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he/him, ME/CFS 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
sometime academic and antiquarian
antifascist and immigrant
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There really is a Bible passage for everything, isn't there‽
A screenshot from a chat with an insurance representative with text reading: People ahead of you: 1 Your chat has been transferred. An agent will be with you in a moment. Thank you, bear with me a moment while I read through the information you've just provided. John - 13:11
January 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Over a trans flag, the text “First, they came for the transgender community, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem.”
December 25, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Donate to elect Kamala Harris!

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Around images of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, text reads "The best time to elect a woman President was eight years ago. The second best time is now.
July 21, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini pictured with his nose bandaged following the 7 April 1926 assassination attempt by Violet Gibson. One of the bullets grazed his nose in the attack.
July 14, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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Important lines from Justice Sotomayor's dissent.

"Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

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ALooking beyond the fate of this particular prosecution, the long-term consequences of today's decision are stark. The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding. This new official-acts immunity now "lies about like a loaded weapon" for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation. Kore-matsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214, 246 (1944) (Jackson, J., dissenting). The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. [continues]
July 1, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Let her read her book.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by Ivan Coyote, Apr 19 at 11.15pm [no year indicated] Dear dudes everywhere: just leave her alone. She is wearing her headphones AND reading her book at the bus stop. What part of that says "I want to talk to you?" She's not dressed up for you. She's on her way home from work after a long day of dealing with assholes that look a lot like you. She doesn't want to smile. She knows she looks good. You're actually invading her space and making her uncomfortable. She is being polite because if she isn't you could get mean and/or violent. She has been taught this lesson since she was a very little girl. She's in a dress because it's spring. She didn't pick this bus because you are on it, it's public transit. Leave her alone. Let her read her book. Tell your friends.
May 19, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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The window is closing to make sure the LC Moonshot bill is written to include funding for ME/CFS.
Time to fire off an email to LongCovidComments@help.senate.gov

Consult closes on Tuesday 23 April 2024, so hurry!

This matters for millions!
April 20, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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“Promisingly, there have been recent signs of a reinvigorated labor movement, as union election petitions in 2022 bounced back from the pandemic to their highest level since 2015, and public opinion of labor unions is at its highest level in over 50 years.”
A 1950s-aesthetic cartoon of a man and a woman beside a Christmas tree and a table of wrapped gifts. The woman holds an object labelled “UNION CARD” and says “That card makes it possible for us to have the best Christmas in the world!” The packages on the table are labelled “shorter hours”, “decent wages”, “better working conditions”, and “old age pensions”.
December 24, 2023 at 12:25 PM