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History PhD in the intersection of Education (NYC & Texas), anti-racism, & Holocaust Memory. I also have opinions based on my evangelical upbringing and my anabaptist views. Protect immigrants, Protect LGBTQ+, Protect PoC, Protect everyone! Views my own

A Tshirt on which I replicated the Great Wave off Kanagawa painting. It’s a large wave crashing over a boat with Mt. Fuji in the distance.
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A Chinese Kao Rou bbq with lamb and beef skewers and chicken feet.
Scooby Doo Mask removal meme (2 panes) In pane one, a masked figure labeled “Defenders of a racist artifact as great art” sits tied up while Fred says, “let’s see who’s behind that mask”. In pane two, Fred, labeled “non-racist art critics” holds the mask and the now unmasked figure is labeled “white supremacy”.
10 Black Orcs from Warhammer The Old World.
A gif of George from Seinfeld saying, "You can't break up with me...I've got hand!"
Britta and Shirley Community Meme: Britta, labeled as Tucker Carleson, says, “I can excuse the corruption, racism, anti-intellectualism, nativism, incompetence, warmongering, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism, transphobia, and Islamophobia, but I draw the line at supporting Israel.” Shirley, labeled as Dirtbag Left, says, “Same.”
Britta and Shirley Community Meme: Britta, labeled as Tucker Carleson, says, “I can excuse the corruption, racism, anti-intellectualism, nativism, incompetence, warmongering, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism, transphobia, and Islamophobia, but I draw the line at supporting Israel.” Shirley Responds, “You can excuse the corruption, racism, anti-intellectualism, nativism, incompetence, warmongering, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism, transphobia, and Islamophobia?”
Cover of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler.
Cover of Theologizin’ Bigger by Trey Ferguson: Homilies on Living Free and Loving Wholly.
The cover of Who Will Be a Witness? igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance By Drew G.I. Hart.
The cover of Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois.
The cover of The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone.
Cover of Black Theology and Black Power, by James H. Cone
A “Juneteenth 2026” banner with red, yellow, and green.
A Cleburne Railroaders cap. It is baby blue with a Red Bull and an image of “Spike,” a railroad spike with mustache and bat that serves as the team’s mascot.
A gif from the film Newsies that depicts news boys singing “look at me! I’m the king of New York!!!”
Three EBay listings showing the card sold for $560, $700, and $995.
Michael Jordan Scarface card by Upper Deck.
A BlueSky poster says, “This may get me canceled on Bluesky. But folks don't realize the chaos and madness that McConnell kept at bay. Folks here may not realize it, but they'll miss him when he's gone. (And Republicans will miss Pelosi when she's gone).” Below that is an image with water—labeled “a whole bunch of crazy bullshit—and a dam labeled “Mitch McConnell”. The dam is holding the water back from the city.
The art for Devils on the Door Step by Jiang Wen.
Lawrence Taylor in the Waterboy saying, “Gentlemen, which brings me to my next point. Don’t Smoke Crack.”
Anakin-Padme meme: Anakin, staring plainly in pane 1: “Academics only write for each other.” Padme, smiling in pane 2: “and read each other?” Anakin with a knowing and subtly evil smirk in pane 3: says nothing Padme with a concerned look: “and read each other, right?”
Images of “forest spirit” models from Games Workshop’s sylvaneth range modeled with white bark, pinkish leaves and green vines. There is also a light blue tone under the bark.
Viggo Mortenson in the film “Good”. Viggo Mortenson smoking a cigarette while typing on a type writer. In the film he is an academic who advances his career by justifying euthanasia.
