Tiara
@dozingreverse.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. 🏳️🌈🎃
Fan of art, horror, history, and cats.
Fan of art, horror, history, and cats.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there
July 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there
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The point is: Copyediting isn't theoretical. (Which is why bots can't do it.) One can only copyedit actual sentences.
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The point is: Copyediting isn't theoretical. (Which is why bots can't do it.) One can only copyedit actual sentences.
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WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant) culture
anything that makes your life better, easier, or somehow reduces pain, strife, tedium, suffering in general, is bad, because you're defined by how much you struggle. The more you suffer, the more jesus-y you are.
I'm not kidding either
anything that makes your life better, easier, or somehow reduces pain, strife, tedium, suffering in general, is bad, because you're defined by how much you struggle. The more you suffer, the more jesus-y you are.
I'm not kidding either
July 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant) culture
anything that makes your life better, easier, or somehow reduces pain, strife, tedium, suffering in general, is bad, because you're defined by how much you struggle. The more you suffer, the more jesus-y you are.
I'm not kidding either
anything that makes your life better, easier, or somehow reduces pain, strife, tedium, suffering in general, is bad, because you're defined by how much you struggle. The more you suffer, the more jesus-y you are.
I'm not kidding either
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A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
![[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidzblpxefncqr2c73v7myen325wvtk767i7rw4zcc32c3hj4gzv5a@jpeg)
July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
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Sometimes you want to write subtle things about the human condition in an increasingly inhumane world and sometimes you just want to write Wolverine kicking the shit out of everybody.
July 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sometimes you want to write subtle things about the human condition in an increasingly inhumane world and sometimes you just want to write Wolverine kicking the shit out of everybody.
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It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
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this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people
July 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people
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We really need to stop focusing on what is "fair" and start focusing on what is just.
"Fair" is "I suffered, so you have to do the same." An obsession with "fairness" leads to white supremacy and transphobia. Fairness is carceral. Justice is not.
"Fair" is "I suffered, so you have to do the same." An obsession with "fairness" leads to white supremacy and transphobia. Fairness is carceral. Justice is not.
July 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We really need to stop focusing on what is "fair" and start focusing on what is just.
"Fair" is "I suffered, so you have to do the same." An obsession with "fairness" leads to white supremacy and transphobia. Fairness is carceral. Justice is not.
"Fair" is "I suffered, so you have to do the same." An obsession with "fairness" leads to white supremacy and transphobia. Fairness is carceral. Justice is not.
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it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office
Woah. Fierce cut-down of the junior justice by the next-most-junior justice.
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
June 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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One of the benefits of reading a lot of history is that you realize how many people who were ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN they were doing a lot of good were, in fact, doing a lot of harm.
Certainty is a hell of a drug. Certainty combined with fame/power is especially dangerous.
Certainty is a hell of a drug. Certainty combined with fame/power is especially dangerous.
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
One of the benefits of reading a lot of history is that you realize how many people who were ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN they were doing a lot of good were, in fact, doing a lot of harm.
Certainty is a hell of a drug. Certainty combined with fame/power is especially dangerous.
Certainty is a hell of a drug. Certainty combined with fame/power is especially dangerous.
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one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights
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It is extremely unclear what this means since I'm pretty sure the left didn't scare medical professionals; the right did.
Exclusive: Rep. Kat Cammack says doctors last year hesitated to treat her ectopic pregnancy. She says the left scared medical professionals by stressing that they could face criminal charges.
Republican’s Life-Threatening Pregnancy Collided With Florida’s Abortion Politics
Due in August with her first child, Rep. Kat Cammack says doctors last year hesitated to treat her ectopic pregnancy.
on.wsj.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It is extremely unclear what this means since I'm pretty sure the left didn't scare medical professionals; the right did.
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A bunch of current and former Fox News employees in and out of government hashed it out and decided, the U.S. is going to war. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...
June 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
A bunch of current and former Fox News employees in and out of government hashed it out and decided, the U.S. is going to war. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...
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i listened to the Ezra Klein/Sarah McBride interview, and her entire position revolves around a completely unproven assertion: the idea what caused the shift in polls away from trans rights is the rhetoric of the left. that might be true, but i haven’t seen any real evidence for it.
June 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
i listened to the Ezra Klein/Sarah McBride interview, and her entire position revolves around a completely unproven assertion: the idea what caused the shift in polls away from trans rights is the rhetoric of the left. that might be true, but i haven’t seen any real evidence for it.
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The transgender rights movement did not "bet on SCOTUS."
Transgender people are just people who are trying to live their lives in peace and happiness and the structures of power, including the legal system up to SCOTUS and media up to the NY Times, have chosen to abuse them for their own ends.
Transgender people are just people who are trying to live their lives in peace and happiness and the structures of power, including the legal system up to SCOTUS and media up to the NY Times, have chosen to abuse them for their own ends.
June 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The transgender rights movement did not "bet on SCOTUS."
Transgender people are just people who are trying to live their lives in peace and happiness and the structures of power, including the legal system up to SCOTUS and media up to the NY Times, have chosen to abuse them for their own ends.
Transgender people are just people who are trying to live their lives in peace and happiness and the structures of power, including the legal system up to SCOTUS and media up to the NY Times, have chosen to abuse them for their own ends.
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I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
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The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
June 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
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It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”
June 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”
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So this is after the Speaker of the House said the Governor of California should be tarred and feathered, slightly disagreeing with the President and his Border Czar who wanted to arrest him, two months after somebody tried to burn the Governor of Pennsylvania and his family alive in their home.
June 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So this is after the Speaker of the House said the Governor of California should be tarred and feathered, slightly disagreeing with the President and his Border Czar who wanted to arrest him, two months after somebody tried to burn the Governor of Pennsylvania and his family alive in their home.