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"Swear to god you're like a Fox Fire book set in hell." - Ursula Vernon
"You puckish motherfucker." - Sarah Day
Trans and queer anarchist sheep farmer. Navy veteran attempting to redeem himself.

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Gavin gives me the creeps and even so I hate him less than most lefties and the sole reason is because he understands (correctly) that you cannot equivocate or yield even a little bit on this culture war bullshit

California bans school districts from outing trans kidswww.politico.com Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, which is sure to infuriate conservative activists.

oh did no men ever have to learn that. is it safe for Black men to express anger in public? what about trans men, who deal with people telling them that going on testosterone will make them angry and violent, how many of them feel OK expressing unfiltered anger? Which men are we talking about here

Think about how the most righteously pissed off woman you've ever met, still expressed anger through a filter she developed for her own safety over her life. Think about how men, who never had to develop those behavioral filters as survival mechanisms, express their anger at even trivial things

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Francisco has been working various crops in CAs Central Coast agriculture for 19 years. He is currently harvesting broccoli and shares, "It's hard work because we need to bend down all day long. I get very tired because of my age." #WeFeedYou

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It's time for Sammie's daily ear check-in

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He didn't change his mind on Trump; he changed his mind on Hitler.

JD Vance said Trump would be America's Hitler back in 2016. He's obviously changed his mind. I wonder what did it? Was it the storming of the US Capitol to try to stay in power? Was it the detention camps at which children were separated from their parents? Was it his criticism of "globalists?"

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OH! Wow! FDA Approves First Generic Methimazole for Treating Hyperthyroidism in Cats www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

FDA Approves First Generic Methimazole for Catswww.fda.gov The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Felanorm, the first generic methimazole oral solution for the treatment of hyperthyroidism in cats.

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timeline cleanse

I think a lot about this kid who tried to join the Marine Corps when I worked at the Charlotte MEPS. His recruiter bought him a pair of shoes so he could come take the ASVAB and go through medical. First pair of new shoes he'd ever owned. His ASVAB score was disturbingly low, though.

A man came in with no shoes and was trying to see if we had anything. This girl I was ringing up added a gift card to her purchase and gave it to him 😭😭 He was still a few bucks short, so I covered the rest. He was so grateful and honestly that shit was the most wholesome thing I've seen.

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IDK who the first person to express this sentiment was, but: "When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small."

What are people doing w/neighbors & friends to create & nurture networks of collective care & mutual aid? What small but significant (or super size me and spectacular, and everything in between) actions & practices are people talking about, preparing for, or taking?

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Mostly agree except on reflection I feel like the three-day combo of the shooting, the Cannon decision, and the Vance pick was a powerful reminder of how miserable and exhausting it was to live with one goddamn thing after another when this guy had the spotlight for four straight years

I think Trump getting shot and being photographed with a defiant fist in the air, bloodied and unbowed, will actually lead to zero changed votes. He might be the only person in the universe that would be true of.

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ReaderCon attendees: Saturday night, I had dinner w/a friend who then tested positive for COVID Sunday night. I just tested negative, but if you had any contact w/me, please test.

There is a bird outside making a weird noise.

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Charlie Kirk ushering in exciting new innovations in the genre of Dorkass Fascist Haircuts

Instead he did this, which somehow proves you can get a haircut in the wrong size

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I am begging people to block and report transphobes and racists instead of screenshotting them and showing them off to everyone like a weird bug they found by the roadside.

I was just thinking this earlier. The blocklists are all gone, and people have stopped blocking the bigots themselves, and just gone back to replying to them instead, putting them onto their followers’ skylines.

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It's London trans pride on 27 July. If you're horrified by Streeting's avowed intent to make the puberty blocker ban permanent, please step up and show it. There are a lot more of us cis folk than trans folk; we all need to use our voices and platforms. #PubertyBlockers

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Had a friend who's mom was at the nursing home the shooter worked at and she said "I met a celebrity! But he should've spent less time bringing my dinner and more time practicing aiming." Apparently that's the most she's said to him since January, so he's glad his mom's doing better.

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wine mom memes about what would ordinarily be treated like a horrible tragedy...there's something in the air and it isn't good for the Trump ticket

my mom put this in my whole family group chat last night

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2/ But, the prince can always make the people fear him. This is much easier to control, but it comes with risks. The worst thing for the prince is to be hated by the people. If the people hate the prince enough, there will be individuals who hate the prince enough to die assassinating the prince.

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May his memory be a blessing. 🧪https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/tuskegee-syphilis-study-whistleblower-peter-buxtun-has-died-at-age-86/

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86www.seattletimes.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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1/ One of the worst misquotes of Machiavelli is "it is better to be feared than loved." He never said that. What he did say is much more enlightening. Machiavelli says that the best thing for the prince is to be loved, but that the love of the people is fickle and hard to guarantee over time.

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oh this is marvelous

Academic conference-attendees everywhere find themselves involuntarily wincing in sympathy.

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Speaking of, if you live in California, please text “Sign PGHZOY” and “sign PHQICF” to 50409 to encourage your reps to join calls for an independent investigation with public disclosure into allegations against BH city officials colluded with antiabortion extremists to prevent a clinic from opening.

This is a really good time if you're not already connected to local groups and organizations organizing around particular issues to find ones in your communities that could use your talents and skills.

How Beverly Hills became an unlikely battleground for the future of abortion rightswww.yahoo.com The campaign by an antiabortion group to block the opening of a specialized clinic in Beverly Hills may offer a playbook for similar efforts in other cities and states.

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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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🚨Mixed bean alert🚨

Jose shows off his toe beans.

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It's always nice to get an email where I get to say respond: "Before answering your question, I have two much more important questions of my own. 1) Who are you? 2) Which neutron generator?"

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Vance got picked because no qualms about law or morality will get in the way of his doing what the boss wants. The amusing thing about the pick is he also wouldn't feel any qualms about stabbing his boss in the back if it would help himself, but it's unlikely that circumstance will arise.

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John Hinckley Jr., Sirhan Sirhan Debate Shooter’s Motives On CNNwww.theonion.com The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

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I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced. So.