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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 4m

But really all it takes to refute this whole stupid thing is one word: Katrina.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 21m

Even if it only was measured in slurs, are people really going to keep kayfabe about every racist euphemism of the past 30 years? There was a whole goddamn show called “politically incorrect” what do people think was the “political correctness” they were mocking?

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 27m

If this lie about today’s Dem party were true, then it very much would be the Dem party of my grandfather’s youth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 39m

Emmer: "Clearly, the Democrat Party of today is not your grandfather's Democrat Party. They care about one thing and one thing only -- appeasing the radical pro-terrorist wing of their party."

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si oppington (fat general, antifa 3rd battalion) @stillwellgray.ca · 1h

modern life is just seeing yet another potato faced jackass brag about how they're gonna make things suck for other people

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 2h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 1h

IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING TODAY it should be the supreme court. they're hearing a case today that will decide if they *gut the federal law that blocks racial discrimination in voting.* i know that doesn't sound like real life but it is.

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Jazz Tehara 👻 (Spooky mode) @drjazztehara.bsky.social · 1h

Would I, as a student at Oxford, be allowed to stand on a soap box and call for the public flogging of every single racist on campus?

Would that be my right to say?

Or does it only work one way because this sounds awfully like Hague wants the right to say what he wants with impunity.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 2h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1h

Drop everything and read it

lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Movement Law Under Fascism

As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

lpeproject.org

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1h

Bingo

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · Sep 7

A major litmus test for any Democratic presidential candidate should be a commitment to vigorously prosecute everyone in the Trump administration.

I don’t see why this is so much to ask. So many of these crimes are clear cut, with public admissions of mens rea.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 8h

For some time the church’s position had been that they were silently awaiting Christianity’s arrival. Even if they didn’t know it.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 8h

I seriously do not mean this to be a jerk, but this is a topic and dynamic Hungarian political scientists and other researchers like Péter Krekó and Gabor Scheiring have given warnings about this for years.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

If you would please excuse me for a moment.

[screaming in distance]

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

Oh my god.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

And if we consider the history of genocide, gas chambers are not the norm. More often, it’s isolating people from the resources they need to stay alive. 👇

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · Feb 20

Many of the murders in the Armenian Genocide were forced deportations and death marches to inhospitable areas in North Africa and the Middle East.

The German empire murdered over 100,000 Herero and Nama people in Namibia largely by blocking them from leaving the desert. Huge # died of dehydration.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans made a conscious decision to become even more racist after 2012, yes, but they did so in large part because of the realization of the electoral impact of demographic shifts.

Ginni Thomas, wife of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas played a role in the pivot:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounds...

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

Is lying a virtue? Because Vance also must know it’s not college kids.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 9h

All-time classic

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20h

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

Clearly really bad, but honestly the only responsible course of action.

These federal officials are way, way outside even the absurd boundaries sketched by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

And while we’re at it:

- Stephen Miller is a sociopath but he’s also a weirdo model UN idiot. He’s not an evil genius.

- Curtis Yarvin is really quite dumb.

- The Nazis were also dumb and incompetent. The trains actually did not run on time!

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12h

“You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid.“
- @ceaubin.bsky.social

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 22h

True, trying to murder a Jewish Dem politicians and his family during Passover has all the hallmarks of Leftist violence.

Ted Cruz refers to the attempted murder of Josh Shapiro on Passover as leftist political violence.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 14h

What if Dems used nicknames for Republican politicians every time they mention them in public?

Couchboy JD Vance
Creepy Bobby Kennedy
Corrupt Pam Bondi
Dog Shooter Kristi Noem
Wet Pete Hesgeth
Lyin’ Karoline
Little Weirdo Stevie Miller

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve never met you

Sweet trash pandas of the park

with your nimble thumbs

Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 15h

New York’s finest? this mob of busking raccoons in Central Park I somehow witnessed.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 17h

Or the opposite, the premise of the John Wick series.

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