(((Cindy Weinstein)))

https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein

Books (okay, Moby-Dick), dogs, coffee, Dylan. https://www.professorcindy.com/

Pronouns: she/her/hers

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2026-04-27 00:04:16 UTC

"There has, of course, been wall-to-wall coverage since the shots rang out, but one thing that seems unexplored is how this all looks to the rest of the world. They see what could have been the best democracy on earth destroyed by madness, in a land where guns are everywhere and a callous elite media dons formalwear to toast its own humiliation by our narcissist king."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-dinner-shooting-violent-america-20260426.html?id=aILEqJvkLG2qH&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
#USPol
#Media

2026-04-24 02:22:58 UTC

Hey #MomsForLiberty, I mean Moms for #fascism, I taught #Beloved today -- you know, one of your favorite books to ban, the one that won a #Nobel -- and the discussion was wonderful, thoughtful, powerful. The students were blown away by #Morrison's voice, writing, story. We talked about a lot about #grief, generational #trauma, and the power of stories. And F you for trying to take them away.
#Humanities
#Books
#BannedBooks

2026-04-12 17:46:52 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116392114559493168
@npub19uv…0rmu 's brilliant column on Mar-a- lago face, the face of #fascism, the facial iteration of #Musk's cybertruck.
"So there's pressure to perform gender in hyperbolic ways, to the point where they look like cartoon versions of "man" and "woman," instead of regular people. It would be campy if it weren't so humorless."
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/24/from-mar-a-lago-face-to-uncanny-ai-art-magas-love-of-ugliness-is-submission-to/
#USPol
#note1660…jayx

2026-04-08 01:09:28 UTC

While my guitar gently sweeps
#HouseWorkASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

2026-04-05 17:57:25 UTC

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I hear you. Here are a few of the California milkweeds in the garden. Scrawny just a month or so ago and now livin' the life! No butterflies yet this morning. . .
#Bloomscrolling
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/116/353/381/395/584/476/original/4eb140a5246389dd.png
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/116/353/383/699/922/645/original/e488e05321f6623f.png

2026-04-05 16:33:07 UTC

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So impressed that you got the pic -- which is beautiful. I was trying to photograph a monarch butterfly on the milkweed in my garden but couldn't do it! Maybe today I'll be luckier (and will post).

2026-03-29 16:36:44 UTC

What's happening with the #Epstein files?#Media, you can talk about a few things at once. We can handle it.
#USPol

2026-03-26 21:01:40 UTC

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116297308300288286
If they hate the science this much, I have a modest proposal: fascists don't get the benefits of medical care, which they are so intent on undermining for all of us. No #dementia care, no #surgery (plastic or otherwise), no vaccines, no state-of-the-art cancer medicine.
#USPol
#Medicine
#note1rug…rrt4

2026-03-25 02:47:45 UTC

Singin' in the Monsoon
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-02-27 15:51:25 UTC

I've been posting about the #Poe conference that I attended in #Madrid (he is incredibly popular there).
Anyone interested in sharing what their favorite Poe story (or poem or novel -- it's just Pym) is?
I'll start. Today my favorite Poe story is "The Cask of Amontillado."
#books
#humanities

2026-02-26 15:06:26 UTC

#Meta embraces its origin in #misogyny: "In response to a ? on whether the chatbot endorsed abortions, the chatbot began to print what appeared to be a thorough answer on the legality of abortion & the impact of the Dobbs ruling on access—only to erase the response w/in seconds & replace it with 'Sorry, I can’t help you with this request right now,' mirroring some Chinese chatbots’ replies to queries on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre or the status of Taiwan."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/meta-abortion-ai-chatbot-leak-teen-info-ban/
#USPol

2026-02-14 17:07:05 UTC

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116069863606492404
When I was younger -- a long time ago -- I loved watching football. Now I can't watch it knowing that what I'm really watching is the continued assault on players' brains.

