Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️🌈✡️
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Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
· Nov 17
to misquote @kierongillen.bsky.social: I don’t believe in modern love, but do believe in ‘This Modern Love’.
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I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them
Back in 2011, the crew over at @singlesjukebox.bsky.social reviewed what we thought was a new Ke$ha single and a bunch of us really loved it (myself included) but then it turned out it was just a leak and was never released…
Ke$ha – Shots On The Hood Of My Car – The Singles Jukebox
thesinglesjukebox.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Back in 2011, the crew over at @singlesjukebox.bsky.social reviewed what we thought was a new Ke$ha single and a bunch of us really loved it (myself included) but then it turned out it was just a leak and was never released…
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Talked about my work in audiobooks with a family member and just found out that he asked my sister if she knows who “Charles Tingle” is
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Talked about my work in audiobooks with a family member and just found out that he asked my sister if she knows who “Charles Tingle” is
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The purpose of life has been agreed upon by a committee of atheists, religious scholars and spiritual leaders:
It turns out that the true and objective purpose of life is to scratch cats behind their ears.
It turns out that the true and objective purpose of life is to scratch cats behind their ears.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The purpose of life has been agreed upon by a committee of atheists, religious scholars and spiritual leaders:
It turns out that the true and objective purpose of life is to scratch cats behind their ears.
It turns out that the true and objective purpose of life is to scratch cats behind their ears.
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the wildest thing is that this weird confession, which wild horses couldn't drag out of most people, was shared completely unsolicited with a journo doing a glinner puff piece, not tricked out of him by chotiner or something
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
the wildest thing is that this weird confession, which wild horses couldn't drag out of most people, was shared completely unsolicited with a journo doing a glinner puff piece, not tricked out of him by chotiner or something
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Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.
He directly cites today's MOU:
He directly cites today's MOU:
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.
He directly cites today's MOU:
He directly cites today's MOU:
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“Diplomats should “regularly engage host governments and their respective authorities to raise U.S. concerns about violent crimes associated with people of a migration background.”
People of a migration background?
People of a migration background?
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“Diplomats should “regularly engage host governments and their respective authorities to raise U.S. concerns about violent crimes associated with people of a migration background.”
People of a migration background?
People of a migration background?
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One thing about the end of the latest piece from Ryan Lizza about how corrupt Olivia Nuzzi is: the artist mentioned here is the same one who Vanity Fair commissioned to do the "abstract nude" painting of Nuzzi
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One thing about the end of the latest piece from Ryan Lizza about how corrupt Olivia Nuzzi is: the artist mentioned here is the same one who Vanity Fair commissioned to do the "abstract nude" painting of Nuzzi
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unbelievable behavior from everyone involved here - Nuzzi for doing catch and kill, Lizza for sitting on this shit so he can sell newsletter subscriptions, RFK for existing
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
unbelievable behavior from everyone involved here - Nuzzi for doing catch and kill, Lizza for sitting on this shit so he can sell newsletter subscriptions, RFK for existing
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
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“‘If Haiti doesn’t warrant TPS, which country does?’ said Guerline Jozef, co-founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a San Diego immigrant rights group. ‘For this news to come on the eve of Thanksgiving is devastating.’” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
www.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“‘If Haiti doesn’t warrant TPS, which country does?’ said Guerline Jozef, co-founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a San Diego immigrant rights group. ‘For this news to come on the eve of Thanksgiving is devastating.’” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Truly baffling that Lizza held onto the most important and serious allegations - all of the details of the supposed catch & kills and work as a de facto political operative for RFK - until Part 3, first transparently trying to titillate people with gossip and sex.
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Truly baffling that Lizza held onto the most important and serious allegations - all of the details of the supposed catch & kills and work as a de facto political operative for RFK - until Part 3, first transparently trying to titillate people with gossip and sex.
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Annnnnnd now the West Virginia governor says he's not sure about the condition of the National Guardsmen.
Maybe best to not tweet out that they are both dead until, you know, you KNOW that is absolutely the case...
Maybe best to not tweet out that they are both dead until, you know, you KNOW that is absolutely the case...
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Annnnnnd now the West Virginia governor says he's not sure about the condition of the National Guardsmen.
Maybe best to not tweet out that they are both dead until, you know, you KNOW that is absolutely the case...
Maybe best to not tweet out that they are both dead until, you know, you KNOW that is absolutely the case...
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DC police say they have a suspect in custody, say scene is "secured". Suggests they're pretty confident they have captured the shooter.
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
DC police say they have a suspect in custody, say scene is "secured". Suggests they're pretty confident they have captured the shooter.
Well, I’m sure that the Trump administration won’t use this to try to justify even more repressive and authoritarian measures in DC or anywhere else.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well, I’m sure that the Trump administration won’t use this to try to justify even more repressive and authoritarian measures in DC or anywhere else.
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best we've got right now is Murdoch Mysteries, a detective show set in late 1800's Toronto, where the lead characters regularly invent modern technology by accident. Detective Murdoch created the Roomba. Tatiana Maslany's brother plays a gay jewish cop. It's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
best we've got right now is Murdoch Mysteries, a detective show set in late 1800's Toronto, where the lead characters regularly invent modern technology by accident. Detective Murdoch created the Roomba. Tatiana Maslany's brother plays a gay jewish cop. It's incredible.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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These two quotes really really *really* make it look like ICE was used to “resolve”’ a custody dispute.
![Michael Leavitt released a statement to media outlets on Tuesday evening saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u37ojtrgyezq2haj2awk622j/bafkreiegpexbyrargqiayaisaup2i7s4toxrz5wmzi44n2j4aqs2amfi6u@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
These two quotes really really *really* make it look like ICE was used to “resolve”’ a custody dispute.
People keep posting about how “maybe Leavitt will learn a lesson now that it’s happening to her sister-in-law” and…you are missing a key point. The woman is Leavitt’s brother’s *ex* & Leavitt’s entire family - including her brother & his new wife - seem pretty eager to deport this woman.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
People keep posting about how “maybe Leavitt will learn a lesson now that it’s happening to her sister-in-law” and…you are missing a key point. The woman is Leavitt’s brother’s *ex* & Leavitt’s entire family - including her brother & his new wife - seem pretty eager to deport this woman.
As predicted, the White House Press Secretary’s brother and her father are telling his ex-fiancée & mother of his son, a DACA-protected immigrant whose final green card interview is already scheduled, that she should “self-deport” to a country she hasn’t lived in since she was 6 years old.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As predicted, the White House Press Secretary’s brother and her father are telling his ex-fiancée & mother of his son, a DACA-protected immigrant whose final green card interview is already scheduled, that she should “self-deport” to a country she hasn’t lived in since she was 6 years old.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
Libraries exist! You can get a library card! And request the book from the library! You may need to wait a few days, but like…there are ways for you to read books for free that *still* don’t deprive authors of compensation for their labour.
These are pretty naked -- and therefore instructive -- examples of the sorts of defenses that people offer to try and get off the hook
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Libraries exist! You can get a library card! And request the book from the library! You may need to wait a few days, but like…there are ways for you to read books for free that *still* don’t deprive authors of compensation for their labour.
The son lives with Leavitt’s brother and his wife. The ex was in the US under DACA protections, but was in the process of getting legal status. Conveniently for the brother, she’s now been arrested and may be deported just before she was about to obtain legal residency status.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The son lives with Leavitt’s brother and his wife. The ex was in the US under DACA protections, but was in the process of getting legal status. Conveniently for the brother, she’s now been arrested and may be deported just before she was about to obtain legal residency status.