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Wear a mask to piss off a fascist.

Good chance I’ll post about classical music, baseball, politics, baking, home improvement, or anxiety
She/her
I’m #OneOfTheTwo, also a classically trained singer, have a family member with long covid, and wear a mask to keep myself and those around me safer. Masking is community care.

It is shameful that Jon Stewart would deride us, and Jon Favreau just laughed along and didn’t defend his staff.
#OneOfTheTwo and one of the many Jon Stewart mocked this week. COVID took my job, my voice (I was a classically trained mezzo soprano), for a long time my ability to read. I don’t want to invite it in again.

Attitudes like Stewart’s stigmatize, make it hard to socialize or exist in public.
December 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Under communism, Our Flag Means Death, A League of Their Own, and The Residence will have all the seasons they want.
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Congratulations, Suzanne Collins, you accidentally wrote the Torment Nexus.
Donald Trump just announced the creation of the “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” with “one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Its taken a long time and a lot of work on my part to get to a point of better communication about my own needs - aided in no small part by my late dx of ADHD illuminating to me somewhat how my brain works. An emotionally abusive relationship in college didn’t help.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
RUSH
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (x2)
JACK JOHNSON
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
THE WEDDING PRESENT (over 5x)
CINERAMA (maybe 3x)
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (2x)
BOOK OF LOVE (1x)
COCTEAU TWINS (1x)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Bruce Springsteen (x46)
The Rolling Stones (x3)
The Who (x2)
James Taylor (x2)
Tom Petty (x2)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We are reinventing slave patrols
New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public

"Something doesn't sound right"

www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I made my parents take the raads test tonight and they both scored over 100
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid

MOM: What? Covid?

CHILD:
Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within
A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin

DAD:
To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love
Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In the last three weeks I-
Made a dress for my sister
pulled up the laminate and refinished the last of the original hardwood floors upstairs in my century-old home
Refinished the door to the attic
Sang in two choir concerts
Taught a class on restoring windows at a local non-profit
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Excellent thread on the truth that unions have a long history of multiethnic coalition. JD Vance continues to be full of shit and diversity makes us stronger.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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This exactly how Black folks feel about the Confederate flag
If some group had tried to murder YOUR grandparents, would you be cool with someone having a tattoo of their logo? Would you accept that it was a "youthful mistake" or that they just didn't understand it? Would you let it slide bc you don't want to "alienate" people who don't think it's a big deal?
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Finally got a record player for my house, so here’s the lunchtime listening today- from a haul I got six years ago when an archivist was clearing out their LP excess.
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My immediate family and I remain Covid-aware. We were going to drive to the other side of the state to visit family for thanksgiving and asked that everyone there just test for Covid before coming to dinner (with tests provided by us). Cousin said they would not attend if testing was required
October 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.
It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup.

I have heard this independently confirmed from another source.

www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My rep voted no and probably took a lot of risk to do so. Their leadership should not have left them out in the cold like this.
95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.

shame.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
September 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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My greatest critique of our systems around COVID was the focus on individuals and not dramatic emergency investment in interior air quality.
We are in fact plagued by this beyond the plague. The way we concentrate ease of transmission is a systemic risk. And it's solvable. Just like clean water.
September 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas

if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats

it is a reflection of the author
September 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A girl who bullied me in grade school (including physically) has posted her grief about yesterday's events (notably, not the school shooting in Colorado), so that tracks.
September 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM