Sopranospinner/Cassandra
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Mom of two beautiful trans humans, singer, knitter, no fucks left to give. I'm here with all the dire predictions. Music industry professional, lifelong progressive. Dorothy Dunnett super fan.
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.
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Oil-bought politicians and media outlets tell you wind and solar are bad BECAUSE the electric they produce is almost free.
January 22, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Oil-bought politicians and media outlets tell you wind and solar are bad BECAUSE the electric they produce is almost free.
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I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
January 21, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
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“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love—by knowing, which is not the same thing as understanding, that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.”
I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
January 21, 2026 at 11:58 PM
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love—by knowing, which is not the same thing as understanding, that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.”
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Trump says Denmark doesn’t have any receipts to prove ownership of Greenland. They just sent a boat there and claimed it hundreds of years ago.
By Trump’s rules, the United States too would be up for grabs. Perhaps the other nations of the World should give America back to the indigenous people.
By Trump’s rules, the United States too would be up for grabs. Perhaps the other nations of the World should give America back to the indigenous people.
Bessent is trying to "clean up" the letter Trump sent that proves he's lost his shit. Unfortunately for Scott, he can't do that because Trump actually has lost his shit.
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Trump says Denmark doesn’t have any receipts to prove ownership of Greenland. They just sent a boat there and claimed it hundreds of years ago.
By Trump’s rules, the United States too would be up for grabs. Perhaps the other nations of the World should give America back to the indigenous people.
By Trump’s rules, the United States too would be up for grabs. Perhaps the other nations of the World should give America back to the indigenous people.
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But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not.
January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not.
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
Wow I am still exhausted after working 7 straight days and a convention. Hope I perk back up tomorrow.
January 20, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Wow I am still exhausted after working 7 straight days and a convention. Hope I perk back up tomorrow.
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Are you in Los Angeles? Do you know someone in LA?
Please read this.
Angelinos For Hope is a small - as in, one woman and a few volunteers - mutual-aid society trying to help as many people affected by ICE in the San Fernando Valley as they can.
As you might guess, it's relentless.
Please read this.
Angelinos For Hope is a small - as in, one woman and a few volunteers - mutual-aid society trying to help as many people affected by ICE in the San Fernando Valley as they can.
As you might guess, it's relentless.
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Are you in Los Angeles? Do you know someone in LA?
Please read this.
Angelinos For Hope is a small - as in, one woman and a few volunteers - mutual-aid society trying to help as many people affected by ICE in the San Fernando Valley as they can.
As you might guess, it's relentless.
Please read this.
Angelinos For Hope is a small - as in, one woman and a few volunteers - mutual-aid society trying to help as many people affected by ICE in the San Fernando Valley as they can.
As you might guess, it's relentless.
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It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 AM
It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
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“Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”
– Clayton Williams, Republican nominee for governor of Texas, 1990
The more things change, etc.
– Clayton Williams, Republican nominee for governor of Texas, 1990
The more things change, etc.
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent:
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 10:57 AM
“Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”
– Clayton Williams, Republican nominee for governor of Texas, 1990
The more things change, etc.
– Clayton Williams, Republican nominee for governor of Texas, 1990
The more things change, etc.
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"You can't enter the EU unless you have proof of Covid vaccination" would be a deliciously effective way to bar MAGAs from entry, yes
Quarantine based on vax status would do some nice de facto targeting
January 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
"You can't enter the EU unless you have proof of Covid vaccination" would be a deliciously effective way to bar MAGAs from entry, yes
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Who thinks they're entitled to an understandable and explicable experience? And why? You're a human, fucko, get used to the wonder and terror and mystery of humanity.
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Who thinks they're entitled to an understandable and explicable experience? And why? You're a human, fucko, get used to the wonder and terror and mystery of humanity.
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This!
Reminder that if you post images in my replies without alt text I am likely to mute them for everyone. This is particularly the case for text-heavy memes and/or political messaging that is mostly made up of words. Make your images accessible, please and thank you.
January 19, 2026 at 4:36 PM
This!
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one of many reminders you’ll get on MLK day that he was a radical. do not cherry-pick his quotes about love today, especially if you are white:
January 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM
one of many reminders you’ll get on MLK day that he was a radical. do not cherry-pick his quotes about love today, especially if you are white:
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Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.
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If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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Democrats must refuse to vote for any funding bill that increases ICE’s budget and refuse to fund DHS until ICE’s abuses of power are stopped.
The government funding deadline is January 30th. Call your reps today: (202) 224-3121
https://indivisible.org/campaign/how-rein-ice-now
The government funding deadline is January 30th. Call your reps today: (202) 224-3121
https://indivisible.org/campaign/how-rein-ice-now
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Democrats must refuse to vote for any funding bill that increases ICE’s budget and refuse to fund DHS until ICE’s abuses of power are stopped.
The government funding deadline is January 30th. Call your reps today: (202) 224-3121
https://indivisible.org/campaign/how-rein-ice-now
The government funding deadline is January 30th. Call your reps today: (202) 224-3121
https://indivisible.org/campaign/how-rein-ice-now
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Trump is making Americans pay for his fascist attempts to take over countries that are not his to take.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Trump is making Americans pay for his fascist attempts to take over countries that are not his to take.
Hero!
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Hero!
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*Fun stuff, eh? Really breaks the tedium!
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” C. Kingsley
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” C. Kingsley
I like that analogy: nobody looks at the individual frames of a film strip except editors, animators, and obsessives, others just care about the story it tells, and if it flickers or scratches or the projector breaks, well, that's all jpart of experimenting with the new medium
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
*Fun stuff, eh? Really breaks the tedium!
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” C. Kingsley
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” C. Kingsley
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BREAKING: Machado says she 'presented' Trump her Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Committee has already said it's is non-transferrable. They must make an exception and take the additional step of rescinding this Prize.
The Nobel Committee has already said it's is non-transferrable. They must make an exception and take the additional step of rescinding this Prize.
January 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
BREAKING: Machado says she 'presented' Trump her Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Committee has already said it's is non-transferrable. They must make an exception and take the additional step of rescinding this Prize.
The Nobel Committee has already said it's is non-transferrable. They must make an exception and take the additional step of rescinding this Prize.
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Seems like calling the president a "pedophile protector" is really lucrative, more people should probably try it.
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Seems like calling the president a "pedophile protector" is really lucrative, more people should probably try it.