Kat
@palabracrush.bsky.social
Urban school psychologist into movies, indie music, dystopian fiction, and powerlifting. Passionate about radical disability rights and due process. Views my own.
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this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
September 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
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1/2. Charlie Kirk frequently called for other people to be killed.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
1/2. Charlie Kirk frequently called for other people to be killed.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do.
He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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I HATE how NYT uses the word "crackdown." It implies enforcement against something illegal but which has been overlooked for whatever reason. A "crackdown" on lax seatbelt use or a "crackdown" on tax cheats. One does not "crack down" on lawful political expression. One seeks to stifle or oppress it.
White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.
September 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I HATE how NYT uses the word "crackdown." It implies enforcement against something illegal but which has been overlooked for whatever reason. A "crackdown" on lax seatbelt use or a "crackdown" on tax cheats. One does not "crack down" on lawful political expression. One seeks to stifle or oppress it.
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no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that
He actually wrote that Jamelle insulting him is bad for America
September 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that
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Believe it or not, he wasn’t fired for saying this on live television
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Believe it or not, he wasn’t fired for saying this on live television
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"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
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There is a LOT of filming going on and reporting out where feds and ICE are in DC. I know everyone means to be helpful when sharing that information, so I encourage everyone to get up to speed on the SALUTE method, which allows us to share info that is precise and doesn’t sow more fear.
August 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There is a LOT of filming going on and reporting out where feds and ICE are in DC. I know everyone means to be helpful when sharing that information, so I encourage everyone to get up to speed on the SALUTE method, which allows us to share info that is precise and doesn’t sow more fear.
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
September 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Once more for the people in the back...
Fuck ICE and Fuck Trump.
Fuck ICE and Fuck Trump.
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Once more for the people in the back...
Fuck ICE and Fuck Trump.
Fuck ICE and Fuck Trump.
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For no particular reason, here is Beaker blepping with a fight stick
September 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
For no particular reason, here is Beaker blepping with a fight stick
This is terrifying.
He said he was a “war hero” and “always wanted to win a Purple Heart.” Now soldier Trump heads out on patrol.
August 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is terrifying.
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Omg, JD Vance getting heckled by people yelling ‘COUCH F*CKER’ as he visits Union Station to survey Trump’s militarization of D.C.
August 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Omg, JD Vance getting heckled by people yelling ‘COUCH F*CKER’ as he visits Union Station to survey Trump’s militarization of D.C.
Rage, rage, rage. Fuck the daily.
August 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Rage, rage, rage. Fuck the daily.
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When you’re carjacked…the carjackers throw you out of the car. So you DO escape
A sitting Republican senator says he is so scared driving in DC that he doesn't wear a seatbelt out of fear he might get carjacked and won't be able to escape www.mediaite.com/media/tv/rep...
Republican Senator Says He Doesn’t Wear Seatbelt in D.C. Because He Fears Being Carjacked: ‘I Don’t Buckle Up’
Sen. Markwayne Mullin said he does not wear a seatbelt while driving in Washington, D.C., lest doing so prevent him from acting quickly in case he's carjacked.
www.mediaite.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
When you’re carjacked…the carjackers throw you out of the car. So you DO escape
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No really, Republicans are serious about undoing marriage equality:
A Texas judge is currently suing for a legal right to only officiate weddings for different-sex couples
This would empower state actors to selectively withdraw LGBTQ people's fundamental rights
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Texas judge is currently suing for a legal right to only officiate weddings for different-sex couples
This would empower state actors to selectively withdraw LGBTQ people's fundamental rights
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Texas Judge Is Suing For the Right to Ignore the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
The Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that marriage is a fundamental right. Only Brian Umphress dares to ask the question: What if that doesn’t apply in Texas?
ballsandstrikes.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
No really, Republicans are serious about undoing marriage equality:
A Texas judge is currently suing for a legal right to only officiate weddings for different-sex couples
This would empower state actors to selectively withdraw LGBTQ people's fundamental rights
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Texas judge is currently suing for a legal right to only officiate weddings for different-sex couples
This would empower state actors to selectively withdraw LGBTQ people's fundamental rights
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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This really feels like a defining post of our time
August 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This really feels like a defining post of our time
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to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union
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At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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Guys is it biased to favor a shared sense of objective reality
August 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Guys is it biased to favor a shared sense of objective reality
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this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny
at that point, you often see them let go of their pretensions towards being a Player and just go full Handmaiden's Tale. It's where they always were, but they deluded themselves into thinking it could be fun and frivolous
August 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny
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another reason to love the library: sometimes you find little gifts in the form of forgotten makeshift bookmarks 😭💖
August 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
another reason to love the library: sometimes you find little gifts in the form of forgotten makeshift bookmarks 😭💖
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Everyone’s like “this can’t be fascism it’s too dumb” but they don’t understand that fascism is in fact almost always very dumb! Fascist dictators are cruel and stupid men. And it’s popular because many people are cruel and stupid!
March 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Everyone’s like “this can’t be fascism it’s too dumb” but they don’t understand that fascism is in fact almost always very dumb! Fascist dictators are cruel and stupid men. And it’s popular because many people are cruel and stupid!