Astreia
@redoubters.bsky.social
Aspiring fantasy novelist. Hate Nazis. Liberal democracy is the worst system of government that has ever been tried, except for all the others. Suffering NY Giants fan. Brimstone main but I can't really aim.
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these are my fav comments 2 receive auau ;w;
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
these are my fav comments 2 receive auau ;w;
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Again, they use language that sounds initially empowering. But the actual ideology here is that women don't belong to a larger community, but are basically just the property of a husband with no right to help or connection outside of the home.
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Again, they use language that sounds initially empowering. But the actual ideology here is that women don't belong to a larger community, but are basically just the property of a husband with no right to help or connection outside of the home.
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This isn't "freedom." This is about the view that women don't deserve even basic health care. It's dehumanizing women, too, by ignoring why human birth is uniquely difficult, which is why humans don't just give birth in a closet like a cat. (Also, cat birth is not always complication-free!)
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This isn't "freedom." This is about the view that women don't deserve even basic health care. It's dehumanizing women, too, by ignoring why human birth is uniquely difficult, which is why humans don't just give birth in a closet like a cat. (Also, cat birth is not always complication-free!)
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Ugh, once again we see far-right, misogynist movements repackaging themselves in language that glancingly seems "feminist" about "choice" and "freedom."
But it's not. This shit is about pushing rigid gender roles, and punishing women who "fail" at them.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
But it's not. This shit is about pushing rigid gender roles, and punishing women who "fail" at them.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ugh, once again we see far-right, misogynist movements repackaging themselves in language that glancingly seems "feminist" about "choice" and "freedom."
But it's not. This shit is about pushing rigid gender roles, and punishing women who "fail" at them.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
But it's not. This shit is about pushing rigid gender roles, and punishing women who "fail" at them.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
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Every time someone makes a property rights case for land use reform.
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Every time someone makes a property rights case for land use reform.
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Remember, this dude murdered three cops in September and MAGA
said NOTHING about it.
They are hypocrites.
Do not be Gaslit.
said NOTHING about it.
They are hypocrites.
Do not be Gaslit.
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Remember, this dude murdered three cops in September and MAGA
said NOTHING about it.
They are hypocrites.
Do not be Gaslit.
said NOTHING about it.
They are hypocrites.
Do not be Gaslit.
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every liberal sj maxim like "in the US, POC can't be racist against white Americans" has become entirely scavenged for tankie excuses like "you can't feel immoral prejudice against people with privileges" and "expectations of behavior are punitive unless they are & always have been applied equally"
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
every liberal sj maxim like "in the US, POC can't be racist against white Americans" has become entirely scavenged for tankie excuses like "you can't feel immoral prejudice against people with privileges" and "expectations of behavior are punitive unless they are & always have been applied equally"
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Holy. SHIT. Like........ WOW... It's so much worse than you'd think. Like, before I hit play, I figured it would just be kind of awkward but... wow...
... WOW
... WOW
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Holy. SHIT. Like........ WOW... It's so much worse than you'd think. Like, before I hit play, I figured it would just be kind of awkward but... wow...
... WOW
... WOW
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2025 experience: Being in a theater & a decent chunk of the crowd approvingly cheers the mere use of the word. You can use any word in a film, in context it can be appropriate to do so but imagine going to Django Unchained and hearing people whoop every hard R as if they were on a roller coaster.
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
2025 experience: Being in a theater & a decent chunk of the crowd approvingly cheers the mere use of the word. You can use any word in a film, in context it can be appropriate to do so but imagine going to Django Unchained and hearing people whoop every hard R as if they were on a roller coaster.
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It’s really being used heavily these days as a call-and-response for shitty people; just a quick test to see if you’re dealing with someone who is equally fed up with the expectation that you treat human beings with basic courtesy.
I really think that even most people who think language policing was a huge problem over the past 5-10 years have no patience for the disgusting little freaks who have tried to bring back "retarded" as a slur. It's just so low-rent and such a tell that the person using it is not worth your time
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s really being used heavily these days as a call-and-response for shitty people; just a quick test to see if you’re dealing with someone who is equally fed up with the expectation that you treat human beings with basic courtesy.
