#scott dworkin

[rosielindy]

I’ve been following Scott Dworkin for a while, I like what he’s doing right now, in this crucial moment of our country’s history.

[filosofablogger]

We the People Still Got Spirit!!!

Yesterday turned out to be all that we had hoped for and more!  I’m talking about the worldwide protests against Donald Trump and his cowardly cronies!  A snippet from Scott Dworkin’s post: “… yesterday’s anti-Trump protests around the world proved it. Turnout was huge, even though it’s a holiday weekend. Hundreds of demonstrations were planned in all 50 states, DC, and internationally. Our…

[scottguy]

Trump BUILT HIS EMPIRE by cheating his subcontractors and stiffing labor! He doesn't pay them.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Scott Dworkin at The Dworkin Report:

We are 8 days into Trump’s return, and it’s clear as day that the pushback from Democrats is disjointed, and needs to be much stronger. But there are some absolute bright spots: outspoken, forceful, determined leaders, who will never cower to Donald. If we want to get serious about winning this fight against maga, these are the types of champions we’ll need to rally behind. US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has been an extremely effective messenger, who triggers maga at a baffling level. AOC’s slams get viral news coverage, and she knows how to cut through the nonsense better than most anybody out there. Just last week, AOC called out the Broligarchs who once criticized Trump, saying they’re now in a “kiss-ass race,” and enjoying “a billionaire feeding frenzy.” AOC also dropped the mic on Donald, calling him “the quintessential New York con man.” When Trump threw a tantrum about Colombia’s president refusing to accept deported immigrants, AOC said: “Trump is about to make every American pay even more for coffee,” and cause inflation to be “worse for working class Americans.” Spot on.

Then there’s US Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who truly knows how to command an audience. Crockett constantly takes on Marge Greene, Nancy Mace and the rest of the maga cult—during hearings and in public. In Crockett’s DNC speech, she said Trump “is a career criminal, with 34 felonies, 2 impeachments, and 1 porn star to prove it.” “If you’re looking for me to sugarcoat the reality we’re facing, I can’t do that,” Crockett recently told Harper’s Bazaar. US Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been taking on Republicans in ways few others could. A Purple Heart recipient, who lost her legs and severely injured her arm in battle, Duckworth said: “Trump is despicable. He doesn’t deserve to be commander-in-chief.” On cabinet picks, Duckworth took the gloves off, saying Tulsi Gabbard is “compromised,” and doubts “she could actually pass a background check.” Duckworth’s also sounding the alarm about the most unhinged nominee, Kash Patel—warning he’d use “law enforcement to seek retribution against his political enemies.” And as always, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues to completely decimate Trump on his corruption, and long list of failed promises. Just last night, Warren blasted Trump: “his failure to even try and move in the direction of lowering [grocery] costs is a betrayal of the American people.”

Happy to have AOC, Duckworth, Warren, and Crockett fighting for what is right.

[reading-writing-revolution]

"Corporate media continues to face a reckoning for propping up wannabe dictator Donald. Following the election, primetime ratings cratered 53% for MSNBC, and 47% for CNN. Good — they’ve earned it. In fact, Morning Joe’s ratings plummeted more than 37% since they went to kiss Trump’s ring at Mar-a-Lago. Several people I know who have watched the show for years, vow to never watch it ever again. I know I won’t be tuning in anymore." - Scott Dworkin

A massive failure of journalism.

[understandingbimbos]

If you are specifically only interested in bimbofication as transformation AND bimbos as a cultural figure, I feel like that’s a difficult perspective to reconcile. Because there are hardly any bimbofication-transformations in mass media. Popular bimbo (or bimbo-ish) figures are almost always just “like that,” the bimboism is essential to their personality and always has been. Hot girl makeover narratives are a popular genre but they usually go to pains to make it clear that the subject’s personality/sense of self is mostly unchanged.

Anyways I think your writing is really interesting and articulate and hope you keep going. Do you have a sense of your target audience? I feel like your work probably doesn’t appeal to most people in the fetish because it’s nuanced and critical, which is a good thing, but hard if you want more people to read/engage with your stuff. Good luck!

I want the book to be open to and palatable to outsiders as a source of information, but I don't have specific or concrete audience besides that. I would like my approach to the subject matter to be somewhere between Dworkin and Scott McCloud.

And... yes, you do not see bimbofication in the mainstream. The closest I've seen any film come to it is Nightmare Sisters from 1988 and Repligator from 1998, and calling either of those mainstream is being very generous. I think there's also a bit part in Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama. And the comic adaptation of Dragon's Lair has Daphne getting dumber while she's trapped in her bubble, there's no growth but she already has a sexy/curvaceous body.

Then there's those two episodes of Sabrina, the one where she gets stuck looking like a walking pinup, and one where her evil doppelganger curses her to become stupid and boy crazy. There's that infamous scene from Leprechaun 3 with Stretch. One sort of indirect one that sticks with me, and I think I've mentioned this before, is what happens to Lorraine in Back to the Future 2. When Marty goes back to the bad present that Biff fucked up and his mom now an alcoholic trophy wife in a glitzy dress and big fake implants, but I don't know if that stuck with anyone else.

Lastly, I've seen others cite the animated explanation sequence in The Stepford Wives (2004) and Foxy Loxy's transformation in Chicken Little (2005). I don't think I've posted anything from any of these movies, and I really probably should.

I'm also not sure if this is something I've actually posted or just thought about but it struck me quite recently that bimbofication is really just an inverse of the Galatea myth, as in Pygmalion, as in My Fair Lady, as in Born Yesterday, Pretty Woman. Where you have in these narratives low-class women and sometimes straight up actual bimbos being reformed and becoming proper ladies, bimbofication is the exact opposite. You don't see it because it is a narrative tragedy, nearly horror, nowhere near romantic, a proper lady becoming a common whore...

(Which reminds me, I forgot the best "mainstream" "bimbofication" sequence, Halle Berry in Movie 43, remind me to post this later)

Anyway, like I was saying, a nightmare. But when we consider it in the context of Pygmalion, ancient myth, the very idea of bimbofication becomes a lot less insane. Pyggie took to crafting Galatea because he saw women practicing prostitution and begin to detest "the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". It only stands to reason that there have been at least some people throughout human history, way before any of us were around, before bimbos, before bimbofication, that felt the exact opposite -- people who detested not whores but the stuffy or virtuous woman. People who's ideal Galatea would be no pure and innocent but wanton and shameless. And when George Bernard Shaw adapted and modernized this story in 1913, I'm sure that idea wormed its way into the head of even more people, even though we may never know. Someone had to read or watch the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins and dream of the opposite, respectable lady to stupid bitch.

(Which reminds me... I forgot The Twilight Zone Episode, Number 12 Looks Just Like You. I have a post drafted on my other blog referencing that you might see soon. Maybe. Maybe not.)

I guess that's all to say, you are absolutely correct that there is no real basis for bimbofication in popular media. The seeds have existed here and there for a long time but that doesn't mean any of it was a direct or intentional influence. I think I made a forum post asking bimbofication authors about it and their frame of reference seemed to be entirely underground science-fiction and other erotica writers.

And who's to say who inspired by the bimbofication BDSM people, or how far back that goes? Or the artists who draw transformation sequences? Who drew the first bimbo TF sequence? Did the idea just come to them? That's kind of the thing.

Respectable lady to stupid bitch slut, no matter how niche this fetish is, is NOT a novel concept by any means. For those of who are into bimbofication as a revenge fantasy, its pretty much basic misogyny, no different than Pygmalion's, just in a different direction.

[lizbethborden]

Hi again! Yeah, from your bookshelf! You seem well informed and I wanna know the type of stuff you read and might recommend. I don't even know what to tell you for my interests because I feel like I'm just begining. Sorry I'm young and dumb still haha.

#1 you're not dumb and #2 nothing to apologize for :)

Here's some books I've got on my shelves or that I've read:

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, Laura Bates

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, Katha Pollitt

Women, Race, & Class, Angela Davis

American Girls, Nancy Jo Sales

Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, eds. Julia Penelope and Susan J Wolf

Lesbian Studies, Margaret Cavendish

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

Against White Feminism, Rafia Zakaria

Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, eds Joan Nestle and John Preston

Another Mother Tongue, Judy Grahn

Aimee & Jaguar, Erica Fischer

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, ed. Briona Simone Jones

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell

The Mary Daly Reader, eds. Jennifer Rycenga and Linda Barufaldi

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, eds. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey Jr.

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Cordelia Fine

Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father's Tongue, Julia Penelope

The Resisting Reader, Judith Fetterley

The Double X Economy, Linda Scott

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, ed. Roxane Gay

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists, Joan Smith

Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women, Scott Stern

The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, Marilyn Frye

Only Words, Catharine A. Mackinnon

Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution, Jennifer Block

Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, Anne Llwellyn Barstow

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado-Perez

Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values, Sarah Lucia Hoagland

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, Andi Zeisler

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, Adrienne Rich

Feminism, Animals, and Science: The Naming of the Shrew, Lynda Birke

The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Susan Rubin Suleiman

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua

Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, Virginia L Blum

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins

Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, Gail Dines

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Marilyn French

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Seeing Like a Feminist, Nivedita Menon

With Her Machete In Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians, Catriona Reuda Esquibel

The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture, Bonnie J. Morris

Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, Christopher Nealon

The Persistent Desire: A Butch/Femme Reader, ed. Joan Nestle

The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Monique Wittig

The Trouble Between us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, Winifred Breines

Right-Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin

Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin

Why I Am Not A Feminist, Jessica Crispin

Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women, Leila J Rupp

I tried to avoid too many left turns into my specific interests although if you passionately want to know any of those, I can make you some more lists LOL

I would suggest picking a book that sounds interesting and using the footnotes and bibliography to find more to read. I've done that a lot :) a lot of my books have more sticky tabs or w/e in the bibliography than in the text so I don't lose stuff I'm interested in.

Hope this helps!

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

LOL!!

[misfitwashere]

Even before a word was uttered, it was difficult to believe what we saw. So much hype. So many emotions. So many watching. So much on the line.

At the end, a commentator on MSNBC, as well as former Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe, called it “kind of a Defcon 1 moment.” The fate of democracy, this election, had reached a threat level of DEFCON 1. Some called for Biden to step aside.

Meanwhile, columnist Scott Dworkin said Biden won the debate by a landslide and DT should’ve stayed home. He had good reasons to say so, but a landslide? No, or at least not at first look.

While Biden was giving his first, halting, almost indecipherable response, looking like he had a cold or the flu, DT seemed to be smirking. Like he had caught the opponent he had long dreamed of. Like he had his enemy in a trap and was salivating at the thought of attack. And attack he did. That was all he did all night. Attack. He showed he was good at attacking. But we all knew that.

He showed that he was just familiar enough with truth to know how to fashion the most outrageous lies. He knew he was a criminal, so he called President Biden a criminal. He knew he was an incompetent President, so he accused Biden of being one. He knew he disparaged soldiers and the military as “suckers and losers”; he knew he had said of Senator John McCain, a captured war hero, “He’s not a war hero…I like people who weren’t captured.” So, at the debate he denied calling soldiers “suckers and losers,” and attacked Biden’s use of the military.

In contrast with Biden, who shows empathy and concern for others, DT cares almost nothing about anyone but himself. So, in the debate he said he had a gigantic heart. Come on. He knew he struggled with mental acuity, so he claimed he had passed competency tests. Look at me, the genius. The genius who avoided more questions than he answered. A genius who had sacrificed millions to COVID through his malignant incompetence and lies.

A genius who used lines modeled on or borrowed from Hitler. A genius who pushed tax cuts to the rich, calling them a tax cut for all. But it resulted in a tremendous increase in the debt, and a tremendous shift of wealth and power to the rich, leaving the rest of us to pick up the bills. A genius at deception, at lies, yes.

