jaye ☕️ &🍸
@ratwerks.com
Bon vivant, Army medic, Navy diver, Texas lawyer, poly parent, dotcom dilettante, queer & salty AF.
i carry a veritable blessed +3 bag of holding stuffed with privilege. i try to see around it, but i still fuck up sometimes.
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i carry a veritable blessed +3 bag of holding stuffed with privilege. i try to see around it, but i still fuck up sometimes.
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I know it’s scary, but you don’t have to do this. I know you don’t want to do this. Remember your oath. It’s not to a man. It’s to the Constitution and the People of the United States of America.
You are one of the few groups of people who can stop this madness.
You are one of the few groups of people who can stop this madness.
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I know it’s scary, but you don’t have to do this. I know you don’t want to do this. Remember your oath. It’s not to a man. It’s to the Constitution and the People of the United States of America.
You are one of the few groups of people who can stop this madness.
You are one of the few groups of people who can stop this madness.
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It’s a modern gladiatorial game and decades from now our descendants will be horrified at how we demanded this uncompensated brutality for our entertainment
August 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It’s a modern gladiatorial game and decades from now our descendants will be horrified at how we demanded this uncompensated brutality for our entertainment
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social is a massive disappointment. If he can’t even stop this, how can he imagine anyone thinking he can be president one day?
This is so weak.
This is so weak.
California National Guard troops have now arrived in LA from San Bernardino County.
They’re posted outside the downtown LA detention centre where immigrants are sent after being detained.
They’re posted outside the downtown LA detention centre where immigrants are sent after being detained.
June 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social is a massive disappointment. If he can’t even stop this, how can he imagine anyone thinking he can be president one day?
This is so weak.
This is so weak.
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I wrote about Sinners.
Watching so many Black folk call the film "demonic", I explain how its central horror -- and triumph is that the film casts Black/African spirituality as an effective challenge to Western Christianity.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Watching so many Black folk call the film "demonic", I explain how its central horror -- and triumph is that the film casts Black/African spirituality as an effective challenge to Western Christianity.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | ‘Sinners’ is a Black challenge to White Christianity
Ryan Coogler’s masterpiece mixes African spirits, the American church and the power of music into a terrifying brew.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I wrote about Sinners.
Watching so many Black folk call the film "demonic", I explain how its central horror -- and triumph is that the film casts Black/African spirituality as an effective challenge to Western Christianity.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Watching so many Black folk call the film "demonic", I explain how its central horror -- and triumph is that the film casts Black/African spirituality as an effective challenge to Western Christianity.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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And your argument is that in public, we just let him be?
I’m not arguing for assault. I’m just saying that people can say “hey, you’re not welcome here.”
I’m not arguing for assault. I’m just saying that people can say “hey, you’re not welcome here.”
May 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
And your argument is that in public, we just let him be?
I’m not arguing for assault. I’m just saying that people can say “hey, you’re not welcome here.”
I’m not arguing for assault. I’m just saying that people can say “hey, you’re not welcome here.”
i went to see Sinners at the Grand Lake ( you should, too. ) After tasty dinner and cocktails at Almond & Oak we stopped in at Walden Pond Books, where i found @jennitaur.bsky.social _How to do Nothing_ on the staff picks shelf. Everyone should read this book.
May 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
i went to see Sinners at the Grand Lake ( you should, too. ) After tasty dinner and cocktails at Almond & Oak we stopped in at Walden Pond Books, where i found @jennitaur.bsky.social _How to do Nothing_ on the staff picks shelf. Everyone should read this book.
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Me, a Black Harvard alum: Harvard is full of shit
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Fights in Court but Retreats on Campus | News | The Harvard Crimson
Even as Harvard takes the White House to court and insists that it won’t be coerced by federal pressure, the University is rolling out changes that seem to concede to some of the very demands that it ...
www.thecrimson.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Me, a Black Harvard alum: Harvard is full of shit
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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The “courageous justices” you mention would never have found their spine without the NAACP’s decades-long anti-lynching legal strategy.
The civil rights movement worked on EVERY front.
The civil rights movement worked on EVERY front.
April 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The “courageous justices” you mention would never have found their spine without the NAACP’s decades-long anti-lynching legal strategy.
The civil rights movement worked on EVERY front.
The civil rights movement worked on EVERY front.
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American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere
April 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere
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Not even a controversial statement to say that if white people wanted this to stop badly enough it would. Not even a controversial statement to say that among the voting populace it is white people's fault it's gone this far.
And if you're white and that offends you it's because a hit dog hollers.
And if you're white and that offends you it's because a hit dog hollers.
April 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Not even a controversial statement to say that if white people wanted this to stop badly enough it would. Not even a controversial statement to say that among the voting populace it is white people's fault it's gone this far.
And if you're white and that offends you it's because a hit dog hollers.
And if you're white and that offends you it's because a hit dog hollers.
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“Let’s be clear, what starts with trans people doesn’t end with trans people. They’re just first in the firing line. They’re coming after all of us.” Great speaking to Baroness Liz Barker for GAY TIMES. #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.gaytimes.com/life/barones...
