skye
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she/her. santa fe county, nm. loves animals & people.
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For years now, conservatives and liberals alike in this country have been having an aneurysm about completely imaginary leftists with “blue hair” while ignoring actual fucking fascists standing right in front of their faces. Every day those people sound more pathetic, idiotic, and delusional.
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
For years now, conservatives and liberals alike in this country have been having an aneurysm about completely imaginary leftists with “blue hair” while ignoring actual fucking fascists standing right in front of their faces. Every day those people sound more pathetic, idiotic, and delusional.
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I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
Cool tip: it actually takes MORE effort to deliberately misgender someone AND it marks you as a total asshole! Pretty cool!
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
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In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.
How to Canonize a White Supremacist
On the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk, the certain blowback, and this country’s raging gun problem.
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.
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that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror
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That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
August 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
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i'm not "voting blue no matter who" for this sack of shit, sorry!
August 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
i'm not "voting blue no matter who" for this sack of shit, sorry!
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Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump
June 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump
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100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.
June 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.
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Oh hey there gonna use this as justification for ICE to harass / kidnap Muslims too huh 🙃
US military now briefing troops that its strike on Iran "will likely result in counterstrikes on US bases and facilities" in the Middle East, and "likely activate Iran and other foreign terrorist organizations cells abroad including the US to conduct strikes against US persons and facilities"
June 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Oh hey there gonna use this as justification for ICE to harass / kidnap Muslims too huh 🙃
This is disgusting. Trans people have not "gone too far" by existing and getting appropriate medical care. The NYT article makes me sick.
The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us.
They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.
They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.
June 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is disgusting. Trans people have not "gone too far" by existing and getting appropriate medical care. The NYT article makes me sick.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman
May 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman
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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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The next step for Trump is to send a US citizen convicted of something like child murder and rape to CECOT in El Salvador. It'll set the precedent to send citizens there while neutralizing outrage over it because of the heinous nature of their crimes. Then it'll any felony and then protestors.
April 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The next step for Trump is to send a US citizen convicted of something like child murder and rape to CECOT in El Salvador. It'll set the precedent to send citizens there while neutralizing outrage over it because of the heinous nature of their crimes. Then it'll any felony and then protestors.
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It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.
Gritting my teeth and watching the clock as DOJ misses its daily 5 p.m. ET deadline for giving Judge Xinis an update in the Abrego Garcia case ...
15 minutes late so far ...
15 minutes late so far ...
April 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.
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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
April 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
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One thing that's really going to annoy me in like 6 months will be the flood of "Trump cut all these programs and the government seems to still be working fine!" op-eds that Very Smart Pundits will write, completely omitting how many people were hurt by the cuts.
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One thing that's really going to annoy me in like 6 months will be the flood of "Trump cut all these programs and the government seems to still be working fine!" op-eds that Very Smart Pundits will write, completely omitting how many people were hurt by the cuts.
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This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points:
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"Mr. Weiner is the president of Assumption University"
Remarkably, no part of the byline is a euphemism.
Remarkably, no part of the byline is a euphemism.
Opinion | Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves
To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points:
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This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.
March 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.
Very clear from the last few years of griefing about "campus cancel culture" vs the current non-reaction to the persecution of students, that a lot of "free speech centrists" cannot distinguish between "actions I personally find annoying" and actual 1A violations. Or maybe they just don't care. 🙃
March 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Very clear from the last few years of griefing about "campus cancel culture" vs the current non-reaction to the persecution of students, that a lot of "free speech centrists" cannot distinguish between "actions I personally find annoying" and actual 1A violations. Or maybe they just don't care. 🙃
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worrying that years of “campuses are dangerous hotbeds of intolerance,” “students are the enemies of academic freedom,” type narratives have been useful in massaging the public so we will more readily accept that snatching and renditioning students for speech is okay
March 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
worrying that years of “campuses are dangerous hotbeds of intolerance,” “students are the enemies of academic freedom,” type narratives have been useful in massaging the public so we will more readily accept that snatching and renditioning students for speech is okay
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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I'm not going to get much pushback in this crowd :0
March 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm not going to get much pushback in this crowd :0
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.