Lauren is persevering
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a book in one hand and a jar of shine in the other. ᏣᎳᎩ daughter (she/her, disaster bi) from the holler. leftist. antifascist. thoughts on reading, crafting, gardening, and where I went wrong in life. grow food, not lawns!
You have no idea how he's gonna vote. He could vote exactly the same as Collins. You just don't know. All you do truly know is he is a liar. And you're willing to give a pass to a guy with a Nazi tattoo who treats women like garbage. OK then.
Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“
I want to yeet myself into the fucking sun
who could have anticipated that the guy who used the "boys will be boys" defense to explain his nazi tattoo also has a history of sexual violence
Marginalized folks: this guys giving off really bad vibes Dems: you cant just go on vibes! And anyway hes "authentic" Us: he was a Blackwater merc? Them: He's changed! Us: Totempkampf Tattoo? Them: Youthful indiscretion NYT: Multiple SA allegations Them: oh no! who could've seen this coming?
So many people insisted that Graham Platner was just a growing boy who couldn’t be held responsible for a Nazi tattoo and some bad behavior in relationships and the Democrats are so desperate to appeal to white men who they will never sway that they will tolerate this raggedy ass man.
If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.
Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:
in light of RFK jr.'s new push to limit antidepressant prescriptopms, re-upping this piece i wrote last year:
You can pry my antidepressants from my cold, dead hands
A new executive order announced an "assessment" for the use of these meds in children. Adults aren't far behind.
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This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war
to clarify, whereas an ouroboros is a great snake eating its own tail, symbolizing the endless cycles of life, nature, and the universe; a reverse ouroboros is a great snake crawling up its own asshole, symbolizing the infinite hubris of dumb motherfuckers who are always wrong about everything
yes substack has the best free product. but it also monetizes nazis, which is a dealbreaker for me. why isn't it for you?
You actually don't have to expose yourself to content of people being murdered. We know that it happened. Protect your mental health and log off for a bit if you have to.
if you think building luxury real estate on the bones of thousands of recently murdered Gazans is disturbing, let me tell you a little story about the land you call America...
The neoliberal tactic to destroy a movement: 1. Join support of said movement 2. Criticize the unifying policy of said movement 3. Spread the criticism through the pundit class 4. Run poll on policy following widespread propaganda 5. Point to poll as reason why policy must change 6. Leave movement
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.
"And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect… it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack."— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good Identified as Jonathan Ross
Identifying the shooter in Minneapolis, The Intercept found a photo captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq” posted by a man noted in public records as his father.
theintercept.com
It really cannot be emphasized enough that the Holocaust was modeled after the American campaign to displace and exterminate Indigenous people. This country drew up that blueprint.
Fascism isn’t new to the US. It’s always been here. It’s built into this country‘s DNA. Bigotry is our primary export. We just quantified and qualified it under the false title of ”freedom” because that’s what the masses here want & what (yht) ppl with guns & bibles as their personality like to hear
Just WWJD’d my rep and both senators, it likely won’t work but I enjoyed it nonetheless
"he didn't get any congressional approval" the "law" has always been a lie here. do you finally see it? - a Native
Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.
God I am so sick of living in the heart of an unbearably evil empire. My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela
the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.