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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his)

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Just another curmudgeon. Consistently contrarian concern troll. Intellectual miscreant. Ecosocialist. Abolitionist. 26+6=1. Pride is a Riot. From the River to the Sea.Za naszą i waszą wolność. Nothing about us without us. Tout moun se moun. Tiocfaidh ár lá

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 4d

Few things point more to the genuine absurdity to referencing socially prescribed sex assignments as 'biological', than declaring an *assigned name* to be 'biological'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 7h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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[G.R.K.]©️😷👽🏴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ⓐ💣🌏🌀 Your Daily Fix of Subversion @gorekhaa.bsky.social · 3h

Anti-ICE Protests Continue As Judges Block National Guard Deployments
https://popularresistance.org/anti-ice-protests-continue-as-judges-block-trumps-national-guard-deployments/ [1/3]

Anti-ICE Protests Continue As Judges Block Trump’s National Guard Deployments - PopularResistance.Org

A US federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on October 9, blocking the Trump administration’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago. Hundreds were already stationed in the midwestern city at the time of this ruling. This comes days after a separate judge blocked the deployment of the National Guard to Portland, Oregon. Currently, there are around 500 National Guard troops in the greater Chicago area, 2,400 in Washington, DC, and 100 still in Los Angeles down from a peak of 4,700 in June. With the support of the Governor of Tennessee, the state’s National Guard troops are set to begin patrolling the city of Memphis.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 26d

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 6h

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Your All Legitimate Targets

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Will Stancil thinks you should accept your food insecurity with grace

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 8h

"If you are worried how to pay the bills you are a selfish little pig with no inner life"

Friends, this man is right-wing

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 8h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. crouton.net

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Most opponents of Mamdami are antisemitic

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Well, they *can't* and *won't*

Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 9h

Democrats are going to need to get good at saying clearly that people in minority groups can invoke their identity to make a political point either in bad faith or in ways that are just plain wrong, and they are going to need to get good at saying this *even when they are not in that group*

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Sally: Fascist expression is 'really good'

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Mar 27

This is really good and really interesting by Rich Lowery, who points out that Hillsdale College could have told Columbia U about the federal funding-loss of independence trap. www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/mayb...

Maybe It Wasn’t Such a Great Idea to Support a Larger, More Extensive Federal Government for 100 Years | National Review

The Left gets hoist with its own petard.

www.nationalreview.com

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A Hundred George Michaels You Can Teach To Drive @milpool.bsky.social · 29d

And also here’s Sally Jenkins promoting an article by fascist and confirmed racist Rich Lowry in the far-right National Review as “really good”

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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Mar 27

Maybe It Wasn’t Such a Great Idea to Support a Larger, More Extensive Federal Government for 100 Years | National Review

The Left gets hoist with its own petard.

www.nationalreview.com

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Yet, you repeatedly have insisted his racist and Queerphobic hate speech somehow had been expressed with 'civility'

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 29d

Start with this: I have not said even ONE idea Charlie Kirk ever had was a good one.

MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 29d

Honestly this entire rant by you is giving 'Hitler had some good ideas'. I'm not even sure what else there is to say at this point beyond that.

He certainly didn't deserve to be assassinated for them but it's REALLY ok to just say he said some really abhorrent things and just leave it at that.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 29d

So would Sally Jenkins support me when I say Kirk was a racist, a transphobe, and a homophobe, or is that outside the bounds of her civility?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 29d

He argued with civility. It's a start.

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 29d

What disagreements, exactly, was he bridging via his work and words?

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David @xerapis.bsky.social · 28d

Sally Jenkins is deliberately spreading lies to defend a dead racist bigot and that’s on y’all. Fucking disgusting.

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Jonny Five @deadandgoated.bsky.social · 11h

Sally Jenkins has never met a vile racist she didn't want to lionize

What does that say about her?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

It is quite likely that Sally Jenkins is a white supremacist pig

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 29d

Sally is now engaged in open misinformation and lying to try and support her historic revisionism and outright lies about Charlie Kirk. Sally is engaged in right wing revisionism and misinformation. This is a right wing lie.It is very clear that Charly is a racist and a vile white supremacist.

