Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️🌈✡️
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Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
· Nov 17
to misquote @kierongillen.bsky.social: I don’t believe in modern love, but do believe in ‘This Modern Love’.
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There is a very real risk that if the UCP claims any "irregularities" in the vote the WH will declare the whole referendum fraudulent and actually recognize an Alberta breakaway state.
They don't even have to deploy troops at that point for it to create the biggest international crisis since Suez.
They don't even have to deploy troops at that point for it to create the biggest international crisis since Suez.
i think the risk is not that they succeed (if all NDP voters + at least 30-40% of UCP voters vote against the referendum) but rather how the US responds, given that they've been backing these guys
15% of Albertans want separation. The rest would vote Democrat, just to give them the finger if this ever happens.
February 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
There is a very real risk that if the UCP claims any "irregularities" in the vote the WH will declare the whole referendum fraudulent and actually recognize an Alberta breakaway state.
They don't even have to deploy troops at that point for it to create the biggest international crisis since Suez.
They don't even have to deploy troops at that point for it to create the biggest international crisis since Suez.
Is there a Trump admin priority that Wurman hasn’t suddenly discovered a legal argument for totally out of the blue?
Yes but have you considered that it is in fact not
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Is there a Trump admin priority that Wurman hasn’t suddenly discovered a legal argument for totally out of the blue?
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Vance undermining the US Olympic Team would be too on the nose
American star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event.
“We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.
“We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.
Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team. Not even JD Vance’s motorcade.
Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Vance undermining the US Olympic Team would be too on the nose
A new album from Rollie is always cause for excitement, but this new one was fully produced by Junia-T, whose 2020 LP Studio Monk was an astonishing piece of work, so Forager should definitely be a treat for the ears.
Announcing my new LP Forager out 4/24/26!
New single Alpenflage is out now.
The record is a love letter to fashion history and golden age rap.
It’s an album for all the thrifters, the stylists and the archivists. I'm excited for folks to hear it.
Vinyl pre-order is live: linktr.ee/cadenceweapon
New single Alpenflage is out now.
The record is a love letter to fashion history and golden age rap.
It’s an album for all the thrifters, the stylists and the archivists. I'm excited for folks to hear it.
Vinyl pre-order is live: linktr.ee/cadenceweapon
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
A new album from Rollie is always cause for excitement, but this new one was fully produced by Junia-T, whose 2020 LP Studio Monk was an astonishing piece of work, so Forager should definitely be a treat for the ears.
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who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
February 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
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Genuinely, what is Tim Scott talking about. What could "it was fake" possibly mean in this context? It is real, it is a real thing he did, and it is still up right now. He's using skeptical benefit-of-the-doubt language for something that anyone with internet access can see with their own eyes.
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Genuinely, what is Tim Scott talking about. What could "it was fake" possibly mean in this context? It is real, it is a real thing he did, and it is still up right now. He's using skeptical benefit-of-the-doubt language for something that anyone with internet access can see with their own eyes.
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
The Democrats are pushing a secret “A Woo Woo Woo” agenda! What backroom deals did those adorable children make to get a spot on the stage? How have they been deemed qualified for positions on the mayor’s team when they haven’t even graduated from elementary school?
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The Democrats are pushing a secret “A Woo Woo Woo” agenda! What backroom deals did those adorable children make to get a spot on the stage? How have they been deemed qualified for positions on the mayor’s team when they haven’t even graduated from elementary school?
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This is my friends’ 73-year-old dad. He was protesting against DHS’s murder of Alex Pretti when ICE goons broke his jaw in three places with a flashbang grenade.
“I wanted to go [back to protest] this morning. … they need to be told that what they’re doing ain’t going to happen here.”
“I wanted to go [back to protest] this morning. … they need to be told that what they’re doing ain’t going to happen here.”
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
This is my friends’ 73-year-old dad. He was protesting against DHS’s murder of Alex Pretti when ICE goons broke his jaw in three places with a flashbang grenade.
“I wanted to go [back to protest] this morning. … they need to be told that what they’re doing ain’t going to happen here.”
“I wanted to go [back to protest] this morning. … they need to be told that what they’re doing ain’t going to happen here.”
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We had just been married for a few months when his story on Eddie Berganza broke, and for years after that, I saw him take jobs outside of comics because people in comics—people I liked and trusted to be good people!— told him they would never hire him because of that and similar work.
February 6, 2026 at 2:32 AM
We had just been married for a few months when his story on Eddie Berganza broke, and for years after that, I saw him take jobs outside of comics because people in comics—people I liked and trusted to be good people!— told him they would never hire him because of that and similar work.
