Brooke from Let’s Not Date

As a sober driver this is completely unfair. 🙄🙄🙄

Totally on the same page

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1/2 The Very Hungry Woman
🥱 bedtime stories for men

Right. I have gotten a few comments like that across socials and I find it odd especially when I explain the pictures meaning in the next section, so I very clearly know it.

The Maury County Courthouse and Jason Aldean It’s been two years

I’m diving deeper into historic and modern dog whistles in a new Substack post. Past and present, they haven’t stopped, they’ve just moved into different corridors of power.

Read the full story here: open.substack.com/pub/brookete...

When institutions rely on coded language, it isn’t always about hiding meaning.

Sometimes it’s about making sure the right people hear it, while everyone else is left arguing over whether it happened at all.

We heard the dog whistles in the recent Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad. “Great jeans” became “great genes,” a wink wrapped in her blond hair, her blue eyes, and even her initials, SS. What gets sold as “patriotic style” carries something sharper, echoes meant to remind who belongs, & who doesn’t

In the image, light follows the white settlers as they push westward, while Indigenous people & darkened skies are pushed to the shadows. The caption contained exactly 14 words, with two capital H’s, a combination white supremacists use to signal “14/88,” with “HH” standing for “Heil Hitler.”

At first glance, it is standard patriotic messaging. But the painting itself was created to celebrate Manifest Destiny, the belief that white Americans were divinely entitled to conquer the continent.

Just last week, Homeland Security posted an image of the 1872 painting American Progress by John Gast with the caption: “A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending.”

In today’s politics, the message is often clearest when it’s cloaked. Let’s talk dog whistles.

😆😆 you are not alone

Please do

Wait why oof

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Hehe

Imagine hating me and I’m just in the woods telling men history like this

Not yet

If you support what I’m doing, find more here: open.substack.com/pub/brookete...

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1/2 It’s been two years since Jason Aldean released his “Try That in a Small Town” video, filmed in front of a courthouse where a Black teenager was lynched.

In this post are excerpts from a right-wing group chat. On this particular day, two years ago, they were focused on Jason Aldean.

Who needs me to explain water slide for babies 👀

This guy is looking for a water slide for babies

I know you want to see them better.

If you all keep sending me books off my wishlist you are going to get me pregnant. (Thankfully this is not possible for me.)

I put my amazon wishlist in my post about books and, I think I may just be the luckiest woman in the world. Thank you!

Thank you! I have those sunglasses in black, green, pink and blue lol

So much more: open.substack.com/pub/letsnotd...

Huh. I wonder what it was.

(More book themed fun linked in the comments.)

Hahaha am I your future ex-wife or is she? I will share her with you.