Rootless Suburbian
@rootless.bsky.social
Ancient Millenial Jersey Jewish Kaiju. Blue Sky's #1 Totenkopf hater. Cursed by Smooch. He/him. Reskeets and follows are not necessarily an endorsement. These posts don't represent any of my employers. Mercutio Politics ftw.
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New Missouri pre-filed bill would revoke the driver's licenses of trans people who have had their gender markers changed..
documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking...
documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking...
If any of my trans friends feel that they need to take temporary refuge in NJ to avoid discriminatory laws (and they don't hate cats) let me know.
What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?
September 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?
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Someone today pointed out, in the context of Bari Weiss making a hash of things at CBS News, that executives who don’t see those under them who actually do the work as people have no idea when they’re making a doomed decision.
David Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance Moving Ahead With California Exit, Nearly 60,000 Local Jobs Could Be Permanently Lost [Report]
David Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance Moving Ahead With California Exit, Nearly 60,000 Local Jobs Could Be Permanently Lost [Report]
Well, after David Ellison‘s big threat to move Paramount-Skydance to Texas, Tennessee, or Georgia, there is now a report coming from TMZ (backed up by Deadline) that they’re moving ahead with the big transition out of Hollywood. This would suggest that those antitrust settlement talks with California AG Rob Bonta (not the only state in a dust-up with the billionaire over their $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
Continue reading David Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance Moving Ahead With California Exit, Nearly 60,000 Local Jobs Could Be Permanently Lost [Report] at The Playlist.
dlvr.it
September 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Someone today pointed out, in the context of Bari Weiss making a hash of things at CBS News, that executives who don’t see those under them who actually do the work as people have no idea when they’re making a doomed decision.
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Elect more Democrats, folks
Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities.
www.wvtf.org/news/20...
#transgender
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#transgender
Spanberger quietly kills Youngkin-era transgender rulemaking effort
“There’s no legal authority to move forward with rulemaking and prior administrations may have tried to create lanes and we’re not doing that,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger said.
www.wvtf.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Elect more Democrats, folks
He looks like a prick who gels his hair with snot. Wait, he IS a prick who gels his hair with a snot.
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
September 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
He looks like a prick who gels his hair with snot. Wait, he IS a prick who gels his hair with a snot.
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The number of people taking this, and the distillation of “don’t shout Free Palestine at random Jews with no context,” as “you can’t say Free Palestine unless you’re sure a Jew isn’t somewhere around you” has me worried for the basic literacy of the English-speaking world.
I don't think that the phrase "Free Palestine" is inherently antisemitic, I even generally believe in the sentiment. But it is definitely being used to harrass Jews, and I understand why many are wary of those whose activism stops and ends with saying the phrase.
September 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The number of people taking this, and the distillation of “don’t shout Free Palestine at random Jews with no context,” as “you can’t say Free Palestine unless you’re sure a Jew isn’t somewhere around you” has me worried for the basic literacy of the English-speaking world.
Lmao. Taking two months off. That'll show voters how effective Mike Johnson's speakership is.
It's official: Per MS NOW's Mychael Schnell, the House is canceling tomorrow's votes.
They're going home until after Election Day, to avoid voting on Thomas Massie's impeachment resolution against Pete Hegseth.
They're going home until after Election Day, to avoid voting on Thomas Massie's impeachment resolution against Pete Hegseth.
September 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Lmao. Taking two months off. That'll show voters how effective Mike Johnson's speakership is.
Resident Evil fans will have to live with the fact they've driven Zach Cregger away from making another film in the franchise. Really embarrassing. This is why we can't have nice things.
September 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Resident Evil fans will have to live with the fact they've driven Zach Cregger away from making another film in the franchise. Really embarrassing. This is why we can't have nice things.
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New Confederate Statue template dropped
Robert E Lee was a horse fucker, but he went out and achieved anyway
September 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
New Confederate Statue template dropped
More in my lane is how anti-semitism is now basically unregulated on social media, how any 14 year old can now find "Jewish question" content that was walled off 10 years ago... and all the energy is in banning Israel boycotts. I assure you, that's making this worse!
September 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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It’s not great. The ADL has more or less decided that antisemitism is fine as long as it’s not antizionism and antizionism is always antisemitism and it’s just depressing as fuck.
I have no idea how to have this conversation within Jewish circles but the very obvious path we're on is that the ADL is devaluing the concept of antisemitism by making it synonymous with Ms Rachel and Macklemore, spending down the capital of American Jews in service of a genocidal apartheid state
yeah the basic issue is that to avoid upsetting the Trump administration, every organization combatting antisemitism has decided that literally only antizionism is antisemitism
September 16, 2026 at 2:59 PM
It’s not great. The ADL has more or less decided that antisemitism is fine as long as it’s not antizionism and antizionism is always antisemitism and it’s just depressing as fuck.
Holy shit. Note this is being reported by CBS News.
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi.
One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
www.cbsnews.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Holy shit. Note this is being reported by CBS News.
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It has always been obvious there are certain people whose choice of cause is about loving which enemy it permits them. Rarely is there such a clear-cut visual.
