January spork
Trying to be better. Looking at how to pick apart kyriarchy. Intersectionality = win. Same handle on the Bird Hellsite (old Hellsite posts at @archivingally.bsky.social). He/him/his.
- Reposted by January sporkthere is a certain kind of political observer who is so hyper cynical as to basically be gullible
- Reposted by January sporkEvery few months there's a story called like EVIL GENIUS? STEVE BANNON'S SECRET MASTER PLAN TO RULE THE WORLD REVEALED and you look inside and it's always about how Steve Bannon called them up to tell them he's an evil genius and that he has a secret master plan to rule the world.
- Reposted by January spork“Wow so the US media really failed democracy and basic humanity with their reporting on Trump over the last decade huh?” “So we’re gonna copy that?” “Absolutely”
- Reposted by January sporkI guess it should’ve been obvious that putting News Corp and Daily Mail editors in charge of The Age and SMH would lead to the papers eventually just openly campaigning for Hanson
- Reposted by January sporkLmao
- Reposted by January spork“What should be a major tourism attraction for Sydney is being hijacked by left-wing extremists.” It’s a queer pride parade. What on earth are you on about? Fuck off with your tourism nonsense
- Reposted by January spork“Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink” is the moderate centrist position at this point.
- Reposted by January sporkEvery week I see this dude do like 3 things I grew up reading about people getting executed for in history books
- Reposted by January sporkwait so a US citizen was basically the operational centre for a war his country was supposedly supporting the other side in? There's a word for that, innit
- Reposted by January sporkDan Kaszeta FRHistS My own experience, which is not inconsiderable, allows me to put out Captain Dan's Tear Gas Laundry guidelines. Specifically, this is for your street clothing that has been exposed to tear gas in smoke/aerosol/dust/particulate form. A small thread 🧵
- Reposted by January sporkthis part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church
- ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
- Reposted by January sporkOMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.
- Reposted by January sporkhe's a famous bullshitter and con man! nothing he says should be believed without evidence, and anxious priors are not evidence bsky.app/profile/jame...
- i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by January sporkThis. Even if you're not using the Delivery Parasite Apps, almost all of the ~30% rise in fast food prices in the last 5 years is restaurants bumping prices to stay in business as DoorDash takes their cut. And most of the DoorDash cut doesn't even go to the driver.
- Reposted by January sporkSpain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”
- Reposted by January sporkShout out to everyone who made the old “if we do it then nothing can stop Republicans from doing it” as if the Republicans are stopped by precedent in any way
- Reposted by January sporkWe have to understand that this is an ideology that will destroy anything and everything, including the ability for humans to continue to live on this planet, in defense of the vile myth of white supremacy they rely upon for fortune and identity. That’s what “Republicans are a death cult” means.
- Reposted by January sporkAfter Nixon was forced to resign, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being corrupt, but to demolish shared reality. After Romney lost with scant minority support, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being racist, but to demolish democracy. Once Trump is gone, what lesson will they take?
- Reposted by January sporkNo conservative anywhere should ever be interviewed by anyone ever again by anyone unless they are offering testimony under oath. They should never be allowed to pretend they care about anything good or true or decent. If you identify as a conservative you should be presumed malicious.
- Reposted by January sporkThis is one of the reasons I have said that protecting neighbors from being kidnapped or beaten without due process IS the strategy for voting. This isn't about "immigration" whatever they say. It's about eradicating people of color from public life.
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by January sporkTrump came groveling to Schumer, skywriting that the Democrats had all the leverage. Schumer's reaction was to immediately cave, keeping the government open and DHS funded for two weeks while Trump's minions could get their ideological house back in order, on the eve of another major ICE/CBP surge.
- Reposted by January sporkThey’re screaming “fuck ice” at wrestling matches and Chuck Schumer managed to use this leverage to negotiate against himself until the demand is “ here’s a bunch more money, can you guys please promise to not wear masks unless you really need to?”
- Reposted by January sporkMost people don’t go to a city council meeting. If you go and tell them you vote and you want action even once, you’ve moved the needle.
- Reposted by January sporkand they are telegraphing how easily annoyed they are. "oh, it's too much trouble to get judicial warrants." well, fuck off then! if it's really important you can go through the hassle. why should we streamline all of the annoyance out of this?
