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redoubtagain.bsky.social
Boring Neurotypical African American. Damn Yankee. South Shore to Coastal Empire. Extremely Amateur Historian. Flies the W. He/him/'nem.
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"We are so hack."
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"A trans moose bit my sister"
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79th Street would be more believable
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We expect children to be able to keep themselves amused; this putative adult can't?
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Someone asked me to describe myself in six words: "Happily married to a fellow introvert". When (pre-Covid) we used to go out to eat we were known in restaurants as "the two with the books".
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@davidhogg.bsky.social wants you to believe the “old establishment” and “The Base” look like the group on the left when the reality is the group on the right:
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If I didn't know better (do I?) I'd swear it was a Republican secret agent
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Am I the only person who remembers former Governor Don Siegelman? And how the AL GOP afterwards *put him in jail* for the crime of being a Democrat?
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Been calling that state Mississippi With Snow for decades now
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When you think about it, white GenX-ers were the first generation fully born after integration who both had to share space with Black people AND had to hear about how angry their parents were about it. Inherited grievances
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To we who grew up in them it was always "be *in* the world but not *of* the world".
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not only do i want Elon to go to hell i want him to go through some hell.
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And like Sparta, no one cared what slaves or women thought
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Reminder that he tried to get a competing Native American casino shut down in the '90s because "they don't look like Indians to me".
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The beef fried rice at Hay Lemon on Cermak and Wentworth in Chinatown. Gone thirty-plus years and I still miss it
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This is the part where I tell people this was required reading in my Chicago public high school. Especially since we were ten or so miles (as the crow flies) from where it took place
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They got warnings about the storm from Cuban sources, and dismissed them because "what do they know, they're Cuban"
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Their god is Trumpov. They've always wanted the power to be cruel; now they have that and permission.
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Is an extension of white supremacy. I doubt Hegseth really doesn't believe in germs. He'd be disgusted if you sneezed in his face. What he's saying is essentially that he's innately clean, i.e. white. That's really what the "wash your legs" discourse is about
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"People Don't Eat In 'The Long Run', They Eat Every Day," A Continuing Series