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nerdiness, cats & outrage. Against oppression, capitalism and fascism. Pro human rights, books and pizza. she/her | bi | 🇨🇱 | feminist | adult | #ActuallyAutistic | history nerd

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 7h
Ukraine war: Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 15 people
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Ukraine war: Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 15 people
Children are among the victims, authorities say, and more victims could still be buried in the rubble of a large apartment block that was destroyed.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
UN condemns Coco Gauff abuse and warns: ‘Black female athletes are being targeted’
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UN condemns Coco Gauff abuse and warns: ‘Black female athletes are being targeted’
The United Nations’ human rights office has condemned the racist abuse of Coco Gauff and called for solidarity to help push back against racism and sexism
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h
'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
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'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak to Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian with Aditya Chakrabortty
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/10/2026
ICC prosecutor condemns US sanctions, says work will continue reut.rs/3VqM085
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ICC prosecutor condemns US sanctions, says work will continue
US sanctions ​against the International ‌Criminal Court announced on Friday "must be ​condemned" and ​will not halt ⁠the tribunal's work, ​its deputy ​prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, told Reuters.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 09/10/2026
“When I got out, I felt so happy because I had my son in my belly & I thank God that I am out of that detention center. I never wish this on anyone.” The experiences of pregnant women in ICE detention show that eugenics remains an integral part of the system, Edith Romero reports.
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Pregnant women in ICE detention face policies shaped by eugenics
The experiences of detained women show that the American eugenics movement remains an integral part of the system
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 19h
Nation known worldwide for extrajudicial assassinations & kidnappings, state-funded brutality, monetized mass incarceration, institutionalized racism and mass shootings is grappling with the idea of acknowledging itself.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 20h
A decade plus of working with incarcerated people and studying the system has taught me that it’s not so much that Americans don’t care, it’s that they are so pumped full of propaganda that they are convinced they are Experts on crime and imprisonment and it’s ABSURD
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 08/10/2026
An autistic woman is reportedly so good at masking she is frequently mistaken for a neurotypical – while the monstrous portrait in her attic withers and decays at an alarming rate.
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Autistic woman masks flawlessly as portrait in her attic grows increasingly haggard
An autistic woman is reportedly so good at masking she is frequently mistaken for a neurotypical – while the monstrous portrait in her attic withers and decays at an alarming rate. Mary Walker, 33,…
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The frequency of campus rapes, & their role in getting women to drop out of college, could be regarded as a 2nd stage in a process that starts by making it nearly twice as hard for qualified women to gain university admission compared to men. Excluding women from upward mobility is a policy choice.
Guardian headline about Japanese medical schools falsifying women applicants' test scores to avoid having to admit them.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/10/2026
Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says reut.rs/4rUnsQH
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Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says
Nearly 6,000 monitored vertebrate species across more than 35,000 populations declined by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, the World Wide Fund ​for Nature said in its latest Living Planet Report published on Thursday.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
If you are outraged about this (and you should be, and I bet you are if you're reading this) and you want to do something about it: crank up that VPN and search for "ICE watch" or related activities + wherever you live. Get your Signal login going. Sign up for everything.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
Children living safely with families are being picked up by ICE and referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters or foster care. These shelters were designed for new arrivals, not settled kids—and the children are struggling badly.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026
ICE just spent $16.7 million arming agents with shock gloves—wearable devices that deliver a painful electric shock. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International say the gloves “could be readily misused for torture.” Mother Jones' @hurwitz.bsky.social investigates: bit.ly/472ZbhV
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/10/2026
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt
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The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all | Elle Hunt
No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to you, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
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𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖊-𝐙 [ Novel In Progress ] @parasite-z.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As billionaires, the wealthy class and ai tech bros try to privatize knowledge and erase human curiosity, another form of resistance is to stay curious. Do your own research. Do not be spoonfed your ideals or opinions. Use your library. Think for yourself. It's very important that you do.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
Earlier this week, Tennessee botched the execution of Christa Pike, reinforcing what @nhbaptiste.bsky.social wrote in 2018: "Presumed to be a painless and more humane alternative to the electric chair, there is no scientific evidence proving that lethal injection is either."