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They're a thousand posts, blogs and stories about Kirk advocating stoning people. Read them and you'll think you're familiar with his views. Come to find out he never said it. So yes, I can say in a single sentence I'm not real familiar with his views b/c there is a lot of misreporting of them.
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You cannot in the same sentence claim to be unfamiliar with someone's views and then say they've been inaccurately or incompletely reported. You do see how that doesn't make sense, right?
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Beegs @worstmillennial.bsky.social · 29d

Sally from the Atlantic is dying on this weird hill where she INSISTS that she doesn't agree with Charlie Kirk's views, but she is also mad that media has distorted his words. She also keeps doubling down on his "civility." You can politely say a racist thing, but it's still racist

Patrick Hruby: "What disagreements, exactly, was he bringing via his work and words"

Sally Jenkins" "He argued with civility. It's a start"

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Dan Izzo hit the nail on the head with regards to the racist bigot, Sally Jenkins

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 29d

Was it something I said?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social

One of the reasons I'm not familiar with his views is that I find they've been inaccurately or incompletely reported. When I do listen to him in full, he speaks with civility, and his full context has usually been lost. This disappoints me in my profession. That is what I'm saying.

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You admitted you're not familiar with his views but are saying he argued with civility. Which one is it, Sally?

Cuz it sounds to me like you're defending him, and that's pretty disgusting and embarrassing.

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Goddamn you are absolutely what is wrong with so much today. Willing to endorse the most vile, eugenics, racist drek because it's said in a calm tone with a bit of complexity.

Mama Goebbels made a great struedel too...

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rarorynnn.bsky.social @rarorynnn.bsky.social · 29d

Breaking: Sally Jenkins condones racism as long as the racist is speaking with "civility."

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Cat Randall the Vampire Queen @catrandall.bsky.social · 28d

Someone will say, “Not to be racist…” then say something astoundingly racist, and Sally Jenkins is the kind of white person who’ll go, “See? They said they weren’t being racist, so we have to take them at their word.”

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Sally Jenkins thinks people expressing themselves in this fashion exercise 'civility'

Tuxie @lawyerforcat.bsky.social · 29d

This isn't civil

A bunch of viciously racist quotes that Sally Jenkins thinks are civil

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Actually, yes, we who now have opposed apartheid and Genocide for years now would indeed oppose a man spouting racist trash for the position also

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

You think for ONE SEC that a man in her position who was named head of CBS News would be the subject of so much to-do? Come on.

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 12h

The whole "you should be proud of Bari Weiss because she's a WOMAN entrepreneur" argument reminds me of this comic:

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 9h

sally: "yes, yes, ratio me"

bsky: "ok ya big dummy"

sally: "i am being gagged by the intolerant left"

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

She's an anti-black bigot, and a Charlie Kirk apologist. I sadly never have expected better from her

Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Sally thinks Charlie Kirk quoted Leviticus to celebrate Gay people

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 29d

Snippets that omit context aren't actual quotes. Kirk never said gays should be stoned, he never said he didn't want to fly with a black pilot. Yet these are viral. There is a TON of objectionable stuff he actually SAID to damn him for, without my profession sullying itself with sloppiness.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 29d

When people supply ACTUAL QUOTES of what Kirk said, that's not "gross distortion".

Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 8h

Sally Jenkins thinks Jewish students in opposition to Genocide and apartheid are 'antisemitic'

Her feed is a consistent parade of antisemitic blood libel

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Mar 14

1. When you accept 400 mil there is no free ice cream 2. Those protests were rife with anti-semitism 3. Ensuring all students can go to class without obstacles is impossible???

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · Mar 14

They've arbitrarily removed $400 million in funding from a significantly Jewish(22%) university for "antisemitism"

It is only potentially reasonable without the above context. With it, they are obviously going to hold Columbia to impossible standards, blatantly against 1st Amendment protections.