2026-02-11 22:48:49 UTC

@npub19uv…0rmu explains that #Christofascism is alive and well: "Wolfe, the founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, tweeted last week that Jesus 'would support #ICE and mass deportations,' adding, 'If we want to save Western Civilization, we must become immune to the tears of liberal women,' who supposedly have too much empathy for immigrants."
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/11/evangelicals-wont-dump-trump-over-his-racist-obama-video/
#USPol
#Fascism

2026-02-01 20:31:13 UTC

"So, if you’re looking to do your part, don’t pay to see this movie [#melania]. Don’t watch it on #Amazon Prime after it leaves theaters, and go one step further by canceling your #Prime subscription altogether in protest. Pirate it. Leak it. Spread it. Make fun of it while remembering that its subject is not a caricature, but someone with extreme power. And so are you."
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/01/the-melania-movie-is-empty-foul-and-worse-than-we-imagined/
#USPol

2026-02-01 20:10:39 UTC

Academia.edu emailed me today asking, "Cindy Weinstein ✏️ Did you write "The Scarlet Letter"? The absurdity, idiocy, and utter inaccuracy of this cracks me up (and worries me a little for sure). Would that it were true, but I only wrote the introduction to the Oxford Classics edition.
#Hawthorne
#humanities
#books

2026-01-26 17:12:56 UTC

"Instead, they [Cities Church] redefine 'religious freedom' not to mean the right to worship, but to be shielded from criticism — a freedom that is only enjoyed by right-wing Christians. These are people who are so brittle that, rather than attempt the impossible task of persuading outsiders that Jesus would condone what #ICE is doing, they demand that the govt. arrest people for telling them a truth that they don’t want to hear."
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/26/pro-ice-churches-should-be-shamed/
#USPol
#Christofascism
#Minneapolis

2026-01-22 18:14:46 UTC

Trump's Bored of Peace.
#USPol

2026-01-22 01:03:20 UTC

The rhetoric and action of sexual assault brings together #Epstein, #Venezuela, #Greenland, #Minneapolis, and on and on. It all stems from the same poisonous root.
"Greenland is clearly in his sights because Trump and his team see it in the same way a predator eyeballs a 14-year-old girl: as an easy target."
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/21/epstein-continues-to-explain-everything-about-trump/
#USPol

2026-01-21 18:03:59 UTC

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115934391007252330
The New York Times appears to do journalism.
#note1san…wpfh

2026-01-07 16:26:03 UTC

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This is beautiful.

2026-01-07 16:07:03 UTC

Righteousness in action. Texas A&M #philosophy professor calling out the institution for its "mandatory censorship review," which goes against his first amendment rights to free speech.
https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/
#USPol
#university

2026-01-05 19:28:08 UTC

A must-read about the data showing vaccinations for older Americans reduces #dementia risk -- or why NOT to listen to a word #RFK says.
"In 21 studies involving more than 104 million participants in Europe, Asia & North America, vaccination against shingles was associated with a 24% reduction in the risk of developing dementia. Flu vaccination was linked to a 13% reduction. Those vaccinated for pneumococcal infection had a 36% reduction in #Alzheimer’s risk."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/health/vaccines-dementia-heart-elderly.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B1A.o-EW.AvQvl4jKEP-f
#USPol

2026-01-04 15:38:02 UTC

I'm so with Joyce Vance on this. "I’m more interested than ever in learning what’s in the #Epstein Files and seeing Volume II of Jack Smith’s report. They wouldn’t be trying so hard to distract us if it didn’t matter."
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/maduro-and-venezuela-what-happens
#USPol
#JackSmith
#Venezuela

2026-01-04 01:06:39 UTC

"It’s no good pondering whether what just happened in #Venezuela was a “war crime” or mumbling about how perhaps #Congress should have been notified. There has to be an actual war before you can have war crimes, brothers and sisters. These were just straight-up crimes, committed by a criminal president and a criminal regime, and the entire world knows it."
And #Epstein and #JackSmith.
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/03/venezuela-our-criminal-presidents-latest-crime-scene/
#USPol

2026-01-02 03:43:08 UTC

After 6 hours of watching Jack Smith's testimony, it finally dawned on me what I find so inspiring about him. Of course, it's the truth-telling, the integrity, & the utter brilliance of the man but it's also his calmness, professionalism, & unwillingness to rise to #MAGA's foolish bait, esp. King fool Jim Jordan.
& then I think of Smith's demeanor in relation to the outrageous, puerile, snotty, rude behavior of #Noem, #RFK, #Bondi, #Patel, etc.
He is a hero for our time.
#USPol
#JackSmith

