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Boytits Ascendant

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queer. trans. anarchist. they/them. anti-tankie. anti-dirtbag. altruistic individualist. agency maximizing consequentialist. southerner on the west coast. aggressively pro youth lib. "nominally polyamorous" 👀

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · Jan 20

"Not having friends anymore is worse than BEING SENT TO LITERAL PRISON FOR YEARSSS" 😭😭😭 - every abuser and apologist ever

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 5h

This would be extremely funny as an SNL bit, unfortunately it's not one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 5h

9th Cir. grants an administrative stay blocking Judge Immergut's order that the National Guard not be federalized, but notes that bc DOJ didn't appeal her second order forbidding their deployment the effect is that the NG can be federalized during continuing litigation, but not deployed to Portland.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 6h

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment [ca9])"
Doc #53: UPDATED ORDER FOR PUBLICATION FILED. (Susan P. GRABER, Ryan D. NELSON, Bridget S. BADE) Update: attached reformatted order. [Entered: 10/10/2025 04:15 PM]

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 1d

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 1d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more frustrating things about modern society is the influence of people who are completely full of shit.

Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Taibbi's co-host, Walter Kirn, compares Democrats who oppose Trump's immigration crackdowns to Southern politicians who opposed school integration in the 1960s, and equates the National Guard protecting the Little Rock 9 to the National Guard abducting immigrants now.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 1d

*banging my head on my desk*

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: DOJ filed a notice that it is appealing the 14-day TRO, an order that is not generally appealable. This will go to the Seventh Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
STATE OF ILLINOIS and the CITY OF CHICAGO,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 1:25-cv-12174
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., in their official capacities,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF APPEAL
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that all Defendants in the above-captioned case hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from this Court's October 9, 2025, Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction. ECF No.
67.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 8h

And frankly I have no idea how to model that one and how it interacts with all of the other bubbles but 100% true reciprocal tariff on China is the economy shooting itself in the balls

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 8h

Normally when an economy collapses it's one giant bubble that pops all of the related bubbles but right now we have the giant AI bubble functioning as a normal collapse bubble and also there's an about 1 in 100 chance every day the President blows up the economy

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

Being rejected/disliked by their ingroup/community

Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

them plain as day?" That doesn't make sense! The answer is likely because for an uncomfortably large number of people being liked/disliked literally feels like life or death and unless they confront that and get it under control they just will let it run their lives and they'll do anything to avoid

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

Idk, the tdlr here is like any time you've ever asked yourself something like, "why did this person do this thing that was obviously wrong/bad or actively short-sighted/unhelpful just made the situation worse when like the clear logical and ethical action was both simple and right there in front of

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

I have kinda had to update my understanding of both how my own autism colors my thinking about certain social/relational stuff and how much of an outlier I am as well as how crucial/motivating the need for belonging/community actually is for most humans

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

It's hard for me to describe bc its not at all relatable for me personally and obvs it took a children's movie for me to fully understand that emotional experience, but given how much Rumi's story resonates with folks and how it helped me understand what was going on for someone else in my life

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

Like, there genuinely is a large chunk of the population, if not the majority of allistic people, for whom lack of belonging/social rejection/relationship rupture feels so painful and specifically feels like a direct attack on their sense of self-worth that they will do anything to avoid it

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

Or to rephrase it where you have the type of autism where what other people think of you just isn't a particularly important factor in your self worth/sense of self, you likely have a VERY different experience of shame than the average allistic person

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

Like shame is at its core an emotion that is about our sense of belonging and about what other people think of us and if you got the flavor of autism where you just kind of lack that drive for community/belonging or where it is significantly diminished compared to an allistic

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 14h

Ok, tbc I don't think it's exclusively an allistic thing bc autistic ppl come in lots and lots of flavors, but I do think it is true of like a solid majority of allistics whereas I do think there's a solid chunk of autistic folks for whom shame just doesn't really hit in the same way

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 23h

Anyway, sorry for my extremely long reply here I'm just kinda obsessed with all the different layers of media analysis that can be pulled from this movie and lowkey would write like several different essays about various different social/emotional lessons that can be extracted from it, lol

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 23h

Unethical choices esp if coercion is being applied. And tbh that's honestly been a really weird one to sit with, that like... some people genuinely do need unconditional positive regard as a prerequisite to do the right thing and that actually those people probably greatly out number you and I 😬😵‍💫

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 23h

W/ shame VERY different from the vast majority of allistics and it did in fact literally take watching this children's movie for me to understand shame-based avoidant behavior in other people and how believing one's self to be an irredeemably bad person can make someone more inclined to make

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Boytits Ascendant @boytits.bsky.social · 23h

Abusive dynamics. Though tbc, I think that one of the big central themes of the movie (shame can be a huge inhibitor of moral/ethical behavior) would not have landed for me if I had seen the movie at an earlier point in my life bc I think that my specific flavor of autism makes my relationship

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