iwillbedamned

@iwillbedamned.bsky.social

Queen of typos! Blue voter. Nauseated by MAGA. Dog mom. Feminist. LGBTQIA+ Ally. BLM. Seeking solidarity. Shop local using cash. Anti-crypto. No DMs. MN Proud. Not a Bernie fan. No AI. If your profile looks like a dating app profile, I won't follow you

“Abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men.” The freedom to decide whether to continue a pregnancy is a fundamental right rooted in bodily autonomy, privacy, and dignity. Those decisions belong to the individual and their doctor.

Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men... but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.
Katha Pollitt

Paul LePage spent his career kicking Mainers when they're down — six vetoes of Medicaid expansion to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. In Washington he'll gut Medicaid and Medicare for billionaire tax cheats. He doesn't even live here — send him to Florida for good.

But here's the part most will miss: the Polycrisis. Trump has doomed America in part because he's put us in the position of having to spend decades in recovery at a time when new enveloping crises are all going to hit at once: climate, energy, autocracy, AI.... the list goes on.

If Robert Louis Stevenson was here and writing poems for children today, he might compose something like this: There was a man A well dressed man Who shoved his neighbor In a can “If you can’t dress As well as me You deserve To rot and die…”

🧵Macalester College Buddhist studies professor Erik Davis and Home Health Care nurse Natasha Rakotz have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism charges for their roles in protests against ICE in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. The charges are ludicrous.

Prof. Erik Davis of MacAlester college, standing in his officeNatasha Rakotz