Anita McP / miscelena 🌳🧬

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Family & social history, plants, design, cats.
Anti-fascist. "Y'all means all".
MD -> CA (via PA)
Not entirely neurotypical woman of a certain age.
Blocked a lot of people over there. Will not hesitate to block here; it's called curating.
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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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A little bit of myth-busting about our ancestors. #genealogy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cambridge University 'bust myths' about family, sex and workwww.bbc.com Myths about the past include no sex outside marriage or few women working away from home, say experts.

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"Hillbillies Need No Elegy" by @meredithmccarroll.bsky.social is easily one of the best responses out there to JD Vance's crap book. It was part of a larger book called Appalachian Reckoning, which itself was one big response to Hillbilly Elegy. bittersoutherner.com/hillbillies-...

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

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If you wanna know why JD Vance sucks ass there is no better place to start.

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Those who would ally themselves with what they know to be corrupt, in order to preserve or advance their own interests is precisely how The Holocaust happened.

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I think this is clearly correct

Trump-Vance isn't designed to win over more voters, but ensure the next coup attempt proceeds more smoothly

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Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance

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"This changes everything" No, it doesn't. Jesus Christ, grow a spine.

Why are Democrats like this?

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Hope you all have a good night. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

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Interesting!

Ants perform life saving operations — the only animal other than humans known to do sowww.livescience.com Florida ants perform amputations and clean wounds to prevent the spread of infection, scientists discover.

Source: tumblr: secondbeatsongs.tumblr.com/post/7232327...

You need this today. For morale.

Second Beat Songssecondbeatsongs.tumblr.com somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny...

It's interesting to me how there was YET ANOTHER public shooting yesterday where random people died thanks to a young white male with an AR-15... and yet THIS ONE seems to be getting quite a lot of attention. Huh. I feel about the same about it as all the others, honestly.

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For goodness sake stop sharing those stupidly obvious clickbait op eds. Are you new to the Internet or something? Hate media works because you enthusiatocally share the damn stuff, just stop. Stop! These people are of no importance, their opinions only matter because YOU share them. Stop ffs!

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Celeste Pewter

Remember: here's the breaking news handbook. All of these are good rules to stand by at the moment.

Facts (still) matter.

Yeah I keep seeing this reaction, but it’s wholly at odds with the history of these things. The bump Reagan got was short lived and that was the exception to the rule. TR, George Wallace, Gerald Ford all survived attacks but did not win their races.

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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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If you live in Nassau County, please consider calling your reps and telling them NO.

This is really worrying. There's a bill in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, that has a good chance of passing due to GOP majority, that would fine people $1,000 for wearing a mask.

Long Island bill could mean jail time, $1,000 fines for face masks that hide identitywww.nbcnewyork.com A county on Long Island could become one of the first legislative bodies in the tri-state to ban face masks that conceal the wearer’s identity — with violators facing potential fines and even jail tim...

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Yes he's old. Yes he makes gaffes. Why is the media acting like this is the shit that matters?! I don't care about that shit. I care about his platform & priorities. I care about who he'll hire. I care about who he'll appoint. I will vote for President Biden in November.

Drop a ship not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

Drop a ship not from Star Wars or Star Trek

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Since the debate: Donald Trump has hidden from public view for 11 days. Joe Biden has done 18 public events — and counting.

$3M - $5M to (literally) save a child's life by (literally) curing their disease... but look at all the people who just go buy a yacht instead. english.elpais.com/health/2024-...

Why isn’t gene therapy available to more patients? Blame millionaire prices and uncertainty as to its effectivenessenglish.elpais.com The arrival on the market of many innovative treatments has been hampered by pharmaceutical companies’ business strategies

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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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One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

I loved Cricket.

"For those of us with literary or artistic pretensions — however amorphous — Cricket wasn’t just our best option; it was our only option." ( Gift Link) 📚💙

A Love Letter to Cricket, the Bookish Child’s Biblewww.nytimes.com For young magazine readers with literary pretensions, it wasn’t just our best option; it was our only option.

"I’ve now come to understand the same thing about trauma: Happy, well-adjusted people are all different. The traumatized are exactly alike."

The man she writes about seems like an incredible human being, and the whole family seems good. It’s a really interesting piece, about trauma more than the kidnapping. CW for detailed description of birth trauma and horrible treatment by doctors. Gift link

The Kidnapping I Can’t Escapewww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.

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From Insta: When your therapist tells you: "The fact that you're considered 'high functioning' doesn't mean your illness is easier for you to deal with. It means it's easier for others to deal with." ☝️Interesting bookends to my day👇

You're a person, not a chore.

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Read this, share this widely

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:

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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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I'm a different bird

As always: There are two races: white and political. There are two genders: male and political. There are two religions: Christian and political. There are two types of gender identity: cis and political. There are two sexual orientations: straight and political.

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"Tout ce que je demande, ce sont des métaphores moins directes."