Today's Ginger #pigeonSky 🪶

Quote with your art with horns! 😈

Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.

This is rich from MTG. God knows how many trans people have had to deal with hate and abuse because of her. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

These motherfuckers moved to Charlotte and immediately started the same shit they've been up to here

Heartbreaking news out of Charlotte about the absolutely grotesque behavior by out of control federal agents.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.

Just something to think about

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free" Eugene V Debs

Apropos of nothing, one of MY favourite #PattonOswalt roles was in #Justified. So obviously #PattonOswaltJustified is, in all respects, a 100% factually correct hashtag I can happily get behind.

Release #PattonOswalt from BSky jail! Who among us hasn't wished imaginary pain on a POS who says "sex crimes are a spectrum"?

Another day, another suspension. Trust and Safety isn't trusted and doesn't make this place safe. In fact, by allowing people like Jesse Singal to remain, T&S actively makes this place LESS safe.

As a victim of CSA and sex trafficking the fact that @jay.bsky.team and @aaron.bsky.team are fine with suspending people who speak out against CSA and abusers like totes gives off Mundus sine caesaribus vibes. ✨ Great job girly pops.

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Special shoutout to Megyn Kelly and every sick, twisted MAGA defending Trump ~ You are disgusting. This was NEVER about protecting our children, you lying hypocrites.

“White men may have worn the white hoods, but white women sewed them.” Yeah, Megyn Kelly is disgusting.

Same is true on the LGBTQ healthcare front. Small Black-led LGBTQ health projects are sacrificing everything BUT THEIR CORE MISSION to fight…and winning. Meanwhile, hospitals chains & universities are folding…and making it harder for those w modest resources to fight the good fight

Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!

This is the first page of The Viral Underclass. I am so glad I got to give her a signed copy and that I also got to send her a copy of the Chinese translation when it was published. She was so excited to see her words translated into Chinese.

Alice could not eat food for years. And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

I don't know if this IS what elected Dems stand for but it fucking well SHOULD be: Equal rights under law for ALL - voting, employment, access, communications, broadcasting, bathrooms ... ALL of it.

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Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

Rudy Giuliani was disbarred Jenna Ellis lost her license and is now a felon John Eastman’s license was suspended Michael Cohen went to jail Like them, Pam Bondi is perverting justice at Trump’s command But it’s infinitely worse-because she’s Attorney General Plus she’s covering for pedophiles

AP US history teachers getting to 2020-2025

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It likely does not help that Bluesky was one of the six social media sites that got the letter from Clay Higgins, chair of the law enforcement subcommittee of the House oversight committee, about violent rhetoric after Charlie Kirk's death: clayhiggins.house.gov/2025/09/15/h...

I don't mean to be glib or trivializing: Texas A&M's "to end indoctrination you must teach only our doctrine" is some arbeit macht frei obscenity. No, of course it's not genocide. But it's the logic of sadistic erasure, the way in 1984 2+2=5 made even believing the truth impossible.

"'I’m not sure what we’ve learned from it all,' Walter Johnson, a professor of History and African and African American Studies, wrote in a statement. 'I think Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.'" Professor Johnson knows wassup.

People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.

Oreoboros

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner

Just when we most need Sarah Kendzior...

🔥 Blue Sky just suspended the account of the truly brilliant writer Sarah Kendzior, for a nonsensical reason 👇 I have warned you before that there are many moderators here who have a personal agenda and are drunk on power. THIS IS ABHORRENT BEHAVIOR ‼️ SARAH KENDZIOR MUST BE RE-INSTATED AT ONCE‼️🔥‼️🔥‼️🔥

so they suspended Sarah Kendzior over a Johnny Cash lyric but will never ban Jesse Singal. Okay. Cool.

Sarah Kendzior is now de-suspended; BlueSky have looked so amateur this week: bsky.app/profile/sara...

Because America is for sale and being stripped for parts, as Sarah Kendzior said a while back. Like, years ago. But you wouldn’t have heard that recently from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social because Bluesky temporarily suspended her for some lame ass, nonsensical (intentional?) reason.

Dear @safety.bsky.app, are you willing to open the books on the ban of Sarah Kendzior? Was there any third party lobbying to ban her from people working for or aligned with people who she did investigative journalism on?