Erin Vanderhoof
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
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Erin Vanderhoof
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Surprise! Even Tradwives Like to Share Nudes, Talk About Sex, and Be Single
“I Grieved Through My Vagina,” Evie Magazine offered up recently. On OnlyFans, a “godly” poster. Key influencers explain tradwife tensions to Vanity Fair.
www.vanityfair.com
as we all know, i am deep in the tradwife space (for research purposes only) and for the last few months, i have been seeing the raunchiest stuff of my whole life emanating from it. so i decided to figure out why! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...
The White House posted a digitally altered image showing a demonstrator involved in interrupting a church service in Minnesota last weekend crying as she was arrested on Thursday.
A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.
A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.
White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying
The New York Times ran the image posted by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, as well as the one posted by the White House through an A.I. detection system. It concluded that the White House’s version showed signs of manipulation.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
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This really is the revolt of the degenerates, the freaks, the guys who follow teenage girls around shopping malls, the guys who talk about 'virtue signalling' because they hate virtue, against normal people who are just trying to live their lives.
"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...
Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids
ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.
sahanjournal.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:11 PM
This really is the revolt of the degenerates, the freaks, the guys who follow teenage girls around shopping malls, the guys who talk about 'virtue signalling' because they hate virtue, against normal people who are just trying to live their lives.
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking
This is a hard one for me because I have had this exact experience and hated it but there is also nothing worse than being in an audience where the bar for laughter is wayyyy too high. I was the only person in my theater who laughed through Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis
To the justifiable discourse about how the repertory cinema experience is degraded by the smirky laughter of filmgoers who don't know how to process their own discomfort, all I can add is that if you're in a theater with a group of college kids who have been ASSIGNED to see a movie, brace yourself.>
January 21, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This is a hard one for me because I have had this exact experience and hated it but there is also nothing worse than being in an audience where the bar for laughter is wayyyy too high. I was the only person in my theater who laughed through Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis
It's so telling that Doug Wilson doesn't have too many churches but when people are doing AWFUL shit in the name of Christianity these days, he is never more than a few steps away
(The subtext is that Wilson, while increasingly *influential*, doesn't have a massive number of churches across the U.S. directly or indirectly tied to him. But here we are.)
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 PM
It's so telling that Doug Wilson doesn't have too many churches but when people are doing AWFUL shit in the name of Christianity these days, he is never more than a few steps away
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The fact that *both* of the churches that have made news in Minneapolis for pro-ICE links/positions have ties to the Doug Wilson-verse (which, for those keeping track, is who oversees the church Sec. Pete Hegseth now attends) feels like evidence that the universe's writers are just getting lazy.
Via @bmietana.bsky.social: Cities Church in Minnesota is considering legal options after anti-ICE protest.
A surprising detail in here: Joe Rigney, author of the book "Sin of Empathy," is calling himself a founding pastor of this church. religionnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
A surprising detail in here: Joe Rigney, author of the book "Sin of Empathy," is calling himself a founding pastor of this church. religionnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
Cities Church in Minnesota is considering legal options after anti-ICE protest
(RNS) — Southern Baptist leaders say the protest was a violation of religious freedom and called on federal officials to protect churches.
religionnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 AM
The fact that *both* of the churches that have made news in Minneapolis for pro-ICE links/positions have ties to the Doug Wilson-verse (which, for those keeping track, is who oversees the church Sec. Pete Hegseth now attends) feels like evidence that the universe's writers are just getting lazy.
Not that this is the point at all, but it is impossible to imagine Minnesota voting for statewide Republicans again for a generation after the last year
January 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Not that this is the point at all, but it is impossible to imagine Minnesota voting for statewide Republicans again for a generation after the last year
I cannot express how widespread the idea that “immigrants ruin social cohesion” is on this part of the right. In Theobro/Doug Wilson land, it is the foundational belief that can never be challenged. They draw on 1920s sources to back it up, and it’s crazy how disconnected they are from reality!
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
January 20, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I cannot express how widespread the idea that “immigrants ruin social cohesion” is on this part of the right. In Theobro/Doug Wilson land, it is the foundational belief that can never be challenged. They draw on 1920s sources to back it up, and it’s crazy how disconnected they are from reality!
