Zombified Chawkeye
@chawkeye.bsky.social
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He/him. Het, not always the cis-iest. Hard books, dark music, heavy weights, sportsball, MPLS, left politics, cats, nail polish. Dead-in sentient weighted blanket, high shelf reacher/handchiller/footbonerest, spouse for @zanadu.bsky.social
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Nobody gets away with throwing a sandwich in Pam Bondi's Amerikkka!!!
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Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).
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zanadu.bsky.social
When you are eepy but also just heard a food refill.

#CatsOfBluesky
A brownish and black tabby cat with a white chin who was sleeping on a pad on a desk until she heard food going into her bowl and opened her eyes
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The Strib’s Karen Tolkkinen has devoted column after column after column to her stubborn belief that trans kids are destroying opportunities for girls to compete in sports at school.

It’s her weird mission. She’s fucking obsessed.

Anyway, great letter from Max Maher today.
Karen Tolkkinen's column "Transgender athletes should not compete with girls, but everyone deserves a place to play" (StarTribune.com, Oct. 9) builds its case on emotion, not evi-dence. She acknowledges that "nobody knows how common" transgender athletes are in Minnesota, yet argues for restrictive policies anyway. That's not fairness; that's fear.

There's also no evidence that transgender participation has taken opportunities from anyone. The Minnesota State High School League already reviews eligibility case by case to ensure both inclusion and competitive balance. The system is working as intended - quietly and responsibly.

The idea that girls are being forced to sacrifice is a political talking point, not a measurable fact. What's really being asked of us is whether we believe every student deserves a place to belong, even those whose identity or experience we may not fully understand.

High school sports were never just about winning. They teach teamwork, discipline and self-respect, lessons that lose meaning if we start excluding students who simply want to play. Protecting opportunity for all young people is how we strengthen fairness, not weaken it.

MAX MAHER, Plymouth
chawkeye.bsky.social
One of my sons' (and mine) favorite movies. The chase scene never fails.
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I don’t know always what’s going on in there, but it’s captivating all right
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#Totentanz2025
#MusicChallenge
Day 14

...It hurt to lose you, but I lost myself too...
chawkeye.bsky.social
#KillerTunes
#MusicChallenge
Day 14: Corner, The Wolf House.

...But he calls me up, calls me on the phone...
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#Howl-A-Ween
#MusicChallenge
14: Creepy.

...Run and hide from all the creepies that go bump in the night...
chawkeye.bsky.social
#DebutDecadesSingles
#MusicChallenge
Wk 2, Day 7: The 70s (wrapup)

I can only wonder how many bands The Cure have influenced. Entire scenes of music have been created out of Robert's voice and guitar.

...Whichever I choose, it amounts to the same: absolutely nothing...
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 14: Song by a band with an animal or place in their name.

...Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere...
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#ArtistTop15
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2

...There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer...
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#80sTop30
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14

From 1983.
...Sail to me; let me enfold you...
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zanadu.bsky.social
Your guess is as good as mine….?

#CatsOfBluesky
A brownish and black tabby cat with a white chin, Obi-Wan Katnobi, stands awkwardly on a chair pad while staring at the wall.
chawkeye.bsky.social
As a card-carrying member of The Olds™️, today I had to learn how to copy and paste links on my phone.
I did not enjoy this lesson.
When did I start not enjoying lessons?
chawkeye.bsky.social
Nevermore have we needed a bye week
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The Ravens are off to their worst start since 2015 😬
chawkeye.bsky.social
Not exactly an #Earworm, or a daily #Challenge, just a thank you to a guy who was the powerhouse of a band.
Thanks, John.
Simply Magic
YouTube video by John Lodge - Topic
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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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#Totentanz2025
#MusicChallenge
Day 13

...the thinking kills the feeling...
chawkeye.bsky.social
#KillerTunes
#MusicChallenge
Day 13: Regan, 'The Exorcist.'

...Leave a message and I'll call you back...
chawkeye.bsky.social
#Howl-A-Ween
#MusicChallenge
13: Bad luck.

...Seven years of bad luck, the good thing is in your past...
chawkeye.bsky.social
#DebutDecadesSingles
#MusicChallenge
Wk 2, Day 6: The 70s.

As big a fan of Ultravox as I am, I had to get their first single. John Foxx was a major influence on what would come after him, and before him (Bowie, Bolan). A reggae backbeat here?

...oh take off your halo, for the all-night inferno...
chawkeye.bsky.social
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 13: A song from the last album I bought.

...that long black train took my baby home...