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The cruel durability of capital punishment
I went to Tennessee and found out why the last days of the death penalty may never come.
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the mere mention of a widely recognized concept used to objectively describe an ongoing systematic problem creates an instinctive gut-punch of anger at the person using the word? self-examination might be needed see words like patriarchy, genocide, feminicide, rape, fascism, transphobia, & so on
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Roses UK @rosesuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rose of the Year 2026 ‘Coral Gardens’. Happy Saturday everyone, have a good day, take care. #roses #roseoftheyear 🌱
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Prism @prismreports.org · 01/10/2026
Every execution—regardless of the method—is a violent act void of dignity, said advocate Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy. “The system of capital punishment has become all the more deceptive to make executions appear more palatable, sterile & ‘humane.’ But executions are never any of these things.”
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carrie carrarium 🏕️ @carrarium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Call me a dirty socialist if you want, but I think every living being should have access a healthcare safety net regardless of how much they work, go to school, etc. Every single person. It's ridiculous that people need to reach certain "requirements" in order to have a chance at healthcare.
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brazilian government calls for probe into US funding of far-right causes www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10... #Brazil
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Brazilian government calls for probe into US funding of far-right causes
Report stating that Trump administration directed funds towards right-wing groups comes ahead of presidential election.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2026
1,439 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 5,052 injured since the 'ceasefire' began in October 2025.
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Israeli drone kills Palestinian in Gaza, settlers kill another in West Bank
1,439 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 5,052 injured since the 'ceasefire' began in October 2025.
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The framing of immigration news as "surges" or "records" of crossings is dehumanizing and obscures why these people are risking their and their family's lives to try. Where's the mention of the emerging brutal wars and local conflicts they're trying to escape from? When did that stop mattering?
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so -called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Musk will be joined by Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House. A defense department press release on the effort, called Project Meridian, described its goal as “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”. The project will run for 120 days and culminate in an unclassified public report of its recommendations. Continue reading...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants. The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago. Continue reading...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 1,200 sexual assault cases in a six year period at Cornell. The current case involves 7 men gang raping and drugging a student and being assigned essays as punishment. In 6 years, only 7 students have been expelled or dismissed. That’s less than 0.006%. Cornell sides with rapists.
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned here on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast.
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Trump’s mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's the same kind of navel gazing the US does, where the rest of the world and its suffering only exists as far as it directly affects their daily lives
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The byline of this article is shameful. News like this aren't about the effects of optics in UK politics but about the 500.000 people that are now risking famine as a direct, immediate consequence
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/09/2026
Russia hammers Kyiv with drones in daylight attacks, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
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Russia pounds Kyiv with drones, killing 2 and wounding 41 before Zelenskyy’s U.N. address
Ukraine’s president was in New York as part of his diplomatic effort to build international support for his country’s grueling 4½-year fight against Russia’s invasion.
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The language of free market, laissez-faire capitalism that's fed to the wider public is an ideology that bears so resemblance to the reality, and that gets back to the fact that we're living in the kind of culture that's warped by pervasive illusion and self-delusion."
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"When societies reach an end stage, the language which they use to describe their own economical, political, social & cultural reality bears no resemblance to that reality. Which is where we are."
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The failure to think critically also creates a very frightening historical amnesia, so you don't know how you got here or where you came from. Totalitarian capitalism seeks to put this in place so that people interpret their problems as personal rather than political or social problems."
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The corporate state has made war against critical thinking and in particular humanities, bcs they're about teaching people how to think rather than what to think. They're about teaching to challenge assumptions & structures. The discipline of the humanities is subversive, it's meant to be subversive
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The nature of illusion is that it's designed to make you feel good. It functions like a drug. Those that question it are challenged not for the veracity of what they say but for puncturing those feelings. If hope becomes illusional, then it's not hope, it's fantasy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETle...
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American Psychosis - Chris Hedges on the US empire of narcissism and psychopathy
YouTube video by Wombat City Studios
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