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Jay ~should~ be leading his own imprint by now. He should have a job like mine. He is a brilliant editor, a brilliant mentor/coach, and a brilliant writer (and a brilliant pedant about word balloon placement, which is why we got married).
Instead, he is only peripherally in comics anymore.
Instead, he is only peripherally in comics anymore.
Here is a thing:
There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.
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There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.
(cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Jay ~should~ be leading his own imprint by now. He should have a job like mine. He is a brilliant editor, a brilliant mentor/coach, and a brilliant writer (and a brilliant pedant about word balloon placement, which is why we got married).
Instead, he is only peripherally in comics anymore.
Instead, he is only peripherally in comics anymore.
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The "Are You American" Rejects
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 5:26 AM
The "Are You American" Rejects
This is the Abrego Garcia case all over again. As soon as anyone becomes visible and gains significant public sympathy due to the government’s mistreatment of them, the Trump admin goes out of its way to attack that person and prosecute or deport them.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:55 AM
This is the Abrego Garcia case all over again. As soon as anyone becomes visible and gains significant public sympathy due to the government’s mistreatment of them, the Trump admin goes out of its way to attack that person and prosecute or deport them.
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Fox News chumming the water for outrage and clicks despite the fact this is literally what they want, trans men not on HRT competing with women.
February 6, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Fox News chumming the water for outrage and clicks despite the fact this is literally what they want, trans men not on HRT competing with women.
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Two competing butchers fight over hearts and harts
Meated Rivalry
Meated Rivalry
Two reporters at competing news outlets secretly pine for each other.
Leded Rivalry
Leded Rivalry
Two jewelry artists who run different Etsy shops secretly pine for each other.
Beaded Rivalry
Beaded Rivalry
February 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Two competing butchers fight over hearts and harts
Meated Rivalry
Meated Rivalry
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NOOO FROZEN PINK LEMONADE IS ESSENTIAL IN MY PINK PANTHER PUNCH (ALCOHOL POISONING POSSIBLE)
The iconic, slush-filled tubes of orange juice concentrate, which have been around for 80 years, are being discontinued, the Coca-Cola Company says.
Minute Maid discontinues frozen juice concentrate after 80 years
The process to make juice concentrate was invented by the research team C.D. Atkins, Edwin Moore and Louis MacDowell in the 1940s.
nbcnews.to
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
NOOO FROZEN PINK LEMONADE IS ESSENTIAL IN MY PINK PANTHER PUNCH (ALCOHOL POISONING POSSIBLE)
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*blinks*
Reports that Olympic ski jumpers are injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid to improve performance on jumps have aroused controversy
These Olympic Athletes Are Reportedly Doing WHAT To Their Penises For A Competitive Edge?
The Olympics haven't officially begun, but a report that ski jumpers may be using penis injections before competition is already arousing controversy.
www.huffpost.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
*blinks*
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Katie Britt is In On All These Horrors and NYT readers shouldn't have to wade through 3,300 words of bullshit about her deep compassion for Liam Ramos before finally encountering the tiniest hint that maybe it wasn't entirely sincere
February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Katie Britt is In On All These Horrors and NYT readers shouldn't have to wade through 3,300 words of bullshit about her deep compassion for Liam Ramos before finally encountering the tiniest hint that maybe it wasn't entirely sincere
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paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."
February 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."
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One thing that's so striking about the documents is how clear it is that Epstein and his allies had a gendered class consciousness and felt solidarity with other abusive men up and down the class spectrum.
February 5, 2026 at 12:27 AM
One thing that's so striking about the documents is how clear it is that Epstein and his allies had a gendered class consciousness and felt solidarity with other abusive men up and down the class spectrum.
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Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.
I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
February 5, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.
There is a YouTube celebrity called ‘Steak’?
February 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
There is a YouTube celebrity called ‘Steak’?
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The Trump admin is ALSO changing the rules so that rather than 30 days to file a Notice of Appeal, people will now only have 10 days (in most cases).
That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!
That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The Trump admin is ALSO changing the rules so that rather than 30 days to file a Notice of Appeal, people will now only have 10 days (in most cases).
That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!
That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!
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🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
February 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
just discovered that, in the early 90s, the Punisher was selling so well that Marvel didn’t just have an annual Punisher Holiday Special and Summer Special but a Punisher Back to School Special…where Frank Castle went undercover as a cafeteria worker? I have so many questions.
February 5, 2026 at 7:41 AM
just discovered that, in the early 90s, the Punisher was selling so well that Marvel didn’t just have an annual Punisher Holiday Special and Summer Special but a Punisher Back to School Special…where Frank Castle went undercover as a cafeteria worker? I have so many questions.