Only takes 3.5%
Gen Xer, INFJ, Player Hater, doing my best to be an Ally, "nolite te bastardes carborundorum," she/her
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Only takes 3.5%
100 percent
Oh, I know. 😉
Done. Thank you.
WTF? JFC.
Reminder that straight, white men are far scarier than trans women
It's fantastic. You couldn't ask for a better non-fiction book. This podcast explains the book. It's good, too. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Ah, shucks!
Only now did it occur to me to look and see what article Blitzer was referencing. My bad! Y'alls work means a lot to people, and I hope yoy can take pride and comfort in that. Highly recommend the book.
🥰 pg. 434: 'An asylum-seeking Cuban doctor who was being held in a privately run facility in Louisiana told the Mississippi Free Press, "There's no way to 'distance' here..." (The author was discussing the spread of COVID among immigration detainees under trump.)
Saw a reference to Mississippi Free Press recently in this book.
I didn't take it that way! If there are any protests, you can let me know.
I usually will go. Didn't today.
😮 Oh! I didn't know that.
Walked by their office is DC a little while ago and imagined a bunch of white men sitting around explaining virtues of neoliberalism to each other. I know that woke folks know how bad the Atlantic is, but I think it's worthy of repeating. People quote the mag like it's the undeniable truth.
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Time for a new starter word. Wordle 1,535 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
They're probably happy you have a distraction. 😊
Oh lordt, pray for Paul's family. Football season has begun. 🤣
"Take me to cookies!" 💙🍪
I had no idea Waylon was on Sesame Street! youtu.be/tXhvmUIw508?...
Lemme add that the woman's outfit is a desecration of the flag and is offensive to anyone with eyes.
Absolutely! The only explanation I have for their supporters is that they're too stupid to understand this. I've never seen my birth certificate. I was in my 30s before I got a passport. I was born here, FFS.
These people and their supporters have no shame.
The party should have kicked him to the corner. He's a "preacher."
Oh FFS, Rep. Mark Harris, (the guy who cried like a baby when his son testified to warning him about his illegal campaign activity) is pretending that non-citizens are voting. I'd hardly call these assholes "activists." #ncpol www.wral.com/video/activi...
Life is short. FWIW, I have a room like that.
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I like that 🤭
IKR! I don't think I could get sick of either Mobley or Staples singing it. I think you playing it at the wake is perfection!
I've seen chatter about it before. I saw her in 2001 at Walnut Creek. I was so moved that I was sad for days afterwards, like being sky high and then crashing.
OMG 😍, let it be true. #Sade www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
"If you ever hear that sound now If the door gets kicked in here, they come now Think of others, be their cover I am what they're not" youtu.be/AqfIe8qEc70?...
The story gets worse: The 16yo & 15yo, who NC Republican Chairman tried to drug, flagged down police to show them the drugs. James Yokeley blamed the Dairy Queen worker for the drugs. Turns out it was him all along. Why would a 66yo Republican want to drug a 16 & 15yo? 🤔 www.wral.com/story/nc-cou...
It happened 3 weeks ago. Why did Dave Boliek wait until only a day ago to demand his resignation? #ncpol
🤔 Maybe he needs to work harder.
I tried to make an appointment for the booster this morning at both CVS and Walgreens in NC and got the message below. Walgreens said something similar. Doctor's office said I do not need a prescription. 🤷♀️
This is so funny to me. Happy Friday! #TGIF #GoldenGirls
Maybe we should bring shame back, because being the 4th most blocked person on this site ought to be embarrassing.
Beautiful
Sign "☮" the Times at Imax #Prince
Yeah, this is probably on brand for her.
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He comes from such immense wealth and privilege. What a f*ck-up.
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Imagine what it's like for folks living in the US. Look into whether you can mute words in your settings.
I just discovered that Boliek appointed a Republican to be the Chair of the Wake County Board of Elections. Do you, or anyone else, know how many of the 100 chairs are Republican?
Why did NC State Auditor Dave Boliek wait three weeks - eg. only after @wral.bsky.social broke the story publicly - to ask the Republican Surry County elections board chair to resign? This guy was caught (on video!) trying to drug his granddaughters on August 8th. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 www.wral.com/news/local/s...
2/ I didn't realize that Greg Flynn was not reappointed to the Wake County board. #ncpol 'Flynn said in his years on the Wake board, most of its votes were unanimous and members “worked together pretty well.” The change “I think will have a big effect on early voting site decisions,” he said.'
1/ As a reminder, the #NCGA took appointment powers AWAY from Governor Stein and gave them to State Auditor Dave Boliek. Folks, please learn Boliek's name. #ncpol ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-co...