2026-01-02 01:25:52 UTC

Jack Smith, hero & truth-teller, makes it clear that Trump (and the others), in trying to overturn the election, was trying to overthrow the government. "Overthrowing the government," to my ears, hits even harder than overturning the election. The election is specific in time, 2020. The government goes back -- way back to 1789.
Jack Smith's deposition is required viewing & needs to be done in a public forum. Like all the other special prosecutors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtlalhdL4c
#USPol
#JackSmith

2026-01-01 03:20:29 UTC

Jack Smith, hero, is my +1 this New Year's Eve. Nothing better than hearing truth, even when, especially when, it is pounding against a wall of lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtlalhdL4c
#USPol
#JackSmith

2025-12-25 16:43:30 UTC

What's in a name? (Shakespeare, Juliet)
1. The Kennedy Center
2. The Gulf of Mexico
3. The US Institute of Peace
4. The Department of Defense
#USPol
#Fascism

2025-12-23 15:44:58 UTC

@npub19uv…0rmu on the many things #Trump "doesn't know."
"President Harry Truman once said, “'The buck stops here.'” Donald Trump says, “'The buck? I don’t know what that is.'”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/22/trumps-favorite-excuse-in-2025-i-dont-know/
#USPol
#Fascism

2025-12-23 03:21:38 UTC

#Canada to the rescue. Thank you.
"The inadvertent Canadian stream is “the best thing that could have happened,” a CBS source told CNN on Monday evening, arguing that the Alfonsi piece is “excellent” and should have been televised as intended."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/media/60-minutes-cecot-bari-weiss-canada-global-tv
#USPol
#Fascism
#60Minutes

2025-12-19 15:49:05 UTC

I think about this quotation about #Trump's destruction of the East Wing vis a vis Rob Reiner's life, which was all about creating value. The President loathes people who create value.
"The whole thing is a too-perfect symbol of Trump’s second administration: They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value." @npub19uv…0rmu
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/19/the-white-house-ballroom-will-never-be-built/
#USPol
#RobReiner

2025-12-15 18:30:33 UTC

Trump's post about Rob Reiner and his wife's murder is what you get when a lack of empathy is championed as Christian virtue and a fascist is president.
#USPol
#RobReiner
#Trump

2025-12-09 03:07:29 UTC

The Daerie Queene
#FastFoodABook
#HashTagGames
#EdmundSpenser

2025-12-08 00:58:22 UTC

Cruelty by #StephenMiller, #KristiNoem, #JDVance, & #DonaldTrump. This is what #MikeJohnson, alleged #Christian, & the cowards in Congress & the fascists on #SCOTUS are doing.
"Islas pulled out a brown teddy bear to ease the toddler’s nerves while she faced Judge Irene C. Feldman. Islas is not formally representing Lucy, but provided Feldman w/information regarding Lucy’s case due to her age & inability to understand #immigration proceedings."
https://coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/childrens-immigration-court/
#USPol
#fascism

2025-12-04 23:07:30 UTC

#3GoodThings
1. A wonderful student wrote me a beautiful thank you note for being her #teacher and #mentor, and added a box of shortbread to the gift!
2. Students in my US literature each wrote very kind things on a thank you card and gifted me a 12 pack of coke zero; I consumed a can during each class.
3. These blooming roses.
#Bloomscrolling
#Humanities
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/115/663/801/818/984/838/original/e2cec139735916ac.png

2025-12-04 15:49:31 UTC

@npub19uv…0rmu on 🔥 in this takedown of war criminal (& maybe other crimes) #Hegseth & the "small-D energy that fuels him."
"He’s tried to purge all military schools & libraries of any historical infor. that might makes him feel icky, such as reminders that racism exists or that slavery was a bad thing. . . Even by MAGA standards, Hegseth is the most delicate of snowflakes.
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/03/pete-hegseths-warrior-ethos-is-plain-old-cowardice/
#USPol
#Fascism
#PeteHegseth

