The Lady Chapman
@theladychapman.bsky.social
just an xennial California girl living in a purple state world. 💜
liquor store girl of your dreams + pragmatic progressive + writer for hire + trivia junkie + cat whisperer.
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she/her.
liquor store girl of your dreams + pragmatic progressive + writer for hire + trivia junkie + cat whisperer.
lady love of @fantasticgigantic.bsky.social.
she/her.
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Yo. I'm Stephani.
California native in northern Nevada.
Liquor store dream queen by day, exhausted writer by night.
J-school grad. Subpar advice giver.
Cat mom. Bluey fangirl. Crab rangoon connoisseur.
Life partner of a literal giant.
Welcome to my space. Don't be a dick. 😘
California native in northern Nevada.
Liquor store dream queen by day, exhausted writer by night.
J-school grad. Subpar advice giver.
Cat mom. Bluey fangirl. Crab rangoon connoisseur.
Life partner of a literal giant.
Welcome to my space. Don't be a dick. 😘
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Prison abolition is just a re-skinned "voting is bad", same mindset. The current system is imperfect and allows bad things to happen so the only possible answer is to burn it all down because that's easier to bullshit about between bong hits to sound smart than coming up with a real solution.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?"
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Prison abolition is just a re-skinned "voting is bad", same mindset. The current system is imperfect and allows bad things to happen so the only possible answer is to burn it all down because that's easier to bullshit about between bong hits to sound smart than coming up with a real solution.
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Everyone normalizing saying this goes a long way.
Seth Moulton went on MSNBC and straight up said "the president is a pedophile" and refused to walk it back even after the hosts kept trying to equivocate.
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Everyone normalizing saying this goes a long way.
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I honestly understand why the news folks don't want to expose their networks to more groundless lawsuits so I am glad that the Dems are just going out and saying it and daring Trump to sue them for it.
Seth Moulton went on MSNBC and straight up said "the president is a pedophile" and refused to walk it back even after the hosts kept trying to equivocate.
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I honestly understand why the news folks don't want to expose their networks to more groundless lawsuits so I am glad that the Dems are just going out and saying it and daring Trump to sue them for it.
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Can people please get either less or more psychotic on this website, effective immediately? Thank you.
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Can people please get either less or more psychotic on this website, effective immediately? Thank you.
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I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.
Every single time! Epstein will write:
"porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no"
and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying:
"You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."
"porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no"
and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying:
"You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.
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huh, emails don’t rise to the level of being newsworthy? oct 2016 would like a word
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
huh, emails don’t rise to the level of being newsworthy? oct 2016 would like a word
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once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
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“The 15 year-old selling her body for food is a vile temptress and the billionaire who paid her twenty dollars for a blowjob is the tragic victim.”
Many such cases.
Many such cases.
As someone who has frequently defended free speech rights of sex workers and sex work advocates, it's completely unsurprising but nevertheless galling to be reminded once again how POWERFUL MEN talk fondly about sex work in private while demonizing it and pushing oppressive laws about it publicly.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The 15 year-old selling her body for food is a vile temptress and the billionaire who paid her twenty dollars for a blowjob is the tragic victim.”
Many such cases.
Many such cases.
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It is true that there are many good journalists doing valuable work at places like the NY Times. It's *also* true that there are major systemic issues at these papers, including leadership. You can't fault readers for taking larger institutional problems into account when judging an outlet's work.
What I know is there are still great journalists - even at elite media outlets - who are doing good work. Adopting a knee-jerk cynicism about all they do abandons those journalists. And it's lazy. And it plays into hands of authoritarians who WANT people to distrust all fact-based journalism.
Come on Eric….you know what these means about the Times and a lot of elite media
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It is true that there are many good journalists doing valuable work at places like the NY Times. It's *also* true that there are major systemic issues at these papers, including leadership. You can't fault readers for taking larger institutional problems into account when judging an outlet's work.
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how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
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At this point, the only reason we haven’t been 9/11ed again is that it’d be a waste to blow yourself up if your enemies are already blowing themselves up for you.
Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
At this point, the only reason we haven’t been 9/11ed again is that it’d be a waste to blow yourself up if your enemies are already blowing themselves up for you.
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the republicans only shallowly (but genuinely) disbelieve that trump was closely associated with epstein. reading through the actual documents would be enough to be a problem for that shallow disbelief.
So it's pretty clear that House Rs panicked about the selected emails House Ds released & just let-er-rip without actually going through the whole trove, huh?
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
the republicans only shallowly (but genuinely) disbelieve that trump was closely associated with epstein. reading through the actual documents would be enough to be a problem for that shallow disbelief.
