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Chris Dashiell

@cdashiell.bsky.social
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Essayist, film critic, philosopher

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 3h
This isn’t just about Trump. The entire Republican Party is on board with Trump‘s attempt to destroy American democracy. When Trump is gone, that’s not going to be the end of the problem. We’ll still have to deal with the fact that one of our two major political parties is lost to treason. 
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2h
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 2m
Not loved at all. Probably abused. Of course that’s no excuse, but….
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Tengrain @tengrain.bsky.social · 1h
Ignoring A Problem Doesn’t Solve A Problem The Days of the Year website reminds us that today is also World Homeless Day, and I would like to take a moment to reflect upon that. Being homeless is not a crime, it is a condition. And trust me, Seattle has this condition. I was in a throng downtown…
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Ignoring A Problem Doesn’t Solve A Problem
The Days of the Year website reminds us that today is also World Homeless Day, and I would like to take a moment to reflect upon that. Being homeless is not a crime, it is a condition. And trust me, Seattle has this condition. I was in a throng downtown (not a thong, you pervs. It’s already chilly here.) of tourists who were complaining about the homeless pan-handling.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 8h
Juan Ciscomani piling on the transgender hatred in his ads against JoAnna Mendoza in AZ-6. What a piece of shit he is. He’s never had a public meeting with constituents. The best he can come up with is this despicable appeal to bigotry. I hope he gets buried.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14h
This is a great essay that takes on the anti-trans fallacies that some Democratic candidates are embracing. @juliaserano.bsky.social rebuts every single one of them perfectly.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 9h
For a closing electoral strategy, I advise kicking them when they're down. In the head.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 12h
there to recreate his person at the sport of poussavant, which the wenches of London call the ferkers in and in.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 12h
Meta's AI chatbot is called Muse. It's a fetus wrapped in a soft onesie.
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 12h
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 13h
What’s the arch a memorial to? Our hopes?
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 18h
There’s never a shortage of toadies or bootlickers. Those positions are always quickly filled.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22h
i have no sympathy for trump voters who regret their vote. he came down that escalator in 2015 and said mexicans were rapists. that was after saying the first black president of this country was illegally installed. if you voted for him after that, you endorsed it all. go fuck off, forever.
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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 09/10/2026
The average American life expectancy is roughly 78 years. For an unhoused person, it plunges to between 47 and 53 years. Homelessness literally steals three decades of human life. Housing isn't just shelter—it is life support. #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingFirst #RightToShelter #SovereignWealth​
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 22h
To the abusers, rape and sex trafficking are just part of how society functions, no big deal. It follows from the lack of recognition of women as living subjects.
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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I will never get tired of reminding people that it was the general consensus among political pundits that the money raised and spent on this dudes first congressional race was … wasted.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think that one of the most important messages that candidates like Ossoff communicate when they openly condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists is “I’m confident that I can win without the support of people who think I’m out of line here.”
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Slavecatcher Government
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The right-wing idea is that somehow people cannot thrive amidst difference/diversity and cities demonstrate that they do and that lots of us find it enriching and rewarding to live among people who are not clones marching in lockstep. They treat diversity as a threat....
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
O, look we are so! Chamber music. Could make a kind of pun on that. It is a kind of music I often thought when she. Acoustics that is. Tinkling. Empty vessels make most noise. Because the acoustics, the resonance changes according as the weight of the water is equal to the law of falling water.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vote for us, we deliver. Face it, no one else will give you live televised executions.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A century ago....
Poster art: Elena (Greta Garbo) on the left, seated in a fluffy orange gown wearing a fashionable close-fitting cap, and Manuel (Antonio Moreno) standing to her right in a tux and looking down at her. Text: The Temptress, with Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno. Directed by Fred Niblo. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At the pharmacy: “I need something for brain health.” “Have you tried a book?”
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I would advise Earth to get its affairs in order.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 08/10/2026
Russian strike on buses kills 30 in Ukrainian frontline city
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Russian strike on buses kills 30 in Ukrainian frontline city
Two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Panicking doesn’t help. We can firmly express our anger while not giving in to the fear with which fascists try to overwhelm us.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Succinct, correct.
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE is not law enforcement it's a right wing militia deputized by trump to act as secret police force loyal to him
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For the record, Westboro Baptist is also against genocide.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Life would be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jog jig jogged stopped. Dandy tan shoe of dandy Boylan socks skyblue clocks came light to earth.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Grifting is second nature to these wretched people.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dracula (1931) Trying to put its immense influence out of my mind, I appreciate Tod Browning's style, and the art direction is deliciously spooky. Dwight Frye is creepiness itself as Renfield. But the mood is spoiled whenever the silly bats show up. Still, the film's classic status is deserved.
Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) lurks menacingly over Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) as she sleeps in her bed.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cartoonist: Clay Bennett
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Merrick Garland has kept very quiet for the past couple of years.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A very large butt plug.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They’ve been able to flout every law, regulation, and standard with impunity, and yet I’m still being told that the electoral system is trustworthy.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On the other hand, the parking garage industry is still doing well.
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Mary21 @mheltru21.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck Zuckerberg
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For the students of the said place make a prime exercise of it; and sometimes they carried him unto Cupid’s houses of commerce (in that city termed islands, because of their being most ordinarily environed with other houses, and not contiguous to any),
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Lug Rig @lugrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What’s worse than someone always issuing ominous threats and vague statements of foreboding are sitting ducks taking it in, frozen in inertia, behaving as if that’s legitimate governance
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Send away the clowns, We don’t need more clowns.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Old enough to recall when I chose her over the bloated soulsuck that was Roger Ailes. No regrets given that situation, of course. But what's clear now is that years at Fox News molded both Ailes and Megyn Kelly from the same substance into a matched set of colon-clogging fistulas. Same inhumanity.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Know more than you say.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The media cycle is annoying as hell but when I see someone whine in the paper I know their own kid stood up to them. Good. Parent is an earned title. A significant chunk of this country treat kids (adult kids too!) as property and believe they get a free pass to be a dick and they should eat shit
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Judging solely from classic Hollywood studio history, Paramount and Warner Brothers should never be the same company.
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