Judi Gunn 🍦

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Bird nerd. Servant to cat. Bookworm. Liberal. Christian. Grandma. Newly retired. Good cook, decent baker. Adjunct prof at Naval Academy: Advanced Cussing.

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Judi Gunn 🍦

Not just that, it will give the government authority to remove any LGBTQ child from their home, where queerness is happening, to the government's hands, where they can be forcibly sent through conversion therapy. Accepting your child will retroactively become "abuse".

This should terrify people in terms of what it means not only for teachers and librarians, but for parents. Once exposure to queer content gets classified as child abuse, that will be the excuse they use to remove kids from queer homes, or even just homes that teach acceptance.

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Matthew Downhour

The non-local folks were supposed to be doing boring things like traffic control. This guy wasn't anywhere near the convention; he was well outside even the soft perimeter. He was known in the area. It's just so fucking infuriating. I'm not quite full-on ACAB but this pushes me hard.

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Judi Gunn 🍦

I sincerely never thought he would get to this point and I am delighted to see it even if he cannot enact it himself this changes the conversation about what’s possible within the Democratic Party, which has been badly needed for years fantastic news

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Greg Greene

And they were out-of-town cops. Who were supposed to be doing bland things like ... traffic control. Not swarming a fight between unhoused people well outside the RNC security zone.

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Joshua J. Friedman

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller www.propublica.org/article/jd-v...

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Tellerwww.propublica.org Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business a...

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THIS ALL DAY

Thank you! The very studied way the press has ignore or outright lied about a years long campaign of right wing violence against queer people has been a bone in my throat. I wrote this 13 months ago: bomb threats, beatings, mobs screaming for blood — no one was told to stop, it was just “backlash.”

A Media Blackout on Anti-Queer Violencejoshuafoust.com The press refuses to cover the conservative campaign of terror against queer people. It is maddening.

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If you’re now a JD Vance beat journalist, you should read this book for background on the neoreactionary / neomonarchist things he believes (and so do the tech billionaires like Thiel and Andreessen) amzn.to/3zSojue

Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right: Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack: 9781986913997: Amazon.com: Booksamzn.to Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right [Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right

She is adorable!! 😻

"Just waving! At, uh, THAT FLY UP THERE"

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Nina Berry

our racoon overlords 😳 My brother can wax eloquent on his trials with racoons in a tree-full suburb of Chicago. He eventually had metal garbage cans with locking lids and large rocks on top.

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Judi Gunn 🍦

Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

Project 2025 raises taxes on a family of four with two parents earning a combined $100,000 by $2,600, in order to fund a tax cut of over three times their combined income for someone earning $5m. x.com/SteveRattner...

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This Prime Day, let's all remember back to that time that Amazon was bootlegging my merchandise: www.theverge.com/22924353/art... Anyways, use the code AMAZONCRIME to save 15% off of legit merchandise at effinbirds.com until tomorrow.

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This is the move

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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With help from the Tiny News Collective. Gift link: Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washington wapo.st/3Y5v8CN

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwapo.st The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

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Nina Berry

"C'mon, I got kids here to feed! Hop to it!"

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Judi Gunn 🍦

If a key lime pie is green, get out of there, team. If a key lime pie is yellow, tell that pie “hello!”

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Sarah Orsborn

I like that better than a cart or baskets. Easier to clean. Easier to dry.

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Sarah Orsborn

Pretty tiles! Nice vanity!

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Saeed Jones

I can't believe they left the plane on the runway!

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Judi Gunn 🍦

We don’t get someone like Elon Musk without his family profiting from apartheid. Worth remembering.

“The world’s richest man Elon Musk will commit $45m per month to a new Super Pac intended to support Donald Trump’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.”

Trump to appear at Republican convention; Elon Musk reportedly plans to commit $45m per month in pro-Trump donations – livewww.theguardian.com Ex-president expected at about 8pm CT; Tesla boss planning donations for America PAC, according to media report

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Jessica Zellers

I'm sorry. That sucks. Fooey!

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Judi Gunn 🍦

Is it bad when the VP pick’s hometown paper (owned by high profile GOPers) publishes an anti-Vance op-ed within an hour of learning he is Trump’s running mate? Because that doesn’t seem good.

Vance will hurt Trump's reelection chances. Ohio junior senator isn't ready to be VP.www.dispatch.com Opinion: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance probably will not help former President Donald Trump win – and might cost him votes.

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Judi Gunn 🍦

That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Judi Gunn 🍦

Refreshing this one in light of the JD Vance announcement. Ugh.

THIS is as accurate as it gets. Dude “summered” in Eastern KY with his grandparents when he was a kid & used that as an excuse to appropriate Appalachian struggles. As a native of Eastern KY that book had my blood boiling from page 5. JDV is a fraud & hypocrite.

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John McIntyre

Is that a "fox-hillbilly"? He's only a hillbilly for Fox News?

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Sarah Posner

Barf. And ugh. And holy First Amendment, Batman.

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Judi Gunn 🍦

I know we're supposed to turn down the rhetoric but...this isn't rhetoric, these are just facts

I know no one has proven that Trump has sexually assaulted minors but like, -A court ruled that the preponderance of the evidence suggests he did sexually assault E Jean Carrol -He was close to Epstein -He’s admitted to peeping undressed teenagers He’s almost certainly a child rapist

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Erin Biba

Yowzah. 😳