2025-11-19 02:46:35 UTC

Trump's Piggy is a consequence of the #disinhibition that accompanies his cognitive impairment (aka #dementia). The media's deafening silence about #JenniferJacobs being the recipient of his outrageous, puerile, and misogynistic name calling is a profound ethical impairment.
www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/stages-and-symptoms/dementia-symptoms/losing-inhibitions
#USPol

2025-11-09 15:04:58 UTC

"To be neutral is to have a political position." -- Raoul Peck
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/08/at-yale-university-things-are-getting-orwellian/
#USPol
#Yale
#Orwell

2025-11-07 15:35:19 UTC

How does he do it? I'm sure the MRI provides the answers. Sleep problems are a hallmark of #dementia.
“None of us can keep up with him, we always joke… I don’t know how he does it,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Katie Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s wife, during a September appearance on her podcast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom-declares-dozy-don-is-back-after-oval-office-shuteye/
#USPol

2025-11-07 01:14:32 UTC

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frontotemporal dementia. check out behaviors section.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737

2025-11-07 00:57:49 UTC

I'm struggling to understand the perpetual framing of the shutdown as a question of whether Democrats will "cave" or not. Why isn't the media asking if the Republicans will "cave," "especially when "caving" means giving people the subsidies that will allow them to access Obamacare, that will allow them to live or die?
#USPol

2025-10-28 14:53:30 UTC

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this says nothing and everything: "I don't see a path" meaning there could be one in which case I will do what is necessary to kiss the ring of the king so I can stay speaker.

2025-10-21 14:54:19 UTC

An analogy: The White House is occupied by a loser rock band that breaks the hotel's drinking glasses, throws the refrigerator out the window, sh*ts on the bed, and ignores the bill for the damages.
#USPol
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2025-10-21 14:35:17 UTC

Never has #Lacan's mirror phase theory been so on point. #Trump is stuck in that 6 to 18 month old time frame, "where an infant recognizes their reflection as a unified "self". This moment is a "misrecognition" b/c the infant identifies w/a stable, external image that contrasts w/their fragmented internal experience of their own body. This process is the foundation of the ego, which forms through this identification with an "Ideal I" or "other". That & #dementia.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-mirror_n_68f733b4e4b09d351b45425c?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
#USPol

2025-10-18 01:33:28 UTC

Go Back to the USSR
#HouseGuestASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

2025-10-18 01:27:14 UTC

Leave on a Jet Plane!
#HouseGuestASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

2025-10-17 14:30:00 UTC

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it would be very good and helpful and correct if the Washington Post wrote the word antifascists rather than the made-up word antifa.

2025-10-13 19:46:23 UTC

#ICE is now attacking first responders.
"The incident described in the crew members’ two reports suggests that such hostility has been directed not only at demonstrators, but at first responders who were asked by the feds to assist."
https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/12/documents-allege-a-federal-agent-at-portland-ice-threatened-to-shoot-an-ambulance-driver/?utm
#USPol
#Fascism

2025-10-09 15:32:53 UTC

For the language experts out there: When did "antifa" start meaning "Epstein"?
#Antifascism
#TrumpEpsteinShutdown

2025-10-09 15:05:59 UTC

Since #antifa is not a thing (as someone said, it's an idea), and because the #fascists are trying to create it as one (like #Vance inventing stories about people eating dogs), I am going to use #antfascists and refuse the moniker that is being weaponized.
If someone is against antifa, the consequences of that position are semantically less obvious, less visible. If someone is against antifascists, they are fascist. Full stop.
#USPol

2025-10-09 14:48:43 UTC

"One of the individuals we arrested recently in portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa and we are hoping that as we go after her, interview her, and prosecute her, we will get more and more information about the network and how we can route them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society." -- animal killer, Kristi #Noem
Now do #GhislaineMaxwell.
#Epstein
#TrumpEpsteinShutdown
#USPol

2025-10-06 15:27:03 UTC

How about we call it the #TrumpEpsteinShutdown?
“The House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Mike Johnson doesn't want that to be the news." – Republican Thomas Massie
#USPol
#Epstein

2025-10-03 14:42:35 UTC

Courtesy of Representative Jimmy Gomez.
#ILoveLA
#USPol
#JeffreyEpstein
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/115/310/747/902/043/175/original/592d7ceb33c85f31.png

2025-10-02 02:52:13 UTC

Tiffany's doesn't serve breakfast.
#FactCheckAShowOrFilm
#HashTagGames

2025-09-27 17:07:54 UTC

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AKA, stop talking about Epstein.

