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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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h

The story of how a holiday originally instituted to celebrate an embattled immigrant community seen as culturally and at times racially distinct from Anglo Protestants, has become associated with the same political coalition that hates immigrants today, is the story of whiteness in America.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 3h

Do I need to have seen Madame Web before Kiss of the Spider-Woman?

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 3h

There is only one man who fronts Years & Years and he kicked out the other members and now just performs under his own name

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 3h

is this not the consensus gay opinion?

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 3h

A Little Life is a trash piece of manipulative torture porn that shows a deep hatred of its characters and gay men, in general. And, it’s poorly written.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 4h

gay sex is for the lesbians when it includes a monumental amount of fanfiction

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 4h

I have never seen so many lesbians online be excited about gay men fucking and gay men be so indifferent to gay men fucking

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 4h

also, their fanbase appears to largely be lesbians & non binary people who were active on peak 2010s tumblr, whereas the reaction of most gay men seems to be “who?”

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 5h

the generational divide between “grew up on the pre-YouTube internet” vs “grew up developing parasocial relationships with YouTubers” is extremely evident here, where the QTs are all either “I always believed this was true & have never been prouder of anyone in my life” or “who are they?”

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 7h

🚨Dan and Phil confirm they’ve been in a relationship for almost 16 years.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12h

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 12h

I would not have known about this had it not been for local indigenous folk there posting here.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 13h

But did a chipmunk see you?

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 15h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 16h

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

so I’m not sure if combining the two cancels that distrust out or amplifies it.

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

I generally trust neither poutine nor shawarma in Toronto because the best Lebanese food and the best Quebecois food both tend to be in francophone population centres.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

and it looks phenomenal. they have basically outlawed this amount of color in movies these days.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

you can clearly see the influence of burton’s batman on the film (to say nothing of the elfman score). and i’ll say, in relation to the franchise dreck that passes for blockbuster films these days, DICK TRACY at least makes *choices*. it has a *vision*.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

to everyone saying it wasn’t a hit: it had the third highest opening weekend of 1990 and it was the 9th highest grossing film of the year

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow I'm guessing the usual suspects who crow about "religious freedom" when it comes to bakers not wanting to bake cakes for queer weddings, will have nothing to say about religious freedom here. www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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