Lindsay Paturalski, PhD (she/her)

Ending White Supremacy Isn’t a Distraction from Beating Trump It’s the Method

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With Democrats like this who needs Republicans. 🫣

"Hear me out, fascism, but we wear blue." -Gavin Newsom probably

It just makes me mad that this isn't a major news story UNTIL it happens to a white person of means. People coming from south of the border could tell us millions of these stories, but we didn't care until now.

They don't care. They probably don't even know. Because a lot of them checked out after the election. Because politics is boring and Trump is going to fix everything so they don't have to deal with it.

We did that. It was the 1994 Crime Bill under Clinton, sponsored by Biden. It didn't stop the narrative that Dems are 'weak on crime.' You don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. You don't fight fascism with fascism. You invest in your communities and values and actual democracy.

No. No. And No. If we have to go so far to the right we're fascists what exactly have we gained? I've taught in prisons. We need less policing. We need more social programs. We need to invest in education and food programs. And we need to end mass incarceration which criminalizes poverty and trauma.

Give me your best #SFF #flashfiction on how horribly this is going to go. Cthulu-esque? Post-apocalyptic wasteland? Water world? The beginning of an enlightened utopia where we sacrifice billionaires to appease the gods they awakened?

Bernie's doing an anti-oligarchy tour and Walz is doing town hall's and Chuck's out here hawking his book. Awesome.

a close up of a woman 's face with a ponytail and a surprised look on her face . Alt: scene from Mean Girls main character saying, "the limit does not exist"

US right now...

I would LOVE to hear more about AUCKUS from an Australian pov. I have so so many thoughts on how it's presented to the American people. One of my fave political/history writers drives me crazy because she is (IMO) too uncritical of the US as an empire. But I'm an Imperial historian so...

I really enjoyed running the one month I did it. ;) I have scoliosis and I ended up with injuries. My doctor said I would need to work up to being able to run. 🫣 I haven't given up on it, but I won't have time to do all the work to run until my kids are bigger. So glad you're back at it!!

I want them all.

Upcoming & anticipated FOLK HORROR titles! 🌾🔥🍂 . 🌾The Wilding by Ian McDonald 🌾MERE by Danielle Giles 🌾Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Matthews 🌾Secret Lives of the Dead Tim Lebbon 🌾Little Horn by Gemma Files the cover looks folky! @shortwavebooks 🌾Greater Sins/Gabrielle Griffiths 🌾ITCH by Gemma Amor 🌾Playing Wolf Zuzana Říhová translated by Alex Zucher 🌾The Red Knot-Monique Asher 🌾When Devils Sing/Xan Kaur 🌾And the Trees Stare Back/Gigi Griffis 🌾Hallows Hill by Olivia Isaac-Henry

You know I hate to do this (just kidding it's my favorite) but I have made a list of upcoming and anticipated Folk Horror books for myself, that I am not sharing with you. Go feral! Full list in the alt ✔️ @manylittlewords.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social

Kinda ironic this president invoking the alien and SEDITION acts...it was passed out of fears that members of the political opposition were working to weaken the country from within.

Bit if he won he might do something progressive and actually make voters happy!

Peters is retiring so he don't care. This is his actual self..

I'm noticing a trend. Anybody else?

“The guy trying to kill us might try to kill us harder if we fight back” — Democrat proverb

People might learn. Democratic leadership...never.

In MI. Can confirm. Peters is retiring so his votes aren't about reelection. They tell us who he really is. A fascist sympathizer, apparently.

Man fuck. Peters is on his way out. I feel like most Dems are closet Republicans.

America is so weird. Like people will guilt you to donate to St. Jude because 'no child should die of cancer' and then call you names because you want socialized healthcare for all.

I, too, am in very rough shape, but working.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”

The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.