AJ
@snarkyspice.bsky.social
Rabble rousing recently minted Chicagoan. Founding Writer of laborpainsmedia.com and Co-founder of The Flytrap.
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AJ
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· Nov 22
The #1 rule of interacting with me as a stranger on social media: Don't be fucking weird (derogatory).
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Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
January 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
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Eliminating the Department of Education, banning trans athletes and gender affirming care, everything Musk has done, purging government agencies, banning DEI - all of that is an exercise in pure power. None of it is legal. Complying isn't legally required with any of it - it's a choice.
February 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Eliminating the Department of Education, banning trans athletes and gender affirming care, everything Musk has done, purging government agencies, banning DEI - all of that is an exercise in pure power. None of it is legal. Complying isn't legally required with any of it - it's a choice.
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we elevated the nerd, but we never examined whether, despite the social awkwardness and bullying, they were actually good people, or simply anti-social losers who should have stayed powerless, jacking off in their parents' basements
February 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
we elevated the nerd, but we never examined whether, despite the social awkwardness and bullying, they were actually good people, or simply anti-social losers who should have stayed powerless, jacking off in their parents' basements
They have Cadillac level health insurance. They can afford a couple of fisticuff related injuries. If they took an oath to protect AND DEFEND the Constitution, they need to act like they mean it.
Y’all want Congresspeople fistfighting at the Treasury?
This is the circle I am trying to square between "this is a genuine improvement from last week and should be encouraged" and "for heaven's sake you're a member of Congress what are you afraid of"
February 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
They have Cadillac level health insurance. They can afford a couple of fisticuff related injuries. If they took an oath to protect AND DEFEND the Constitution, they need to act like they mean it.
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So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
February 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
The reason the Dems aren't putting their bodies on the line to try to stop Elon and those little DOGE turds is because they find more common cause with billionaires than with the people who elected them. It's as simple as that.
February 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The reason the Dems aren't putting their bodies on the line to try to stop Elon and those little DOGE turds is because they find more common cause with billionaires than with the people who elected them. It's as simple as that.
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Laws are only worth the paper they're printed on if there's actual people with the power and will to enforce them.
February 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Laws are only worth the paper they're printed on if there's actual people with the power and will to enforce them.
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In the history of whiteness a minority group has never been able to “work” themselves into a protected status
It will always chose its own bigotries and fears
No matter how “good” you are
It will always chose its own bigotries and fears
No matter how “good” you are
February 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In the history of whiteness a minority group has never been able to “work” themselves into a protected status
It will always chose its own bigotries and fears
No matter how “good” you are
It will always chose its own bigotries and fears
No matter how “good” you are
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And the framing of diversity initiatives as acts of generosity perpetuated false narratives about Black inferiority that are being leveraged today.
And the framing of diversity initiatives as acts of generosity perpetuated false narratives about Black inferiority that are being leveraged today.
Diversity was a conservative compromise that liberals decided to accept and now we are here
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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And the framing of diversity initiatives as acts of generosity perpetuated false narratives about Black inferiority that are being leveraged today.
And the framing of diversity initiatives as acts of generosity perpetuated false narratives about Black inferiority that are being leveraged today.
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At a certain point the “leftists” who hate liberals more than they hate the fascists are going to have to admit that they’ve been playing for the fascist team.
Just like for Singal, the answer for anti-liberal leftists like Harper who have absolutely nothing else to offer but reflexive raging against “the Libs” and “the wokes” is to double down. It’s as intellectually empty as it is politically disingenuous.
Willing enablers of the Trumpist regime.
Willing enablers of the Trumpist regime.
it's hard to read the chart in the screenshot but what this moron is actually complaining about isn't "DEI" staff, it's special education teachers. these ghouls are coming for people with disabilities and they aren't even shy about it.
January 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
At a certain point the “leftists” who hate liberals more than they hate the fascists are going to have to admit that they’ve been playing for the fascist team.
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“Are now” kinda tells a story in and of itself.
FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.
January 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Are now” kinda tells a story in and of itself.
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Once again: DON'T GET RID OF YOUR DVDs.
This seems very not-good cordcuttersnews.com/sony-to-end-...
