Meg

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Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids

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wait til people find out what andrew jackson did.

This part

Modern problems require modern solutions.

Whenever I have to complain about a company and I'm getting nowhere, I buy a share in the company and contact the investors relations team, you be surprised how quickly your issue gets sorted.

Ok this is hilarious

I told everyone I was going on a meditation retreat for a month. In reality, I stayed home, ate junk food, watched TV shows and drank alcohol. When I "returned," I spoke in a calm voice about finding inner peace.

When Ashley Frangipane sang "If you wanna go to heaven, you should fuck me tonight," I felt that

They are great. Fast shipping!

FWIW, Bonafide Masks is having a 30% off sale right now. This is where I've gotten my Powecom KN95 masks for years now. Not a paid spokesperson, ha ha, just a customer! bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/

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Such a perk when one of your besties has a podcast & you can listen to their soothing voice when you're really going through it. But even if you're not as lucky as I am to be friends with her, you should check out this episode from the brill @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

To Stay in the Fight, We Must Navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We Needtruthout.org “How do we grieve at the same time as we adapt,” asks author Robyn Maynard.

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thinking to myself "is this person who replied to me real or an engagement bot" is some fuckin william gibson ass shit

Vibe check (the vibes are bad) 😭

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

To Stay in the Fight, We Must Navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We Needtruthout.org “How do we grieve at the same time as we adapt,” asks author Robyn Maynard.

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The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.

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A lot of people forget what the Economist is actually about because they have this weird reputation for rationality and moderation. No. They are bloodthirsty grasping fucks.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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read my article in the new york times called "suck my fucking dick if you read the new york times"

I'm going through a devastating breakup of a relationship of 8 years (not with my husband who is #onhere). I woke up with painful, swollen lymph nodes in my neck. I have consumed an _amount_ of alcohol, & they have now gone down substantially.

The truth is, I can forgive a lot from The Bear on account of the Chicago pornography 🤷‍♀️

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Prison rape jokes are a part of rape culture. Making “don’t drop the soap” and “become someone’s bitch” jokes means you think rape is okay if it happens to certain people.

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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year. Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

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Roses are red Violets are bloomin

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This made me laugh (again) 🥬

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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed. www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

It’s time to break up the Department of Homeland Security | CNNwww.cnn.com David Perry says the bigotry under investigation at the Border Patrol, the overreach at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the terrible conditions in border facilities show an DHS, it’s time to d...

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If the cops grab you at a protest remember: 1) Ask "am I free to go?" if they say yes, GO. 2) if they say no, say "I am invoking my right to an attorney and my 5th amendment right to remain silent" then SHUT UP. wait for your lawyer.

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I think it’s telling that if you search “Trump AND rape” on the New York Times website you don’t get a single article mentioning the E. Jean Carroll case but if you search “Biden AND old” you get 18,026 hits.

latest trump child rape accusation is uh pretty fucking bad and also not surprising

It me

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Super important to remember that there is nothing that guarantees progress moves forward and if we don’t keep pushing it will absolutely backslide because others will be working hard to erode our gains

We all need to do this.

confirming my solidarity networks and absolutely tripling down on local connections.

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Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.

Take a Deep Breath and Think About What You Need to Doorganizingmythoughts.org How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?

I'm having one of my "Andy Rooney moments": I don't even know who Olivia Culpo is, I never research wedding dresses, why has Google News PUSHED three (3) separate headlines about her wedding dress to my phone's notifications?!