- Reposted by January sporkyour experience as a volunteer can counter MOST qs about election integrity. super insane people who believe legitimately insane things about everything won’t be convinced so don’t worry about it. your experience counters their theories “well I heard” w “they don’t know what they’re talking about”
- Reposted by January sporkthis is how democracy works. we witness it as we experience it. it’s tough right now because everything online wants you to believe the wildest versions of everything. but this really matters. to preserve election integrity- volunteer now and do the work.
- Reposted by January sporkyou can also be trained to be the person who witnesses the machines be tallied in your own precinct/district when the polls close for in person voting. you stand and watch the poll workers print receipts of how many votes total per district, and how many for each candidate. most announce it out loud
- Reposted by January sporki’m telling you today, in early february, right now: if you are concerned that there will be electoral shenanigans this year in all of the elections leading to the general in november right now find your local county democratic party office and tell them you want to be a trained poll watcher now
- Reposted by January sporkPeople really need to internalise that even tiny amounts of resistance can add up if they are widespread. One person accidentally loses a file. Another person takes longer than usual to respond to correspondence. Be a tiny grain of sand in the gears of fascism. Enough grains jam up the machinery.
- Reposted by January sporkohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- Reposted by January sporkGavin Newsom could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and we’d still get told he’s better than the alternative.
- Reposted by January sporkHe cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face
- Reposted by January sporkThe chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
- Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
- Reposted by January sporkPeople gotta fuckin stop doin this. I won't vote for Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom will lose. I'm saying it now so y'all have time to listen, tho you never do. But nah I ain't voting for diet fascism just because he has a D. Candidates have to do what we want to get elected, there's no fealty here.
- Reposted by January sporkA man was charged by the counter-terrorism command for harassing Antoinette Lattouf after the ABC made an example of her at the behest of a lobbying group. Hard to imagine the same lobbying group isn’t crossing their fingers hoping Dr. Abdel-Fattah will be treated to the same if they keep it up.
- Reposted by January sporkThe orange felon says he doesn’t know why Tulsi Moscow Gabbard was at the raid on a Georgia election office and Tulsi says she was ordered by him to be there. This treasonous diabolical scandal is growing bigger by the day and the American state media have no interest in it.
- Reposted by January sporkwe have a list of folks we have prioritized because they are at immediate risk of eviction, have large families, have lost a breadwinner to ICE detention, etc coming directly from people who know them
- Reposted by January sporktomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day. my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
- Reposted by January sporkThe power these men hold is thin. And it gets thinner whenever we are willing to stand with survivors against the powerful. When we are willing to stop being complicit with power, or fearful of the threats spread out in every direction by abusers that they'll hurt anyone who exposes them.
- Reposted by January sporkThere's a reason that the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world were busy trying to spread social and economic breakdown, conspiracy theorist movements like 4chan and QAnon (movements which people are perversely crediting with "being right" - nb Epstein deliberately projected this shit through /pol/!!!)
- Reposted by January sporkAnathema to such conspiracies is transparency, frameworks which arrange to require accountability for dishonest or harmful behaviour, anything which meaningfully repays powerful people misusing that power with having it stripped. Collaboration of a majority of honest people defeats conspiracy.
- Reposted by January sporkConspiracies aren't all powerful because between them they run the world. They are powerful, but not all-powerful. Conspiracy allows a minority of actors colluding against the wider good to manipulate things to their advantage against honest people that aren't actively working against them.
- Reposted by January sporkJeffrey Epstein thought he was going to remake the world with his own genes and then he died choking in a shitty cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (one way or another). They're humans, not the gods they think they are.
- Reposted by January sporkthe number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.
- Reposted by January sporkThat arc truly does bend toward justice but the time axis is brutal.
- Reposted by January sporkMy actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.
- Reposted by January sporkWent to a training last night & they kept talking about "sand in the gears." Waste their time, slow their roll, share their faces & vehicles. Eugene Federal Bldg is shut down due to "protester damage," an ICE agent smashing glass with his AR-15. Now they have to go to Salem. Be Inconvenient
- Reposted by January sporkOne more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
- Reposted by January sporkYou know a group of people who make great campaign volunteers? Artists. We know how to communicate narratives. We can make a lot with a little. Many are under-employed. All of us are tenacious. Beats me why so many Labor MPs want us to fight so they won't ever be elected again but so be it. #auspol
- Reposted by January sporkI have no doubt they're going to try everything they can, but they literally don't have the guys to pull this off. And the more this starts to look like a blue wave, the harder it's going to get for them to engineer something different.
