Louisa

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Butch bon vivant. She/her. You maybe know me from Twitter

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The backlash from base voters who very explicitly demanded a Black woman as VP (and on the Court) as our “seat at the table” in exchange for our electoral organizing…whew, you are not prepared. But almost all of the white alternatives are, and it’s why they keep saying no.

by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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that quintessential American experience when you see a headline that we’ve stopped doing something so fiendishly soulless that you can only react by going “wait, we were doing WHAT????? for HOW long???????? until JUST NOW??????” and it makes you want to lie down on the floor for the rest of the day

The Oregon DOC will no longer force people who are incarcerated to pay hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars for medical devices, such as hearing aids and prosthetic limbs. People incarcerated in Oregon typically make less than $100 per month.

Oregon Department of Corrections ends practice of charging prisoners for medical deviceswww.opb.org The Oregon Department of Corrections will no longer garnish the wages of prisoners who need medical devices, like hearing aids or prosthetic limbs.

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Obvs these guys will govern again like ghouls no matter what branding they adopt—but I do think it’s fascinating that they are at least acting like Project 2025 is something to run away from

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

I love her abcnews.go.com/amp/US/femal...

Female bodybuilder, 82, beats home intruder so badly he had to be taken to hospitalabcnews.go.com An 82-year-old award-winning female bodybuilder turned the tables – literally – on a home intruder and beat him badly after he broke into her house.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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smart fridge that tells you “You’re granaries are almost empty sire. granaries are now empty”

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this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...

Fascinating site they’re excavating in Egypt on the Red Sea.

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

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Huh, it’s as if the paper’s editors learned absolutely nothing from this.* (* of course they didn’t.)

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image

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Me thinking up Posts

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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ive always favored the theory that the entwives became lesbian separatists

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh

Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

Subtle. Very subtle.

Trash food confessions: -I genuinely love McDonald’s -Do not get between me and a tray of Totino’s pizza rolls

I have a trash food confession. I actually dislike most Hostess products. I think a lot of what they make tastes like plastic. However. One week a year, like some kind of sugar starved werewolf, I OBSESS over those plasticky small donuts with the weird waxy chocolate coating. No idea why.

The Inside Out characters in my head

So glad that instead of watching the Biden interview I was drinking terrible Star Trek wine with my friends

If they’re going to replace Biden can they just fucking do it already and spare us weeks of this

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Like two-thirds of the sentences in any given Trump rally literally do not make sense

Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

The disappointment of buying a queer book on the basis of a good review only to find it mid at best. Representation does not equal good writing

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So uh... anybody with a bigger megaphone than me want to help a butch out? The Gilbert Baker Foundation & CMG are asking a settlement from us for referring to the Gilbert Baker flag/original color scheme as the "Gilbert Baker flag" of twice what we've ever made from anything with those colors.

Who has two thumbs and got a legal threat from the lawyers for the Gilbert Baker foundation because he gave credit to Gilbert Baker as the creator of the original Pride flag on items that use that colorway? YEP!

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they should invent a front facing camera that doesn’t hurt your feelings

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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

Don’t be mean to KJ Charles, she writes incredible queer erotica

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Any outlet that doesn’t cover this story is making a choice to ignore it, and we should be asking why.

I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.