I had to get a new phone yesterday, and it is too big for my hand! I have little baby hands and leon fleisher–esque dystonia in my left one, and the smallest one apple sells now is too big/heavy for me
January 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I had to get a new phone yesterday, and it is too big for my hand! I have little baby hands and leon fleisher–esque dystonia in my left one, and the smallest one apple sells now is too big/heavy for me
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January 19, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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for some reason i just remembered reading THE REAL IS NOT THE RATIONAL by joan stambaugh in college, and i remember absolutely none of its substantive content, only that the title rocked
January 19, 2026 at 10:36 PM
for some reason i just remembered reading THE REAL IS NOT THE RATIONAL by joan stambaugh in college, and i remember absolutely none of its substantive content, only that the title rocked
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I'm a red-blooded American MAN! I like my beer COLD, my wings HOT, and my Broadway musical which reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a modern girl group CAST BY CISGENDER WOMEN ONLY!
So apparently Dylan Mulvaney got cast in a Broadway musical... which resulted in transphobes losing their minds and threatening to "Bud Light" the show... and now the show's Twitter page is locked down. Cool cool.
January 19, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I'm a red-blooded American MAN! I like my beer COLD, my wings HOT, and my Broadway musical which reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a modern girl group CAST BY CISGENDER WOMEN ONLY!
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One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
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![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
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a moment of silence, please, for the art of satire, which has been rendered redundant
January 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
a moment of silence, please, for the art of satire, which has been rendered redundant
Anything I hear about Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles makes me think about the Marilynne Robinson line that is like, “it is possible for a society to trivialize itself to death”
“All I know is I went to bed with this adorable opinion writer and woke up next to Les Moonves,” Bowles told me. “I’m as shocked as you are.”
That is....quite a choice for your only on-the-record quote
That is....quite a choice for your only on-the-record quote
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Anything I hear about Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles makes me think about the Marilynne Robinson line that is like, “it is possible for a society to trivialize itself to death”
Yesterday at church, we had a kid read a MLK sermon with an aside where he mentioned that his Nobel Peace Prize was kind of silly and useless, and that is feeling very On The Nose this morning
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Yesterday at church, we had a kid read a MLK sermon with an aside where he mentioned that his Nobel Peace Prize was kind of silly and useless, and that is feeling very On The Nose this morning
I feel so bad for Max because he constantly has to watch weird Christian videos that give off Tim & Eric vibes that I watch “for work” but mainly because I find them to be SO INSANE
January 19, 2026 at 1:45 AM
I feel so bad for Max because he constantly has to watch weird Christian videos that give off Tim & Eric vibes that I watch “for work” but mainly because I find them to be SO INSANE
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The problem with "we should simply reform ICE" isn't even that it's wrong, it's that it's completely unresponsive to the reality of the situation. What happens if you pass a law that agents can't mask and they ignore you? What if we already have a law on the books saying you can't murder people?
January 18, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The problem with "we should simply reform ICE" isn't even that it's wrong, it's that it's completely unresponsive to the reality of the situation. What happens if you pass a law that agents can't mask and they ignore you? What if we already have a law on the books saying you can't murder people?
When the man is right, he's right!
True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force
January 18, 2026 at 7:37 PM
When the man is right, he's right!
This is my description of the University of Austin based on that Politico article, though I will say that at least Hillsdale has a *great* math faculty. For their many, many issues, they remember to hire math professors, unlike the UATX
like they couldn't decide if they were doing St. John's 2: With More Defense of Pedophilia or if they were doing Hillsdale in Hell
January 18, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This is my description of the University of Austin based on that Politico article, though I will say that at least Hillsdale has a *great* math faculty. For their many, many issues, they remember to hire math professors, unlike the UATX
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Imagine being this bad at your job. The third Social Network movie should be an animated movie set in the Metaverse. Very small voice cast. A haunting meditation on loneliness and delusion.
The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg's Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.
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January 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Imagine being this bad at your job. The third Social Network movie should be an animated movie set in the Metaverse. Very small voice cast. A haunting meditation on loneliness and delusion.
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Child abuse is a central plank in the conservative platform, because physical mastery of the weak is how they establish dominance, their only value. It's not just something a lot of conservatives do, it is part of being a conservative.
About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty:
A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
ICE agent believed responsible for L.A. killing accused of child abuse, racism in court filings
A court filing made public this week claims that a federal immigration agent thought to have shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year's Eve was previously accused of child abuse and making racist...
www.latimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Child abuse is a central plank in the conservative platform, because physical mastery of the weak is how they establish dominance, their only value. It's not just something a lot of conservatives do, it is part of being a conservative.