshare - *particularly* if it looks like news that confirms your own presumptive narrative.

The ultimate purpose of disinfo is rarely obvious and even news […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Criticizing Linux on Mastodon is really the best way to make men type paragraphs, isn't it?

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