Alexander Perkins, Ph.D.
@alexdperkins.bsky.social
Early Christianity, Gender and Sexuality, Identity and Empire; Gay, Queer, He/him.
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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I have a joke about Eris but only the fairest of you will understand it.
I have a joke about Polyphemus but nobody will get it.
September 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus bu….
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Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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The media was eager to turn Kirk's murder into a story about left wing political violence but when that flopped they shifted seamlessly to the "what went wrong with this nice white boy?" angle they do every time a mass shooting or high profile killing occurs. Utterly shameless.
September 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The media was eager to turn Kirk's murder into a story about left wing political violence but when that flopped they shifted seamlessly to the "what went wrong with this nice white boy?" angle they do every time a mass shooting or high profile killing occurs. Utterly shameless.
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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So @wsj.com are you going to apologize for endangering transgender people with your false reporting? Now that “transgender ideology” turned out to be a meme from a video game that had nothing to do with trans people?
September 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So @wsj.com are you going to apologize for endangering transgender people with your false reporting? Now that “transgender ideology” turned out to be a meme from a video game that had nothing to do with trans people?
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Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
The memory holing of Charlie Kirk’s fascism and cruelty is astonishing.
As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for “debating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking.
On top of that, the credulity of the media is 🤦🏻♂️. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?
As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for “debating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking.
On top of that, the credulity of the media is 🤦🏻♂️. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?
September 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The memory holing of Charlie Kirk’s fascism and cruelty is astonishing.
As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for “debating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking.
On top of that, the credulity of the media is 🤦🏻♂️. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?
As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for “debating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking.
On top of that, the credulity of the media is 🤦🏻♂️. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA
Florida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk Shooting
A reporter with a popular Florida political website was suspended after angering a Republican congressman with a question he texted in the wake of Charlie Kirk being shot.
www.mediaite.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA
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condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
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I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
September 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
Thinking at the moment about an actual play podcaster describing growing anxiety within his character as “coils of rope slowly tightening around his heart” and thinking that feels pretty real right now.
September 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thinking at the moment about an actual play podcaster describing growing anxiety within his character as “coils of rope slowly tightening around his heart” and thinking that feels pretty real right now.
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
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People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
August 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
Few things are more unimportantly infuriating than a person smugly saying something ignorant as though it were common sense.
The fact that some historians insist the Dark Ages didn't actually exist - and this is considered legitimate within the professional community - is a big reason why History doesn't deserve the same respect as, say, medicine or physics.
It's as if lots of medical academics held anti-vax views.
It's as if lots of medical academics held anti-vax views.
August 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Few things are more unimportantly infuriating than a person smugly saying something ignorant as though it were common sense.
Besides beings full of shit and implicitly revealing racist ideas of “real, uncontrollable” DC residents…
I’m not sure how Stephen Miller can call people old when he’s spent the last 400 years feeding on the blood of the innocent 🧛
I’m not sure how Stephen Miller can call people old when he’s spent the last 400 years feeding on the blood of the innocent 🧛
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Besides beings full of shit and implicitly revealing racist ideas of “real, uncontrollable” DC residents…
I’m not sure how Stephen Miller can call people old when he’s spent the last 400 years feeding on the blood of the innocent 🧛
I’m not sure how Stephen Miller can call people old when he’s spent the last 400 years feeding on the blood of the innocent 🧛
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“‘I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,’ the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: 'They told us we would die there'
“I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.
www.advocate.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“‘I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,’ the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
July 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
