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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 4h

One of the things I really appreciate about an author like Toni Morrison is that she can have her characters utter a righteous condemnation of dominant culture and then, on the same page, do some flawed, messy shit that nonetheless never invalidates the critique.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

I think a lot of dysfunction on here comes from the idea that suffering makes you right and the more you suffer, the righter you are. Thus, whenever a person who is in some way disadvantaged disagrees with you, it becomes imperative to argue they aren't the right kind of trans, black, etc.

Puchainus McBussy @namitomoon.bsky.social · 12h

I've seen in some left-leaning circles a weird obsession of labelling white trans people as racists or saying there's a huge epidemic of KKK racism among the trans community and can't help but think is basically this but with transphobia

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 5h

Can’t trick me, I listened to Men We Reaped!

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

I think a lot of dysfunction on here comes from the idea that suffering makes you right and the more you suffer, the righter you are. Thus, whenever a person who is in some way disadvantaged disagrees with you, it becomes imperative to argue they aren't the right kind of trans, black, etc.

Puchainus McBussy @namitomoon.bsky.social · 12h

I've seen in some left-leaning circles a weird obsession of labelling white trans people as racists or saying there's a huge epidemic of KKK racism among the trans community and can't help but think is basically this but with transphobia

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 5h

Wait how did you know

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

Listening to even liberal Europeans talk about immigration is enough to make even the most accommodationist Democrat go pale

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 13h

MAKE IT STOP

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 6h

Being a Hater is so goated

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6h

Blue Jays are blasting Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” during their celebration

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 6h

I don't know what of the old constitution is left anyway if the president has absolute immunity and all the enumerated Article I powers are actually plenary powers of the president. It's the opposite of what our constitution had meant for 250 years, and is unknown in English tradition.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 5h

Me, circa 2061, to my grandkids: "Yeah so the frog guy becoming a good thing again was a major turning point in 2025..."

J@c0b @reubenemoji.bsky.social · 6h

My mom was like “why is it the frog? Isn’t the frog a bad thing?” (Re: Pepe)

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Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 6h

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 6h

Wow.

Alan Fossler @alanfossler.bsky.social · 7h

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Abbott threatens to withhold funding from Texas cities www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Metro to remove pride crosswalk after Abbott threatens to withhold funding

He threatened to withhold road funding from cities and counties if they do not remove “political ideologies” from their streets.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 8h

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 6h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · Feb 17

The mistake some make imho is they recognize that language policing shouldn't be practically significant (because it really doesn't matter much and you can ignore it) and assume it must therefore have no political significance (in fact, it drives people crazy).

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Feb 18

Despite not being Extremely Mad about it, I feel compelled to say the language policing absolutely exists at universities and is annoying. That said I think professors and writers tend to general an annoying thing about their workplace to the world at large.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Feb 17

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · Feb 17

This take is worth what you paid for it, but I think the language policing stuff has outsized political significance.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 6h

Well you’re not allowed out after that either!

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 6h

the implication of this belief is an ethical imperative to dissolve the United States

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, ezra basically believes that left-liberalism is doomed and we have to dislodge the current ruling party at whatever cost with whatever coalition we can piece together. its extrapolating way too much from 2024 which was more about the overarching landscape than the policy or messaging

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10d

just my two cents on Ezra Klein: he is generally good on policy and his work on things like housing is helpful

the problem is that his punditry is misguided for two reasons:

1) he is not skeptical enough of right wing bad faith

2) he is acting like the U.S. is Hungary, where the right is popular

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 6h

You’ll be in bed by 9:30

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.social · 10h

The White House just announced that Trump would be going to Walter Reed on Friday for his annual physical.

Except... Trump already had his annual physical in April.

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 8h

Ubisoft cancelled the greatest game concept of all time

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 8h

Oh hey you guys, I haven't had a chance to introduce myself while we move into new offices. But I look forward to working together and hope we will chat soon.

Signed,
Antifa's Leader's Girlfriend's Personal Assistant

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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 8h

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