Broken Historian

Guess I'm moving to ANOTHER platform... ----- What I Geek About: ----- ✊🏽 History of Racism and Black History ⚖️ Social Justice 🌲 Southern PA History 📚 Ergodic Fiction (and Non-Fiction) 📝 Interactive Storytelling & ARGs 🗣️ Communication Theory 🏗️ Scale Models 🧱 LEGO 🚀 Star Wars 🐈‍⬛ Black Cats & Voids

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

It’s almost like this fact is “self-evident” - gosh I wish someone had scribbled that thought down exactly, like, 250 years ago or something… oh well.

Awful, awful news. RIP Eric Bauza.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Sharing this because apparently Josh Turek is proud of these views and wants the world to know he holds them - and who am I to stop that?

the UK is just cooked. seems like every boomer there has taken up NIMBY as their retirement hobby because god forbid people have access to affordable groceries

🧊 Could be a map of the Fugitive Slave Patrols... but it's not 👀

“Fresh” First, is this the 50s or something? Are we in an episode of “Happy Days?” Second… Jesus Misogynistic Christ…

The most fundamental belief of the Strict-Father worldview is that kids are property.

And then you all gasp “can he DO that?!” Well…yes. He just…did. “Is it legal?” Define “legal” in a nation where the amount of money you have, the genitals you bear, and the lightness of your skin all carry a disproportionate significance to what your experience is going to be.

The show must go on. Though they try to stop us. Though they kidnap our friends. Though they try to silence voices that matter. We play anyways. We dance anyways. We hold space for the ones who matter anyways. And we fight back, too. With music. With ballot. With joy.

"I understand death is imminent, but as long as you’re working here, you’re expected to act professionally. And that means getting your projects done in a timely manner so we can continue operating for as long as we can stay solvent. Or alive." buff.ly/4VFK8PJ

Is he going to do it? Depends on what your definition of “is” is…

I hate to keep circling back to Graham Platner because I know a lot of BSers (works for both BlueSkyers and BullShitters, which is apropos as fuck) get nervy when we talk about their very special boy. But he really is emblematic of the WHOLE FUCKING PROBLEM we have in this country.

“In science it often happens that scientists say, ’You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds [...] I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” ― Carl Sagan

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

So they said “yes, we operated under pay-to-play, however we vehemently deny operating under pay-to-play.” Got it.

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

Proof that the YouTube algorithm loves me and wants me to be happy this morning…

El-Sayed is going to forced to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at least a dozen times more before the midterms. The point is clearly not the answer. The point is the question. It's basically push-polling.

it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s

On deep level these people are just rejecting society itself. They do not want to participate. They do not care how society has benefitted and continues to benefit them. They don't care what happens to anyway else.

“If manufacturers are concerned only in their personal interests, they will pass by on the other side while thousands of working people are stripped of their jobs… they will judge every move towards a better distribution of wealth and a better life for the working man to be socialistic.” - MLK

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

It’s been a week since this happened at Stadium-Armory Station and there’s been no response from @wmata.com as to why ICE is ABDUCTING PEOPLE IN THE METRO #metro #ICE #homelandsecurity #injustice #DC #WashingtonDC

Ska: The Terrors Persist, But I Have A Trumpet

I come from the land of “don’t vote for someone, vote against the guy you don’t like,” but I also fear the impact of voting against: Politicians read a no-confidence vote about *someone else* as a signal you agree with *their* policies. There’s no good answer. Not even sure there’s a right one.

Fuck thoughts. Fuck prayers. Dead fucking children who will never have birthdays or play dates or soccer games again. Dead fucking children who will never cuddle or give hugs or read a book aloud to their parents again. Dead children. Dead fucking children.

Too fucking many of you are way more delicate about me saying “fuck” than you are about your children dying at their desks. How is that fucking working out for us, hmm? GOT ANY THOUGHTS AND FUCKING PRAYERS FOR THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY INSANE MONSTERS?!

It's time for the National Guard to go home.

holy fuck this is such a good response

Just misunderstood lil beans

“Sir, we are cratering in the polls, please try and not do anything nuts for the next month. Maybe on social, just keep it benign.” “Like what?” “I don’t know. People like animals. A lot of people just post like cat videos and stuff.” “Gotcha, say no more.”

New phone, who this?