Reposted by PepperAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is true. But I think it's also true that the anti-Indian backlash is a full-fledged conservative astroturf at this time. People who were called "model minorities" 10 years ago are now being told they don't belong, which is awkward for politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy. 1534157
Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shit like this is why I think the bsky-only lefty political posters aren’t unjustified in being a little snobby about it jfc 0298
Reposted by Pepperlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought 784368853
Reposted by PepperAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1483895546
Reposted by PepperPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7879021406
Reposted by PepperGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice. 91033240
Reposted by PepperAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked. 6330151672
Reposted by PepperAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵 69285984169
Reposted by PepperLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is just round 2 of people blaming Arabs for Harris' loss. If your calculation is that you'll net more votes by burning a vulnerable demographic, you do not get to be mad when they're mad at you. Trying to then browbeat them into your preferred messaging is both counterproductive and immoral 528744
Reposted by PepperHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/ 9234071258
Reposted by Pepper🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Elon pays people to post csam on Twitter, this is not a joke its literally true and nobody with power seems to give a shit 4559146
Reposted by Pepperbig bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time 216167554233
Reposted by Pepperrose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026its pretty concerning how islamophobia and racism seem like they're becoming more common as a way to attack left leaning candidates in democratic primaries 16827
Reposted by PepperJohn Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...about.jstor.orgAn update to JSTOR’s free reading programBeginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days. 14202129
Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I just think living in the first world and repeating the idea that there is no such things as civilians is how you lose your soul 010
Reposted by PepperSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The existence of a swarthy, Italian Klansman is the perfect illustration of how whiteness is both an entirely made up category that changes over time, and also a category with real social and political force. 221660282
Reposted by Pepperjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house 17457601334
Reposted by PepperJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One of the biggest misconceptions people in the US seem to have is that legal or illegal status are not moral statuses one achieves by doing things the “proper” way, but simply legal fictions bestowed and revoked by the state at will. 7426106
Reposted by PepperRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is very perverse of you to not compromise on desegregation of schools in the American South, we have an election to win - Matt Yglesias 643625
Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Most insufferable kind of "I am very smart" post is the kind where someone invokes a horrible historic crime or structural evil to act like there aren't degrees of harm/harm prevention at play in some ongoing issue to avoid taking any serious stance on the present. It's just intellectually lazy. 020
Reposted by Pepperlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/08/2026the fact that there's a 🫑 emoji and an 🧅 emoji but no celery emoji shows as a society we still have a long way to go until cajun cooking is normalized in this country 381815208
Reposted by PepperInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026You'd think Pinker would be a little more sensitive about this after he also lost a friend to suicide 143063
Reposted by PepperRefusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Refusing to Forget condemns the latest DHS decision to build a wall that disturbs a sacred site in Presidio County. Stand with us in supporting descendants and their families. Learn more about this history: refusingtoforget.org Take action: nobigbendwall.org 2139
Reposted by PepperNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The single most impactful cultural shift over the last decade has been that it's much easier to be a gutter racist without suffering reputational consequences; something that the American intelligentsia views near-uniformly as a massive improvement to be defended, regardless of ostensible ideology. 9661134
Reposted by PepperMicah @rincewind.run · 08/08/2026this is such a vile political stunt to pull congratulations to sophie cunningham and everyone who has decided to turn the wnba into the latest GOP political football, I hope she gets drummed out of the league 421151145
Reposted by PepperShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026why shouldn't he attend, CNN, go on now, explain the reason, we'd love to hear it 453178455
Reposted by PepperJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026This idea that we should recreate the Cold War to advance contemporary civil rights is misguided not only in the sense that the Cold War had obvious downsides (including for civil rights) but also it presumes we can just replicate historical conditions and profit from them. That’s just not a thing. 2434
Reposted by PepperNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026There are a lot of people who were capable of being open-minded when Arabs and Muslims were simply the *subject* of US policy but whose response to those communities having an active role in American politics on par with other ethnic and faith groups has been to totally lose their shit. 7538113
Reposted by PepperNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778512571
Reposted by PepperGeneral Willich’s pet raccoon @keeganc15.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I don’t really care about the beef and drama that Luxembourg, Lenin, and Trotsky had almost a century ago I care about stopping my tax dollars from being used to bomb hospitals and schools and giving tax cuts to reactionary trillionaires while fascist goons kidnap people and we have homelessness. 2306
Reposted by PepperCalifornia Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In 1990, disability rights activists organized the Capitol Crawl to demand passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Their organizing efforts helped shine a light on the barriers disabled Americans faced, & built support for one of the most important civil rights laws in our nation's history. 17836
Reposted by PepperDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies. 71542601
Reposted by Pepperdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026applying for a job with a british company and the identity questions are getting very specific 1141187184
Reposted by Peppermaria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Moderates: Progressives need to accept this is a big-tent party where ppl should be allowed to disagree Also moderates: 15216
Reposted by PepperSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This weekend is the 90th anniversary of the fascist military coup that eventually overthrew the Second Spanish Republic. International volunteers filled the gap when western democracies refused to aid the Republic. The 3000-strong Abraham Lincoln Brigade was the first integrated U.S. armed unit. 517656
Reposted by Pepperdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026As a Floridian, seeing Peter Thiel aggressively pushing for cunnilingus scares me. 89113
Reposted by PepperNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity. 191752438
Reposted by Pepperterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Fundamentally one of the most wrecker impulses among (little-l) liberals is reflexively justifying government inaction/intransigence via appeals to democracy People don't like government that doesn't work, what you're doing is boosting authoritarianism 1659
Reposted by PepperDustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026The continuation of these kinds of posts show that a lot of prominent Democrats simply still do not get what is going on foreign policy despite more than a year of Trump II wrecking alliances. 1033253
Reposted by PepperJoaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's last words were "me están matando"—they are killing me. 371209471
Reposted by Pepperjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850. 52197662201
Reposted by PepperJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026if i were participating in a world soccer tournament i would simply not have accepted a tainted gift from the trickster king of the fae realm 11086185
Reposted by PepperStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be. 3135411396