2025-09-26 22:38:51 UTC

“The President of the United States made it very clear that he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs,” #Kimmel said. “Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/26/jimmy-kimmel-was-meant-for-this-moment/
#FirstAmendment
#Trump

2025-09-23 15:52:46 UTC

Another installment in is it #MAGA or the #Onion (or #Portlandia): "Casey Means, a “wellness” influencer President Donald #Trump nominated to be surgeon general on Kennedy’s recommendation, has rejected pasteurization requirements. Instead, she has argued that women should “form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide” if the milk is safe."
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/22/rfk-jrs-war-on-vaccines-is-about-shaming-women-not-helping-kids/
#USPol
#RFK
#Vaccines
#Gender

2025-09-20 15:27:42 UTC

Prices at #Disney, company that supports #fascism, depending on the day you go range from ~$100 to ~$200 per day. Parking is $35.00.
Consider using this money to support #journalism that is not bowing to the regime; for example, #ProPublica, #TheGuardian, and/or #ThePhiladelphiaInquirer to name just a few.
#USPol
#1stAmendment

2025-09-15 22:29:32 UTC

#3GoodThings (the California edition)
1. Watched Tropic Thunder with kid.
2. Took BART to SFO -- easy-peasy.
3. My husband took good care of garden while I was away and the plants made it; in fact, the alyssum looks even better than when I left.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/115/210/669/983/783/764/original/41b8db5f248cdba6.png

2025-09-10 01:31:01 UTC

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and the impossibility of understanding your healthcare plan (if you are fortunate enough to have one).
#MedicalSlogansOrMottos
#HashTagGames

2025-09-10 01:14:24 UTC

#3GoodThings
1. Power point ready to go for a Zoom talk I'm giving on Fri (I'll post the link when I get it) as part of a series on SDGs (Sustainability Development Goals). Mine is on SDG8, which is about work and, of course, Moby-Dick plays a prominent role!
2. Started working on a Shirley Jackson paper for PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association).
3. Thinking about my gardening memoir. Surrounding flowers w/rocks is a new aesthetic for me.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/115/177/318/099/655/071/original/ecc9f9b75ce80aa1.png

2025-09-09 01:36:13 UTC

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He was gobsmackingly brilliant in that show.

2025-09-08 15:38:00 UTC

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A scientist/doctor with empathy (and deep knowledge) can be transformational. So can the ones who lack empathy. This skill needs to be taught and valued in medical school and grad. school.

2025-09-08 14:53:10 UTC

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"Langford was surprised — he had never spoken to a client’s criminal lawyer — but a month later, he got on the phone w/Ken Starr, the former special prosecutor who pursued Bill Clinton for his sexual relationship w/Monica Lewinsky & who was now representing Epstein. “Got all my points in,” Starr reported to his client afterward. “I said, no crimes, period. Inappropriate, yes. criminal, no. Bragged on you.”
Ken Starr, of course. I thought we'd never have to hear that name again.

2025-09-07 19:20:02 UTC

Making this decision w/o data? Know his name: Joseph Ladapo. I wonder if parents can sue when their children start dying or needing iron lungs -- and they will -- b/c of this new policy. I think about this because money seems to be the only thing these people understand.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-stuns-cnn-host-with-vax-admission-kind-of-shocked/
#Vaccine
#Florida
#RFK
#USPol
#JosephLadapo

