Pepper
@whatifrealhist.bsky.social
He/him. 🏳️⚧️ Running on bitterness and coffee. Are you ready for the red scare 2: anti-woke edition?
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
We should make Pan-Americanism, like, real
February 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM
We should make Pan-Americanism, like, real
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there is no tradition of masked law enforcement in the United States. Except, you know, the Klan.
Reminder that prior to this organization, not only were these agents unmasked and wearing their names and badge numbers on their chest: their name, job title, work location, and salary was also publicly searchable.
Putting ICE at risk (hypothetically, and without any evidence of it having happened)? ❌
Putting local residents at risk (not hypothetical at all, with indisputable evidence of lethal encounters)? ✅
This is how Congressional GOP views our lives.
Putting local residents at risk (not hypothetical at all, with indisputable evidence of lethal encounters)? ✅
This is how Congressional GOP views our lives.
February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
there is no tradition of masked law enforcement in the United States. Except, you know, the Klan.
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Excited for Professor Wurman's new brief, "Why the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Does Not Include Black Journalists"
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Excited for Professor Wurman's new brief, "Why the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Does Not Include Black Journalists"
The Internet means you no longer need Ross Perot’s level of wealth to just sit down and explain your policies to a large number of people
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The Internet means you no longer need Ross Perot’s level of wealth to just sit down and explain your policies to a large number of people
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More and more people are saying that the center-left political elite has its own omnicause reactionism problem centered around personal grievances against pro-Palestine students and transgender people.
the atlantic has been like this for a long time but man, it really blows that the flagship publication for american liberalism has abandoned *liberalism* wholesale because of trans athletes and woke student governments
International law no longer serves as an instrument of global stability—and the U.S. should use this moment to argue for a different approach to the rules of war, John Yoo argues.
January 25, 2026 at 9:47 PM
More and more people are saying that the center-left political elite has its own omnicause reactionism problem centered around personal grievances against pro-Palestine students and transgender people.
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It's remarkable how people like him and Rowling who jumped off the TERF deep end for bullshit but at least left-coded reasons are just American Republicans now.
![Graham Linehan reposted
Pericles • @PerryALPHA • 4h
He died doing what he loved the most: trying to prevent rapists and pedophiles from being arrested
[photo of alex pretti who was murdered by ice agents]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ur44vdsob5t7hrnissksvqtu/bafkreiflb2tcpizjbyz6urjkvqm5bi4pxeyc2c73walgqd2d3qieu4iute@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
It's remarkable how people like him and Rowling who jumped off the TERF deep end for bullshit but at least left-coded reasons are just American Republicans now.
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As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso.
The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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the trump 2.0 political movement seems to have taken the political nihilism of trump 1.0 and evolved it into, “actually, we should all die. nothing matters and we should all embrace death. let nothing escape. let’s tear down this temple with us inside it. let us all go together.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:22 PM
the trump 2.0 political movement seems to have taken the political nihilism of trump 1.0 and evolved it into, “actually, we should all die. nothing matters and we should all embrace death. let nothing escape. let’s tear down this temple with us inside it. let us all go together.”
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Murdering protestors is what dictators do, and it’s what Republican leaders in Georgia want unleashed on our state. Not another penny should go to this rogue agency, and existing funding should instead go to funding what we actually need.
A man was shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis Saturday morning, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.
Video by Elliot Hughes, Susan Du, Louie Krauss and Josie Albertson-Grove/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Video by Elliot Hughes, Susan Du, Louie Krauss and Josie Albertson-Grove/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Murdering protestors is what dictators do, and it’s what Republican leaders in Georgia want unleashed on our state. Not another penny should go to this rogue agency, and existing funding should instead go to funding what we actually need.
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Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.
37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
January 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.
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This martyr could be any of us. He is doing what so many of us have been trained to do. Standing and recording on his phone, trying to warn his neighbors, and now he’s dead because armed, masked federal paramilitaries are acting with impunity to perform ethnic cleansing.
Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
This martyr could be any of us. He is doing what so many of us have been trained to do. Standing and recording on his phone, trying to warn his neighbors, and now he’s dead because armed, masked federal paramilitaries are acting with impunity to perform ethnic cleansing.
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How many public executions do we have to watch before there is a mass mobilization by democratic lawmakers — national and local — to arrest the killers and chase ICE out of cities?
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
How many public executions do we have to watch before there is a mass mobilization by democratic lawmakers — national and local — to arrest the killers and chase ICE out of cities?
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Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law
If you can’t nab these guys now, I don’t see how you can even begin to restore order
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
If you can’t nab these guys now, I don’t see how you can even begin to restore order
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It is sort of interesting how utterly infantilized so many of these countries are now. Israel can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. The US can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. Russia can't be held to account on the basis
In a normal world, "US treasury secretary endorses American annexation of Canadian territory" should be front page news
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It is sort of interesting how utterly infantilized so many of these countries are now. Israel can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. The US can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. Russia can't be held to account on the basis
Nothing but a constant bubbling of rage inside at all times
January 23, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Nothing but a constant bubbling of rage inside at all times
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this is the kind of whitewashing of US history that academics should be enraged with, not the kind that motivates people to show up for their communities in -6 degree weather
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM
this is the kind of whitewashing of US history that academics should be enraged with, not the kind that motivates people to show up for their communities in -6 degree weather
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The New Deal, for however flawed it was, was also a victory of American racial and working class solidarity. It is a part of the histories of the “brown, black, red, and yellow” working class peoples who had to fight for their existence here and they want to destroy this history as they deport us.
January 22, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The New Deal, for however flawed it was, was also a victory of American racial and working class solidarity. It is a part of the histories of the “brown, black, red, and yellow” working class peoples who had to fight for their existence here and they want to destroy this history as they deport us.
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I know I will probably get flamed for what is an incredibly cringe and definitely borderline, at minimum, histrionic statement but what the fascist Republican Party is doing with acts like these are the preceding steps to culturicide.
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I know I will probably get flamed for what is an incredibly cringe and definitely borderline, at minimum, histrionic statement but what the fascist Republican Party is doing with acts like these are the preceding steps to culturicide.
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Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
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Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills
Trump: "There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing. I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China."
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills
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there has never been a more fully globalist movement than the modern far right. a relatively small conspiracy in favor of racists, pedos, and criminals all over the world
French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — and details how he has used similar fascistic tactics to intimidate other judges around the world who rule against his alt-right friends.
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
there has never been a more fully globalist movement than the modern far right. a relatively small conspiracy in favor of racists, pedos, and criminals all over the world
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i like how mamdani is doing red vienna shit while the rest of the world goes to hell
Mamdani on The View on new funding for universal childcare: "We actually have a mother in the audience -- Mallory -- who when the announcement was made, texted her husband to say, 'It might be time for a second kid.'"
Hosts: "Awwww"
Hosts: "Awwww"
January 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM
i like how mamdani is doing red vienna shit while the rest of the world goes to hell
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school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history