In fact, the section of the debate on the economy was, according to Dworkin and others, one of Biden’s best moments. “There was no inflation when I became president,” Joe Biden said. “You know why? The economy was flat on its back. He decimated the economy. Absolutely decimated the economy. That is why there was no inflation at the time. There were no jobs.” Biden mentioned DT’s new tax plan for the rich which would, according to most economists, cripple our economy and raise the de facto tax burden for 99% of us up to $8300, while reducing the burden on the superrich.

Biden’s real-time performance on the economy, jobs, rebuilding infrastructure was amazing, especially considering the toxic opposition of most GOP. Biden led the way for the passage of the Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act, The American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, Chips and Science Act, etc. He added jobs at a record rate⎼ averaging about 400,000 jobs a month since February 2021, while lowering unemployment, raising wages, stimulating the economy to grow at a rate of 3.1%, and defying the expectations of a recession that haunted 2020-2023.

DT was asked about childcare and avoided the question. He was asked about Jan. 6, how he would save Social Security, and would he honor election results, etc. And instead of answering the questions, he tried to bury them. He attacked back, with always the same, racist sounding lies about millions of rapists, escapees from mental hospitals and prisons, criminals coming across the border, taking away jobs and undermining social security. No proof. No facts. Just his own nightmares or hate utilized for political advantage.

During a speech to Christian conservatists and later in Philadelphia recently, he suggested restricting immigration by establishing a ”migrant league of fighters,” forcing migrants to fight each other⎼ did he mean like the Roman colosseum?

And this was what so frightened me and led Dworkin and others to say DT should’ve stayed home. His responses to question were so ridiculous, so obviously untrue, I at first started to laugh. But halfway through the laugh, my mouth froze, and my body shuddered at the sheer maliciousness and implications of much of what he had said.

And I realized that I had hoped Biden would save us from DT & Co.’s march to fascism, or Christian Nationalism, or Putin, or “just” complete autocracy⎼ or whatever the nightmare is. Only action by all or enough of us can save us. Only if enough of us step up, speak out, and vote, for Democrats, no matter how tough it might be. Only if enough of us don’t let fear or fantasy take over, make us hide, not vote, or run to some false savior, like RFK, who’s fantasy is funded by many of the same people who fund and want DT in power.

We can’t let a wish for something perfect, or fear of what we face destroy the possibility of what we might yet be able to create. It’s up to us how we respond. This is the real debate: how will each of us respond?

[fans4wga]

[image ID: tweet from Scott Dworkin @/funder that says, "Inigo Montoya #SolidaritySummer." Image attached is of actor Mandy Patinkin (Inigo from The Princess Bride,) on the picket line. His sign reads, "You killed residuals, Prepare to pay!" end ID.]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Scott Dworkin at The Dworkin Report:

In the White House Press Briefing Room on Friday, John Ashbrook was put right up front, in a spot normally reserved for staff. Ashbrook, host of a pro-GOP podcast, was given the red-carpet treatment as he filled Trump’s “new media” seat. His “hard-hitting” question sounded completely staged, asking if the Press Secretary personally thought the media was out of touch. What an absolute joke. Since this “new media” seat idea was announced Tuesday, a right-winger from Breitbart has also asked the first question. It seems to be Trump’s new weapon against the Press—having scripted questions that allow Donald to more easily spread his lies. Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the new seat is needed, because trust in the media is at an all-time low. Funny how she didn’t mention the enormous role her pathological liar of a boss played in all that.

It’s not just at the White House where things are getting bad for corporate media. Trump also had his disgrace of a Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, make sweeping changes with the Pentagon Press Corps.

NBC News, NPR, The NY Times, and Politico were all kicked out of their workspaces, and replaced with maga propaganda outlets One America News, Breitbart, the New York Post, and randomly—HuffPost. NBC stated they were “disappointed,” and The NY Times said it was a “concerning development.” Sounds like Susan Collins wrote those responses. Kevin Baron, a former VP of the Pentagon Press Association, called the changes an “erasure of journalism at the Pentagon…replaced with fake news partisans…for fake balance.” This is why corporate media should’ve never bent the knee to Trump. Mika and Joe needed to stay home. ABC News shouldn’t have settled. Neither should Paramount. Trump cutting off access to the Press is just the beginning. We warned them, but they clearly didn’t listen. And in the end, the American people will pay the price for it. Lies and fake news manufactured by the White House, looks to become the norm.