Baroness Barker: 'The attack on LGBTQIA+ rights is international'
For LGBT History Month, Philip Baldwin sits down with Baroness Liz Barker to discuss the ongoing fight for LGBTQIA+ equality.
www.gaytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Let’s be clear, what starts with trans people doesn’t end with trans people. They’re just first in the firing line. They’re coming after all of us.” Great speaking to Baroness Liz Barker for GAY TIMES. #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.gaytimes.com/life/barones...
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Dear @abcnewsbot.bsky.social there’s nothing “unlikely” about Sanders taking a leadership role. He’s one of the only 🇺🇸 politicians that’s been calling the shit out for decades.
March 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Dear @abcnewsbot.bsky.social there’s nothing “unlikely” about Sanders taking a leadership role. He’s one of the only 🇺🇸 politicians that’s been calling the shit out for decades.
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I am again just reminding Dept of Ed employees that you could probably accomplish debt jubilee just by labeling the student loan record folder "DEI" on your way out the door
March 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I am again just reminding Dept of Ed employees that you could probably accomplish debt jubilee just by labeling the student loan record folder "DEI" on your way out the door
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One tiny note that I haven't seen anyone mention:
Musk's statement, "I've never done anything harmful; I've only ever been productive" carries (and relies upon) the unstated assumption 'anything that is productive cannot be harmful.'
We can't allow this shit to go uninterrogated.
Musk's statement, "I've never done anything harmful; I've only ever been productive" carries (and relies upon) the unstated assumption 'anything that is productive cannot be harmful.'
We can't allow this shit to go uninterrogated.
March 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
One tiny note that I haven't seen anyone mention:
Musk's statement, "I've never done anything harmful; I've only ever been productive" carries (and relies upon) the unstated assumption 'anything that is productive cannot be harmful.'
We can't allow this shit to go uninterrogated.
Musk's statement, "I've never done anything harmful; I've only ever been productive" carries (and relies upon) the unstated assumption 'anything that is productive cannot be harmful.'
We can't allow this shit to go uninterrogated.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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I think the funniest thing about boomer shooters is that they were basically kicked off not with DOOM but Wolfenstein and the answer to "What Do You Do To Nazis" was at one point so unambiguous that it made more sense to shoot them than deamons from literal space Hell.
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I think the funniest thing about boomer shooters is that they were basically kicked off not with DOOM but Wolfenstein and the answer to "What Do You Do To Nazis" was at one point so unambiguous that it made more sense to shoot them than deamons from literal space Hell.
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If one thing gives me a little bit of optimism in This Current Era, it’s that we have mounting reminders that citizens can be the mechanism that forces the FIND OUT phase upon those who dared FUCK AROUND.
Target’s stock plummeted by ~ $27.27 per share by the end of February, erasing about $12.4 billion in market value.
The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its DEI commitments.
The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its DEI commitments.
Target takes a hit: $12.4 billion in value lost after boycott
Economic blackout over company shuttering diversity commitment
www.thecharlottepost.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If one thing gives me a little bit of optimism in This Current Era, it’s that we have mounting reminders that citizens can be the mechanism that forces the FIND OUT phase upon those who dared FUCK AROUND.
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And for all you Musk stans thinking "I don't like Elon either! But Mars tho!"🤡
China has a Mars mission scheduled for 2028 to return rock samples. That's before our next mission. China already has rovers on Mars. China has their own space station.
And China didn't defund their own science research
China has a Mars mission scheduled for 2028 to return rock samples. That's before our next mission. China already has rovers on Mars. China has their own space station.
And China didn't defund their own science research
Who is Wang Yaping? China’s first female astronaut to walk in space teaches lessons from orbit
YouTube video by South China Morning Post
m.youtube.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And for all you Musk stans thinking "I don't like Elon either! But Mars tho!"🤡
China has a Mars mission scheduled for 2028 to return rock samples. That's before our next mission. China already has rovers on Mars. China has their own space station.
And China didn't defund their own science research
China has a Mars mission scheduled for 2028 to return rock samples. That's before our next mission. China already has rovers on Mars. China has their own space station.
And China didn't defund their own science research
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As we watch the GOP dismantle the federal government with swift urgency, we must acknowledge the reason we are here is Dems do not move with that urgency.
When Roe was overturned, Dems held the House, Senate, and White House.
Instead of codifying Roe, they fundraised off of it.
When Roe was overturned, Dems held the House, Senate, and White House.
Instead of codifying Roe, they fundraised off of it.
February 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
As we watch the GOP dismantle the federal government with swift urgency, we must acknowledge the reason we are here is Dems do not move with that urgency.
When Roe was overturned, Dems held the House, Senate, and White House.
Instead of codifying Roe, they fundraised off of it.
When Roe was overturned, Dems held the House, Senate, and White House.
Instead of codifying Roe, they fundraised off of it.
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You know what really bugs me? If we manage to turn the car around and avoid becoming a failed state, the Average Voter will get Y2K amnesia and say "see? It wasn't that bad" and use it as an excuse to keep voting for billionaire failsons with pseudoephedrine addictions
February 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You know what really bugs me? If we manage to turn the car around and avoid becoming a failed state, the Average Voter will get Y2K amnesia and say "see? It wasn't that bad" and use it as an excuse to keep voting for billionaire failsons with pseudoephedrine addictions
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"nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes" style of thinking
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes" style of thinking