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CassieWasRight (they/them)
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The day she knew she was very old, she was suddenly filled with happiness that years ago, she had gotten that tattoo of a bluebird.
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I originally asked if they could give us the #HobbesCut of this interview and then I realized...
A screenshot from the Libby audiobook app. It depicts the audiobook for The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The audiobook has a play time of 24 hours.
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Wall Street Journal already got him
Screenshot of a WSJ article that says: Rahm Emanuel: My Party’s Future Isn’t Mamdani’s New York We won’t realize the American dream by consulting the Democratic Socialists of America’s playbook.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Orange letters on a blue background using the Zohron for NYC font that says "ACAB yes that includes ICE"
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Pokéfan: Can you guess what strategy Wolfe Glick used to win the tournament?
Youngster Joey: Was it using a balance team with common Pokémon but strange sets?
Pokéfan: No
Younger Joey:
A close-up picture of Barack Obama's eyes. He has an uncaring expression. The photo is washed with a red filter.
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Apparently she was a transit advocate even before she was a state rep! Someone should invite her to bike sox (bus sox?)
A screenshot of text that says "Prior to taking office, Rep. Mah also successfully advocated for a new state-of-the-art public library branch and field house in Chinatown and the restoration of the 31st Street bus route. As a local school council member at the Thomas Kelly High School in Chicago, Rep. Mah’s leadership has helped to ensure language access and enrichment opportunities, improving outcomes for the predominantly immigrant families at the school." The text comes from https://gpacillinois.com/teams/theresa-mah/
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Honestly I thought there'd be more
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September 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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www.instagram.com/p/BzgcRD4AXW2/
A screenshot from a comic by @emilyscartoons - a number of stick figures are visible in the frame, two of them talking to each other. One says "Simple Vlad. American cannot hear place of origin without screaming response. Is written in USA pledge of allegiance"
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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How I performatively read
A picture of a blond white person (electronic musician Grimes) with long hair in a brown bodysuit and cape reading a red book with a picture of Karl Marx on the cover
September 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Kate Bornstein published Gender Outlaw in 1994, and one of the first chapters she talks about all of the discourse about trans people and gender happening in the early 90s.
This isn't even the first time there's been anti-trans discourse in our lifetimes!
A picture of a page in a book, which reads: "For the most part, people cautiously observe and don't ask questions, and there are plenty of opportunities in today's world to look at people like me. The talk show ratings go way up during sweeps month when they trot out the transsexuals and the cross-dressers. Then there are the drag shows and the female impersonator spectacles-even though we began them for our own entertainment and enjoyment, their wide-spread popularity seems to grow and grow; you've probably got one of those shows in your city, or in a nearby town. Comedy skits, like "It's Par" (a skit based on a person whose gender is not clear) on Saturday Night Live are real popular. I'll have more to say about that later. If I look past the ghettos of the drag bars and standup joints, both popular music and cinema reflect my transsexual face back to me. Glance discreetly, if you will, at some of the brightest deities in our cul-tural heavens. At this writing, some friends of mine are truly interested in seeing if Michael Jackson (all his other issues aside) will actually become Diana Ross. I've heard bets being placed on the gender of some of Madonna's lovers in some of her videos. And what really made The Crying Game the smash hit that it was? It's interesting that we can ask questions about transgender issues when there's some distance between us and the person we're asking about-we just don't ask directly. There's a lot of writing about gender now. I keep reading the maga-zine articles, the newspaper columns, and the text books, pre- and post-modern. I read, watch, and listen to all the ads and commercials."
September 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I have an idea of where we can get the money
A screenshot of the January 26th 2024 newsletter of The Civic Federation. The article reads: "January 26, 2024 As part of the total City of Chicago budget adopted for the 2024 fiscal year that began on January 1, the City Council approved a nearly $2.0 billion budget for the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The Police Department budget represents 12% of the City’s total $16.6 billion appropriations for FY2024 across all funds, including grants. Excluding grants, the CPD budget makes up approximately 15% of the City’s full $12.3 billion spending plan across all local funds. Because nearly all the Police Department’s personnel and spending are budgeted within the Corporate Fund, the City of Chicago’s general operating fund, this analysis will focus solely on Corporate Fund expenditures. The Corporate Fund accounts for 87%, or $1.7 billion, of the CPD’s $2 billion total budget."