Scott Dworkin wrote a gem on the legacy media outlets who obeyed in advance still got burnt by Tyrant Trump and his spokespropagandist Karoline Leavitt.

See Also:

The Guardian: ‘He’s become America’s assignment editor’: US media owners bend to Trump

[yourreddancer]

Some Good News In A World Of Trump's Mayhem

Onward.

Scott Dworkin

Feb 14, 2025

After another week of Trump and Musk’s madness, I wanted to share some good news—even if some of it is temporary.

All across America, the opposition continues to rise up. In the last few days we’ve seen thousands of anti-Trump protesters gather in California, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, DC, and other states across the country.

Just yesterday, Democrats held a large demonstration outside of the VA building to oppose Trump and DOGE’s slashing of the federal workforce.

Standing alongside union leaders, Veterans, and dozens of agency employees, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said: “Elon Musk: Nine million veterans are watching you give them the middle finger, and we're not going to stand for it.”

In courts and lawsuits all over the country, Trump’s unhinged executive orders are being picked apart one at a time.

On Wednesday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ripped Donald for unlawfully firing a top government watchdog, and ordered they be reinstated—at least for now. In a scathing footnote of the order, the Judge wrote: “It's as if the bull in the china shop looked back over his shoulder and said, ‘What a mess!’”

PA Gov. Josh Shapiro is suing the Trump Administration for the ongoing federal funding freeze. And Kentucky joined a list of nearly two dozen states that have filed a larger suit to reinstate around $1.2 billion in suspended federal grants.

Following a sharp decrease in attendance, Denver’s public school system is suing the Trump Administration over its policy of allowing ICE in schools. If successful, the lawsuit could result in a nationwide ban of ICE entering classrooms.

Attorney Norm Eisen also filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and DOGE for “violating the Constitution.” Norm, who was once President Obama’s ethics czar, has also filed suit to prevent the release of identities of FBI agents who investigated Trump.

The courts aren’t the only place Trump is getting embarrassed. After Donald announced that he and Putin would broker a peace deal for Ukraine, world leaders stood up and spoke out.

“There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine,” UK’s Secretary of State for Defence John Healey said. French President Emmanuel Macron said it’s up to Zelensky “alone” to discuss these “sovereignty issues.”

Lastly, Trump and Musk refuse to reveal any tangible proof of fraud they’ve claimed to uncover. This makes them look like the complete and utter failures they are.

Our Watchdog Coalition just launched our campaigns to fight cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security—and to end the DOGE coup. In total, we’ve already made 12,000 calls and sent more than 164,000 letters to Congress from their constituents.

We’re starting to build some real momentum, but there’s still a long way to go—and right now, more than ever, we need all hands on deck.

[fahrni]

Dworkin for Nazi’s

Political Reporter Scott Dworkin has a blog and a newsletter published via Substack.🤮 He should, of course, move it to something like Ghost or Buttondown or Beehiiv

But, if Mr. Dworkin is fine publishing his work using a Nazi supporting platform, he should, at minimum, change his domain name. Why would you use Substack in your domain name? I mean dworkinsubstack.com ties your content directly to a single platform. It’s right there in the name! Your content belongs to you, not Substack.

Here are a few suggestions for you:

dworkinforaliving.com dworkinreport.com dworkin.blog

I personally like Dworkin for a Living but the other two are pretty good if I do say so myself.

Mr. Dworkin, please, move your work to a better platform. Maybe one that doesn’t allow Nazi’s to spew hate, misinformation, and disinformation on their platform. Then get a new domain name. They’re cheap.

[cyarskj1899]

No one deserves it more! suffer!😂😂😂