Post chain with two posts by JBJ. @psuedoacacia.bsky.social First post: “No one on this site is actually in Maine. So l don't know if Collins is getting her money's worth paying for this bot army against Platner.” Second post: “You can tell who are actual people by how they post. The bots all sound the same. Same arguments. Same grammar. Same talking points. Over and over and over. And all of them will ignore Collin’s history…”
Phoebe and Joey meme where Phoebe says something and Joey repeats. Phone says the following in three panes and then repeating it in full in her final frame: “If someone has the astoundingly poor judgement to get a Nazi tattoo while serving as a mercenary, they don’t have the wisdom necessary for being a Senator“. Joey repeats it for three frames alongside Pheobe until the last frame in which he says, “If someone thinks a former mercenary with a Nazi tattoo lacks the wisdom to be a Senator they must be a pro-Israel plant”
A notification that I have been blocked by @richgibson.bluesjy.social, the user who sees the demolishing of villages an appropriate military tactic.
Post by DiplomatofNight: “More than 80 villages near totally or totally destroyed *after* they were completely emptied of their residents. That is textbook ethnic cleansing. Nothing justifies that. And if we were to take your "retaliation" principle to its logical conclusion, what then can Lebanon do to Israel?” Repost by Islamophobia piece of trash Rich Gibson: “So they were emptied of residents to minimize loss of life and then military targets were destroyed. You could argue that they were not military targets in the villages, but that is a different argument.”
Don Draper from Mad Men doing a pitch. It is the “x but y” meme format. On the pitch stand is the Blue Origin emblem. The bottom reads “The Producers, But Rockets.”
Dean Armitage from Get Out, a movie in which no white person is a good guy/white savior no matter how much this person kept expecting one to be.
An image described as “a hungry observatory” and with the alt text “black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot” It now has added a hand holding a fishing pole from the children’s fishing game. The moon now sits at the end of the fishing pole.
An e-poster in the Incheon Airport that says, “May AI help you?”
Geordi (Drake Meme) meme: Geordi making a “hold on” gesture with the text, “Trump is greatest WFH president due to necessity of a global pandemic.” Geordi pointing positively with the text “Trump is greatest WFH president due to his vanity war leading to a massive gas shortage.”
Hark! The Music Devouring Snake Post: I am not here to defend platner, or even Bernie, far from it. I can hardly defend someone who worked for Blackwater unapologetically just a few years ago and has a badly covered up nazi tattoo. Margaret Forsyth (Platner-stan): Platner NEVER worked for Blackwater. Straight up lie. Hark! The Music Devouring Snake Post: You are correct. My bad, he worked for Constelis, another company formed by Erik Prince the cofounder of Blackwater doing defense contracting. Which is the sane thing Blackwater says they do. I should be more careful in not mixing up ex-military mercenary outfits.
From the Christo-fascistand exceedingly unfunny satire site Babylon Bee. An image of Graham Platner with an overlay of him with shirt off and Nazi Totenkopf on his chest. Title: Democrats Clarify Everyone Is A Nazi Except The Guy With Nazi Tattoo U.S. - Members of the Democratic Party from across the nation issued a statement clarifying that everyone is an evil Nazi except that one guy running ...
Minutes of General Court of Virginia, July 9, 16401 These are the official minutes from the General Court of Virginia when it heard this case. Whereas Hugh Gwyn hath by order from this Board Brought back from Maryland three servants formerly run away from the said Gwyn, the court doth therefore order that the said three servants shall receive the punishment of whipping and to have thirty stripes apiece one called Victor, a Dutchman, the other a Scotchman called James Gregory, shall first serve out their times with their master according to their Indentures, and one whole year apiece after the time of their service is Expired. By their said l Indentures in recompense of his Loss sustained by their absence and after that service to their said master is Expired to serve the colony for three whole years apiece, and that the third being a negro named John Punch shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural Life here or elsewhere.
An image of three instantly unlikable “New Christian Right” pastor-influencers smoking cigarettes. It is in a “motivational poster” framing. It reads, “Smoking: At best it will kill you. At worst you’ll become an Evangelical Calvinist Right ‘Influencer’”
Cover of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
A four pane meme. The top has the text “I'm not antisemitic, I'm just anti-Zionist/anti-Israel” beside a man putting white makeup on his face. The next says, “Actually, Netanyahu is the cause of antisemitism because he wants to conflate all Jews with Israel” beside the same man now with clown makeup on. The third pane says, “I'm gonna go tell random, non-Israeli Jews talking about antisemitism that anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism” and has someone’s hands putting a rainbow clown wig on the man. The final pane says, “I'm fighting Netanyahu by accepting his premise and yelling at these Jews” and see the man in full clown make up with wig looking at the camera.
