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Skylar Baker-Jordan

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Journalist. Half my heart is in Appalachia. The other half is in England. Write about both professionally, study both academically, at home in both personally. On leave while I fight tonsil cancer Oh, and I love #EastEnders

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For an eight pound angel my dog sure can snore

07.08.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Painting featuring a standing white woman in a long blue dress, facing left, at work in a factory holding bobbins of cotton

Painting featuring a standing white woman in a long blue dress, facing left, at work in a factory holding bobbins of cotton

UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt

21.07.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 549    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

Sylvia was disowned by her mother for giving birth out of wedlock at 45 and eventually moved to Ethiopia where she was mourned as a national hero upon her death. She’s my favourite of the Pankhursts. Adela the fascist is my least favourite.

I’m starting to see why Millicent Fawcett got the statue

07.08.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Pankhursts are a fascinating family. Emmeline married a socialist but was fairly conservative herself, meanwhile her daughter Sylvia was an anti-imperialist socialist, her other daughter Adela was a fascist in Australia, and her OTHER daughter Cristabel became an evangelical Christian in America

07.08.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Howie blackmailing the Brannings. I reckon we know why Max comes back #EastEnders

06.08.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The explanation is they all put their own power and privilege above the American people and Constitution. It's that simple. We must stop looking for further explanations when the obvious answer is the correct one

06.08.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜God, please fix me’: Inside the dangerous resurgence of β€˜ex-gay’ conversion therapy | CNN More than half of US states ban the discredited and harmful practice of conversion therapy for gay people. But former practitioners say it’s making a comeback.

MAGA is bringing back torture for gay kids edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/u...

06.08.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is my greatest fear

06.08.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Joel's a gross little psycho and what is scary is that there are millions of Joels out there just ready to attack women #EastEnders

06.08.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alice Haig is such a talent. Vicki is fast becoming one of my favourite characters #EastEnders

06.08.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Marsha Blackburn is running for governor of Tennessee. She'll probably win, meaning my desire to leave this state has trebled (at least)

06.08.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trolls before the Internet: an angry misogynist writes to Emily Wilding Davison, martyr of the Suffragettes

06.08.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t believe her, and no one can really blame me considering how corrupt this whole thing appears

There’s a reason the DOJ shouldn’t do the President’s bidding

06.08.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œPraying for Big Balls” perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of 2025

06.08.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The #KingOfTheHill episode with Good Hank is one of the best takedowns of Andrew Tate and the manosphere I’ve seen

05.08.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a woman looking at a piece of meat in a butcher shop ALT: a cartoon of a woman looking at a piece of meat in a butcher shop

#UTIGang #Peggy

I am DECEASED πŸ’€ πŸ˜‚

04.08.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was not prepared for Chane Wassanasong to be my favourite character in the #KingOfTheHill reboot πŸ˜‚

04.08.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, only insomuch as she’s allowing herself to be used as a poster child for eugenics. But no, I don’t spend much time thinking about her and that advert is low on my list of concerns

04.08.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree this is madness, but Sydney Sweeney’s team is not doing her any favours by not addressing it. Right now my opinion of her is at an all time low and it was never very high to begin with

04.08.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what is happening right now.

04.08.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 22854    πŸ” 8098    πŸ’¬ 585    πŸ“Œ 367

This is the best episode of #TheGildedAge yet

04.08.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone give Blake Ritson the Emmy right now #TheGildedAge

04.08.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas Houseβ€”decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselvesβ€”they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

04.08.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 32697    πŸ” 8070    πŸ’¬ 492    πŸ“Œ 343

all of this shit is a flagrant violation of bribery and corruption law, I don’t care what the Supreme Court says

03.08.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 571    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

I'd be more amenable to that argument from ICE if they were going after and prosecuting people who were hiring undocumented workers illegally.

Instead, they're hanging around outside of courtrooms and grabbing people who are trying to be documented workers.

02.08.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Straight men of colour, I should say

02.08.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Being gay neuters him in the minds of middle America. You don’t have the underlying sexual anxieties you have with straight men. It goes back to Jim Crow and the cult of white womanhood from which you can draw a through-line directly to the mass hysteria over Laken Riley’s unfortunate murder

02.08.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe it's a masculinity thing, truly. Trump said he was going to deport the criminals and most people had in their mind macho menacing drug lords and their cartels, right? Well when you say "gay hairdresser" middle America stereotypes that as effeminate and ultimately weak and harmless

01.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual a...

Andry Hernandez, the gay hairdresser sent to El Salvador, said he was beaten by three guards wearing masks and forced to perform oral sex on one of the guards. After a couple of hours, he was dragged back to his cell.
www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n...

01.08.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 346    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 12

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

31.07.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 17473    πŸ” 3421    πŸ’¬ 665    πŸ“Œ 218

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