Jean-Luc Petard
@jeanlucpetard.bsky.social
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If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
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If you think white people experience racism, you haven't even begun to do the work & will do more harm than any good to liberation. You have a responsibility to do the work & manage your own fragility instead of demanding marginalized people do it for you.
December 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you think white people experience racism, you haven't even begun to do the work & will do more harm than any good to liberation. You have a responsibility to do the work & manage your own fragility instead of demanding marginalized people do it for you.
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There's always this presumption that it's the man's goodness that secretly decayed rather than the tenuous constraints on his malice.
December 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There's always this presumption that it's the man's goodness that secretly decayed rather than the tenuous constraints on his malice.
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You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Today is a good day to dine"
What are you calling it?
"Today is a good day to dine"
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Where No Flan Has Gone Before"
What are you calling it?
"Where No Flan Has Gone Before"
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
All Good Wings...
What are you calling it?
All Good Wings...
December 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Today is a good day to dine"
What are you calling it?
"Today is a good day to dine"
This is so incredibly disappointing (albeit not entirely surprising from Stewart). I mask to protect people in my community who are at risk and I do it to manage my anxiety in crowded spaces and if you have a derisive opinion about this you can mind your own business and fuck off straight to hell.
Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is so incredibly disappointing (albeit not entirely surprising from Stewart). I mask to protect people in my community who are at risk and I do it to manage my anxiety in crowded spaces and if you have a derisive opinion about this you can mind your own business and fuck off straight to hell.
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The most unsurprising part of this article: “[Gov. Gavin] Newsom said a wealth tax was not pragmatic.”
You can leave, too, Gavin - we won’t miss you!
You can leave, too, Gavin - we won’t miss you!
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The most unsurprising part of this article: “[Gov. Gavin] Newsom said a wealth tax was not pragmatic.”
You can leave, too, Gavin - we won’t miss you!
You can leave, too, Gavin - we won’t miss you!
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The bluesky propaganda was right. Deep space nine is the best star trek I've seen.
December 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The bluesky propaganda was right. Deep space nine is the best star trek I've seen.
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icymi, I have a new essay out today ...
The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone.
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person — Assigned
You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
icymi, I have a new essay out today ...
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I hope everyone has at least one surprisingly amazing and wonderfully good thing happen to them today.
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I hope everyone has at least one surprisingly amazing and wonderfully good thing happen to them today.
My entire childhood in one meme - ouch
December 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My entire childhood in one meme - ouch
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough
December 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough
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Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.
December Was Deadliest Month in Deadliest Year in ICE Custody Deaths
There has been an alarming spike in immigrants dying while in ICE detention during the Trump administration.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.
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The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.
24 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Judge overturns CA school policy on outing trans kids, rules parents have right to know & teachers a right to tell them but no mention of child's rights. Case likely bound for Supremes. Weirdly CA law allows abortion w/o parental notification.
Federal judge rules California teachers are allowed to ‘out’ transgender students to parents
The ruling applies to all public schools in California and is a victory for two teachers who claimed that district policies violated their constitutional free speech and religious rights.
edsource.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.
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The dangers of putting on the court a rapist who has never accepted that he has wronged or violated another person, and who has certainly never grown beyond the narcissistic arrogation of determining when and whether others have consented to intrusions upon their privacy, autonomy, and freedom.
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The dangers of putting on the court a rapist who has never accepted that he has wronged or violated another person, and who has certainly never grown beyond the narcissistic arrogation of determining when and whether others have consented to intrusions upon their privacy, autonomy, and freedom.
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Thing is: this should have been obvious BEFORE regulators greenlit Waymo.
Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.
Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.
Autonomous vehicles that are unable to adapt to emergencies present a risk to our public safety. With such vehicles being considered for deployment in the East Bay, more must first be done to ensure they will operate safely when the unexpected happens.
Waymo halts service in SF as cars stall at intersections
A spokesperson confirmed Waymo has suspended service.
www.sfgate.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Thing is: this should have been obvious BEFORE regulators greenlit Waymo.
Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.
Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.
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I don't ever want to hear "what if she were your daughter" again. Statistically the person most likely to abuse a daughter is a man known to her. People defending a President, a man they don't know, will be worse with a husband, father, brother, son, or friend. We have their answer. So do daughters.
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I don't ever want to hear "what if she were your daughter" again. Statistically the person most likely to abuse a daughter is a man known to her. People defending a President, a man they don't know, will be worse with a husband, father, brother, son, or friend. We have their answer. So do daughters.
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By the way, Kavanaugh saying this now shows he knew his prior ruling was lawless and without justification.
Also, Justice Kavanaugh sounds like he really, really wants a second try at his decision authorizing Kavanaugh Stops.
He's now insisting that immigration enforcement should not be like EXACTLY WHAT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS LIKE UNDER TRUMP'S THUGGERY.
He's now insisting that immigration enforcement should not be like EXACTLY WHAT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS LIKE UNDER TRUMP'S THUGGERY.
![arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force. Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) (“[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race”). This application does not require us to delve into the parties’ underlying dispute and to determine whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreiftd2dsbnwupyavikifhpranzsrgae4czsegm4dlyrwdixfumxmwi@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
By the way, Kavanaugh saying this now shows he knew his prior ruling was lawless and without justification.
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BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
God I miss real journalism
Bari Weiss was right about how to improve the “60 Minutes” CECOT report, Graeme Wood argues—but her “drama-detector, so refined when seeking out news stories, seems to have failed her when avoiding it in her own newsroom.”
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
God I miss real journalism
ABA is conversion therapy, full stop
ABA is NOT the 'gold standard of autism care.' The lack of autistic staffers is showing here and with so many devastating Medicaid cuts to programs that serve children, focusing on a controversial one targeting autistics in this political climate is a loaded choice.
It's the 'gold standard' in autism care. Why are states reining it in?
Budget shortfalls and nearly $1 trillion in looming federal Medicaid cuts have prompted states to rein in spending on a widely embraced autism therapy, pinching families who depend on the services.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
ABA is conversion therapy, full stop
“Purity test” is a dog whistle for you-know-what
We don’t need purity tests. We need people that get stuff done.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“Purity test” is a dog whistle for you-know-what
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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