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Rootless Suburbian

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Ancient Millenial Jersey Jewish Rock Man. He/him. Reskeets and follows are not necessarily an endorsement. These posts don't represent any of my employers. Mercutio Politics ftw.

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · Dec 2

If any of my trans friends feel that they need to take temporary refuge in NJ to avoid discriminatory laws (and they don't hate cats) let me know.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Dec 2

New Missouri pre-filed bill would revoke the driver's licenses of trans people who have had their gender markers changed..

documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking...

Screenshot of bill:

HOUSE BILL NO. 157 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SPARKS. 0381H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk AN ACT To repeal section 193.215, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to gender designations on state-issued identity documents. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows: Section A. Section 193.215, RSMo, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu 2 thereof, to be known as sections 1.3000 and 193.215, to read as follows: 2 1.3000. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Biological sex", the biological indication of male or female as determined by 3 sex chromosomes; 4 (2) "Identity document", any document issued to a person that is commonly 5 used to prove the person's identity; 6 (3) "State agency", any authority, board, branch, commission, committee, 7 department, division, or other instrumentality of the executive branch of state 8 government. 9 2. Any identity document issued to a person by a state agency shall contain a 10 gender designation for the person that corresponds to the person's biological sex. 11 3. A state agency shall not assign or amend a gender designation on any identity 12 document issued to a person on the basis of the person's self-designation, any surgery or 13 procedure performed on the person, any drugs or hormones taken by the person, or any 14 factor other than evidence demonstrating the person's biological sex. 15 4. Any state agency that has previously issued a person an identity document 16 with a gender designation that does not correspond to the person's biological sex shall revoke such identity document and reissue the identity document with the gender designation that corresponds to the person's biological sex.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 40m

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 37m

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Gloomy Gee @sameaimee.com · 1h

Betteridge's law: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." Otherwise, it would have been a statement.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 1h

If anyone in your life is expressing interest in Nick Fuentes, they may be turning into a fucking Nazi and you should consider giving them an intervention.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

www.gq.com

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 1h

Claudia Cardinale day. RIP

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"Instead of Columbus, we should celebrate all Italian women for being so hot." this is a genuine thought I had this morning. I'm sharing it as an act of contrition. please do not get mad at me. please do not become passionately enraged with your fiery tempers and strike me with a heavily-ringed hand

Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 1h

The idea that God needs to be saved is hilarious.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 15h

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 3h

Not even pretending, just straight-up 1A violations in broad daylight

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 3h

Couldn't help myself.

Harry Truman holding up a newspaper with the Headline "Dewey Defeats Truman."

Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 3h

Jeff Bezos's purchase of the Post reminds me of Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit explaining that he bought the LA Street Car so he could dismantle it.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 3h

For later reading.

Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 3h

Proud to have played a part in The Shofar Report, @nexusproject.bsky.social's response to Project Esther, the Trump administration, and the idea that Jews should abandon liberal democracy. You can read about it in this thoughtful @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social write up 1/?
forward.com/news/antisem...

Project Esther created a blueprint for Trump to fight antisemitism. The ‘Shofar Report’ is a liberal response.

Sign up for Antisemitism Decoded, the Forward’s guide through the news and noise about Jewish safety, brought to you biweekly by investigative journalist Arno Rosenfeld.Most American Jews have taken a...

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 3h

Critics are untrustworthy when it comes to comedy and always have been.

Mia Moore @miamoore.bsky.social · Apr 17

movies that rock when you don't have critics in your ear telling you they suck

Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 3h

This is somehow both pathetic and infuriating.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 4h

May all conspiracy grifters suffer the same fate.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

People are so fixated on pointing out that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism that they blind themselves to the extremely obvious antisemite to anti-Zionist pipeline

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 5h

Kain looks like Suiko 3 Yuber.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23h

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

what is illuminating, in my opinion, is how many foods have been created by jews that have been claimed by non-jews as their regional specialty, like bagels, fish & chips, and old bay seasoning, for which we are stripped of any credit, while accused of stealing others' dishes.