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Genocide is only a crime if the USA does it, if glorious Proletarian Motherland of All Under Heaven does it, it's the height of culture and only the savage barbarians without deny the Son of Heaven his right to a pyramid of skulls. /s
I.e. your pathetic nation hasn't even started to work to end racial discrimination yet your talking about Muslims in China after the US killed over a million in one of its multiple wars in the Middle East. Like complaining about McDonalds while your eating at Rally's.
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Genocide is only a crime if the USA does it, if glorious Proletarian Motherland of All Under Heaven does it, it's the height of culture and only the savage barbarians without deny the Son of Heaven his right to a pyramid of skulls. /s
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what if the victim doesn't want to turn their entire life into an endless series of meetings with a person who has gravely wronged them
a significant portion of the deviance can be remedied with social reproachment, counseling, and restorative justice where offenders work with victims or their advocates to make the victims whole.
there may be a small amount of deviance that can't be prevented or solved non-punitively.
there may be a small amount of deviance that can't be prevented or solved non-punitively.
November 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
what if the victim doesn't want to turn their entire life into an endless series of meetings with a person who has gravely wronged them
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?"
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
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the scramble for GOP hopefuls to distance themselves from Trump as the ship goes down is going to be crazy and the most important thing to do is sink all the lifeboats
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
the scramble for GOP hopefuls to distance themselves from Trump as the ship goes down is going to be crazy and the most important thing to do is sink all the lifeboats
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
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I lean towards “storm in a teacup.” Bluesky thinks Schumer’s some Vichy collaborator (even though he didn’t push for the deal) but Bluesky is not the wider American electorate.
I still don't think we know the political ramifications of the end of the shutdown but I think we can say that as of now it does not yet appear to have stopped Democratic momentum
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I lean towards “storm in a teacup.” Bluesky thinks Schumer’s some Vichy collaborator (even though he didn’t push for the deal) but Bluesky is not the wider American electorate.
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Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
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I think there’s a reason why a lot of women completely run out of fucks to give by around 40, and start to become extra cranky
The patience for tolerating bullshit eventually evaporates
The patience for tolerating bullshit eventually evaporates
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I think there’s a reason why a lot of women completely run out of fucks to give by around 40, and start to become extra cranky
The patience for tolerating bullshit eventually evaporates
The patience for tolerating bullshit eventually evaporates
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"Why are our boys falling behind??" Maybe it's because this is what it looks like when the boys are ahead. The moment women got an opening they burst through like nomadic hordes into a decadent satrapy
Larry Summers (World Bank/Clinton admin/Harvard president/Obama admin) yukking it up with Jeffrey Epstein about women being dumb and society coming down too hard on perverts makes me wonder how all women are not constantly Becoming The Joker
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
"Why are our boys falling behind??" Maybe it's because this is what it looks like when the boys are ahead. The moment women got an opening they burst through like nomadic hordes into a decadent satrapy
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Chat is it good or bad for their coalition that republicans are polarizing the US Conference of Catholic Bishops specifically against them?
US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Chat is it good or bad for their coalition that republicans are polarizing the US Conference of Catholic Bishops specifically against them?
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We took professional sports - a job that is, by its very nature, one of the most high-stress, unhealthy things you can do for a living - and then added the ability for the most unsavory, unhinged freaks on Earth to tie their life savings to you, and threaten your family, without leaving their couch
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
We took professional sports - a job that is, by its very nature, one of the most high-stress, unhealthy things you can do for a living - and then added the ability for the most unsavory, unhinged freaks on Earth to tie their life savings to you, and threaten your family, without leaving their couch
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This is the most “I am counting the few remaining seconds until the old fuckbag croaks and I become president” ass answer I could possibly imagine from a sitting VP lmao
JD Vance: "I serve under Donald Trump, who is very healthy. If I served under Joe Biden, I'd probably be worried every minute of every day that he was gonna croak and that I'd have to become president."
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is the most “I am counting the few remaining seconds until the old fuckbag croaks and I become president” ass answer I could possibly imagine from a sitting VP lmao
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I have many (many) issues with bluesky moderation but “why does bluesky not suspend the official accounts of this extremely online administration that loves to abuse its power to prosecute people it doesn’t like” - even when they very obviously break the rules - has an equally obvious answer
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I have many (many) issues with bluesky moderation but “why does bluesky not suspend the official accounts of this extremely online administration that loves to abuse its power to prosecute people it doesn’t like” - even when they very obviously break the rules - has an equally obvious answer
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