Sony to End Blu-ray Disc Media Production, Marking the End of an Era for Optical Media | Cord Cutters News
Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs in February 2025, bringing an end to the format’s nearly two-decade run. This decision marks a significant milestone in the decline of...
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January 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Once again: DON'T GET RID OF YOUR DVDs.
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Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.
January 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.
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Americans care about convenience above everything else, as long as fascism doesn't interfere with that then they won't care.
December 3, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Americans care about convenience above everything else, as long as fascism doesn't interfere with that then they won't care.
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It's not fascism if it's something you want!
The rub is people love Tik Tok so much they would be willing to go up against anyone who fights against this as an unconstitutional action.
I know that people are going to flock right back to that app, but even though I think they’re all wrong for doing it, Congress passed a law and the Supreme Court agreed unanimously and now a guy who *isn’t even president* is putting it back online and this is very bad.
January 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's not fascism if it's something you want!
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any other massive Ls the democratic party wants to take you have 24 hours
January 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
any other massive Ls the democratic party wants to take you have 24 hours
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When the question is "Why doesn't the Biden administration get credit for X?" the answer, all too frequently, is that the Biden administration didn't do any of the half dozen most obvious things to increase the odds that they'd get credit for X.
January 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
When the question is "Why doesn't the Biden administration get credit for X?" the answer, all too frequently, is that the Biden administration didn't do any of the half dozen most obvious things to increase the odds that they'd get credit for X.
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Absolutely. "Our agenda is controversial, and we want to attract skeptics to our side, so what if we just ... half-assed it? As a gesture of good faith and unity?" is a well they returned to over and over.
The occasional delivery of Way Too Few at-home COVID tests Way Too Infrequently is a potential metaphor for much of the Biden administration.
January 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Absolutely. "Our agenda is controversial, and we want to attract skeptics to our side, so what if we just ... half-assed it? As a gesture of good faith and unity?" is a well they returned to over and over.
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James Baldwin: (Most patient, heartbreakingly eloquent description of the experience of Black suffering in America you've ever heard)
William Buckley (smirking): Well, heheh, y'see, what Mistah Baldwin seems not to realize is that, ah, as the poet said,
Politics nerds: Wow... they were both so smart
William Buckley (smirking): Well, heheh, y'see, what Mistah Baldwin seems not to realize is that, ah, as the poet said,
Politics nerds: Wow... they were both so smart
January 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
James Baldwin: (Most patient, heartbreakingly eloquent description of the experience of Black suffering in America you've ever heard)
William Buckley (smirking): Well, heheh, y'see, what Mistah Baldwin seems not to realize is that, ah, as the poet said,
Politics nerds: Wow... they were both so smart
William Buckley (smirking): Well, heheh, y'see, what Mistah Baldwin seems not to realize is that, ah, as the poet said,
Politics nerds: Wow... they were both so smart
In the words of Huey Freeman: "You know we could all be reading a book right now."
January 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
In the words of Huey Freeman: "You know we could all be reading a book right now."
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i do believe one of the lesser acknowledged, but outsized, impacts of copaganda like law & order is that it has influenced multiple successive generations of people to believe that, because the government underfunds them, public defenders are categorically bad at their jobs.
It is not in fact classist to tell people to never talk to cops without a lawyer ffs. Pro bono and sliding scale lawyers like me exist and even if you don't have one, demand the public defender. There are exactly zero good reasons to talk to the cops without a lawyer. Zero.
December 31, 2024 at 11:33 PM
i do believe one of the lesser acknowledged, but outsized, impacts of copaganda like law & order is that it has influenced multiple successive generations of people to believe that, because the government underfunds them, public defenders are categorically bad at their jobs.
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A lot of yall gays in blue states need to remember that the only reason yall can sit in your San Francisco apartment with your twink boyfriend and your three legged rescue dog is because drug addicts, homeless people and sex workers went out and threw shit at cops.
January 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A lot of yall gays in blue states need to remember that the only reason yall can sit in your San Francisco apartment with your twink boyfriend and your three legged rescue dog is because drug addicts, homeless people and sex workers went out and threw shit at cops.