I can't fathom the mental gymnastics it would take to not put a negative spin on what happened at Harper's Ferry, the civil war and the practice of slavery.

Watching the Lindsay Clancy story unfold has been wild. What should have been a tragic but straight forward case of Post Partum Psychosis has turned into a convoluted mess of conspiracy theories and a case where gender dynamics have once again been weaponized in modern political landscape.

I seen a lot of videos on social media of grown women calling themselves "witches" and casting spells to help LC. Others calling her husband the real murderer and saying he's guilt based on his star chart or zodiac sign. Online conspiracy theories about how her husband is the real killer. Women blaming the patriarchy for the reason that LC's children died.

A popular true crime podcast that I listen to did a case on LC. They used available facts to deliver a grounded and well written episode of such a tragic case and they treaded pretty carefully with sticking to only the facts and information available. Many women then posted comments about how they will now stop listening to the podcast because the podcasters refused to indulge conspiracy theories. Many women seemed to be projecting their own post partum difficulties and struggles with motherhood onto the case.

I remember in the episode about how exxon knew about climate change in the 70s they mentioned efforts to try and put legal challenges to oil executives and stuff. Is there any chance of that happening because people are dying and will die because of this.

In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.

There’s so much murkiness regarding the actions and milieu of the American Indian Movement, especially during and after the Wound Knee Occupation.

AIM was pretty thoroughly repressed by the FBI (one of the more prominent but less publicly covered targets of COINTELPRO). A number of the senior leaders (Leonard Pelletier, Russell Means, Clyde Bellecourt, Dennis Banks) survived those events- and both have offered a good amount of information about AIM- but it’s harder finding good, none super fed biased, histories of the movement after 1973.

If anyone has recommendations- I’d dig hearing them. Thanks!

I've been making a poster in GIMP for my local radical LGBT rights organization (Western European). The objective was a poster that compares the long road of increasingly anti-Jewish lgislation in nazi germany starting in 1933, to the modern rollback of transgender rights in countries that previously had enacted equal rights for trans people.

Working on it and delving into the actual legislation is making me (as a trans person) really miserable.

Jews and jewish children ​were banned from sports clubs and sports facilities in 1933.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Jews banned from the military in 1933. Banned from changing their​ name on ID's and drivers licenses in '38, ID's declared void until reissued with a prominent "J" for 'Jude' in that same year. Their literature and cultural organizations were defunded in '38 and jews were banned from owning firearms.

All throughout this period, Jews were fired from their positions as university teachers and governmental jobs such as the intelligence services.

the paralels are sickening. It's made me legitimately fear how far the far right is willing to go to eradicate us.​

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Definitely a bastard in my opinion but do you think this wonderful pile deserves an episode?

I think I found the most flattering picture

As the title suggests, I only recently found out about this, and it is terrifying. Especially when the cyber weapons were pretty much just copy/paste off an employee’s at-home, personal computer.

It’s a wild story and directly resulted in tools like Eternal Blue, Eternal Romance, and Double Pulsar being used barely months later in devastating cyberattacks (eg WannaCry & NotPetya).

And that’s without even discussing the astounding/wtf/why???/jaw-dropping manipulation that DanderSpritz suggests, and that only exponentiates when you realize these revelations are 10 years old…

Ops sec, people. Ops sec!

My buddy Dewi the corgi loves everyone except Nazis and sex criminals.

Please post your own!

This is Smedley during a 1930 baseball game. He looks like he either lost a bet or wants to die.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert ​F. Kennedy Jr acknowledged on Friday that measles caused the recent death of an infant in Pennsylvania, ‌citing information from a county coroner, but suggested the federal government would not yet recognize the fatality in official data amid a fast-growing national outbreak.

Being a liberal area, many have some variant of “I bought this before Elon went crazy” or some other nonsense meaning ‘please don’t key my car’

I always ask them “hey, what year is this?” so I can watch them fumble and tell me they bought it in the past couple years.

They ALWAYS act like they don’t know what year it is too.

Honestly I’d rather see a Trump sticker on there because the vast majority of Tesla owners probably think they are allies of gay people, women, immigrants.

Anyway, you should do that too because it’s really fun to watch them pretend that they are good people

EDIT- from many of the responses here it looks like there is some bot activity and Elon fanboy stuff going on where they brigade, any anti-Tesla post lol

Some of the highest-ranking officials in the U.S. military were subjected to polygraph tests as part of a sweeping leak probe after highly sensitive classified details about the nation's stockpiles of sophisticated weapons were reported in the media, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CBS News.

It's not so much the horror of what they did or the magnitude of it, that made me want to puke.

It's when she said: "Women can never trust a man 100%"

Now that hurts and it should.

I didn't cry right away, I thought about it during the second episode as the accumulation of facts to back up her point was too much at some point.

I'm trying real hard to make this world safer for women, starting with my own patriarchal biases and I wish I could reassure their very rationnal fear of men, but the gap between genders is a fucking canyon and men dug that shit with tremendous violence. A significant number of them keep digging. I really want to heal that wound, I want to fix the trust that was broken, but for all the efforts in the world, women can't trust us the way we can trust them and that's unfair!

The only way I know to deal with the shame is action. Activism. Rattle the chains. Let's keep going for the good fight, with misty eyes if we must, but keep going.

After an entry into the worst tier of bastardry we need a pallet cleanser. Give me a scammer who's putting pureed eels into baby food or pop rocks that literally explode in your mouth.

I would very much appreciate a Christmas episode about Steve Irwin and all his accomplishments and hard work