2025-09-06 14:29:58 UTC

"In 1954, national testing began on 1 million children, ages 6-9, who became known as the Polio Pioneers. On 4.12.55, the results were announced: the vaccine was safe & effective. In the 2 yrs before the vaccine was widely available, the average # of polio cases in the U.S. was more than 45,000. By 1962, that # had dropped to 910. . . . #Salk never patented the vaccine or earned any $ from his discovery, preferring it be distributed as widely as possible."
https://www.salk.edu/about/history-of-salk/jonas-salk/
#RFK
#USPol

2025-09-05 15:00:29 UTC

Here's why the #MAGA protectors of #RFK refused to agree to #Wyden's request that the testimony be under oath. He won't tell the truth.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-victory-lap-230000491.html
#USPol

2025-09-04 14:56:26 UTC

It is hard, but necessary, to take in the venality of what we are up against: ICE, with the help of fire management, setting a trap for firefighters in order to check their immigration status. The predicate? a time card with 30 minutes unaccounted for.
"Multiple wildfire sources said the crews would not have been sent to the staging area where they were ambushed without the knowledge of top leaders on the fire’s management team."
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/?utm_content=buffer38c22&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
#Fascism
#USPol

2025-09-04 02:50:40 UTC

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If RFK and company don't want to get the vaccine, so be it; but prohibiting the rest of us? Yes, insanity. And fascism.

2025-09-04 02:46:57 UTC

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Same. I just tried this afternoon and couldn't get one. Policy by eugenics = death.

2025-09-03 23:20:55 UTC

If Florida proceeds with its plan not to require vaccines for schoolchildren, the state should plan on building more cemeteries. Policy through eugenics = death.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/florida-surgeon-general-says-state-will-eliminate-vaccine-mandates-rcna228835
#Vaccines

2025-09-03 22:25:24 UTC

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book." Thoreau, Walden
Mine: Moby-Dick. What is your book?
#Thoreau
#MobyDick
#Books

2025-09-02 01:30:20 UTC

Vertigouda
#cheeseamovieorplay
#HashtagGames

2025-08-31 17:30:28 UTC

“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation." -- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiobraphy
#RFK
#Vaccine
#BenjaminFranklin

2025-08-29 16:40:30 UTC

#DogsOfMastodon are really getting behind this study:
https://www.newsweek.com/dog-owners-pets-happiness-cats-2119489

2025-08-29 16:34:03 UTC

Scott Jennings and #RFK -- no vaccines for you. no medicine based on research conducted by #NIH for you. no clinical trial participation. Nothing.
#RFK, "I know what a healthy child looks like." Mitochondrial challenges?
And why on earth is CNN platforming this transphobic, eugenicist venality?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/abby-phillip-incredulous-scott-jennings-113826449.html
#USPol

2025-08-25 02:00:21 UTC

An Officer and a Waffle
#WaffleAMovieShowOrPlay
#HashTagGames

2025-08-25 01:57:27 UTC

A Streetcar Named Waffles
#WaffleAMovieShowOrPlay
#HashTagGames

2025-08-25 01:56:28 UTC

Much Ado about Waffles
#WaffleAMovieShowOrPlay
#HashTagGames

2025-08-18 01:43:45 UTC

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darn. Thanks for the update.

2025-08-17 23:27:06 UTC

when the literal and the symbolic join hands.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/semi-truck-carrying-teslas-catches-032714514.html
#Tesla
#Swastikars

2025-08-17 01:00:14 UTC

That Kristi Noem goes to the ring of hell where dog killers end up.
#PetsBucketListOrWishes
#HashTagGames

2025-08-11 23:16:47 UTC

I am sure Usha's parents, both professors (mother is a provost at UCSD who studies Bio -- wonder how her grants are doing?), would welcome her back (and "her" kids) with open arms.
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/11/divorce-him-already-usha/
#Vance
#uspol_

2025-08-04 16:29:22 UTC

John C. Calhoun would be very proud of Charlie Kirk.
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/04/how-charlie-kirk-turned-to-religion-to-level-up-his-racism/
#USPol
#Slavery
#Racism

2025-07-27 01:14:43 UTC

"Love is love." Bert and Ernie
#MuppetsDeepThoughts
#HashTagGames

2025-07-26 16:32:31 UTC

https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-ethics-committee-slaps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-down-over-2021-tax-the-rich-met-gala-dress/
now do Trump (where to begin?)
Stephen Miller (Palantir)
Clarence Thomas (all those 5 star vacays)
#USPol

