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elliott junkyard 🍉

@transarchivist.bsky.social

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full time caretaker, part time rabble rouser. 🔞 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him/xe/xem) working class rants, queer and medieval history, armchair archiving, and niche pop culture references abound. prone to high posting. snail mail zine club 💌 https://ko-fi.com/s/dcc28f448f

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 4h

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4h

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · Aug 26

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25d

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 9h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 6h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 6h

Are these assholes trying to get a bulk discount for Elon's crimes????

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 1d

Seen today on a fence in Port Townsend.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 7h

alt text: two photos of a single person in a long green cloak and brown boots standing with candles on a city sidewalk.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 8h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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Sithty Minutes is Exhausted @sithtyminutes.bsky.social · 7h

We knew this would happen. Literally noted in his confirmation that when a foreign nation asked RFK Jr to help them with some health consulting that measles and other cases spiked after following *his advice*

It’s in the public record. We did this to ourselves

www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 8h

It's absolutely insane how every time straight people are presented with the idea of a lavender marriage they're like, "You will NEVER believe this. It's ABsOLUtely CRAAAAAZY! Definitely a TOTALLY NEW IDEA!!"

Shane O'Neill @shaneisland.bsky.social · 1d

Head a great time reporting this story!!

Gift link: wapo.st/4o44pjK

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 11h

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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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 11h

today's spooky season tubi watch:

she came from the woods (2023)

#filmsky #horrorsky

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She Came From the Woods (2023)

A group of counselors unleashes a decades-old evil, long buried secrets, and bloody mayhem on the last night of summer camp in 1987.

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Rory Michaelson 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @rorymichaelson.com · 14h

Attention gay monster lovers:

To celebrate spooky season and 5 YEARS of Lesser Known Monsters, my ebooks are on sale most places for October!

This includes the first book of the series (Lesser Known Monsters) being 0.99, the accompanying short story collection being FREE, and omnibus for 6.66 💙📚

Amazing artwork shaking a mm couple in a cemetery and the book Lesser Known Monsters and lots of arrows to the two characters labelling the tropes including cinnamon roll turns spicy, dark past seeking redemption, immortal x mortal, monster boyfriend, reluctant chosen one

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 12h

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Voizel @voizel.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone interested in pin up commissions from me? I might ooen two slots this month

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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

But frankly, if your business is entirely run on Stealing Things That Don't Belong To You And Selling Them, I'm fine with you not having a business anymore.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 14h

that sketch had me crying i was laughing so hard

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1
And yet I
dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the
federal case law that applies to this dispute.
FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY
AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM
While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving
Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that
the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By
doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and
condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements.

Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized
Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the
land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate
Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government
employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to
strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2
Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings.
The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8
L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty.
That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John
Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal
government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents
tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would
follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of
white supremacy.
Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong
and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually
sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man
was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils:

Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United
States resembles that of a ward to his guardian.
Id. at 17.
This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward,
was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions.
In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903),
often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,”
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the Court used that rationale to
justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes.
These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities
dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food.
Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and
helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power.
Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L.
Ed. 228 (1886)).
Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that
same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be
both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805
(1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111
(2020).
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Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was
less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes:
I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the
applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of
organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are.
Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to
equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the
conquered. Id. at 23.
In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope
used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages.
[W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become
agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of
humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel.
. . . .
But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states
or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law
of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held
together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or
government, beyond what is required in a savage state.
Id. at 23, 27-28.
This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030
(1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 14h

counting the minutes until some dumb as shit liberal comes along and says something like "don't you think you're overreacting"

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 15h

Trans people are constantly seen as a reasonable sacrifice so that everyone else will be left alone. We might as well be thrown into a volcano.

elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 14h

MOOO-OOOM, the capitalists who want white supremacy are arguing with the capitalists who want to make money again

Daryle Lamont Jenkins @dlj.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, because the government telling us what music we could listen is always the way to go!