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This is absolutely true. Conservatives tend to meet families of people with disabilities where they are at the moment. It allows for their message to be incredibly potent even if private schools often deny education to disabled students or they support Medicaid cuts.
Imani Barabarin has been talking for years about how many disabled folks vote for Republicans because Republicans show up at their events and speak openly about their issues, whereas Democrats rarely do. This is not some new Republican strategy, this is an old strategy. This is maintenance.
Apologies. Didn't alt-text it. Here we go.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is absolutely true. Conservatives tend to meet families of people with disabilities where they are at the moment. It allows for their message to be incredibly potent even if private schools often deny education to disabled students or they support Medicaid cuts.
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~20 years from now we're all going to hear a teenager say "I was born in the wrong generation, I'm jealous of everyone who got to live through the 2020s" and I think we should promise each other that when that day comes, we'll try not to throw this person directly into the sun
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
~20 years from now we're all going to hear a teenager say "I was born in the wrong generation, I'm jealous of everyone who got to live through the 2020s" and I think we should promise each other that when that day comes, we'll try not to throw this person directly into the sun
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"as someone who's happy to accept the most tortured & invented justifications to do state crimes, you seem to have failed to do the one specific thing that enables this, God help your soul"
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"as someone who's happy to accept the most tortured & invented justifications to do state crimes, you seem to have failed to do the one specific thing that enables this, God help your soul"
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Buzzfeed bringing back listicles for The Top 10 People Who Are Going To Jail In 2029
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Buzzfeed bringing back listicles for The Top 10 People Who Are Going To Jail In 2029
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Democrats, say it loud: Matt Van Eppstein Files
Trump and Mike Johnson plan to hold a Monday evening tele-rally to boost Matt Van Epps in the #TN07 special election. www.axios.com/2025/11/28/t...
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Democrats, say it loud: Matt Van Eppstein Files
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My god, I could write a dissertation on how demented just these two paragraphs of New York Times coverage of the DC shooting are.
The details of the shooting begin with Trump sending troops to do law enforcement in a city with plummeting crime. How does that "dovetail neatly" with anything he says?
The details of the shooting begin with Trump sending troops to do law enforcement in a city with plummeting crime. How does that "dovetail neatly" with anything he says?
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
My god, I could write a dissertation on how demented just these two paragraphs of New York Times coverage of the DC shooting are.
The details of the shooting begin with Trump sending troops to do law enforcement in a city with plummeting crime. How does that "dovetail neatly" with anything he says?
The details of the shooting begin with Trump sending troops to do law enforcement in a city with plummeting crime. How does that "dovetail neatly" with anything he says?
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i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
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we're in the slightly odd position that Jeremey Corbyn's faction - who were quite linked up with the SWP when establishing a lot of Your Party branches - are the ones who have expelled SWP members, and Zarah Sultana's faction - who were the ones complaining of a sexist boys club - are now pro-SWP
Sultana says she would reverse the expulsions of SWP and other communists kicked out for "dual membership" in recent weeks
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
we're in the slightly odd position that Jeremey Corbyn's faction - who were quite linked up with the SWP when establishing a lot of Your Party branches - are the ones who have expelled SWP members, and Zarah Sultana's faction - who were the ones complaining of a sexist boys club - are now pro-SWP
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i have experienced the whiplash of going from homestarrunner and achewood to seeing 30k likes on an ai photo of eminem opening a homeless dog shelter for veterans.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
i have experienced the whiplash of going from homestarrunner and achewood to seeing 30k likes on an ai photo of eminem opening a homeless dog shelter for veterans.
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the internet used to be where people would go to be authentically weird and try out new identities, now it's where the megan trainor corporation pays a famous child to dance.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
the internet used to be where people would go to be authentically weird and try out new identities, now it's where the megan trainor corporation pays a famous child to dance.
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if Zillow Ed is saying you've not only done crimes but that an OLC opinion won't immunize you, you may want to start making travel plans to a non-extradition country that also ignores the ICC
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
if Zillow Ed is saying you've not only done crimes but that an OLC opinion won't immunize you, you may want to start making travel plans to a non-extradition country that also ignores the ICC
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