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Lauren is persevering
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a book in one hand and a jar of shine in the other. ᏣᎳᎩ daughter (she/her, disaster bi) from the holler. leftist. antifascist. thoughts on reading, crafting, gardening, and where I went wrong in life. grow food, not lawns!
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Glad that my longstanding grudge against Larry Summers continues to bear the sweet sweet fruit of vindication.

I’ve loathed him since the early 2000s when he said that girls are innately worse at math. 😌
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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All hope drawn from politicians is ultimately false hope. The only true hope in this world is the hope we create together

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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One last time for my creation lol
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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good morning to the commie freaks and only the commie freaks
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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it’s weird to see people be like “poor Usha” as if she is a guiltless victim with no agency, like she is a grown ass woman who chose and continues to choose to be with a horrible man

idk why we always need to infantilize the grown ass women married to horrible men
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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As this country crumbles, Indigenous rights and sovereignty are going to come to the forefront, as well as States Rights.

Be prepared to advocate for Native tribes and people. We are the front line and we hold the answers to lead a new way.
Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
www.motherjones.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds
October 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time.

it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!
we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior
"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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When we say "billionaires shouldn't exist", it's because no private individual should be able to bully a government into enacting their own personal whims.
What I hear from multiple sources in the Scottish Government is that it feels defeated by the limitless spending power of the transphobes who, of course, are explicitly or implicitly underwritten by JK Rowling's vast fortune.
What do you think why the Scottish Government has been targeted, such as Darlington nurses, NHS Fife?
Has Scotland really devolved? Was the Scottish Government allowed to implement its self identity legistlation or blocked by the former government? Devolution in the UK is a joke.
October 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The final boss of “misogyny is okay as long as you put ‘white’ in front of ‘women’”
We have the government white women allow us to have. I always vote for my daughter’s best interests but not enough women do. There are more women voters in the US and they vote in higher percentages. Girl Dads help but we can’t want something for others more than they want for themselves.
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”
September 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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why did trump publish the "what I'm looking for" section of my dating profile that's sooooo embarrassing 🙈
September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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YOU try doctoring crime scene evidence in a hurry with only the items you have on you and let's see how good of a job you do, alright?
September 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Hulu and Disney plus are now offering 70% off subscriptions, and in response I am offering Hulu and Disney plus 70% off deez nuts.
September 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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If the athlete in question is on hormone therapy, its full effects on muscle mass etc. are in place within a year.

Even the IOC knows this.

People "just asking questions" are getting their answers from discredited sources like right-wing media and ChatGPT.
the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men

what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women
September 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
going back to my evangelical roots in the weirdest way by canceling my Disney+ subscription
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM