Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern
@bougiesttoast.bsky.social
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Researcher and contingent faculty in the glorious PNW. Historian allegedly writing the political biography of a 19th century Rwandan queen mother. Bob's Burgers expert. Amateur baker and sewist.
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theserfstv.bsky.social
JK Rowling has denied the nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people in the Holocaust, uses the money she earns to legislate trans people out of existence and asked her followers to photograph women going to the washroom.

Keira Knightley: we all gotta figure out how to live together
Rowling, whose best-selling young adult series and accompanying movie franchise sparked a pop culture phenomenon in the 2000s, has drawn backlash in recent years for her outspoken views against the transgender community.

When asked by Decider if she knew about a fan "boycott" of Rowling's work, Knightley, 40, said she was "not aware of that." "I'm very sorry," said Knightley, who was joined by her "Woman in Cabin 10" director Simon Stone. "You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."
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nora.zone
people will tell you there are things you have to do here related to inside jokes about a cartoon characters dick that you were not here for. let me reassure you that they were not that funny
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
I refuse to believe that Bill Ackman isn’t an unreliable boyfriend in Cathy who appeared in the strip from 1982 to 1985.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working
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josie.zone
Hey there, Newskis!

Welcome to our little social media platform. Just so you know, we have some rules here:

-Drink a whiskey drink

-Drink a vodka drink

-Drink a lager drink

-Drink a cider drink

-Sing the songs that remind you of the good and/or better times

-Get knocked down

-Get up again
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karnythia.bsky.social
These are the people that told us the racist jokes were dark humor. They said it was ironic racism. They literally are not going to accept anything anyone else says, because they still believe that white supremacy will protect them. So Marcotte is not alone and will never heed a single warning
bougiesttoast.bsky.social
I legit gasped at this (I remember it but it's a fantastic burn)
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thegatesofmel.blacksky.app
Signed,

A Bitch Literally Saying A Word
complex.com
Kevin Federline Says He Caught Britney Spears ‘Making Out’ With a Woman: ‘I Didn’t Say a Word'

Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/jael...
Kevin Federline Says He Caught Britney Spears ‘Making Out’ With a Woman: ‘I Didn’t Say a Word'
bougiesttoast.bsky.social
A reminder that these are kids but 12-year-old Tamir Rice was not.
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thefarce.org
Our remedies for racism include:

1. Getting yelled at JD Vance for caring about it.
elienyc.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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jamellebouie.net
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
mcpli.bsky.social
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
To democrats at the national level Purity tests just mean “why do you have principles and stand by them? how do you make money off of principles?”
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blackamazon.bsky.social
They were racist as hell white women who chose to make entire moments of attacking racial groups that were asking for consideration

Both groups they targets are pushed out of journalism

It’s collapsing while they are wealthy and still getting press

Though I hope they still have hurt feelings
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like
albertburneko.bsky.social
"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
listen...

you do not have to be smarter than your intimate partner

you dont have to make more than them

or have a greater social status

The purpose of the relationship is not to reinforce your ego

The purpose of the relationship is care
bougiesttoast.bsky.social
I really don't think there's enough understanding of this. Yes, everybody needs down time. But there are specific reasons and ramifications for bipolar folks, and not being able to claim that as a reasonable accommodation is really destructive.
chantalalive.blacksky.app
We need to rest with bipolar. We need down time to self regulate & bring ourselves to balance. We need idleness & having nothing to do. @lukesteuber.com
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.
bougiesttoast.bsky.social
I would pay to watch live commentary from you during oral arguments tbh
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
"Kav really tryna will this temporal limit into existence" is a direct line from my oral argument notes
jamalgreene.bsky.social
Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
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tlecaque.bsky.social
"No kings equals no paychecks" is big march on Versailles territory and if any of these fartwaltruses read books they'd be more worried about saying shit like this.
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tlecaque.bsky.social
I think it's really fascinating how openly Sam Altman and so many other techbros actively campaign on the "we're so unloveable we need a computer to pretend to fuck us" beat as, like, their main selling point of their product. It's big Ben Shapiro "my wife said women don't get wet" energy.
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uhactually.bsky.social
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
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einavrfox.bsky.social
Happy to share my piece for @theguardian.com on the mainstreaming of fascist fashion. If we want to fight this, we first need to learn to recognize (and name) its aesthetics, especially today. Check it out 🗃️https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/fascist-fashion-language
The not-so secret language of fascist fashion
Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you
www.theguardian.com
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Just a reminder the word remigrate is open Nazi language and should be seen as a threat of violence.

When the neo Nazis use this term their is another two words they use after it which are :or die

It’s important to understand the context that the word Remigrate is a threat to leave or be murdered.
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal