Wednesday smiling as everything burns and chaos reigns gets me every time.

Yes. A minimum and maximum.

Gotta make sure the 'piggy' gets in there.

Ideally, all of that AND military service. I want someone who knows what it means to give our military an order, and has passed a bill.

The first reporter to do that would never have to buy their own drink ever again.

Are enough folks tired of this guy yet?

Thanksgiving will always have the worst connotation for the Beckstrom family now.

I'm sure he's loving this. Perfect excuse to further crackdowns. He doesn't care she died.

Just a baby... 💔

If it were real and he had no idea it was going to happen, he would have never posed for that photo. They would have whisked him away before anyone knew what was going on.

for being considered an ally by many over the course of my life, and recognizing my privilege and advocating for others. I'm grateful for the excellent conversations I've had on here on Bluesky with new friends made this past year, as we all survive the Regime together, love you guys.

language. I'm grateful for the exposures I've had to the LGBTQ+ community, one of my favorite coworkers ever was a lesbian who I did crowd control with at the Art Institute of Chicago. We would be dying laughing some days at work, she was one of the funniest people I've ever met. I'm grateful

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Mexican/Italian woman whose 2 kids were Mexican/Italian/black, making us an interesting rainbow of colors whenever we went out as a family to do things. I'm grateful for being exposed to the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Chicago, where even the street signs are suddenly in another

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Your posts always make me laugh, Carmen, never stop!

you got what you wanted from them. That's psychotic behavior.

And this isn't me being "anti-America", we should want accountability for our actions to be a thing. We should care how we're perceived by the world, and we should care about being better.

the circumstances that could have led up to that action, our "leadership" just doubles down on the Guard deployment and makes racist statements.

We create the atmosphere for this kind of violence. You cannot treat a people less than dirt, use them for your means, then leave them to die after

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put their life and their family's lives on the line by being interpreters and giving us information on Taliban movements, in fact sending some back to what will assuredly be their torture and death by the Taliban.

And people act surprised when there are reprisals. And instead of acknowledging

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