Thorvaaldr Frithsamr

Raised as a reactionary, racist, religious redneck, but I got out. Anthropologist by training, knifemaker and leather worker by trade, sword instructor. he/him

[Thorvaaldr Frithsamr @Thorvaaldr]

@magi_jay They're fucking weirdos, being weird, and they aren't even good at it.

In a way, it's a compliment (I know, I know.)

Your writing is effective enough that they are grasping at straws to find *something* they think will stick, to discredit you.

It is annoyingly obnoxious, tho.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Last year @ICEgov said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and choked her. He was even indicted for attempted murder.

Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Happy Interlocking fields of double canister grape shot day to those who celebrate!

[James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow]

Be honest, who knew that Hamas summer camps in the Gaza Strip for 13-17 year olds was about using real AK47s with real bullets and real military training, to attack Israelis?

Who knew, besides UNRWA?

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

Palestinians — “we want Hamas out.”

Lebanese — “we want Hezbollah out.”

Western leftists — “no you don’t.”

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney, describes how Todd Blanche fired her when she refused to do a dangerous official favor for Trump friend Mel Gibson. The actor lost his federal firearm rights after committing domestic violence. Gibson assaulted his girlfriend while she was holding their baby daughter, smashing her in the mouth, breaking her teeth, threatening her with his gun. Gibson asked Trump’s DOJ to reinstate his federal firearm rights despite his criminal conviction. Although Blanche had the power to do it on his own, he tried to force Oyer to give her stamp of approval. Not convinced of Gibson’s rehabilitation or his lack of dangerousness, and knowing that over half of women murdered in the United States are killed by a current or past intimate partner, and the presence of firearms in an abusive household increases the risk of murder by 500%, Oyer refused to have anything to do with Blanche’s dangerous and unethical suggestion. Blanche sacked her.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

And there it is: With just hours remaining until deadline to release more Epstein Files under lawsuit filed by @KatiePhang — Justice Dept asks judge for two-month delay, claiming it risks revealing victims’ identities..

… (which the Trump Admin has already done)

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

This is absolutely bonkers: newly uncovered text messages reveal that Republican operatives INSIDE the North Carolina State Board of Elections are secretly collaborating with the NC Republican Party to force local elections officials to obey partisan directives - or be fired.

This is a smoking gun: @DallasWoodhouse, the disgraced former leader of the NCGOP who Republicans nevertheless hired to help run the State Board of Elections, is working hand-in-hand with NCGOP legal counsel to pressure officials and even arrange votes.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

For years, the media called Israel paranoid.

But today, UNRWA just quietly fired 70 of its employees in Gaza because they were linked to terror organizations.

Israel was right all along. Why is the world still funding an agency that employs terrorists? It is time to defund UNRWA permanently.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump vows to give long July 4 address even if it is 107 degrees.

(Note: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe all died on the 4th of July.)

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The NYT published an entire piece on the global response to Venezuela’s devastating earthquake.

They named every country that sent rescue teams, even those that have only pledged assistance.

Yet Israel, which already has over a dozen rescue workers on the ground, was left out.

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

If you invested $10,000 in Trump coin on January 20th, 2025, it would be worth $415 today.

You lost everything. He made half a billion.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

A roving group of pro-Pals ‘patrolled’ the streets of Thessaloniki in Greece on Saturday. They claim Israeli holidaymakers are engaged in “colonisation” of the city. This is the natural endgame for antizionism — the hunting of Jews by a black-shirted mob.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

.@Wikipedia is literally erasing Jewish history and identity, systematically and maliciously. Everyone in the organization knows this is happening -- so none of it is an oversight or an accident.

Wikipedia is a major source on which LLMs are trained. College students are more likely to read the Wikipedia article than the textbook. This is how public knowledge is shaped.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along the Mall and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a Trump golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

[Nic @puckrin]

Let this sink in.

Trump personally made more from crypto than EVERY publicly traded US crypto company.

Pro-crypto president indeed.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

[S.A. Barton @Tao23]

11 stars and 11 stripes for the 11 Confederate States of America.
But yes, Trump and his Trumpites have the NSDAP habit of fetishizing big shiny ornaments and predators

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

"What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."