Eagle-Owl 🦉
@ipillyc.bsky.social
linguist, sanskritist, teacher, student. zoology, animal lover, religious left, translation. hard of hearing. Oz-US bicultural
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Trump cutting US aid has killed more Christian Nigerians than anyone else ever could. And if we don’t stop him, it will get even more deadly.
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
Nigerian village Trump bombed to “stop Isis” says Isis has never been there
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
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December 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trump cutting US aid has killed more Christian Nigerians than anyone else ever could. And if we don’t stop him, it will get even more deadly.
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
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Obvious euphemism is obvious.
At best a waste of time, and in practice actively negative, to spend time “debating” whenever anyone introduces a new euphemism for an old, well understood idea.
At best a waste of time, and in practice actively negative, to spend time “debating” whenever anyone introduces a new euphemism for an old, well understood idea.
December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Obvious euphemism is obvious.
At best a waste of time, and in practice actively negative, to spend time “debating” whenever anyone introduces a new euphemism for an old, well understood idea.
At best a waste of time, and in practice actively negative, to spend time “debating” whenever anyone introduces a new euphemism for an old, well understood idea.
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I hope those observing had a fantastic Christmas, that those observing have the most Kwanzaa blessings ever, and that you all have amazing New Years'.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I hope those observing had a fantastic Christmas, that those observing have the most Kwanzaa blessings ever, and that you all have amazing New Years'.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
Here's to a 2026 full of health, safety, care, inspiration, righteous doings, love, joy, connection and solidarity. ❤️🔥
And making meaningful change.
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Weird how all the evidence for what the 14th Amendment doesn't do comes from laws that predate the 14th Amendment.
Wonder when they'll start arguing the 19th Amendment doesn't actually give women universal suffrage based on the precedent that women didn't have it prior to the 19th Amendment.
Wonder when they'll start arguing the 19th Amendment doesn't actually give women universal suffrage based on the precedent that women didn't have it prior to the 19th Amendment.
December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Weird how all the evidence for what the 14th Amendment doesn't do comes from laws that predate the 14th Amendment.
Wonder when they'll start arguing the 19th Amendment doesn't actually give women universal suffrage based on the precedent that women didn't have it prior to the 19th Amendment.
Wonder when they'll start arguing the 19th Amendment doesn't actually give women universal suffrage based on the precedent that women didn't have it prior to the 19th Amendment.
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“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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This is the logical outcome of all the so-called “anti-woke,” anti-cancel culture crusading the right has carried out for years. Sanctions for outright racism and Nazism are good and part of the glue that keeps society from unraveling.
Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college.
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is the logical outcome of all the so-called “anti-woke,” anti-cancel culture crusading the right has carried out for years. Sanctions for outright racism and Nazism are good and part of the glue that keeps society from unraveling.
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Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college.
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college.
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
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Great student reporting on why the Harvard Salient, revived to combat what leaders saw as a decline in “contrarian” thought, was abruptly closed earlier this year. (Hint: It was racism). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Great student reporting on why the Harvard Salient, revived to combat what leaders saw as a decline in “contrarian” thought, was abruptly closed earlier this year. (Hint: It was racism). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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Ok I’ve seen enough…
I’m going to return my Clinton Bible, throw away my Clinton mugshot shirt, burn my Clinton hat, unplug my Clinton yard inflatable, and sell my Clinton crypto coins.
I’m going to return my Clinton Bible, throw away my Clinton mugshot shirt, burn my Clinton hat, unplug my Clinton yard inflatable, and sell my Clinton crypto coins.
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ok I’ve seen enough…
I’m going to return my Clinton Bible, throw away my Clinton mugshot shirt, burn my Clinton hat, unplug my Clinton yard inflatable, and sell my Clinton crypto coins.
I’m going to return my Clinton Bible, throw away my Clinton mugshot shirt, burn my Clinton hat, unplug my Clinton yard inflatable, and sell my Clinton crypto coins.
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself.
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In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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conservatives embrace disparate impact theory exclusively when it is (not) happening to them bsky.app/profile/anth...
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
conservatives embrace disparate impact theory exclusively when it is (not) happening to them bsky.app/profile/anth...
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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Good. Robert E. Lee was a traitor who raised his sword against the government the U.S. Capitol represents.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Good. Robert E. Lee was a traitor who raised his sword against the government the U.S. Capitol represents.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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A reminder that the only 2 specifically listed causes for impeachment in the Constitution are treason and bribery
December 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A reminder that the only 2 specifically listed causes for impeachment in the Constitution are treason and bribery