@rinila.bsky.social
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This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.
It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.
It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.
It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.
It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.
But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)
But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)
September 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.
But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)
But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)
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On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
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It is entirely possible to be respectful about the death of a person you disagreed with without “honoring” him by vowing to continue his disagreeable, hateful “work.”
The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.
September 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It is entirely possible to be respectful about the death of a person you disagreed with without “honoring” him by vowing to continue his disagreeable, hateful “work.”
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"I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage." - Charlie Kirk
That's a thing he said.
That's a thing he said.
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage." - Charlie Kirk
That's a thing he said.
That's a thing he said.
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Could Democratic leadership in DC be reached for comment?
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Could Democratic leadership in DC be reached for comment?
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hand under blanket champion 2025
September 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
hand under blanket champion 2025
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You ever been in a bad mood in your sleep? I was so cranky I woke up.
August 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
You ever been in a bad mood in your sleep? I was so cranky I woke up.
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As the dissents point out, the majority constantly contradicts its own recent decisions to fit the result they want. Ie: a HS football coach leading a Christian prayer does not violate other students religious rights, but a storybook with LGBT characters does. On some level they must know this.
June 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As the dissents point out, the majority constantly contradicts its own recent decisions to fit the result they want. Ie: a HS football coach leading a Christian prayer does not violate other students religious rights, but a storybook with LGBT characters does. On some level they must know this.
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I say this as a former African American History Studies professor.
While names and laws change, the underlying sentiment has not.
America has never truly looked at itself in the mirror.
While names and laws change, the underlying sentiment has not.
America has never truly looked at itself in the mirror.
It’s important to remember that this country once carried out a genocide against Indigenous people and enslaved Black people.
What we are seeing today is not unprecedented and the ways to fight back have been put to practice before.
The threat to our rights is not new.
What we are seeing today is not unprecedented and the ways to fight back have been put to practice before.
The threat to our rights is not new.
April 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I say this as a former African American History Studies professor.
While names and laws change, the underlying sentiment has not.
America has never truly looked at itself in the mirror.
While names and laws change, the underlying sentiment has not.
America has never truly looked at itself in the mirror.
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When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
@alecballin.bsky.social Oh, are you here now? I have started hanging out here more. Haven't been to x in a long while; found that most I cared to read were crossposting here. Noticed you weren't one of them, but I could check up on you in my random fb stroll-throughs. Hi. (AI something witty here.)
April 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@alecballin.bsky.social Oh, are you here now? I have started hanging out here more. Haven't been to x in a long while; found that most I cared to read were crossposting here. Noticed you weren't one of them, but I could check up on you in my random fb stroll-throughs. Hi. (AI something witty here.)
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This is terrifying. This could be me.
This person was born here, brown, was nearly deported.
“Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.
It's not required for citizenship.
It’s not even required to vote.”
This person was born here, brown, was nearly deported.
“Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.
It's not required for citizenship.
It’s not even required to vote.”
March 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is terrifying. This could be me.
This person was born here, brown, was nearly deported.
“Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.
It's not required for citizenship.
It’s not even required to vote.”
This person was born here, brown, was nearly deported.
“Let me be clear:
You do not need a passport to live in this country.
Millions of Americans have never had one.
It's not required for citizenship.
It’s not even required to vote.”
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The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
March 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In my usual (and unusual for being a one-time media studies academic) late-adoption approach, I am scrambling to understand more than a couple basic things about AI. Dabbling in gig-work for AI expertise training/stumping projects, I have a lot of catch-up to get what/how I'm doing/ working with.
March 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In my usual (and unusual for being a one-time media studies academic) late-adoption approach, I am scrambling to understand more than a couple basic things about AI. Dabbling in gig-work for AI expertise training/stumping projects, I have a lot of catch-up to get what/how I'm doing/ working with.
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This is what people who say they "back the blue" voted for.
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is what people who say they "back the blue" voted for.
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Don't know who said it first but it bears repeating—if you really don't think what Musk repeatedly did was a Nazi salute, please record yourself doing that exact thing and post it across all social media, and make sure your employer sees it.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Don't know who said it first but it bears repeating—if you really don't think what Musk repeatedly did was a Nazi salute, please record yourself doing that exact thing and post it across all social media, and make sure your employer sees it.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.
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I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means.
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
Trump cannot abrogate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment by way of executive order. That’s not how constitutional rights work.
January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means.
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
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It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
January 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
So glad to have found you! I've been checked out of the world for awhile after many years in Twitterland. Felt lonely and a bit motivated to hear some of the voices of knowledge, insight, humor, and cat videos in these days. Amazed so much of the old neighborhood is here. Thanks for still sharing.
January 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So glad to have found you! I've been checked out of the world for awhile after many years in Twitterland. Felt lonely and a bit motivated to hear some of the voices of knowledge, insight, humor, and cat videos in these days. Amazed so much of the old neighborhood is here. Thanks for still sharing.