A kid in a red shirt with a red cone hat with a triangle on top and red diamond shaped gloves. The hat had big eyeballs on it.
A young man pulls a switchblade on a couple. Crocodile Dundee pulls out a large blade and the young man is intimidated.
Skeet by Moonshot: “I am a moderate independent who supports Democrats. But I like the former Republicans the most because they at least know how to fight back. Speaking of Islam = it's a fascistic ideology. But people on the (extreme) left like to ignore that fact, and rather stick their heads in the sand.”
A container of premium YukGaeJang Raymun Noodle Soup Spicy Beef flavor.
More Cowbell Meme: Christopher Walken in a leather jacket in a recording studio saying, “I got low polling and the only cure…is more ballroom.”
Scroll of truth meme: a four pane meme. In the first a cartoon adventurer stands at a chest and says, “I’ve finally found it…after 15 years.” The second pane shows him smiling as he pulls out a scroll and says, “the scroll of truth!” The third pane has an open scroll with text added by the user that says, “If you focus on the remaining assignments instead of neglecting them in favor of extra credit to make up old ones you can still pass.” The fourth pane shows the adventurer throwing the scroll away and saying, “North”. The adventurer is labeled “students in the last three weeks of class.”
I've been contemplating a cult(ure) of abuse, and in so doing, I have reached some conclusions. The first conclusion is that when abuse is happening, the first thing is to stop the abuser from abusing, which means removing the ability to abuse—or the power to enact abuse—from the abuser. So the first solution in this situation, if we are to avoid the path of most violence, is to remove the temporary president and his party from power, using whatever levers are available, until none from that party remain in power, and then enforce the rules already in place that state that insurrectionists who wage war against the United States and try to demolish the government of the United States in order to subjugate and enslave the population of the United States are not allowed to participate in the government of the United States, and then bar all of them from government forever—this, before starting the investigations and trials and verdicts and sentences.
A four pane meme: in the top left a bird sits on a twig and says, “Warhammer is an expensive hobby.” In the top right the bird says the same thing but the text bubble is half covered with another text bubble that reads “3d printer goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…”In the bottom left the pan zooms out and we see a large crow on a branch with the voice bubble counting with “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…” In the bottom right the small bird stares with a disappointed look at the reader as a speech bubble continues behind it with “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…” continuing.
A tweet that says, “José Antonio Morante Camacho undergoing a ‘sphincter reconstruction’ due to the goring inflicted by a bull yesterday.” The image in the tweet is of a bull fighter in the air with the horn of a bull clearly in his anal area.
A scene from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. A man standing in the open door of a cage says, “Chill Winston, it’s me, Willie.”
Daniel Radcliffe in Guns Akimbo in a bathrobe and with pistols nailed to each hand. He holds them with a frightened expression.
Clown meme with 4 panes of a man on stages of putting on clown make up. Stage 1: “I’m not antisemitic, I am just anti-Zionist/anti-Israel.” Stage 2: “Actually, Netanyahu is the cause of antisemitism because he wants to conflate all Jews with Israel.” Stage 3: “I’m gonna go tell random, non-Israeli Jews talking about antisemitism that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism.” Stage 4: “I’m fighting Netanyahu by accepting his premise and yelling at these Jews.”
A newspaper article that has the following highlighted, “She was accompanied into Court by Detective-inspector Dew and other police officers, who found it necessary to guard her against the molestation of a hostile crowd.”
Post by Pope Leo XIV & @Pontifex • Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal and communal style of life. #LaudatoSi #SeasonOfCreation Austin @AustyDR ... I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says
Smee from Hook saying, “Are you getting dramatic?” While holding a plate of food.