Early identification is critical to getting family and children the supports they need to improve outcomes.
And the chair of NC's Board of Elections, Dave Boliek, appointed this ghoul. Folks better learn Boliek's name. #ncpol
I'm trying to imagine having to live through this without an SSRI. Dude needs to wear sunblock.
He was talking about pressing RICO charges against protesters yesterday.
Everything this administration is doing is being done to deliberately shorten or end the lives of people they believe don't matter; anyone not rich, white, male, straight, and cis. Once your usefulness as a worker is used up, you can be discarded. Every policy flows from this.
His mom is Cokie Roberts? Did not know that!
If I remember correctly, the NCGA recently gave Boliek the power to appoint county chairs.
Dave Boliek is a menace. #ncpol
This is great! I understand better what happened yesterday.
He can just look at someone and see mitochondrial challenges? Could someone please drug test the man?
I've been there!
It doesn't. Our legislature is corrupt. It's noted later in the article that states with permit less carry have higher rates of gun violence. The NCGOP doesn't care.
I'll check it out
It's beautiful! 🐶
Church is also about having a sense of community and trying to find some meaning in life. I'm not religious, and it hurts my heart. There are no safe places.
Spotted in my neighborhood
Trump announces tariffs on thoughts and prayers.
Idk how someone in their right mind characterizes an entire religion the way he did. I'm not Irish, but I was raised Catholic. I never encountered antisemitism in the church. Maybe it was there, and I missed it. I never witnessed Catholic family members express antisemitism. Quite the opposite.
Peace? It just fucking happened. Has Trey lost a child to gun violence? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
If folks want to enjoy them, fine. But a meme isn't gonna give me any faith that anything is going to be okay, which is what I expect from my electeds. I don't look to my government for jokes; none of this is funny.
🤬 If there is...
Opening statement in press conference about the latest school shooting in Minneapolis: “don’t say it’s about thoughts and prayers. These people were literally praying when this happened.” THIS!
They'll say it's too soon to talk about policy and then suggest that the nuns and priests should have been packing heat. I have nothing nice to say right now. Our rights don't matter to them.
Anyone with half a brain should be worried. What about our rights? Do we get to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Or is that just for jackasses carrying guns?
Honestly don't know, but I have no confidence that some jackass won't.
I always thought their name was cheap-sounding. My dad worked for them for a minute in the 80s. They built a lot in and around Raleigh.
I think it would require everyone to show up and for one of the Dems to vote with the Repugs. They're incompetent and corrupt.
I'm not even convinced the state legislature knows our laws.
But their rights! Maybe the state legislature will gift us with subsidized Kevlar vests when they get around to finishing the budget? Gawd bless NC
👇 This is what the North Carolina General Assembly is working on. Seriously. #ncpol ncnewsline.com/briefs/north...
Sure hope the media will remember who allowed DOGE to access social security data. This all goes back to John Roberts and his MAGA #SCOTUS - and the media not mentioning that part is not telling us the whole story. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
I'm not sure what this would look like policy-wise, but folks on the right and towards the middle tend to get confused that any accountability for the ultra-rich will somehow have a bad effect on them, and that's a damn shame. There's enough to go around.
And coward
Sounds like folks are arguing as to whether at the heart of the conflict are race issues v. class issues. Idk which is the chicken or the egg, but I'm skeptical whether we can achieve some semblance of solidarity without addressing race, but it should never be an either/or discussion.
China is taking a stronger stand against what's happening in Gaza than the Democratic National Committee is. #Palestine #DNC “Israel should stop its military operation in Gaza at once, realize a full and lasting ceasefire as soon as possible..." www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250826-chi...
Had to look up Potemkin. I heard about a MAGA idiot rejoicing that he didn't smell weed anymore in DC. I doubt folks are smoking blunts on the steps of Capitol Hill, but even so, it's mostly legal in DC. I think they should all move to North Korea and leave us the hell alone.
There is something so quaint about passing a vague nothing resolution that calls for a two state solution only to then vote down a resolution that calls for recognizing that second state and holding the first state accountable for occupying it.
London Kaye, US street artist known for crocheted creations #WomensArt
what the fuck is a hamas camera?
A phishing attack? Bless Dallas's non-existent heart.
Ironic because Miller has long said that immigrants are vectors of disease
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This isn't the WWE, and what's happening is hardly a feud. Trump is about to unleash the military on Chicago, a blue city with predominantly Black and Brown residents. @cnn.com is disgusting.
Is that article from 2 months ago? I'm glad folks are still talking about it.
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