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Ryan Connell
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i used to get legit mad at the tootsie pop ad characters when they’d crunch through to the candy center out of impatience. like great now i don’t know how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop
September 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Always get a little depressed taking down the Rapture decorations.
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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PSA:

"Joy is resistance" is for the marginalized and oppressed.

In the context of fascism, privileged joy is indifference, collaboration, and enabling.

Queer joy is resistance
Black joy is resistance
Disabled joy is resistance
Immigrant joy is resistance

Privileged joy is an excuse to not act.
March 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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“…no. Not ‘God Bless America’; God Damn America! That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God Damn America for treating her citizen as less than human. God Damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is supreme!”

-Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright
March 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Specifically, *right-wing white evangelicals* have been fed decades of lies by a hyperorganized apparatus of political organizations, churches, televangelists, and related organizations and influencers that a liberal, pluralistic, diverse democracy is in direct conflict with their religious freedom.
No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.
Interesting story that gets to the heart of why many Christians feel persecuted in the U.S.: The secular elite find many of their views abhorrent and uncouth

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
March 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever
scholar.archive.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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"i know you’re afraid of blood so we’ll write it with water

the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just

looked at it

water that seeps through a shelled-out roof

water that can replace tears"
WHAT WAR IS
Ostap Slyvynsky
Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is
WHAT WAR IS
A poem by Ostap Slyvynsky
snyder.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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People who voted for Trump losing things doesn’t make me feel gleeful. It makes me sad because people are losing things.

Some of us say we want collective liberation but want to retain the right to gloat, and we can’t have it both ways.
February 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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We're finding out that millions of evangelicals would have worshipped The Bunny.
February 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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You are all whining about a technocratic dystopia but when I asked AI it said that Technocratic Dystopia is their debut album released 29 November 1989 featuring the hits “Pump Up the Jam “and “Move This” reaching number 22 in Australia, so things are fine
February 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him."
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article)
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Imagine if the White American Church cared about greed even half as much as they obsess about sex. Imagine the America we'd have if they hated billionaires instead of hating trans kids.
February 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
At last, the Kingdom of God on Earth in full violent force. Just like Jesus always wanted
January 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM