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Melbourne girl. Anti-Fascist. Pro noun. Adjective enthusiast. Centrism is Fascism. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🤎🖤 I use starter packs to educate myself; no need or expectation to follow me back.

Things could be worse, I guess, at least Trump didn’t get the reflecting pool tiled in vantablack. 🔥🔥🔥🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️🔥🔥🔥

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PSA: do not buy any new Mercedes-Benz cars. Their brakes may be faulty & car may only start intermittently & Mercedes-Benz Australia staff are abusive & openly sneer they will not cooperate nor ever provide a replacement or a refund. #MercedesBenz

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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lizzie johnson
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Aug 19, 2021
Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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lizzie johnson
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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lizzie johnson
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Jan 25
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

If anyone hasn't cancelled their Washington Post subscription yet, now would be a good time. (I cancelled mine when they pulled their endorsement of Harris just before the 2024 election.)