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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

Full Federal Fascism... as I said on here a couple of days ago, whatever lines people have been waiting for to be crossed, there are no lines.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My wife and I call them little turklettes!

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Also point Lebron/Giannis at the end feels like hitting a half court shot

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

76ers Wilt is a great shortcut to 82-0. Warriors Wilt is a cheatcode.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

She had more blocks than made shots??? What went on in this game!?

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I'm all for that (and I have never been to the sharpening or care to!) but ironically it seems like the author isn't! The piece feels Ike a classic on the genre of "I find this unappealing, so I will search in vain to find Important and Good Reasons why it's wrong to enjoy it."

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

And the second part is in total bad faith. No one actually think they mean "We never spend money on ourselves." They're literally funding/hosting an event for 4,000 strangers with souvenir hats and ice cream for kids! "Giving back" is a reasonable thing to say in context!

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

These are such vacuous critiques though. The implication is because the press is there... because of the hosts' egos? They don't dictate what the press does, were they supposed to tell them "no, don't show up"? Is that better? Does that help anything?

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The entire thing felt like someone who disliked something harmless and popular, felt uncomfortable with the fact that he disliked it, and floundered for 1,000 words looking for justifiable reasons for his distaste.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Really? I feel like the only salient critique was that the twin cities' parks are wildly inequitable and... I guess that people should enjoy more art beyond the pencil sharpening?

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Yeah, but what if he's wearing the "Dad" hat while typing???

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson How to Hide an Empire - Daniel Immerwaur The Power Broker - Robert Caro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou The Secret Lives of Colour - Kassia St. Clair

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

1) congrats!! 2) I will never forgive John Henry

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Is there room for incoming Minnesota Law 1Ls? I just paid my deposit!

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/03/2026

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My friend Emily (raised in Newton, Mass) will randomly sing this as a duet to the utter bafflement of all our Minnesota friends

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Not a perfect fit, but teleological might work. It's how I describe the evolution of originalism, for example.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Like, the song isn't good, no one's arguing that. But taking a line about a child's internalized homophobia, clip it out of context, and make a joke as if it's the genuine perspective of an adult is failing at basic media literacy.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

OP here neglects that the absurdity of homophobia is the point of the line. He was pointing out that any behavior outside the narrow boundaries of acceptable masculinity (including things like art, cleanliness, etc.) got coded as "gay", was often punished, and that he had internalized this as a kid.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

oh hell yeah. I just watched Repo Man last week and it looks * stunning*

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/01/2026

They hate us so much but we love each other more

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

phenomenal record. I drove from mpls to omaha to seen Worriers a few years ago when they toured with Thin Lips in 2017. absolute magic

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later.

“They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.”

Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Caribbean cask is one of my all time favorites. Come on a Monday and I'll let it slide

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/12/2025

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/12/2025

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

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Benjamin Scott @benjaminscott.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Brings me back to my days working at the Middlebury College Library!

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NPR @npr.org · 16/11/2025

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

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Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

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