Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️🌈✡️
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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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"Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court"
"The child, barely old enough to talk..."
"Unable to reach the chair on her own, Lucy was lifted into the seat by Ana Islas"
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
"The child, barely old enough to talk..."
"Unable to reach the chair on her own, Lucy was lifted into the seat by Ana Islas"
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court"
"The child, barely old enough to talk..."
"Unable to reach the chair on her own, Lucy was lifted into the seat by Ana Islas"
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
"The child, barely old enough to talk..."
"Unable to reach the chair on her own, Lucy was lifted into the seat by Ana Islas"
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
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most cursed thought: Hush could work if the person writing it knew the meaning of the phrase “toxic yaoi”
in which we continue our assault on “Hush” with a look at just why the story was so important: how it was different from what had preceded, and how it changed everything that came after
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
most cursed thought: Hush could work if the person writing it knew the meaning of the phrase “toxic yaoi”
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27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep
Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...
www.wfdd.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.
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living type 1 diabetes, sometimes you feel in control and on top. others you’re loosely strapped into a rollercoaster and you’re the only one riding. the last few days have been the latter. it’s isolating, lonely, scary, and sad. sometimes you don’t wanna be a “Warrior!!1” fighting an illness.
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
living type 1 diabetes, sometimes you feel in control and on top. others you’re loosely strapped into a rollercoaster and you’re the only one riding. the last few days have been the latter. it’s isolating, lonely, scary, and sad. sometimes you don’t wanna be a “Warrior!!1” fighting an illness.
whoever is responsible for the fire alarm going off in the entire building at 11:30 pm on a Saturday is now my mortal enemy
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
whoever is responsible for the fire alarm going off in the entire building at 11:30 pm on a Saturday is now my mortal enemy
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A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
I love history. Especially niche histories of our communities and trailblazers in them. If we don’t memorialize their/our stories and get them on record it is so easy for incredible fascinating people to get lost to the mists of time and memory. Work like this is so important.
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
share.inquirer.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I love history. Especially niche histories of our communities and trailblazers in them. If we don’t memorialize their/our stories and get them on record it is so easy for incredible fascinating people to get lost to the mists of time and memory. Work like this is so important.
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She entered into a very public relationship with Princess Grace's brother Jack Kelly, who was the city's golden boy and a city councilman at large
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
She entered into a very public relationship with Princess Grace's brother Jack Kelly, who was the city's golden boy and a city councilman at large
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And when she returned to her hometown, she opened Philly's first and greatest discotheque, Harlow's. She was feted by the local press and treated like one of the city's most exciting citizens, appearing on talk shows and modeling in local fashion shows
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
And when she returned to her hometown, she opened Philly's first and greatest discotheque, Harlow's. She was feted by the local press and treated like one of the city's most exciting citizens, appearing on talk shows and modeling in local fashion shows
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She spent time in Hollywood, eventually appearing in a film, A SAFE PLACE, with Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
She spent time in Hollywood, eventually appearing in a film, A SAFE PLACE, with Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles
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But her life was so much more than that moment. She premiered the doc at Cannes, where she dined with Capote and Welles and danced with Sharon Tate, this drag queen from South Philly
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
But her life was so much more than that moment. She premiered the doc at Cannes, where she dined with Capote and Welles and danced with Sharon Tate, this drag queen from South Philly
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It was my first real inkling that there was a kind of life out there other than the one I was told I should have. Later, I rediscovered her in the 1968 doc THE QUEEN, in which she won the drag pageant and got read for filth by Crystal LaBeijja
youtu.be/RYCQEl8TPeM?...
youtu.be/RYCQEl8TPeM?...
Crystal LaBeija's epic read from The Queen (1968) – "I have a RIGHT to show my color, darling!"
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It was my first real inkling that there was a kind of life out there other than the one I was told I should have. Later, I rediscovered her in the 1968 doc THE QUEEN, in which she won the drag pageant and got read for filth by Crystal LaBeijja
youtu.be/RYCQEl8TPeM?...
youtu.be/RYCQEl8TPeM?...
