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Suffragists used the same tactic, dressing in their finest to be arrested, making the police look like bullies for arresting them and the state like petty tyrants for detaining them. Back during the 2020 Portland protests, a woman stood nakedly in front of advancing cops, they eventually just left.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

As a white American woman, I always enjoy hearing white Republican men accuse men in *other* regions of "not respecting women." I won't apologize on his behalf because he's not sorry and I've done nothing wrong, but fuck this attitude. Western misogyny is just as bad if not worse than "elsewhere".

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 3d

I'm in @newrepublic.com today, covering how Trump’s grant terminations and new ideological funding conditions are hurting survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Cancelled grants include those for emergency housing and interpretation services for deaf and hard-of-hearing survivors.

Trump’s DOJ Cuts Are a Disaster for Sexual Violence Survivors

The administration has slashed funding and wants to implement ideological conditions on grants for programs that both support survivors and prevent these crimes in the first place.

newrepublic.com

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

You've had many bangers, but I want you to know I think this is maybe your finest work. Definitely top 5.

🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

"seems pretty criminal"

MAGA is using the word "crime" and "criminal" interchangeably with "sin" and "sinner", in that the "sin"/crime is in the eyes of the beholder, not a specific act written in statute. Due process, equality in the eyes of the law, even the fact of the law, is irrelevant.

🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

Raise your hand if you had a crush in middle school, knew their last name, but didn't know their address or either of their parents' names, and thus called every "Jones" in the phone book asking for Amanda until you found the right one.

Yes, this was normal and even expected behavior.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

Our vacation house had a party line well into the 1980s on account of it being in a vacation community. According to my mother, the party line all thru the christmas break was free entertainment if you needed a break from our family drama and wanted to eavesdrop someone else's.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

If you told this person that there used to be a book, published annually and given away for free, listing every person who lived in your town by last name alphabetically, including their street address and telephone number, a book everyone voluntarily sent their info to, they would not believe you.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who composes and reads govt reports as part of my job, I'm 100% convinced that 'reports' is actually a cargo cult we are all still engaging, both in the sense of the utter futility of the actions, and in the sense that we are still enacting stuff they did just to win WWII.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.

None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.

None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.

He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 2d

*67,000 thousand that we know of. Lots of people are buried in the rubble and never "counted" but are just as much victims of the genocide. Part of why Israel is bulldozing the rubble as they force refugees to move around. Burying the evidence and insisting they were never there.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 5d

A literal plague of frogs. This regime has really has escalated events to a Biblical level faster than even they wanted to, I think...

🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 6d

Free Silver, 16:1!

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 6d

Okay, okay, I'll follow you. I don't even care if you continue at this level of output, that you reached these heights even once makes it worth it.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 6d

They just want to make sure that we don't blame them, since it is, of course, their fault.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 6d

She's saying this partly because she has to lie for Dear Leader, but mostly because this is what they've been doing in DC, Potemkin-style homeless sweeps along corridors that Trump and his traitorkin travel, so they don't have to be discommoded by viewing The Poors. Again, this is projection.

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 6d

Lol, Dave Simon rules.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6d

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6d

Perry: "I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop, because the plaintiffs really believe that it's not going to just stop with that. You haven't told me it's just going to stop with that."

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 7d

The Baptist church schismed because slavers tithe more, that is the entire story. A hundred and sixty years later Doug Wilson is still trying to retcon it into an honest dispute over obscure Bible verses because he’s a liar

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 8d

By this logic, shouldn't he be in jail for failing to protect capitol police officers on January 6?

Yeah, I know, rules for we, not for he. But still. Still.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8d

“Since this new administration took office, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities has increased at triple the normal rate of unemployment."

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 8d

Shelf poss.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

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