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Refusing Supreme Court rulings.

Ignoring judge's orders.

Arresting judges on a suspicion.

Pitchfork time.

if twitter actually does collapse completely ill be extremely sad about how much art and history is being devoured by it, but at the moment I'm kind of just in awe of the grim spectacle of elon musk getting shoved down the stairs by the people he tried to bully (albeit less literally this time)

here's your reminder to shill your artist friends really hard right now. tumblr not having a discoverability algorithm makes it difficult to reach a wide audience on here

I haven't purchased a HP item in close to a decade - I use the books I already had as doorstops or to prop a laptop up for meetings nowadays.

There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.

Pajiba

How Many More Times Can We Say It? Your Harry Potter Addiction Is Funding Transphobia

When one person can give £70,000 to a hate group's legal funds, maybe it's time to bin the Dobby plushies.

The fact that this is the third time this man is on the ballot for US president is shameful. The fact that the election is this close after everything this man has openly admitted to and been convicted of is shameful. There is no pride in being American when this is our reality. There is no pride in knowing that Americans were faced with the decision to either vote for a bigoted felon or for a candidate that could not make a single promise to work towards a ceasefire in Gaza. There is no pride in knowing that nearly a million people voted third party to make a point, forgoing securing the rights of women, trans folks, migrants, and minorities in the process. There is no pride in knowing that even voting for the side that does want to protect those rights doesn't secure our future, but could just be delaying the inevitable and clear decay of our democracy. It's a shameful day to be an American

mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

i feel like this is important enough to put on here.

if you have any videos on youtube make sure this is unchecked

This is an old article from 2012 but its research and topic is more applicable than ever today.

livescience.com

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

Low-intelligence children are more likely to be racist adults, a controversial link explained by the simplified world view offered by extrem

My favorite bit:

"Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world."

Another article had this advice from the researchers:

"The authors of the new study concluded that lower intelligence levels seemed to be an important precursor to more prejudiced views and suggest strategies involving increased participation in education of young people and improving the levels of cognitive ability in the population in general could be an important step towards eradicating prejudice towards same-sex couples."

In other words, anyone can learn tolerance.

Conservatives are out there scared by a world that's literally too big for them to understand. That's why they drag the walls in close and make rules that shut out complicated issues. But no one should live in fear. No one. Education is so important for every single one of us on this planet, because we do fear what we don't understand.

All the more insidious when someone finds these folks and scares them further, weaponizing their fear into political pressure. They're not helping anyone, they're making things worse. How do we undo generations of institutionalized fearmongering?

One person at a time.

Be kind, but carry heavy leather gloves too. Even the glorious bald eagle doesn't know you're trying to help it untangle itself.