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Mozelle Baitise Delacroix’s only son. @wanderingdruid3300.bsky.social · 7h

I just got back from a walk. While I was walking through the park, a little white boy and his father flagged me down from the very other end of the park. Now to be fair, I have on my hat on, so I’m easy to spot lol. The little boy drew me this. A month ago. He has been waiting to see me again.

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 7h

Text from my spouse

Text from my husband : “Dick Cheney!!!!”
My reply: “I assume he is dead because of the level of glee implied!”

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 2d

No idea. I’m wondering in what YEAR she experienced this as a thing, and whether it was post-1980s (which would shock me).

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 2d

Eventually, she decided she’d break the candy into tiny pieces before allowing her kids to eat it.

But some other moms were like, “You’d better hope no one dosed it with antifreeze.”

If these are your worries, maybe don’t do trick-or-treating?

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 2d

She actually called the nonemergency number for the police department to inquire about it and “[they] sounded surprised by the question?? I’m going to physically throw up … there are so many bad people here.”

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 2d

My sister-in-law forwarded (in a “Get a load of this shit” way) a post from the local FB moms group, lamenting that there were NO sites set up to get your kids’ Halloween candy X-rayed.

Someone replied, “I’ve lived in nine states and have never heard of this.”

The OP: “Sad.”

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 4d

H-how is she even enjoying this?

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 4d

My daughter has a friend over and they’re watching Wicked: the first time for the friend.

She is already familiar with the soundtrack and Original Broadway Cast Recording, though.

She is NOT familiar with The Wizard of Oz. Never seen the movie. Hasn’t read the book. Doesn’t know the story.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 6d

I am frankly sick of all the people who insist “so and so seemed off from the start.”

Stop lying. Sometimes bad people are very charming and likable and you liked them and that’s fine.

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 6d

Some excerpts from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on the "table flipping" incident. Note the last sentence in the second image: "[Professor Alvergue] recalled the people at the table snickering at him, which he believed was because he wore a T-shirt and pin promoting transgender rights."

Alvergue, who joined UW-Eau Claire in 2013, said he was feeling overwhelmed by the election and Elon Musk's attempts to sway Wisconsin voters with $1 million checks. As the child of immigrants, he said he was also distressed by the Trump administration's mass deportations.

"I still care about these things, "he said. "But that doesn't mean I get to go out and knock tables over."

Accounts vary on how aggressive Alvergue was when he flipped the table. Bobrowicz called the incident "violent." A student witness unaffiliated with the College Republicans described it as "very non-violent," the report said. Another witness said Alvergue seemed "a little upset."

Alvergue initially denied flipping the table to a police officer, according to the police report. He later portrayed the table-flipping as accidental instead of intentional, saying his pinky finger caught on the table when he tried clearing off the buttons and stickers, causing it to collapse. He recalled the people at the table snickering at him, which he believed was because he wore a T-shirt and pin promoting transgender rights.

The widely circulated photo of the incident's "casualties": some pamphlets, pinback buttons, and wrapped candy, scattered on the pavement

Alvergue said the aftermath of the incident was a scary time for him. He said his home address and information about his family was posted on social media. He said he received dozens of death threats and calls for him to be deported.

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 6d

Some excerpts from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on the "table flipping" incident. Note the last sentence in the second image: "[Professor Alvergue] recalled the people at the table snickering at him, which he believed was because he wore a T-shirt and pin promoting transgender rights."

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 6d

This. It’s not an art project. It’s people’s lives.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 6d

it is a bit frustrating how many people respond to “donate money, not food” with some sorr of response that equates to “that isn’t as fun” as making cutesy bagged meals or “as real” as donating cans

give cans or shelf stable food if it is all you can do. but cash goes so, so, so much further

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 6d

INTERESTINGLY: same students whose outcry led to the suspension of a professor this year, when the group’s information table, promoting conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, was upended by the professor in a confrontation over the display’s proximity to a polling place.

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 6d

Also worth mentioning: the costume that’s seemingly just “rainbow-bedecked Gay at a No Kings rally”.

I don’t know why they had to drag Gandalf into this.

Another screen shot from UW Eau Claire College Republicans Facebook page, depicting their Halloween costume contest. The contestant on the left is wearing a rainbow hoodie, bucket hat, and fanny pack, as well as a (surgical style) face mask. They are holding a small sign that says “No Kings”. There is also someone dressed as Gandalf the Gray in the center, and the aforementioned person in an ICE agent costume on the right. They are all standing in front of a classroom white board. Text reads: “It was great to see everyone dressed up last night! Congrats to our winners on their awesome costumes!”

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 6d

College Republicans at our local (University of Wisconsin system) university, UW-Eau Claire, hosted a Halloween party and costume contest on campus. One of their members dressed as an ICE agent and staged an “arrest” for a photo op.

Screenshot from UW Eau Claire College Republicans Facebook page. An individual wearing jeans, an American flag bandana face covering, and what appears to be a mock tactical vest with the letters ICE on the back pretends to arrest another person, wearing jeans and a white sleeveless shirt. This is happening in front of a classroom white board. Text reads: “It was great to see everyone dressed up last night! Congrats to our winners on their awesome costumes!”

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8d

having the power to decide who eats or not and who gets shelter or not is a lot of power and the christian right is extremely open about wanting to control and mold people. they are 100% in earnest about wanting the government out of any aid help; unqualified aid robs churches of that position

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 8d

He's always kinda been like this.

Screen cap of a Facebook post I wrote on October 10, 2013:

Watching Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) ...

Stuart (before the big "reveal"): "I don't think the mother is so bad after all."

Me: :Stuart, she just killed two people!"

Stuart: "Think about it, though: your husband dies, some other guy makes you buy a motel, then HE dies. How would you feel?"

MaryAlice: "I don't like motels anymore."

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 8d

(We decided it was his inclination toward feminist textual analysis, informing his perception)

(He's a biotech major, btw)

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 8d

My 18-year-old son isn't the most verbose person, so it's been a pleasure having him come home a couple times since being away at college, overflowing with stockpiled conversation-starters.

This weekend, on the drive back to our house: "Has horror, as a genre, *always* been feminist?"

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 9d

My husband is watching an Alan Watts video.

Watts: “You can’t touch the tip of your finger with that same fingertip.”

Me: “I bet I could.”

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 12d

I had to be under conscious sedation for a medical procedure today and, afterwards, in recovery, spent like 10 minutes laboriously composing this text to my husband.

Really thought I was acing coherency.

Screenshot of text message:

I'm doing good. Have have my phone back now. I feel basically normal, but there's a slightly loopy feeling.

I feel normal, but I know there is quite cognitive strangeness.

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 13d

“See? We are so committed to meting out this demonstrably ridiculous and arbitrary cruelty that we are willing to sacrifice one cis boy—our favorite class of human— per annum! Please take us seriously!”

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 13d

They care so much about our Biological Reality, meaning what’s on a piece of paper. It’s so cool how transphobes really are just objectively stupid people.

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Amanda @tacittaciturn.bsky.social · 14d

My 17-year-old’s Algebra II teacher is GOING THROUGH IT.

Parents/guardians of every student in the class got this at 11:00pm on a Sunday.

“I wanted to send out a quick note…”

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 14d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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