Julia L

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SFF/horror writer and pro GM. Writing website: https://jklafondwriter.wordpress.com/. GM profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/julia_lafond

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this is your word of the day

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Apologies for the link to the Other Site, but this is an ongoing thread of relief efforts for communities impacted by Hurricane Beryl (which so far includes Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines) x.com/tenilleclark...

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Hi everyone! I had some seats open up in my Marvel Multiverse Wednesday evening campaign (meets weekly at 7 pm EST). For more details, check out the listing: startplaying.games/adventure/cl...

Play Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game Online | Marvelous Multiversal Heroes!startplaying.games In the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, take on the roles of Marvel's most famous Super Heroes—or create your own—to fight some of the most dangerous Super Villains in the Marvel Universe! You and...

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Not a group per se, but two things that could help NC in the wake of the mask ban* 1) Contact the tourism department to let them know you're joining #BoycottNC 2) Wear medical masks in public (also protects you from this wave of COVID!) *slightly more complicated than this but character limit

And just to say, but if you're in a so-called Red State and there's a group you're involved with that's trying to push back, I'm happy to signal-boost and/or just maintain a list here. (Boosts aren't endorsements.)

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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey

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Alice Munro's daughter coming forward about the abuse her mother alternately blamed her for and ignored is an incredibly brave thing. archive.is/2024.07.07-1...

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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

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$0/302 I’m disabled and very ill so my only job is SW. I’m an Afro Canadian Palestinian with relatives there so my mental health has gone downhill and I’m unable to hold a job. I need help with past due phone bill. Please help. Sorry for asking. PayPal.me/sahrasali

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From Insta: When your therapist tells you: "The fact that you're considered 'high functioning' doesn't mean your illness is easier for you to deal with. It means it's easier for others to deal with." ☝️Interesting bookends to my day👇

You're a person, not a chore.

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You're a person, not a chore.

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Palestinians are defending themselves from IOF attacks in Balata Camp, east Nablus; and Beit Ur Al-Tehta, west Ramallah. t.me/QudsNen/112735

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how is that a ceasefire

Netanyahu: Gaza deal must let Israel resume fighting until war goals met

Netanyahu: Gaza deal must let Israel resume fighting until war goals metwww.reuters.com Any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow Israel to resume fighting until its objectives are met, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as talks over a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war were expected to restart.

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Israel is besieging Gaza’s wounded and sick to death, preventing their ability to travel for treatmenteuromedmonitor.org Thousands of sick and injured people face certain death as they are unable to receive treatment in the Strip amid the destruction

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Notice France didn’t “reject identity” Didn’t bargain Didn’t deride concerns about imperialism Didn’t treat concerns about inequality as grudges didn’t say soft voice bullshit Protect immigrants Feed babies TAX THE RICH

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Bugs are pretty awesome actually #invertebrates #dragonflies 🌿

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WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.

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Ben has premiered a very advanced pillow technique 😍

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So… um… comparatively minor mutual aid request: Because of how the timing works, I only got paid for one shift last week, and so I’m dead broke until Friday. I could use a little bit of help to keep fed until then, if anyone can spare a little paypal or interac. ❤️ sincerelynataliereed at gm**l

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Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

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It would be nice if the aging president stopped funding a genocide and stopped being coddled by white people who can apparently only perceive one problem at a time.

Be nice if that existential threat to democracy got as much coverage as the president's aging, wouldn't it?

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if biden loses michigan, i refuse blame the people who cannot bring themselves to vote for anyone who supports and covers up an ethnic cleansing. but i will blame biden because he’s the one in power. i will not hold arab & muslim americans to an ethical standard we hold no other americans to.

From an editor of the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research: Indirect deaths (starvation, disease, etc) claim 3–15x the lives as direct conflict. A conservative 4x estimate = 186,000 Gazans — about a tenth of the population — dead. Killed by Israel and the US. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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Israeli protesters urging Gaza deal block roads

Israeli protesters urging Gaza deal block roadswww.reuters.com Protests aimed at pressuring the Israeli government to reach a hostage deal with Hamas began across the country on Sunday, with demonstrators blocking roads and picketing at the homes of government ministers.

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I gave the keynote address at the pilgrimage to Minidoka (the Japanese American incarceration camp where my grandparents met) and it's intended for us, but I'd be honored if you read it, too. I wrote it for Ahmad Al-Najjar. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2024/7/...

2024 Minidoka Pilgrimage Keynote — Pretty Ok Maggiewww.prettyokmaggie.com

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We understand this correct? Project 2025 is not fringe on the right. It's just that everyone in the center and on the left doesn't pay attention to evangelicals cause y'all think they're funny and weird instead of wildly fucking dangerous. Project 2025 is dead serious and extremely popular.

Project 2025 is a creation of Evangelicals and it's the core mission of the evangelical right. It's what major evangelical organizations have been building towards for decades. It's not fringe. (I just fact checked a whole book a out this.)

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I’ve seen posts going around spelling out what the Project 2025 plan is, with the assumption that anyone who sees it will reject it & go against anyone espousing it but I know of far too many evangelicals who’d see it & think it is awesome & become more motivated to vote for people who are for it.

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easy to chalk the stuff in france up to some vague platitude about ~voting~ but it feels to me like more proof that you have to give people something to vote FOR, and that socialism remains better equipped to beat fascism than liberalism does! just one gal’s opinion

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[JULY 7 UPDATE] 🆘 No new donations as of 12AM 🕛 🚨$800 NEEDED BY TODAY 7/7🚨 10 ppl donating $100 20 ppl donating $50 40 ppl donating $25 ($2,000 needed by 7/15) DONATE 👉🏿 gofund.me/426e9e1c / linktr.ee/jskylerinc #DisabilityPrideMonth #HelpSky #BlackSky

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I love this roly-poly happy chonklet so much. 1929. www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/250...