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@malcircuit I don't know how savvy you are with modding apps offhand, but have you considered an RSS feed aggregator? You could then program it with the keywords you want to read about.

@CharlotteEowyn Is it published somewhere?

@JoscelynTransient This. All this. zOMG, this.

@integerpoet @dedicto Their jobs actually don't yet rely on those things, because of the two-party system; they only need to not be Republicans, which is easier now because you simply don't have to be an overt fascist.

@dedicto I'm sorry to say this, but I believe we should pump the brakes on this mode of thinking for a little while.

Fascists do not necessarily rely on electoral politics for power. While this is a clear repudiation of Orban and fascism generally in Hungary and Europe, it doesn't mean that they will not try to exert power by other means.

This is a point of evidence in favor of voting our way out of fascism...but it is not yet "the answer".

@pockets I tend to lean into doing CWs rather than not if there's any question about it because the "cost" associated with using them is extremely low; if you want to see it, you click one extra time. So as long as you're interested, you can see what's going on.

As far as what content merits that, I try to treat it as maybe a slightly more intimate setting than just being in public with strangers...say, the same as a cocktail party. So, if I wouldn't bring it up at a standard I-don't-necessarily-know-all-these-people cocktail party, but I want to discuss it here, then I use a CW.

@noctuaminervae @cstross Where in Ghod's name is my bourbon

@randahl Well. Apparently, Maxwell did indeed invoke the Fifth Amendment - good call, whomever had that one - and is now saying she's only going to talk if "granted clemency". So, the deal-making continues. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/09/congress/maxwell-pleads-the-fifth-00771258

@ana I resemble this remark

@randahl From previous interviews which have been publicized, she praised Trump to the high heavens and claimed to have seen nothing of any significance at any time...so she knows which side her bread is buttered on.

She's also made some veiled threats to reveal certain things in recent days, probably to remind Blanche & Co. of the quid pro quo that they'd agreed upon. [ https://portside.org/2026-01-30/maxwell-lobs-grenade-naming-29-protected-epstein-friends - from a Daily Beast article] That could be an unwise move with regard to her health, but I've a feeling she knows how far those involved are willing to take this.

At least, she believes she knows. Doing something to her now would be extremely brazen - but this regime and those involved with this case have been known to do brazen things before. #Maxwell

@SallyStrange

@Tutanota We must break the governmental misapprehension that they are entitled to read the private communication of their citizens.

@WolfofWords @Natsura I think it would be a handsome look on you.

@Natsura Which reminds me: kilt. I should get a nice kilt. (I was gifted one, but it was far too large; it's just languishing in my closet right now.) I wonder where I might find a good kilt.