My eighth grader is possibly going to need do extra credit for their SS/US history class. I'm strongly suggesting they think about doing a compare and contrast paper on reconstruction v redemption @strictscrutiny.bsky.social can you recommend any layman's language sources? Or send me on to someone?

When you're old enough to predate AO3, still have the first "grownup" email address you claimed and you get a ping from ffn that somebody followed something that hasn't even been looked at in good knows how long #fanfiction #godimold

I've got the shirt, my car is stickered.... But looking at going back to public facing work and the dress codes... I could use a hat 🤠 @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

I have to worry about people besides myself, but this is where I'm at. Digging into resources that will allow me to prepare for when the risk outweighs everything, reading civil disobedience training guides.

Not take him seriously? Do so at your own peril.

My Nazi Germany/Holocaust education was some thing of a drop a newborn into a pool and see how they swim exposure. Parents were Jehovah's Witnesses so we had those VHS in the house that our access to wasn't limited. 1/2

Current reading goals for my daughter and I.

A Montana court has struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, finding that it violates the rights to privacy, equal protection, and free expression guaranteed by the Montana Constitution. lambdalegal.org/wp-content/u...

Bookshop, library, whatever- go, go, go!

She’s in her AUTHOR ERA! It’s publication day for LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes! As a forever book nerd, I had so much fun writing this-I hope you have fun reading it! Get it at your local bookstore today!! bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

It's lovely when you're just trying to find something to put on for noise while you fall asleep and the channel plays next a made for TV documentary from 2017 about how Hitler used Christianity and it's imaginary to strengthen his position. </S> Oh god, the echos. I just wanted something benign.

My relationship with formalized religion is difficult. Personal faith that I can understand and empathize with. But formal systems of religion; can't really help it they rub me weird. But for some reason I could never exactly put a finger on Pope Francis struck me as different. I think this is why:

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social is there a way to bulk buy these stickers?

Tried to search for a sticker that said "The Courts won't save us." The search options were trash. Need stickers. But maybe a play on "SCOTUS won't save us" would be better anyways? Dunno.

Was cleaning out some photos, and came across this screen shot I took a couple months ago when the spouse, a friend of ours and I were having a conversation about A.I. and whatnot

My two morning mood choices @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Also does the Hysteria pod not have a Bluesky, or am I just not seeing it?

Do something, say something. Punks have been punching Nazis forever. Don't let them encroach on your scene: chances are they don't get it; they're trying to co-opt and they'll chase out our loving weirdos in the process

#missoula #montana got kids, broke, 6+hour drive. But please, please let me live vicariously and feel some pride. Show your faces on the 16th at the Adams Center with Bernie & AOC

This is the sort of day that has prompted this exact post elsewhere multiple times, but it's my first time saying it on Bluesky: I'll be over there -> screaming into the void

I think someone said this on here previously but to have a broad movement for good things you need to have some casuals and first timers, unless you are only in this to feel superior to those people, in which case...

Can't decide if the instinct to stand straight when I am wearing heels is influenced more by the simple fact you have to hold your weight differently or the trauma of having the little old ladies of the congregation say I needed to stand straight so I didn't show cleavage starting when I was ten.

Cat will cat In a box Or with socks Or, in a box with socks (*bows & exits stage left*)

I was raised by Jehovah's Witness parents. I can't exactly say when I first came to understand what the Holocaust referred to. The yellow Star of David, the Purple Triangle; they were a part of history that intertwined with my childhood. 1/4

I grew up in Tulsa. My parents were from Oklahoma, but not *from Tulsa* and also, they were Jehovah's Witnesses, so strict pacifists.

Being a JW kid, I knew from the moment I entered kindergarten that I couldn't be forced to say the pledge of allegiance​, or put a hand over my heart. That they shouldn't even force me to stand, though we were told that it was best to show a minimal level of respect and at least rise to our feet.

Just had Incubus pop onto a playlist for the first time in forever. My parents were fairly lax when it came to music (Daddy was an outright hippy at one time) but the rest of the congregation was a bit... Ehhh.

I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

Showed the spouse where my Starburst stash is tonight, while asking him to not demolish it. "Not sure that's a good idea." "I need you to know in case you need to bribe the kids." "Not sure that's going to go any better." 🤣🤣 we both have valid points here

Looking for free-use images of suffragettes and female abolitionists for a creative things. Can anybody give me any rabbit holes to fall into?

I've got my mind-puke written on a tiny ass notebook, and it probably won't make sense to anybody but me

How do you storyboard? I've had the song and the story in my head for a while. Trying to stage it out in a way that I can ask for help from others with skills beyond my own, but it's been years and years since I've dipped my toe into video editing

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

I'm re-reading it now, after a very long time, because my oldest is getting to that age. But out of curiosity, at what age did you first read Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl?

My parents attempted to raise me to be a Jehovah's Witness. They failed quite spectacularly, but that doesn't mean it didn't leave marks. Fatalism is a big one; one I've only recently felt able to name. I've been kind of probing it like a sore tooth. Don't want or have room rn, but can't help it.

If someone calls a woman a Cassandra as a synonym for being quote-unquote hysterical at this point in time, do we still have an obligation to point out they've missed the entire point of the myth?

Hey, @rich-harris.dev, this might be a bit weird. But the hubby is a dev, and years ago when he first started going "svelte" this, and "Rich Harris" that, I went... I know that name. From the Guardian. For people looking to support free press, would you still full-heartedly donate to The Guardian?

It was a common question, especially once we had kids. Would I ever be moving back to Oklahoma? Covid lockdown and immediately after, it at least doubled. Maybe tripled. My "No." became only more forceful after my first child, way before that. Now? Fucking now: fucking never. I won't risk my kids.

Welp, my brain has found a logical path as to why the OK State Superintendent wasn't the DOE nominee, when it originally went "uhmm.?" The OK AG didn't want this. He briefed against it, multiple times, if memory serves me correctly.

My roots are in OK. While the pit in my stomach was deep, I still had mentally crossed everything I could think of that SCOTUS would somehow, in some manner decide not to take this up. @eringloriaryan.bsky.social Ryan Walters is an effin guy. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social can you break this down soon?

Every time the phrase strict scrutiny is uttered in a SCOTUS argument I just want the podcast hosts to pop up like Beetlejuice @strictscrutiny.bsky.social