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me last week:

“There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”

i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.

very excited for MAGA juche to double the price of getting a bookshelf

Since the beginning of the genocide I’m thinking about this encounter in C. Hitchens memoir on a regular basis.

The point of conservatism is to defend the existing order within society, especially from challenges based upon abstract rights derived from reason which, per thinkers like Burke, are less sound and more unstable than established traditions and prejudices. That's the whole thing.

mamdani needs to apologise for the earthquake to prove he can be a mayor to all New Yorkers

hello bsky oomfs i am now on the storygraph in addition to goodreads
find me on storygraph as @/cinderblock and on goodreads as @/mintlavender... pls lmk who u are when u add me bc otherwise i may be confused

"Women's feminist consciousness has scared men away from eroticism!!!!" girl what feminist consciousness

Sexual practices have political implications. It’s wild how much anti-rape feminists are reviled for pointing this out when the gender politics of the right makes it so brutally, unavoidably obvious.

A sexual politics that prizes reproductivity, eroticization of male dominance, and women’s humiliation as a marker of men’s status will inevitably trend towards valorizing pedophilia.

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Representing K–12 teachers and leaders in the core subject areas, NCTE, @nctm.org, @socialstudies.org, and NSTA call on the administration to release nearly $7 billion in allocated federal educational funds and reaffirm its commitment to supporting our nation’s communities: ncte.org/blog/2025/07...

genuinely wondering whether IDEA, still the law of the land, can be enforced without the Dept. of Education? Families can still try to pressure their school systems, go to mediation, take their chances on due process, etc.—but without Offices of Special Ed Programs / Civil Rights, idk what happens

a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated

get these boys a trenchcoat

🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.

The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.

Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd

nyt opinion headline god bless brad pitt with a photo of brad pitt from the F1 movie probably

ok late to this but it’s so messed up that men can be known, documented, public abusers and still get feted in this exact manner but famous women have to go into hibernation every 4-6 years otherwise one day everyone wakes up and is like you know what i can’t stand? this bitch’s face.

the tide is going to turn back. and when it does we can't let places like penn pretend like they never did this

bad news for Mamdani: i just imagined him shooting at my feet with two revolvers while shouting "dance! dance, ya varmint, dance!!" and then cackling so maniacally that his cowboy hat falls off. When will he go on TV to apologize for doing this

YouTube video by AlbinoBlackSheep The End of the World

If we're sharing cultural artifacts from the Iraq war era with the youths, I am generationally required to share this:
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“Feminism is not innately free from power hierarchies and has been hostile to racialized and transfeminized women” gets purposed into “therefore a female liberation politic is bad for marginalized women.”

Real convenient double-speak for anti-feminists

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

I hope that no one ever treats Liz Bruenig the way she wants the state to be able to treat us.

You know Newsom wishes it was him who got tackled.

Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over bans in sports The Minnesota Democrat has been critical of other members of his party who are retreating at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and in Minnesota.

Gov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.” www.startribune.com/gov-tim-walz...

Serving a delicious free lunch at the Republican National Committee to own Trump

the #1 thing stopping me from using bluesky rn is that i cant make private posts... pls i want to post snarky comments that post OPs cant see............ i need SECURITY and PRIVACY

Honestly, when you get to interview folks like this, the interesting things to ask are less about what was going on behind the scenes than why they chose this work in the first place. "Why did you decide to take and stay in a job that had you lying to people every day? Let's unpack that."