Reading Rahaeli's Bsky Feed Is An Education In Itself. I Did Not Realize It Was So Common For Undercover

Happy Crowy Yule! It's a reall whose who of Yuletide.

this is actually insane? i genuinely pray they don’t get away with it because it’s beyond messed up

“How we relate to the pain of others is a question that always lurks beneath our politics, but it’s one that is particularly relevant now. In its first months, the Trump administration has begun to implement a radical rightwing regime featuring mass deportations without due process, draconian cuts to domestic and foreign aid programs, and venally self-interested foreign policy – a set of policies that amount to a prescription for mass suffering and death. Whether Trump succeeds or fails in his quest to remake US society is very much a question of how much of the pain of others Americans are willing to abide in the pursuit of making America great again. The rightwing movement against empathy seeks to dismantle and discredit one of the essential tools for any society – our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering. We should see the campaign against empathy by Trump supporters for what it is: a flashing red light warning of fascist intent.”

— Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Thinking about how I could probably convince people that guns for Australian and South American markets have anticlockwise rifling because of the Coriolis effect in the same way that a toilet's flushing action spins in the opposite direction south of the Equator

Hey did you know that you can’t escape fatphobia even after death? The article talks about how these donated bodies are used for first year anatomy students to study the body, and how the 'perfect' body for that should be 170-180 pounds.

the "dire wolves are no longer extinct" stuff is gonna be the most annoyingly persistent science misinformation for the next decade at least

Police caught lying again: a thread

So Portland Police claim that protesters have used Molotov cocktails and have weapons.

But if you looked a bit further in this or just looked past the headline, you can tell that the rifle stocks have paint on them and the cocktail towels are orange. Strange.

So if you don’t know, protesters in Portland are using balloons with paint in them as a way to disorient police.

The mags in the photo that the police claim belong to protesters are Magpul PMAG which are used in M-4s.

Which happen to be compatible with a variant of M4 rifles that are sold to law enforcement with atleast 30 PMAG for each rifle.

And guess who just bought a fuck ton of these rifles?

Our favorite national gestappos, ICE and DHS. Strange that a lot of those investments in accessories show up in that picture posted by Portland Police.

And the orange tinged rags in the supposed Molotovs? Those were used to clean the gun stocks in the photo.

The police staged a photo with their own paint plastered gunstocks after futilily trying to remove the paint and used their own rags for the cocktails.

You can see them holding those exact rifles and covered with that exact shade of paint.

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