@mangorains.bsky.social
one of my favorite writers 💜
(love the mental image of the drag queen on a float, warning about the tornado 🌪️, a helpful diva)
(love the mental image of the drag queen on a float, warning about the tornado 🌪️, a helpful diva)
This year, in the absence of any media outlet or corporation asking me to write about Pride, I challenged myself to write a Pride essay I’d actually want to read. This is what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...
Shelter
An autobiography in Pride Months
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
one of my favorite writers 💜
(love the mental image of the drag queen on a float, warning about the tornado 🌪️, a helpful diva)
(love the mental image of the drag queen on a float, warning about the tornado 🌪️, a helpful diva)
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I am never going to die
one funny situation that may or may not happen but would be poetic: Elon turns twitter into an echo chamber for Trump fanatics --> Trump turns on Elon --> Elon gets eaten alive by his own monster
June 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I am never going to die
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complaining about my day means I’m in a decent mood. if I say some shit like “just practicing gratitude today” I’m probably at rock bottom and contemplating illegal activity
May 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
complaining about my day means I’m in a decent mood. if I say some shit like “just practicing gratitude today” I’m probably at rock bottom and contemplating illegal activity
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I just don’t feel very “Cuntissimo leaving that loser on read” today
May 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I just don’t feel very “Cuntissimo leaving that loser on read” today
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I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
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GHOSTS is a cbs sitcom that i like and is apparently really popular but seems to have zero discourse footprint, and one of its fun bits of worldbuilding is that there are ghosts EVERYWHERE, mostly tethered to the property where they died, just kind of hanging out
imagine a ghost haunting, like, a newly renovated Marriott
April 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
GHOSTS is a cbs sitcom that i like and is apparently really popular but seems to have zero discourse footprint, and one of its fun bits of worldbuilding is that there are ghosts EVERYWHERE, mostly tethered to the property where they died, just kind of hanging out
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“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Has Simply Disappeared’
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him
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fun fact their account was private for days after this for some reason
April 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
fun fact their account was private for days after this for some reason
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We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.
March 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.
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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR.
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR.
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
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I’m laughing so hard right now she was like yeah you might die or meet this creature or both
March 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I’m laughing so hard right now she was like yeah you might die or meet this creature or both
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"yes, I am seeking to obtain the pan dulce..."
March 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"yes, I am seeking to obtain the pan dulce..."
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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we may not agree on much, but I agree with Trump here. make those planes with haste, boys. cut any corner necessary!
(NYT) - President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
February 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
we may not agree on much, but I agree with Trump here. make those planes with haste, boys. cut any corner necessary!
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It’s just a link to this article www.propublica.org/article/evic...
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2024 at 5:20 PM
It’s just a link to this article www.propublica.org/article/evic...
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She was 100% correct, that scene is super creepy. More so because she was only 17 at the time. Practically everything else in the movie is also creepy actually. Very telling that the director is still clueless about it. variety.com/2024/film/ne...
December 7, 2024 at 2:17 AM
She was 100% correct, that scene is super creepy. More so because she was only 17 at the time. Practically everything else in the movie is also creepy actually. Very telling that the director is still clueless about it. variety.com/2024/film/ne...
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a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,
December 8, 2024 at 1:32 AM
a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,
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Soldiers who invaded the National Assembly are saying they were lied to:
Oh wow, we already have them.
"We were told it was an operation to fight North Korean infiltrators. But when we got off the bus, we realized we were at the National Assembly."
"We realized the op was against unarmed civilians only when we arrived . . . I am sorry. I feel ashamed."
"We were told it was an operation to fight North Korean infiltrators. But when we got off the bus, we realized we were at the National Assembly."
"We realized the op was against unarmed civilians only when we arrived . . . I am sorry. I feel ashamed."
[단독] “대북 작전으로 알고 나섰는데... 내려보니 국회였다”
단독 대북 작전으로 알고 나섰는데... 내려보니 국회였다 비상계엄 파동 비상계엄 현장에 투입된 특전사 대원들 인터뷰
www.chosun.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Soldiers who invaded the National Assembly are saying they were lied to:
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the British policy of sending three ghosts per year to an individual magnate was fine at the time but is inefficient in the modern day
“Health insurance magnate gets killed with a gun” sounds like a British comedian doing a bit about an American version of A Christmas Carol
December 5, 2024 at 2:37 PM
the British policy of sending three ghosts per year to an individual magnate was fine at the time but is inefficient in the modern day
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According to the daily mail this CEO DOWN balloon was left at the scene of Brian Thompson’s assassination today.
December 6, 2024 at 1:16 AM
According to the daily mail this CEO DOWN balloon was left at the scene of Brian Thompson’s assassination today.
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sitting in a waiting room this morning while my partner had a 6 hour long cancer removal surgery when I saw the news that the insurance CEO was shot. Im paying out of pocket because the best alternative for us is partial coverage @ 1000 a month with a 15000 deductible. Anyway heres a unrelated comic
December 4, 2024 at 8:22 PM
sitting in a waiting room this morning while my partner had a 6 hour long cancer removal surgery when I saw the news that the insurance CEO was shot. Im paying out of pocket because the best alternative for us is partial coverage @ 1000 a month with a 15000 deductible. Anyway heres a unrelated comic
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Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO: www.404media.co/multiple-maj...
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.
www.404media.co
December 6, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO: www.404media.co/multiple-maj...
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fork located in cocina
December 3, 2024 at 10:55 PM
fork located in cocina