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One of my favorite parts of working on Rachel Harlow's story was meeting and interviewing all of the elderly queer people she knows, some as old as 90. Their perspectives are fascinating and they can be hilariously blunt. Every old gay man volunteered that Grace Kelly's sister was prettier than her
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
share.inquirer.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
One of my favorite parts of working on Rachel Harlow's story was meeting and interviewing all of the elderly queer people she knows, some as old as 90. Their perspectives are fascinating and they can be hilariously blunt. Every old gay man volunteered that Grace Kelly's sister was prettier than her
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@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social first told me about Harlow five years ago, in sort of a "wouldn't it be cool to track her down" way, but she remained elusive.
When I reconnected with them this year to see if we could revisit the idea, they were already deep into working with Rachel on her memoirs.
When I reconnected with them this year to see if we could revisit the idea, they were already deep into working with Rachel on her memoirs.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social first told me about Harlow five years ago, in sort of a "wouldn't it be cool to track her down" way, but she remained elusive.
When I reconnected with them this year to see if we could revisit the idea, they were already deep into working with Rachel on her memoirs.
When I reconnected with them this year to see if we could revisit the idea, they were already deep into working with Rachel on her memoirs.
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Philadelphia and the world, may I have your attention?
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social's massive, detailed, fascinating profile of the Philly icon that is Harlow published this morning in the @inquirer.com's brand-new weekend edition:
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social's massive, detailed, fascinating profile of the Philly icon that is Harlow published this morning in the @inquirer.com's brand-new weekend edition:
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
www.inquirer.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Philadelphia and the world, may I have your attention?
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social's massive, detailed, fascinating profile of the Philly icon that is Harlow published this morning in the @inquirer.com's brand-new weekend edition:
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social's massive, detailed, fascinating profile of the Philly icon that is Harlow published this morning in the @inquirer.com's brand-new weekend edition:
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
ok I know this is tangential to the original post but that story in the Christian Bible actively misrepresents Jewish religious law and beliefs which explicitly permit breaking religious commandments for the purpose of saving a life. פיקוח נפש is a critical halachic principle
The end of that story in the Bible is Jesus telling the Pharisees to go learn what it means for the Lord to say “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.”
Quite the shift from "I think if you do something bad you should die" immediately to "as they say in the Bible..."
December 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
ok I know this is tangential to the original post but that story in the Christian Bible actively misrepresents Jewish religious law and beliefs which explicitly permit breaking religious commandments for the purpose of saving a life. פיקוח נפש is a critical halachic principle
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Warner Bros. uses As Time Goes By as their fanfare, which technically makes every Warner Bros. picture part of the Casablanca Cinematic Universe.
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Warner Bros. uses As Time Goes By as their fanfare, which technically makes every Warner Bros. picture part of the Casablanca Cinematic Universe.
she said “good morning it’s snowing today and I need you to arrange the fuzzy blanket and comfy pillows in the optimal staring-out-the-window position”
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
she said “good morning it’s snowing today and I need you to arrange the fuzzy blanket and comfy pillows in the optimal staring-out-the-window position”
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naming yourself after a line in a song you wrote is a flex so powerful nobody else has ever managed it
Brian May
Roger Taylor
John Deacon
FREDDIE MERCURY
Roger Taylor
John Deacon
FREDDIE MERCURY
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
naming yourself after a line in a song you wrote is a flex so powerful nobody else has ever managed it
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They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.
You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.
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Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
So the Press Secretary’s brother was in a nasty custody fight with his ex-fiancée who was protected under DACA & had just scheduled her final green card interview & then she got arrested by ICE just a few months before she was likely to become a permanent resident? What a coincidence.
The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary’s brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month. trib.al/QrdO7XA
Karoline Leavitt’s Brother Had Grim Custody Fight With ICE-Arrested Ex
ICE arrested Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, in November.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
So the Press Secretary’s brother was in a nasty custody fight with his ex-fiancée who was protected under DACA & had just scheduled her final green card interview & then she got arrested by ICE just a few months before she was likely to become a permanent resident? What a coincidence.
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[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
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Wow these people really are awful. They spend their time with high school bullying instead of advancing American public health.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Wow these people really are awful. They spend their time with high school bullying instead of advancing American public health.