August 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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😶
A screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Neturai Karta that reads: "Attendance at Holocaust denial conference in Tehran In December 2006, members of Neturei Karta, including Yisroel Dovid Weiss, attended the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, a controversial conference held in Tehran, Iran that attracted a number of high-profile Holocaust deniers.[51] In his speech, Weiss explained that the occurrence of the Nazi Holocaust was irrefutable and spoke about the murder of his own grandparents at Auschwitz, but claimed that Zionists had "collaborated with the Nazis" and "thwarted...efforts to save...Jews" and expressed solidarity with the Iranian position of anti-Zionism.[52] Yonah Metzger, the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, immediately called for those who went to Tehran to be put into 'cherem', a form of ex-communication.[53] Subsequently, the Satmar Hassidism court called on Jews "to keep away from them and condemn their actions".[54] On 21 December, the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical council of Jerusalem also released a statement calling on the public to distance itself from those who went to Iran."
August 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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spectacular
Gary Todd, the head of SOS, recently submitted testimony to the City of St. Paul, arguing against the use of 1% sales tax money to fund reconstruction of Summit Avenue. He also submitted documents indicating that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, portions of the first sections of Summit scheduled for reconstruction had in fact been rebuilt in 1978 and 1979. This begged the question: If a few portions of Summit have already been rebuilt west of Hamline, how old are the trees there? Were they devastated by the 1979 reconstruction? We were curious to find out. So, measuring tape in hand, we looked at the trees west of Hamline in areas with newer curbs, to see if they seemed substantially different or smaller than trees in other sections. The answer was “No.” In areas with newer looking curbs, we saw many basswoods, hackberry, catalpa, maples and other trees that appear to be between 50 and 100 years old.
August 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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When you are definitely fighting antisemitism and all types of hate
For years Greenblatt had warned about rising antisemitism on the left, but declaring these organizations equal to the Klan and neo-Nazis was new. Greenblatt acknowledged that “unlike their right-wing analogs, these organizations might not have armed themselves,” but he insisted they “unapologetically, regularly denigrate and dehumanize Jews.” (It is worth repeating that one of these groups is called Jewish Voice for Peace.) When Jonathan Greenblatt congratulated Donald Trump on his election win on November 6 in a post on X, he noted the ADL remained “steadfastly committed” to fighting antisemitism and “all forms of hate and extremism.” As of November 9, however, according to Internet Archive logs, prominent sections of the ADL’s website devoted to voting rights, racial justice, and other civil-rights issues — ones available online as recently as late September — had been removed. The education division’s lesson plans on transgender identity and issues were gone, too, as were webpages on the importance of DEI programs. Books on LGBTQ+ themes had been excised from the ADL’s online bibliography of recommended children’s and young-adult literature.
August 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I'm only halfway through but I'm disappointed that the section on her college career didn't mention the most notable thing about it
Screenshot from a Vanity Fair article about Bari Weiss. It reads: She came back to the States to attend Columbia, where she met and fell in love with a woman. Not just any woman but a wry fellow student named Kate McKinnon, who’s now Saturday Night Live’s premier star thanks to her spot-on impersonations of half the Beltway class (Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mika Brzezinski, Nancy Pelosi, and more). They were on and off for several years, and remain good friends. Beyond that, Weiss won’t give details. “I’ve been in love with both men and women. I’ve been ghosted by both men and
July 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Still hasn't passed out of committee in the House despite us having only a week and a half left in session. Word on the street is Rep. Margaret Croke on the transportation committee is blocking it - calls from people in her district might be helpful
A map of Illinois' 12th state house district, currently represented by Margaret Croke. It hugs the lakefront from Lakeview just south of Wrigley field down to Streeterville north of Northwestern's downtown campuses
May 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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His ties to right-wing authoritarians in India are disqualifying in my book
Text from a Chicago Reader article: Krishnamoorthi identifies as Hindu, and has expressed support for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right- wing paramilitary organization in India. The RSS is a Hindu nationalist organization that promotes the creation of a homogenous Hindu homeland in India, and espouses the Hindutva ideology—a right-wing ideology that casts out and discriminates against non-Hindus as “foreign.” Current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a former member of the RSS, and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, which draws its core political values from RSS, as an RSS organizer in 1985. Modi was elected prime minister in 2014. During his administration, India has fallen on the religious freedom, press freedom, and hunger index, and has seen a rise in violence against Muslims. Text from a Chicago Reader article: In 2005, the U.S. government revoked Modi’s diplomatic visa for failing to control anti-Muslim riots in 2002 in Gujarat, the Indian state he was head of at the time. In 2019, Modi’s government passed a Citizenship Amendment Act that was widely derided as anti-Muslim, and has passed several other laws since then that have been similarly criticized. In January, Gregory Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, called the current systemic discrimination of minorities in India as an “impending genocide.” During the 2019 Howdy Modi event—a grand reception for Modi in Houston—Krishnamoorthi delightedly shared the stage with Modi. He was the only elected Indian American politician who attended the event.
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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If Tammy Duckworth has zero haters I am dead. Free Palestine.
An email from Senator Tammy Duckworth's office: My oath of office demands prioritizing the needs of the U.S. Armed Forces to be prepared and ready to defend itself against all threats. The outrageous actions of the extreme Netanyahu government will never override my commitment to making sure the U.S. Armed Forces can rely on allied and partner forces equipped with interoperable platforms that enable effective joint operations and deter our adversaries from attacking U.S. servicemembers. Rather than focusing on symbolic resolutions, I am focusing on the need to secure the release of hostages and broker lasting ceasefires between Israel and Hamas, and Israel and Hezbollah. Regarding the latter goals, I fear the symbolic passage of resolutions blocking a major non-NATO ally from purchasing American manufactured weapons systems may unintentionally embolden Hamas and Hezbollah to refuse to agree to a ceasefire, continuing to make the cruel calculation that the rising number of civilian deaths is a necessary sacrifice to damage Israel’s international reputation and irrevocably harm the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
May 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Get yourself a gf who can get you downtown in 20 minutes
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May 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A screenshot of a page from An Orestia translated by Anne Rice. The text says "Not to me. Not if it's you." except "you" is scribbled out in blue and "147 outer drive express" is written underneath
May 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Kat Abughazaleh meanwhile has officially endorsed a ceasefire. From her website I can't confirm if she would also vote against military aid to Israel (which her predecessor sometimes did and sometimes didn't). @katmabu.bsky.social can you confirm that you would vote against military aid to Israel?
I believe in holding our allies accountable, even when it's inconvenient. For too long, the United States has let allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia commit egregious acts with American taxpayer-funded weapons. I am a proud Palestinian-American, but people of all backgrounds and ethnicities should be disturbed by our government's complicity in Israel's 58-year-long illegal occupation of the West Bank and the ongoing attacks on Gaza, which have killed tens of thousands of civilians, including infants and children. My foreign policy centers people, not the governments or groups claiming to represent them. I wholeheartedly support the immediate release of all hostages held in Gaza and a permanent ceasefire that sets the stage for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
May 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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@notquitereal.bsky.social I figured out who Gon's mother is
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April 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This is the comparison on their stances on Palestine - though Jan Schakowsky notably did not start voting against sending military aid to Israel until December 2024, after over year of people protesting her specifically
March 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This is each of their official stances on ending the genocide by the way.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) issued the following statement on the ceasefire-hostage deal reached between Israel and Hamas: “I am relieved by President Joe Biden’s announcement that a ceasefire and hostage agreement in the Israel-Hamas war has been reached. This is a critical step towards permanently ending the catastrophic war in Gaza. The U.S. and our allies must continue their aggressive diplomacy to bring lasting peace in the region. “For 15 and a half months, hostage families have been living an agonizing nightmare of not knowing whether their loved ones are still alive and whether they will ever return home. Innocent families in Gaza have endured incomprehensible pain and loss. And both Israelis and Palestinians will be reeling from the trauma and carnage of this war for decades to come. “Today’s agreement is long overdue, and we must do everything in our power to ensure it is upheld and that the horrors of the past 467 days are never repeated. Going forward, every single hostage, living and deceased, must be released. All IDF troops must be pulled out of Gaza. The U.S. must work with our allies to surge humanitarian assistance into Gaza, ensure that a viable post-war plan is in place, and that rebuilding can begin. And the work must continue towards securing a long-term peace plan that resolves the underlying conflict between Israelis and Palestinians; one that guarantees Israel’s safety and security and self-determination for the Palestinians.” I believe in holding our allies accountable, even when it's inconvenient. For too long, the United States has let allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia commit egregious acts with American taxpayer-funded weapons. I am a proud Palestinian-American, but people of all backgrounds and ethnicities should be disturbed by our government's complicity in Israel's 58-year-long illegal occupation of the West Bank and the ongoing attacks on Gaza, which have killed tens of thousands of civilians, including infants and children. My foreign policy centers people, not the governments or groups claiming to represent them. I wholeheartedly support the immediate release of all hostages held in Gaza and a permanent ceasefire that sets the stage for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
March 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM