Just tried using #twitter * in the #firefox browser on #android and it is kind of crazy how much more functional it is than the app 😂 what a dogshit platform.

(* = terrible far-right disinformation web forum from which I occasionally need to retrieve data for work)

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absolute cabbage lookin ass unit @biodiversitypix

RE: https://botsin.space/users/biodiversitypix/statuses/111751685788779744

BAFFLING: sanctimonious #PDX weirdo does massive amounts of incredibly weird spraypaint vandalism, somehow gets lauded by local news station normally known for getting big mad & crying about that stuff

#Portland #ORpol #SubconsciousArtOfGraffitiRemoval

#Portland Police Arrest 20 Jewish Activists and Allies During Demonstration in Downtown Portland Supporting Palestine

i always feel slightly like i’m going insane when i encounter one of those headlines that’s like “here’s why january 6th still matters, all these years later”

the amount of time that’s passed since then doesn’t even yet add up to the duration of trump’s term in office; and #january6 is likely one of the most consequential events in the history of the US.

additional context: #HenryFord was also a raging antisemite whose propaganda was admired & emulated by #Hitler & the #Nazis

on the occasion of his 75th birthday, through their consul in Cleveland, Ohio, the Nazi regime bestowed on Henry Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest award granted to foreigners by the German government.

@todayilearned

RE: https://noc.social/users/todayilearned/statuses/111705316675386417

seems chill https://mastodon.archive.org/@tv/111696163023833337

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/users/tv/statuses/111696163023833337

@stablehorde_generator draw for me an oregon swallowtail butterfly

ah yeah the sonnenrad-bearing “z” Russians fighting to “de-nazify” #ukraine

the undisputed champion of getting out in front of the story

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Alan Dershowitz says release of Epstein documents will prove he 'did nothing wrong' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/epstein-list-associates-alan-dershowitz-b2472637.html

it’s interesting that #JoeRogan, a media grifter deeply invested in smearing the left, can recommend a book like #Chaos - which unsympathetically explores the US govt’s efforts to smear the left.

then again i wouldn’t attribute a ton of reading comprehension to that guy.

on brand #LakeOswego https://mstdn.social/@WillametteWeek/111689766766674460

RE: https://mstdn.social/users/WillametteWeek/statuses/111689766766674460

i honestly could not fucking stomach the fact that so much of the US media was treating discourse alleging #antisemitism from a fascist-propaganda-spreading #maga pol like #EliseStefanik with such credulity.
historically shameful. https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/111688707441528074

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/tzimmer_history/statuses/111688707441528074

the rebranding of #libertarian from its anarchist communist roots to its US authoritarian, hyper-capitalist connotation… really impressive far-right propaganda victory.

that unflattering angle on Robert Pattinson waking up hungover in The Lighthouse is just such a beautifully contrived shot.

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

Short term pessimism aside, I don’t actually think it will be forever fashionable among the mainstream right to be a total fucking crank who prides himself on having zero social graces; but–godwilling–they’ll always have receipts like these to remind them of their brutally embarrassing origin & return-trajectory.

#silentSunday

i’m really not into doomerism, but realistically, i am the opposite of optimistic about the fairly short-term future of the US, which is still a very very powerful force in the world.