JJ West

It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥

This immediately sprang to mind when I heard the news (for obvious reasons given my recent book). I think Gamergate will be studied by historians (assuming we have any of those left in the future) as not just an inflection point, but a flashing red warning sign that people didn't want to see.

The Trump Manosphere: Reactionary Male Supremacy, Misogyny and Accelerationist Violence in the Post-Election Era - VOX - Pol By Joshua Bowes and Jennifer West Introduction In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, social media was replete with reactionary misogynistic hate and v...

Per tradition, our Blog’s on hols for August, so we’re counting down the most read posts of 2024-25.

At No.4, @joshuabowes.bsky.social & @jjwest.bsky.social’s ‘The Trump Manosphere’ on reactionary male supremacy, misogyny, & accelerationist violence.

➡️ Read it at: voxpol.eu/the-trump-ma...

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

Whew, what a read

Trump Gloats Over Passage of Bill That Will Kick Millions Off Medicaid, Food Aid The House of Representatives passed Trump's "One Big Beautiful" reconciliation budget that will likely kick millions off programs like Medicaid.

Trump Gloats Over Passage of Bill That Will Kick Millions Off Medicaid, Food Aid

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Laura Loomer is the weirdest person in politics right now. She isn't even a stopped clock anymore, she's a clock that's flashing random numbers and about half of them are right and the other half are unbelievably racist and all of them are insane

if i understand my LGBTQ history, i believe queer people love having their bars raided on flimsy pretexts

If only there was a book about this 🤔

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

those EARS!

@ABC Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was murdered by a migrant without legal status in 2023, criticized her senator, Chris Van Hollen, for flying to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an unrelated immigration case. https://abcnews.link/vxXfL69

An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?

efficiently using all my PTO you mean

Put up or shut up time for the Supreme Court

We don’t need a left-wing Joe Rogan, but we do need a Jimmy Buffett of the winter time

yeah there's a direct through line between this ruling and anyone who bought that hogwart's game that trans people got screamed at for suggesting we boycott

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.”

Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.

MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

My Dutch-American family and their greenhouses:

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

The massacre of 15 emergency and paramedics in Rafah is one of the worst incidents I can remember and I have yet to see any serious response.
"Those responsible must be held accountable" said Foreign Secretary David Lammy. What are you doing for this to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

A small white dog (Tofu) with pointy ears and a pink nose sitting on a white blanket, staring up at the camera. She looks unbelievably small in this photo.

I think Tofu shrunk