ShoeCityRefugee
@shoecityrefugee.bsky.social
Recent transplant from NJ to SW GA; MA native. Lapsed Catholic.
One-Off Jeopardy! Champ.
Retired from Underachieving
One-Off Jeopardy! Champ.
Retired from Underachieving
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Everett, a town just north from us, was planning to distribute free turkeys today to refugee families until ICE showed up threatening to make arrests. Now the people are scared and staying away. ICE has ruined Thanksgiving for many who need food assistance.
This makes me so angry!
This makes me so angry!
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Everett, a town just north from us, was planning to distribute free turkeys today to refugee families until ICE showed up threatening to make arrests. Now the people are scared and staying away. ICE has ruined Thanksgiving for many who need food assistance.
This makes me so angry!
This makes me so angry!
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In case the Democratic Party needed any more proof that the future of the party is Mamdani and they can either get the fuck on board or get the fuck out of the way
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In case the Democratic Party needed any more proof that the future of the party is Mamdani and they can either get the fuck on board or get the fuck out of the way
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Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Between a random Portland barista saying he wants to hurt Charlie Kirk and the President of the United States calling for the execution of Democrats, both sides clearly have a violence problem
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Between a random Portland barista saying he wants to hurt Charlie Kirk and the President of the United States calling for the execution of Democrats, both sides clearly have a violence problem
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There is something we need to remember. Thanks to the lack of correction, Donald Trump may very well have the ability to launch drone strike assassinations on US soil.
So we need to take his calls for execution literal and for what they are.
Build a coalition for impeachment and removal today.
So we need to take his calls for execution literal and for what they are.
Build a coalition for impeachment and removal today.
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There is something we need to remember. Thanks to the lack of correction, Donald Trump may very well have the ability to launch drone strike assassinations on US soil.
So we need to take his calls for execution literal and for what they are.
Build a coalition for impeachment and removal today.
So we need to take his calls for execution literal and for what they are.
Build a coalition for impeachment and removal today.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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JUST IN: A tidal wave of 30,000 students hit the streets in Charlotte, walking out to confront ICE with sheer numbers and zero hesitation.
This is a generation refusing to be controlled.
This is a generation refusing to be controlled.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
JUST IN: A tidal wave of 30,000 students hit the streets in Charlotte, walking out to confront ICE with sheer numbers and zero hesitation.
This is a generation refusing to be controlled.
This is a generation refusing to be controlled.
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Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
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The pending illegal war with Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs. This administration doesn't give a shit about Fentanyl deaths. It's about oil, Venezuela is sitting on top of the biggest oil reserves in the world.
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The pending illegal war with Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs. This administration doesn't give a shit about Fentanyl deaths. It's about oil, Venezuela is sitting on top of the biggest oil reserves in the world.
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Remember, everyone. When the Gestapo comes to town, be ready to alert others to their presence, to record their abuses, and to exercise your 1A right to directly petition them to go fuck themselves.
Non-citizens can't stand up for themselves easily. So citizens must stand up for them.
Non-citizens can't stand up for themselves easily. So citizens must stand up for them.
Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh).
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Remember, everyone. When the Gestapo comes to town, be ready to alert others to their presence, to record their abuses, and to exercise your 1A right to directly petition them to go fuck themselves.
Non-citizens can't stand up for themselves easily. So citizens must stand up for them.
Non-citizens can't stand up for themselves easily. So citizens must stand up for them.
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MTG is no less racist than she was two months ago, but the fact that she's beefing with trump will cause thousands of white liberals to flock to her nevertheless. sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just everybody's enemy.
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
MTG is no less racist than she was two months ago, but the fact that she's beefing with trump will cause thousands of white liberals to flock to her nevertheless. sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just everybody's enemy.
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If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
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Oh no.
Not Bill Clinton.
Oh no.
What will I do now with my Clinton Crypto, Clinton Bible, Clinton Hat, Clinton Vodka, Clinton University diploma, Clinton Tower lease?
I am nothing without those
Not Bill Clinton.
Oh no.
What will I do now with my Clinton Crypto, Clinton Bible, Clinton Hat, Clinton Vodka, Clinton University diploma, Clinton Tower lease?
I am nothing without those
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Oh no.
Not Bill Clinton.
Oh no.
What will I do now with my Clinton Crypto, Clinton Bible, Clinton Hat, Clinton Vodka, Clinton University diploma, Clinton Tower lease?
I am nothing without those
Not Bill Clinton.
Oh no.
What will I do now with my Clinton Crypto, Clinton Bible, Clinton Hat, Clinton Vodka, Clinton University diploma, Clinton Tower lease?
I am nothing without those
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We stopped teaching students that intellectual curiousity is the most exciting and important part of college, stopped asking them to not just do the reading but seek extra books, music, films, shows, plays, art for context, stopped demanding not just looking for rubrics to check boxes but seek more.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We stopped teaching students that intellectual curiousity is the most exciting and important part of college, stopped asking them to not just do the reading but seek extra books, music, films, shows, plays, art for context, stopped demanding not just looking for rubrics to check boxes but seek more.
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everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
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It strikes me that it’s going to be up to us to make sure there is a cultural memory for what’s been happening in the last 15 years. It’s clear that if we don’t force a drastic change of perspective on basically every institution, all of this will get memory holed or “reinterpreted” to be less awful
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It strikes me that it’s going to be up to us to make sure there is a cultural memory for what’s been happening in the last 15 years. It’s clear that if we don’t force a drastic change of perspective on basically every institution, all of this will get memory holed or “reinterpreted” to be less awful
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Nixon was a thing. Buchanan was a thing. The question has never been, "where did all these rightoids come from?" because they were there the whole time. The question is: what happened to all the other political forces who starved them of oxygen?
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Nixon was a thing. Buchanan was a thing. The question has never been, "where did all these rightoids come from?" because they were there the whole time. The question is: what happened to all the other political forces who starved them of oxygen?
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It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.
As long as it's not Beyonce country music fans are fine with this development
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.
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The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact