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This is monstrous because, as usual, cruelty is the point. They're willing to hurt any kid just to be able find a way to punish LGBTQ+ kids. Calling such a service is possibly the last act of someone exercising self agency. Reaching out for help for themselves. And now that has been taken away.
It is a strategy not unfamiliar to them. They'd been riding Reagan's corpse until they got behind this shuffling orange zombie.
Republicans were so sensitive about Biden's age and infirmity, so careful to avoid making it a topic of social media commentary, that I am certainly not going to smile at this image posted by someone less mindful of @GOP discretion..
@tinakotek.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov Let's get going. This needs to happen here as well. I'm immunocompromised and simply cannot deal financially with having to go to Canada for medical care to be able to live safely!
#OnThisDay - 1 September - in 22 BC Augustus dedicated the Temple of Jupiter Tonans on the Capitol. The temple had been vowed in 26 BC when Augustus had narrowly avoided being struck by lightning. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC 1 Augustus 63A; BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Thank you. I now have an added bit of esoterica that I can employ: "hypaethral". I was aware of Jupiter Fulgens referring to thunder. Having to look up 'Tonans' gave me this new term in reading about this aspect of the god.
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OMG, please tell me he went "Wheeeee!" as he did that.
Wait. Isn't she bonking Musk right now?
Annnnd another easy follow by way of a like!
I want to beat them all senseless with the largest, heavily bound, hardback edition of 1984 available. I honestly do. Is there a large print version?
One wonders how many they made before somebody went "Hey...umm...?"
@fourteetwo.bsky.social Having seen your handle, you had in me an instant follower. Might I ask that you read the quote in my header? At your leisure, of course.
See? This. This kind of crap. I can no longer tell the difference between actual real things happening and the friggin Onion now.
If they were bound by the constitution, they wouldn't be there.
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Monsters
We need to find out if this can be legally challenged. Class action or something
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I grew up in South Carolina. I remember those magical evenings, fireflies in the distance, and stars above. I know it is a cliche of too much writing. But when you've actually experienced it, it truly is magical. Let's do this.
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This is quite the self own, given that pretty much there is no difference between a white nationalist and a eugenicist.
Today I learned that Dolly Parton covered Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train,” in collaboration with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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I have reflexively done so each time at even the slightest hint of any of them. No need for an order on my part. 🤢
In the search for life beyond Earth, the only constant is hope
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"...building his own paramilitary force..."? He BUILT his own when he refused to denounce and instead proclaimed "stand by and stand back". He increased their ranks when he pardoned J6 traitors. The Republikkkan controlled Congress simply gave him the funding and Supreme Court made illegal, legal.
Scientists treated a person’s type 1 diabetes with genetically modified insulin-producing cells that evaded immune system attacks. This is the first therapy for the condition that does not require immunosuppressant drugs
How's Kennedy going to screw this up, I wonder.
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Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title: Calvin & Tom Clancy's Hobbes
Exactly 1 minute behind you on that one.
8 months in, and everything that they've done by now tearing down, burning, looting, confiscating, deregulating, and criminalizing is the work of at least a decade to start up again, let alone make whole. And they have 3 years left.
Is there a means by which someone, or an entity/organization can sue to get these tests back?
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Every accusation is a confession with him. Musk Thiel Bezos Koch ...list goes on and on. And their operating system: Project 2025
Where as the absolutely consistent truth about his every claim is that it is a confession. Musk, Bezos, Thiel, Koch, project 2025... On and on, this junta is orchestrated, bankrolled, and directed by shady billionaires.
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Yes, 100% true. If you want your food to magically appear, you should go to a prestidigitaurant.
BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN'T EXIST
Who did this?
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Veterans are at the Union Station in D.C. today and they are participating in a sit in. They will not leave until the National Guard leaves D.C. They ask if you are a veteran in the area, to come on by and pitch in!
This statement alone should get him locked up.
Nixon eat your heart out
“It’s completely counterintuitive to not allow people to have health care until they’re at a point where they can 'prove it.' At that point, they’re definitely not going to be able to work, and then, more importantly, they don’t have access to health care.”
Just unable to see how this is even possible
Scottish Police Arrest Screenwriter Paul Laverty over T-Shirt Opposing Gaza Genocide
He also sent Putin testing kits when we had nothing.
Must have been made for a king, cuz it hasn't got shit all over it.
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
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Though it might cost him, Bolton would do well to have a security firm (if there is one that doesn't align with this administration) do a sweep of his entire home and grounds. This Junta is unlikely to find anything that isn't manufactured. A bugged residence would go a long way for their purposes.
And a new department is sure to follow: the "Department of War is Peace".
Maybe somebody should criminalize all fat cankles affirming care.
Some fever dream brought on by news of all those recalled frozen shrimp, no doubt?
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Unhoused people need supportive services, not punishment.
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Do the members of his first term cabinet who secretly discussed using the 25th amendment think that maybe, they should've...you know...like, done that?
That's rather horrifying. 😳
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Goddammit
Site that lets you fight Captain Kirk to the death? You mean GornHub.
And I'd love seeing the same happen to our current wannabe Shitler
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Oh. Great. Fine. Now THIS.
Vail, CO canceled Danielle's artist residency because of her art linking the struggles of Native American and Palestinian peoples. @acluofcolorado.bsky.social sued and got the town to agree to significant policy changes. We have the right to express ourselves free from government censorship.
EU buildings illuminated with the Ukrainian flag, showing solidarity and reinforcing their commitment to democracy. #3E #StandWithUkraine
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They steal - oops, sorry - they "make" the greatest portion of their billions by owning the things nobody can live without.
5) I finally decided that it was still absolutely freedom of speech, and should always be. But I also held, deep in my person, the anguish in those words: "Oh, please, God no!" So I hope that any who feel doing this is necessary, that it not be trivial. But now, more than any time, it is the time.
4) One of the college students, a girl, lit the flag. I saw the veteran on crutches reach towards the flag - NOT any person there, but towards a burning flag with his bare hand - and heard him say "Oh, please, God no!". It shook me. It changed me. And over several days, I thought about it.
3) It was on either the steps of the Supreme Court or the Capitol Building. A group of college students were about to burn the flag - protesting what, I cannot recall - and there were many veterans there as well. CNN showed a clip of a Vietnam veteran who'd lost his right leg below the knee.
2) The next requires a bit of a story. I was your typical early teenager - I had very strong ideas and beliefs and was vocally supportive of free speech and the right to burn the US flag as a 1A right. CNN was about 5 years old at the time, and I was watching the coverage of a protest.
1) Absolutely should be, and is, protected/free speech. That said, I'd rather it not be done. Starting with the least concerning: Burning a US flag, when done by others outside the US, is usually done by a group or state diametrically opposed to basic freedoms we have here.
They got one thing right: it is transparent.
Ironically enough, by a Kennedy who refuses to get [a] shot.
Is anyone able to take them to court over this? This just can't be done. It will kill hundreds of thousands if not millions
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The thing about John Bolton is Donald Trump is all over the Epstein files.
There's also his "original sin" of enabling him in the first place.
The danger is not so much that machines may become like humans, but that humans may forget what it means to be humane.
Thank you, Oregon! Glad you're keeping us out of their sights. Literally and figuratively.
"Chief Law Enforcement Officer", are ya? Sounds a little more like somebody's lost a significant part of their executive functioning.
"...a lowlife..." Right. As apposed to your whimpering little lapdog, Rubio - who is of course a shining bastion of decorum and intelligence.
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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
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