Tangy Cat

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Artist. Musician. Engineer.
Queer. Trans. Neurodivergent.

#CovidIsNotOver

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As a factual matter there very much is asymmetric polarization, it just runs in the opposite direction that Musk claims www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

violent conspiratorial fascism is centrism! I'm smart!

The polarization in today’s Congress has roots that go back decadeswww.pewresearch.org On average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.

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seeing a lot of "actually Project 2025 considers any LGBT text or subtext to be pornographic, that's what they're trying to ban" and maybe could use a little more "but also it's wrong to ban actual porn, porn is fine"

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How can you help lessen suffering today [for yourself or others]? Take action around that.

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Missouri is going full steam ahead to murder an innocent person

Please sign the petition demanding his execution be revoked. The DNA evidence exonerated Marcellus Williams but the Missouri Supreme Court does not care. go.pardot.com/webmail/9101...

BREAKING update in Marcellus Williams casego.pardot.com

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If you get covid, test every day after you test negative to catch the rebound. I was neg for days then got a whisper of a pos line. I started avoiding people, and in 18 hours I got sick and turned big positive. Everyone I know who got this variant has rebounded from 3 to 11 days afterwards.

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Protip: for any cis people who don’t already know, the phrase “this person” is an extremely obvious way transhobes often degender and/or misgender trans people. you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.

this person every god damn time

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If you vote for Trump in November, or if you abstain from voting for Biden, you are consenting to the idea of my imprisonment, and the imprisonment of people I love. Sit with that.

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This is page 5 of Project 2025, and I need to say something about it as an author whose work contains queer characters and themes. The right has made no secret over the last few years of regarding the mere inclusion of those things in a work of fiction as being innately pornographic.

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"Officials hope the presence of the athletes’ own grandmothers and grandfathers in their beds taking a nap, doing a crossword puzzle, or browsing Facebook on their iPads will work as a deterrent to sex."

Olympic Anti-Sex Beds Outfitted With Athletes’ Grandparentswww.theonion.com PARIS—In an effort to crack down on rampant sexual activity in the Olympic Village, the International Olympic Committee has outfitted beds for the 2024 Summer Games with athletes’ grandparents, sourc...

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If you ever want to understand why the privacy rationale for abortion and contraception is more important and vital than ever, this is it.

JD Vance opposes the Biden Admin rule barring law enforcement from having access to your medical records about reproductive health (menstrual cycles, endometriosis, miscarriages, pregnancy, etc.) so that state laws limiting abortion and/or contraception can be enforced against you!

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

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Daytime high temps have risen fast. Nights are worse.

It's the Hot Nights That Will Get Youwww.splinter.com Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

bedtime, will bite

tag yourselves

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I have this very strong opinion that one of the reasons why so many of us are tired and mentally struggling, is because we're all existing in a (western) system where we're all trying to individually do things that we're supposed to be doing as a community. And this is all thanks to capitalism.

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I didn't have to pretend. The USPS is a genuine Public Good. I did fan art for it. I Love the USPS.

Trump was so evil that people had to pretend to stan the U.S. Postal Service for three months

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The US disavowing UNRWA was one of the absolutely unacceptable and abhorrent decisions made by the Biden-Harris Administration.

"Israeli forces have attacked 190 UNRWA facilities in Gaza — over half of the group’s buildings in the region — and killed 197 UNRWA workers. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed the most humanitarian aid workers of any military conflict in recent history." truthout.org/articles/isr...

Israel Has “Flattened” UNRWA HQ in Gaza in “Blatant” War Crime, Agency Saystruthout.org “Another episode in the blatant disregard of international humanitarian law,” said the head of UNRWA.

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We’ve got the tools. We’ve got the talent.

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News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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I grew up in the 80s and 90s thinking Bond villains were over the top caricatures fed to me by lazy screenwriters so their stories make sense and I would like to formally apologize to all of these writers.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

I don't expect much but chng.it/Z97rNqXSkx

We Can Make an Impact.chng.it We call on MiHoYo to stop cultural appropriation and whitewashing in their games and to commit to respectful and accurate representation of all cultures. Translations below! Background MiHoYo, a leadi...

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New from me and Graham Rayman: A Rikers Island detainee has died after jail staff “repeatedly ignored” her requests for medical help, culminating in a medical episode severe enough to land her in a hospital, according to her defense lawyers. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/16/r...

Rikers Island detainee dies after jail ‘repeatedly ignored’ requests for medical help: lawyerswww.nydailynews.com Charizma Jones, 23, died Sunday after she suffered a medical episode while on Rikers, then taken to Elmhurst Hospital, according to sources familiar with her case.

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multiple protesters and a journalist were shot

Nationwide protests and general strike called in Kenya today.

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Texas! Get a library card! (Then get the Libby app. Then ask Houston to buy my ebooks (Queen of Roses, Elizabeth McCoy, to start), which are very cheap to libraries! Then you can read for free and I still get paid and can help my friends! It's awesome!)

Reminder: any resident of Texas can get a FREE digital library card from the Houston Public Library system. Only $40/year for non-Texas folks! Their Libby hold lines tend to be long but you can have up to 15 holds. If your local library system is limited, check it out: houstonlibrary.org/mylink

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This is pretty darn neat!

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under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut

Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.

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friendly reminder i will NEVER apologize for a post

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The best way to punish rich, amoral assholes is to make them poor.

A federal judge in New York threw out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case Friday, paving the way for a litany of creditors, including two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation claim against him, to pursue and potentially seize his assets.

New York judge throws out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy casewapo.st The decision paves the way for two former Georgia election workers who won a defamation claim against him to pursue and potentially seize his assets.

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It should never be left in the hands of police to decide who is allowed to protect their health. That only leads to increased profiling of marginalized groups. Everyone has the right to wear a mask to protect their health without being questioned by anyone.

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Let's fucking go! If they're going to quit because of oversight, they're clearly exactly the kind of shitbird oversight is supposed to get rid of.

The Phoenix police union is warning that more than half of its officers are thinking about quitting unless city leaders fight oversight from the Justice Department

Phoenix police union: 56% of officers thinking about quitting unless city fights DOJ oversightwww.kjzz.org The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association is the largest union of rank and file police officers employed by the city. The group is warning that more than half of its officers are thinking about quitting...

You are alive now. That is special enough to celebrate.

Use the good stuff. Get out the good art supplies. Use the good herbs. Wear the nice shirt. If you have it, and you are saving it for some imaginary someday. DO NOT. You are worthy now.