September 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
It has always been obvious there are certain people whose choice of cause is about loving which enemy it permits them. Rarely is there such a clear-cut visual.
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"Is not practicing Jewish" is an old antisemitic weapon; they get to decide who is & is not Jewish ~enough~ to count as Jewish; every other Jew is thus deserving of the smears & dehumanization.
Left unsaid is that The Real Jews™ are also dehumanized but in a "so sad you're going to hell" way.
Left unsaid is that The Real Jews™ are also dehumanized but in a "so sad you're going to hell" way.
French, a right-wing Christian, suggested to the NYTimes that antisemitic death threats made by his supporters against the Democratic candidate aren’t actually antisemitic because Rosenthal is “not practicing Jewish” - although he doesn’t actually know how religiously observant Rosenthal is.
September 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
"Is not practicing Jewish" is an old antisemitic weapon; they get to decide who is & is not Jewish ~enough~ to count as Jewish; every other Jew is thus deserving of the smears & dehumanization.
Left unsaid is that The Real Jews™ are also dehumanized but in a "so sad you're going to hell" way.
Left unsaid is that The Real Jews™ are also dehumanized but in a "so sad you're going to hell" way.
If you have a hard time telling someone you love them, watch Idiocracy then take them to a Costco.
September 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
If you have a hard time telling someone you love them, watch Idiocracy then take them to a Costco.
True. I've never listened to either voluntarily. Although I'm Smooch Cursed so who am I to judge?
I am sorry but imagine going to a Macklemore/Ed Sheeran concert for the music
September 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
True. I've never listened to either voluntarily. Although I'm Smooch Cursed so who am I to judge?
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Your infrequent reminder that the villains of Hot Fuzz are racist NIMBYs.
You remember that documentary about life in the countryside?
"HOT FUZZ"?
"HOT FUZZ"?
September 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Your infrequent reminder that the villains of Hot Fuzz are racist NIMBYs.
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“I decide who the real Jews are” is not a great move to make in response to criticism about the previous antisemitic thing you did. Just FYI
Let me add, for Mr. Rosenthal, if I may be so presumptuous, “where the sun don’t shine!”
In which Texas Democrats reflect on tenuous GOP unity, Bo French questions whether his opponent is Jewish and Jon Rosenthal tells him to “shove it.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u...
In which Texas Democrats reflect on tenuous GOP unity, Bo French questions whether his opponent is Jewish and Jon Rosenthal tells him to “shove it.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u...
Bo French Faces Backlash Over Posts About University of Texas Students
Republican leaders brought Bo French, an anti-Muslim hard-liner, into the fold. Then he attacked Texas football fans.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
“I decide who the real Jews are” is not a great move to make in response to criticism about the previous antisemitic thing you did. Just FYI
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I just realized that if you claim that "actually Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are Semites too," then what you are actually doing is SILENCING the conversation about anti-Arab and Islamophobic bigotry by covering it up with a term for anti-Jewish bigotry – a term invented by proto-Nazi "race science."
September 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I just realized that if you claim that "actually Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are Semites too," then what you are actually doing is SILENCING the conversation about anti-Arab and Islamophobic bigotry by covering it up with a term for anti-Jewish bigotry – a term invented by proto-Nazi "race science."
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If Israel won’t prosecute those responsible for the World Central Kitchen Attack, states whose citizens were killed must
The aftermath of strikes against the World Central Kitchen Convoy in April 2024 (Photo: Majdi Fathi/Associated Press) The Israeli army has concluded its probe into the 2024…
The aftermath of strikes against the World Central Kitchen Convoy in April 2024 (Photo: Majdi Fathi/Associated Press) The Israeli army has concluded its probe into the 2024…
If Israel won’t prosecute those responsible for the World Central Kitchen Attack, states whose citizens were killed must
The aftermath of strikes against the World Central Kitchen Convoy in April 2024 (Photo: Majdi Fathi/Associated Press) The Israeli army has concluded its probe into the 2024 drone strikes that killed seven humanitarian workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK). The verdict? No criminal investigation is warranted. No explanation was provided. The decision not to pursue criminal responsibility for the attack was
justiceinconflict.org
September 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
If Israel won’t prosecute those responsible for the World Central Kitchen Attack, states whose citizens were killed must
The aftermath of strikes against the World Central Kitchen Convoy in April 2024 (Photo: Majdi Fathi/Associated Press) The Israeli army has concluded its probe into the 2024…
The aftermath of strikes against the World Central Kitchen Convoy in April 2024 (Photo: Majdi Fathi/Associated Press) The Israeli army has concluded its probe into the 2024…
I don't think most people in North America understand how badly screwed we were by not getting Terranigma. It is MUCH better than Illusion of Gaia.
September 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I don't think most people in North America understand how badly screwed we were by not getting Terranigma. It is MUCH better than Illusion of Gaia.
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I get that nuance is dead on social media. I'm curious the extent to which it's killing it in real life.
September 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM
I get that nuance is dead on social media. I'm curious the extent to which it's killing it in real life.
Is Yuki Kajiura scoring the Magic Knight Rayearth remake?
September 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Is Yuki Kajiura scoring the Magic Knight Rayearth remake?