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“The undertaking was impossible from the very beginning and of all the impossible ways of carrying it out, this was the least interesting.” - Jorge Luis Borges

I have pretty much always lived in cities in blue states and I just have so much admiration for the work progressive organizers do in red states, and I really hope they are having the BEST day

It’s incredibly important to recognize that Democrats running up the score so high they exceeded the margins of fuckery is not a sign of democratic health. It is a time-limited reprieve to secure the government before we lose it. This was the failure of the Biden Era that cannot be repeated.

HEY CIS PEOPLE: here is your reminder that things are Still Not Remotely Okay for trans people in the US, and a fair chunk of this blue wave has come out in favor of that. What we've won is a slim gddamn chance, and we need you to get a crowbar into it and pry it wider.

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I don't want any great uniter talk tonight. I want us celebrating a clean "out with the old, in with the new." We didn't have this swing because "people are interested in unity," we had this swing because "people are pissed off about getting fucked over and finally cleaned house."

1 person=1 vote? Not in the US! Here's how much your vote actually counts depending on your state thanks to the Electoral College! The good news: this election gave us the power needed to eliminate this bs!! Contact your Senators & Reps (links below) and tell them to ditch the Electoral College!

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🚨 BLADES ON THE MOVE 🚨 At one of our Octopus Energy Generation sites in rural France, we’re “repowering” old turbines by replacing them with more efficient, modern and bigger turbines. And huge blades = HUGE LOGISTICS to get these bad boys up and running. (🧵1/5)

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Virgo: You were annoyed at the time, but you'll soon come to appreciate Halloween for being, by far, the least existentially turbulent day to be approached several times by total strangers demanding to know who you're "supposed to be.”

Someone needs to make a supercut of only John Waters’ scenes from American Horror Story 13. They were the *only* enjoyable moments. (Also, spoiler, I assume he took the gig with the stipulation that he gets to keep his decapitated head prop!)