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Excelsior

@eljeasel.bsky.social
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Richmond, VA I'm into video games, comics, sports, cooking, and even some politics. Trying desperately not to be Johnny Silverhand.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h
She went to 42 Trump rallies. She flipped based on one Trump statement. Worth watching the entire segment.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 11h
Worth remembering that Smith v Allright reversed precent from a single decade earlier, and in so doing ushered in the first real pro-democracy SCOTUS era. The Court looked a lot different in 1944 than it had in the 1930s, after specific fights about specific proposals for reform...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My man looks like Stanley Kubrick dressed up as Velma for Halloween
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 15h
I had to listen to it twice... yes, Gummy Davis,Jr. said this.... "I want to make sure the next generation can grow up like I did -- maybe in poverty."
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Excelsior @eljeasel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It couldn't just be his talent for communication. It was that voodoo that the negroes have been known to do.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Hotties HQ 🧡 @hottieshq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Putting these in front of my treadmill 😍😍😍
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026
there are talented republican politicians out there but GOP primaries reward the cranks and kooks and punishes basically anyone interested in governing. not for nothing that to get Youngkin in ‘21, the VA GOP had to cut out as many voters as possible.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026
This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!
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Excelsior @eljeasel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I just know someone is mad they got worked into a shoot
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.
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pbsimpulse9.bsky.social @pbsimpulse9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Pretty much. And, in particular, Brian Flores calling out said racism and having it IN PRINT.
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Runner @wf423.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Organizations worth BILLIONS of dollars would ALL improve their businesses hiring a 14 year Madden player who simply knows: a. The score of the game b. The time on the clock c. The number of timeouts left
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/10/2026
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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pbsimpulse9.bsky.social @pbsimpulse9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Telling people who are at the end of their rope to make *more* sacrifices while candidates and public officials do nothing as unnecessary wars are happening is totally gonna be a winning message. Great job everyone
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you. Please know you’re not alone. Many of us still mask, test and isolate when sick. Being the lone masker can be difficult, but your long term health is worth it. As a high risk, immunocompromised person… I see and appreciate you.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reckoning is here…
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

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D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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The Sarcastic Cynic @humblehomosapien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well he started it back in 2000 when they stole that election. Everyone forgets that Kavanaugh, Barret & Roberts were ALL a part of the W.Bush team to steal that election & get votes TOSSED OUT. They have never cared about elections
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🗝️🐍🦉🌙 Dolly 🗡️ Dagger 🍉🇺🇦📚🌈 @dollydagger6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zionists accusing me of hating Jewish people when I said “Benjamin Netanyahu knew about 10/7 and did nothing to stop it” is wild. I don’t hate Jewish people…Benjamin Netanyahu does. He let people be murdered. Be angry at HIM, not me.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*justice not guaranteed. even with all of that and more they can still let the guy go its so fucking easy and the system is literally designed to empower rapists.
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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
important PSA! if you are raped or sexually assaulted: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO THE POLICE. myself and "Jane Doe" both did the "RIGHT THING", the thing that EVERYONE says you are SUPPOSED to do. we did the "right thing" and all it brought us was more trauma and no justice.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just two fellas on TV talking about how you can be forgiven for sexually assaulting dozens of women if you can get throw the football good
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Formerly Saysceej @ceejopolis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The replies to this thread show that the thing he asks for in this specific post will never happen. I voted for Nader in 2000. I was 19 and bought into the all the same BS. I’ve regretted it since that night. It would be nice for abstainers to have even a little of that humility.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is what i have in mind when i say left-abstention movements should show a little accountability not you own every evil thing that followed, just like "yeah, that didn't work, let's not do it again"
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ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
The onus will *ALWAYS* be on men to not rape and sexually assault women, full stop.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a pretty stunning thing to admit
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Excelsior @eljeasel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of us, myself im talking about here, didnt do enough. I honestly dont know what specific things need to be done but we cannot be idle. We cannot do the easy thing. We have to go confront these things at our own displeasure. Until its done.
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Excelsior @eljeasel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ive been pursuing Twitter, no posting. The amount of accounts who are openly pro rape, anti women is staggering. Im sure some are fake, but too many are real. Im remembering the videos of people chanting in support of Andrew Tate. These things are obviously connected.
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Excelsior @eljeasel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am reflecting and I think its likely, just by virtue of being on a college campus, was nearby a similar incident. This stuff is bad and we cannot let ourselves, men in particular, pretend its not.
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Excelsior @eljeasel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cornell 7. Ive not been saying much. I was honestly horrified by the news. Every detail is worse. Those men are dangerous and its dangerous to do anything besides treat it as such. No one in that group chat said a damn thing either. I have ended friendships over less.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?
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pbsimpulse9.bsky.social @pbsimpulse9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know what… times like this I understand Floyd Mayweather for not learning how to read.
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