the witty historian

Always Resist. Always Persist. History has its eyes on you.

[foreverlatenight]

Stephen Colbert

[wittyhistorian]

“You don’t have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary."

Miep Guise

Miep was one of the helpers who assisted the Frank family during WWII. She, and her fellow helpers, brought food and other necessary supplies to keep 8 people safe and sheltered during the Nazi Occupation for over two years.

Be like Miep.

[duganator01]

Is this anything? Is ANYTHING anything??

[robertreich]

The Senate just passed Trump's request to cut $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. The rescission bill now goes back to the House for a final vote. Why is Trump so hell-bent on gutting funds for PBS and NPR? It’s part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think and what we know.

[spectrumpov]

Call your representatives and tell them to save public media.

[great-gatsby]

still not over the stephen colbert thing, the way they're punishing him so much by not only essentially firing him but cancelling the show he loves in its entirety, which means also punishing all 200 people who work for and with him on the show.

it is setting an example. it's saying, "this is what happens when you speak truth to power. we will not only punish you. we'll punish the people around you that you've led and loved. is it worth it now, stephen? would it be worth it, other late night talk show hosts? if you don't keep quiet, we will quiet you". the other late night talk show hosts are not all under paramount (iirc, it's just the daily show), but this sets a precedent that tells them they are all vulnerable.

"it's not a big deal" idk man it really seems like it is

[great-gatsby]

politico article on this btw. i should've linked it in the original post

[mswyrr]

Regardless of someone's feelings about this particular show or man, this is taking a successful and popular source of anti-Trump criticism and making an example of it. It's meant to cause a chilling effect. If they can come for successful and popular voices, what does that mean for people with less success and popularity?

[emeraldspiral]

The fact that this happened at the same time as, and is now overshadowing, the defunding of PBS and NPR, which will force stations all over the country to go dark, especially in rural and tribal areas, leaving them without access to news and emergency alerts, which Republicunts have been trying to do since the 70s.

[shegottosayit]

This is what political censorship looks like after Paramount’s capitulation. —- NYT

[afghanmenace]

I have so many many regrets in life but at least I can one day die in peace with the knowledge that I didn’t vote for trump

[foreverlatenight]

Stephen Colbert

[slipping-into-madness]

[tanoraqui]

AND HERE COMES TAYLOR SWIFT WITH A STEEL CHAIR!

[beam-of-sunlightbb-deactivated2]

Be silent when the children are sleeping, not when they are being killed.

[hamodi-7]

The Palestinian people have been subjected to daily killing and displacement for tens of years. What the Ukrainian people live these days. The Palestinian people have lived for a long time. The Palestinian cause also deserves to be highlighted as well. 🇵🇸

[aperfectphantom]

He actually summed it up really well.

[wittyhistorian]

soooo are we going to talk how the Titan isn't the first Titan to be connected to the titanic?

If it's named Titan or Titanic, we don't get on it fam.

[matarsack]

i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.

1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.

2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.

3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.

4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.

5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.

6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.

7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.

8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.

9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.

So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.

Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.

This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.

Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.

[dduane]

And their internet is in the process of being shut down right now.

(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/iran-blocks-capitals-internet-access-as-amini-protests-grow)

Reblog this and other voices from Iran. Help be their voices. They need us now.

[mendessimp]

I'll be his happy ending, his mother to his six nuggets, please god please let me.

but this scene was such a soft scene, it truly showed how steve was such a good selfless friend to robin. He's the best character in the show ever. We all deserve a steve in our lives.

[rylandgraceisaceinspace]