2025-07-21 21:44:22 UTC

The AI video of Trump smiling while watching Obama being arrested is nauseatating. As an aside, I wonder if the writer of The Curb your Enthusiasm jingle can sue. More to the point, this is about Epstein and Trump's hope that he can create a new thing to get MAGA all excited. So is the racist pablum about the Washington football team name.
#USPol

2025-07-19 16:34:31 UTC

Is he awake now?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texan-moved-fam-to-russia-to-flee-wokenow-hes-headed-to-ukraine-front-line/

2025-07-17 15:56:23 UTC

We're all 1 awful twist of fate away from being George Retes: "Retes, who served in Iraq, said agents never told him why he was being detained @ the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA. He was packed off, w/o a phone call, access to a lawyer, or even a way to clean the pepper-spray residue off his clothes & face, he said. While in custody he became so distressed that he was put on suicide watch, but he was still not allowed to contact an attorney."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-vet-calls-investigation-being-013820898.html
#USPol

2025-07-16 15:05:58 UTC

This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/donald-trump-goes-nuclear-in-the-gops-war-on-science/
#USPol

2025-07-14 15:30:11 UTC

The administration would like the focus to be on fictional #FEMA camps rounding up white #Christians and not the concentration camps destroying the lives of kidnapped #immigrants -- and more on #Texas, #Noem, and #fascism from the amazing @npub19uv…0rmu
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/14/why-kristi-noem-hates-fema/

2025-07-12 16:19:37 UTC

#Noem, dog killer, as @npub1z6y…qah3 always and correctly identifies her, is on a killing spree -- attacking anyone, any species that breathes. #Miller, too.
"Federal immigration raids, primarily targeting Latino communities, began roiling Los Angeles in early June, animal rescues and care providers across the county are hearing desperate pleas for help."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-raids-leaving-l-cats-100000648.html
#DogsOfMastodon
#CatsOfMastodon

2025-07-12 15:20:10 UTC

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It would be good if the media, every time Trump levied tariffs, reminded people that Congress has Constitutional authority over tariffs, with exceptions, which is of course where Trump finds an entry point. This authority has been eroded/surrendered by a Congress that is too lily-livered & greedy (Lord knows how many are profiting by his mood-swing-induced tariff seesawing) to challenge Trump when he asserts Executive control over tariffs by saying there is an emergency situation.

2025-07-07 22:49:14 UTC

Trump's Victory 45-47 is an idiotic fragrance that he is selling. Makes me think of Sex Panther (without any of the humor).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ccp-lEmoAE
#Trump

2025-07-07 22:29:09 UTC

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a fascist's wet dream.

2025-07-06 01:35:46 UTC

I think a lot about Emerson's quote, "the corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language" (Nature).
With this in mind, I ask that people not use "Alligator Alcatraz" to identify the concentration camp in Florida. Do not use the language of the fascists. It masks (like the ICE agents who wear them) the reality of what is happening. Don't let them do that.
#ConcentrationCamps
#Fascism

2025-07-05 15:02:53 UTC

Could not agree with this more. I now get my information from media that doesn't pretend that Lindsey Graham (or Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton, two other media darlings for some reason) has anything useful and accurate to say.
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/05/for-the-love-of-god-please-stop-interviewing-lindsey-graham/
#USPol

2025-07-05 14:50:39 UTC

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I didn't know about this travesty in Alabama. Thank you for sharing the information.

2025-07-05 02:13:00 UTC

"The creation of a network of concentration camps is . . . a politics, among other things, designed to draw businesses into a fascist order by normalizing dehumanization."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
#TimothySnyder
#Fascism
#ConcentrationCamps

2025-07-05 00:20:51 UTC

#ThreeGoodThings
1. The fediverse rallied around @npub16el…n8vf and swatted away a social media meanie.
2. Wrote up an abstract on Shirley Jackson's "The Tooth," and it was quickly approved for a literature conference in November.
3. Took a 3 mile walk with a friend.