mischa.

So let me make a point that needs repeating: sexual exploitation is bad no matter the age of those trafficked. It’s horrific that young women and girls are targeted but it doesn’t become OK when they have a specific birthday.

And FWIW, this is not strictly a Bluesky problem. It is a content moderation problem and content moderation problems are also people problems. I wish there was an easier solution to this

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

The heresies it will breed.

Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"

Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.

When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.

I see otherwise sensible people getting lost in the conspiracyballs with Epstein. The ruling class are not chessmasters or Eyes Wide Shut style decadent cultists. They're shambolic, grubby, foolish people, blinded by greed, privilege, and hubris. Same with states and intelligence services.

Worth remembering something that the emails make clearer than ever: Epstein was a bullshitter, a sybarite, & a show-off, NOT a Bond villain mastermind. He was clever with money, opportunistic, connected, and was good at schmoozing rich sleazeballs and taking advantage of their cupidity. That's all.

I mean he’s wrong but also this rhetoric of “average American” not including literally millions of people simply because they are trans, disabled, racialized, etc

It is defining real people out of personhood

Day 7 without help I am having trouble affording food much less pay for any other pressing expenses

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They let this man — who ran for president on the idea that being mayor was enough because also he was gay — adopt Black children, who are going to need so much therapy as adults if they’re being raised listening to this kind of bullshit

tbh i think its gross to repeatedly telegraph how horny you are for your female profile subject and yet! male profile writers do it every time!!

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

There is nothing about this that suggests her deportation was an error. These were deliberate decisions and the headline of this excellent piece is a travesty.

Trump Implements Major Rollback of Food Tariffs The president moved to lower duties on beef, coffee and dozens of other goods, as he looks for ways to address Americans’ concerns about the cost of living.

This is the wheels coming off. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

So there’s a lawyer going around BlueSky right now responding to everyone talking about the Anthropic book settlement by (1) urging people to opt out and (2) saying that they are representing authors who are opting out.

Believe it or not, recognizing Trump is the personification of three centuries of American racism doesn't normalize him or make it harder to oppose him.

It means we're fighting the right problem, making it more likely we prevent another Trump.

Folks also take it out on the students as if it reflects some failure on their part instead of adjusting their expectations of these children to reflect the reality of what they experienced and where it left them. It's especially a joke in the US when you consider our education system as a whole.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

The kids who died of measles because RFK enabled their neglectful parents had their lives destroyed.

The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants

If the MSM possessed a sense of object permanence it might note that this flatly contradicts everything he has said about tariffs and prices for years.

What these people want is socialism for a circumscribed national community—a, uh, national socialism, to borrow from @jvl.bsky.social

That national community is white and (at minimum) culturally Christian

bsky.app/profile/libe...

Joel Webbon & @rightresponsem X.com "Paperwork Americans" are NOT Americans. I will NOT honor their "holy" days. I will NOT respect their false gods and idols. I will NOT tolerate their lectures on who is a "true" Christian and a "real"American. "Silence, American "citizen", A Christian American is speaking."

C.Jay Engel @contramordor X.com Give me some deeply American fall traditions or food staples that no foreigners could possibly assimilate to. l'Il start: the Thanksgiving Turkey. Any attempt by a foreigner to assimilate to this is pure LARP. Image shows a painting of three children praying and eyeing a Thanksgiving meal

It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating

America is not full. But an array of right-wing activists and commentators want to deport tens of millions of people.

For them, it’s not just about illegal immigration but the idea that not everyone can really become an American.

we picked the wrong time to close Religious Studies programs

For background on this aspect of project 2025 and the decades building up to it.

Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, shall: (a) take appropriate action to address State and local policies and practices that inappropriately prohibit participation in federally-funded child-welfare programs by qualified individuals or organizations based upon their sincerely-held religious beliefs or moral convictions; and (b) take appropriate action to increase partnerships between agencies and faith-based organizations and houses of worship to serve families whose children have been placed in foster care or are at risk of being placed in foster care.

Yesterday’s executive order is about 10 months later than expected but on target to do exactly as predicted. It will fully reverse protections enacted under Biden, and resurrect church-run, faith-based systems like we used to have before public social services.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

While this EO is much more subtle in the language they use, their intentions have been laid out in court cases across the country. Earlier this year, a district court judge in Texas blocked the Biden HHS protections in court, allowing prospective foster/adoption by vocally unaffirming parents.

A lot of challenges to privilege end up demanding more deprivation, suffering, and punishment for everyone and calling it equality.

"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord...

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...

Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."

Isaiah 1.11 to 17