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Pepper

@whatifrealhist.bsky.social
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He/him. 🏳️‍⚧️ Running on bitterness and coffee. Are you ready for the red scare 2: anti-woke edition? “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 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.
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shit like this is why I think the bsky-only lefty political posters aren’t unjustified in being a little snobby about it jfc
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lauren @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
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There 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...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i 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.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026
People 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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This 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.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: 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.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This 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
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 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/
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Elon pays people to post csam on Twitter, this is not a joke its literally true and nobody with power seems to give a shit
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
its pretty concerning how islamophobia and racism seem like they're becoming more common as a way to attack left leaning candidates in democratic primaries
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An "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.org
An update to JSTOR’s free reading program
Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I 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
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it 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
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One 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.
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Stop reminding me of Hasan Piker
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is very perverse of you to not compromise on desegregation of schools in the American South, we have an election to win - Matt Yglesias
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Most 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.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/08/2026
the 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
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You'd think Pinker would be a little more sensitive about this after he also lost a friend to suicide
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Refusing 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
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The 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.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/08/2026
this 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
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
why shouldn't he attend, CNN, go on now, explain the reason, we'd love to hear it
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This 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.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There 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.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This 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
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What bloodthirsty ghouls
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I’d rather die than read this
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General Willich’s pet raccoon @keeganc15.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I 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.
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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In 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.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We 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.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
applying for a job with a british company and the identity questions are getting very specific
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Moderates: Progressives need to accept this is a big-tent party where ppl should be allowed to disagree Also moderates:
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This 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.
Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade pose for a photo with an American flag and their ship’s life preserver Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade pose for a photo on the deck of a ship
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
As a Floridian, seeing Peter Thiel aggressively pushing for cunnilingus scares me.
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Nicholas 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.
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Fundamentally 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
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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026
The 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.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's last words were "me están matando"—they are killing me.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
if 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
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder: 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.
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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
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