Katrina Lehto

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Pop culture nerd who loves the Sounders, Reign, Kraken and Storm. You may have seen me at a PNW convention or two since I volunteer at a lot of them. She/Her, BLM, Trans Lives are Beautiful, I live on the homelands of the Coast Salish people.

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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.

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1777 catalog for the William Prince Nursery in Flushing, Queens archive.org/details/CAT3... The Princes were apparently part of the rootstock of American commercial horticulture!: arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/the-...

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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if you are in Milwaukee and you are gay and on grindr you have the opportunity to change this country forever

i know grindr has to be going CRAZY in Milwaukee right now

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I don’t care how good this looks. The polls don’t matter. We’re gonna fight every damn day until the election like we’re ten points down. Leave nothing to chance.

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DC/Maryland/Delaware pals, can you help? My heart is shattering for this sweet pup. www.facebook.com/share/p/zSm7...

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Who's doing good work in Arkansas and can use a volunteer with skills?

I appreciate the visibility and your work directing folks elsewhere. If any leftist/mutual aid organizations in Arkansas need a tech/production guy, I'm eager to get to work.

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The Alameda County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday announced the resentencing of two death row inmates amid an ongoing ordered review of dozens of death penalty cases to determine whether prosecutors in those cases intentionally excluded Black and Jewish jurors.

2 death row inmates to be resentenced amid review into decades of prosecutorial misconduct in Alameda County, DA announces | CNNwww.cnn.com The Alameda County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday announced the resentencing of two death row inmates amid an ongoing ordered review of dozens of death penalty cases to determine whether prosec...

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Covid is SURGING right now & NO ONE is paying attention. Freaking French Cyclists have mandated masking... if Olympic-level healthy athletes want to avoid it, what chance do you think YOU have to avoid Long Covid or WORSE?!?! Masks work against all variants! www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de...

I keep seeing surprised posts "Huh, I went to [insert event, conference, club, on an airplane, the Sphere] and got COVID!" Meanwhile CNN is running headlines saying "COVID-19's Back." Friends, it never, ever went away and I'm still masking in indoor spaces for your protection as well as my own.

Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate amid COVID-19 concernswww.cyclingnews.com New measure follows spate of abandons due to coronavirus

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queerbaiting is a term for *fictional* characters with *ambiguous* sexualities yet continually misapplied to queer characters at best and real-life queer people at worst. homoeroticism isn’t queerbaiting. bisexuality isn’t queerbaiting. keeping your private life private isn’t queerbaiting. etc.

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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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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Someone in San Antonio, TX reached out to me today because she has a sweet, magical boy with FIV who desperately needs a home ASAP. In fact, he's so sweet that his name is Sweet Boy. Look at that face - he obviously just wants love! 💔 (continued with more info)

About fucking time. Let's see what happens.

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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vivek ramaswamy is telling the republican convention that if gen z wants to be rebellious and cool they should be republicans and tell people on college campuses they want to get married and have kids

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You didn't know that you needed a picture of a tiny frog riding a giant beetle, but now you do.

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Let's be clear: Who gets to be considered fully human is what's at stake this election. We can have reasonable disagreements about government regulations and taxes, but we cannot have a reasonable disagreement about whether everyone is entitled to be treated as equally human.

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YOU TRULY LOVE TO SEE IT: “In a precedent-setting contract negotiation, the editorial union for Mashable, Lifehacker, and PC Mag has successfully bargained for protections against generative AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/mash... #1u #unions #labor

Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contractwww.niemanlab.org Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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I think that they are providing PPE for people who work with cows and chickens. Those workers should be vaccinated against H5N1. That is what Finland is doing. 6/26/24 Reuters: Finland will offer the H5N1 vaccine to people who work in high risk jobs. buff.ly/3zjedT0 🩺😷🛟🧪

Finland to start bird flu vaccinations for humans, in world firstbuff.ly Finland plans to offer preemptive bird flu vaccination as soon as next week to some workers with exposure to animals, health authorities said on Tuesday, making it the first country in the world to do so.

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Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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#OTD in 1942, the American Legion votes on a resolution calling for the deportation of all Japanese Americans from the United States. The resolution would also deport Japanese American citizens to Japan. American Legion posts will remain strongly anti-Japanese throughout the war. 🗃 #skystorians

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.

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HE LITERALLY OWNS AND LIVES AT A COUNTRY CLUB

The claim that Trump “ushered in economic populism” & “downgraded the importance of country-club Republicans while prioritizing blue collar workers,” not only reads like an RNC press release, but is belied by Trump’s record (tax cuts for the rich, an anti-labor NLRB, support for wage theft, etc.)/3

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The vested interest too many in the political media have in making this guy our Return to Mad King George is honestly so wild

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I'm sure the campaign knows these articles are out there, but Vance is the perfect embodiment of what Trump desires most of all: the subjugation of elite minds to his sheer will. If a guy like Vance will break & submit, what hope is there for others? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Opioid of the Masseswww.theatlantic.com To many Americans, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.

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I don’t know the nuts and bolts of Project 2025 to know if they’re doing this but just a note because it’s often misunderstood when we talk about churches that c3’s can absolutely publish manifestos as long as they don’t tell you who to vote for in a race

As a 501c3 corporation, the Heritage Foundation is not allowed to participate in politics, much less publish manifestos. Download the Project 2025 pdf from their website & attach it to IRS Form 13909 and challenge their tax exempt status. Here's their EIN # 23-7327730 And instructions (email!)

IRS Complaint Process - Tax-Exempt Organizations | Internal Revenue Servicewww.irs.gov If you suspect a tax-exempt organization is not complying with the tax laws, you may send information to the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division.

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This is a happy thread.

Background: I'm a professional science educator. Here's my wholesome story of the day. I've been going to a personal trainer to get back into shape after a LOT of injuries/surgeries. Each week we chat about some nerdy science thing. He isn't a science guy, but is very interested in it all. 1/?

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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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lmao