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your smugness will not protect you
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So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.
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Asserting you're uninterested in universal public masking is your right. The airborne virus that causes long term disability and death not being mitigated in any other way applauds your very good choices.
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
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Honestly, so much of our struggles can be summed up this way, but we might make abled people ~uncomfortable~ and ~scared about the inevitable failure of their bodies~.
It is always about their feelings. Not our deaths.
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The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.
1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
www.erininthemorning.com
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Charmin trying to convince me that toilet paper that tears more easily will make pooping more enjoyable is why capitalism needs to be smothered with a pillow
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It’s almost like billionaires and strong vibrant institutions of civil society can’t coexist
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this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable
"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
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The luxury surveillance industry is asking for your help.
Meshing your kid-pic facial recognition data with your current facial recognition data can be tricky.
Here's your opportunity to help them get it right.
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During the AIDS epidemic a gay church in the Castro recoded its services for people too sick to attend. When We All Get to Heaven is a podcast that tells their story, and it drops Outward from @slate.com tomorrow (Oct 15th).
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Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means
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If your writing helps even one person, it's worth doing
Especially if that one person is you
Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.