Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
@drlightningtx.bsky.social
She/Her ★ Pyromaniac ★ Refusing to Adjust to Life in the Upside Down ★ Reskeets Are Not Endorsements
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Tomorrow is my 24th birthday — to celebrate, I'm trying to raise $24,000 to support VOT's efforts to beat back TurningPoint USA.
TPUSA & Co. outspent us 10:1 in 2024, but just last November, we proved we can win when we have the resources to compete.
Can you help me by sharing to spread the word?
TPUSA & Co. outspent us 10:1 in 2024, but just last November, we proved we can win when we have the resources to compete.
Can you help me by sharing to spread the word?
December 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Tomorrow is my 24th birthday — to celebrate, I'm trying to raise $24,000 to support VOT's efforts to beat back TurningPoint USA.
TPUSA & Co. outspent us 10:1 in 2024, but just last November, we proved we can win when we have the resources to compete.
Can you help me by sharing to spread the word?
TPUSA & Co. outspent us 10:1 in 2024, but just last November, we proved we can win when we have the resources to compete.
Can you help me by sharing to spread the word?
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Do I need to say anything else?
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Do I need to say anything else?
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Dr. Mae Jemison always gives Nichelle Nichols credit for the reason why she wanted to become an astronaut.
Remembering Nichelle Nichols on her birthday (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) 🩷💚🕊
Remembering Nichelle Nichols on her birthday (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) 🩷💚🕊
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Dr. Mae Jemison always gives Nichelle Nichols credit for the reason why she wanted to become an astronaut.
Remembering Nichelle Nichols on her birthday (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) 🩷💚🕊
Remembering Nichelle Nichols on her birthday (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) 🩷💚🕊
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
I've been trying to figure out the brand of powerfully nasty and wildly effective menthol and anise cough lozenges I bought in Scotland in 2019. They made Fisherman's Friend taste like candy for babies.
It might have been Jakeman's. UK pals, does this sound right?
It might have been Jakeman's. UK pals, does this sound right?
December 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I've been trying to figure out the brand of powerfully nasty and wildly effective menthol and anise cough lozenges I bought in Scotland in 2019. They made Fisherman's Friend taste like candy for babies.
It might have been Jakeman's. UK pals, does this sound right?
It might have been Jakeman's. UK pals, does this sound right?
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
People: x policy would benefit society and save lives.
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
People: x policy would benefit society and save lives.
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
Government: the rich won’t like it and they fund our political campaigns, so no.
People: *protests and marches*
Government: ffs, FINE! *implements very watered down version of x policy*
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Are you surprised by how little you know about Palestine? Would you like to do something about that? I have a recommendation.
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
This Is Not a Border — The Palestine Festival of Literature
www.palfest.org
December 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Are you surprised by how little you know about Palestine? Would you like to do something about that? I have a recommendation.
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Big Corporations: If you raise the minimum wage, we’ll have to raise prices. If we let our workers unionize, we’ll have to raise prices. If you tax us more, we’ll have to raise prices.
Also Big Corporations: (raises prices without any of those things happening)
Also Big Corporations: (raises prices without any of those things happening)
December 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Big Corporations: If you raise the minimum wage, we’ll have to raise prices. If we let our workers unionize, we’ll have to raise prices. If you tax us more, we’ll have to raise prices.
Also Big Corporations: (raises prices without any of those things happening)
Also Big Corporations: (raises prices without any of those things happening)
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
What shocked most about AI was a professional tax symposium.
Somehow they were able to hold two contradictory thoughts.
1) AI is going to make our work easier.
2) There will be no job loss because damn will it need all. the. handholding.
Like a dumb intern that never gets better.
Somehow they were able to hold two contradictory thoughts.
1) AI is going to make our work easier.
2) There will be no job loss because damn will it need all. the. handholding.
Like a dumb intern that never gets better.
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What shocked most about AI was a professional tax symposium.
Somehow they were able to hold two contradictory thoughts.
1) AI is going to make our work easier.
2) There will be no job loss because damn will it need all. the. handholding.
Like a dumb intern that never gets better.
Somehow they were able to hold two contradictory thoughts.
1) AI is going to make our work easier.
2) There will be no job loss because damn will it need all. the. handholding.
Like a dumb intern that never gets better.
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
This Christmas I wish all the heretics a very Step On A Lego. Jesus is woke. Fix your hearts.
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This Christmas I wish all the heretics a very Step On A Lego. Jesus is woke. Fix your hearts.
FCK YES, MIAMI!!!!!!!!!
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak, CNN projects
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold | CNN Politics
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving D...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
FCK YES, MIAMI!!!!!!!!!
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Pricey, but the ability to consult ChatGPT without an internet connection is priceless.
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Pricey, but the ability to consult ChatGPT without an internet connection is priceless.
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
HHS quietly rescinded the rule that required a minimum number of staff to be present at Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Homes , stating Bidens rule disproportionately burden Facilities. Be aware. Part of the elimination of people who cost money. Nothing is more precious than money
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
HHS quietly rescinded the rule that required a minimum number of staff to be present at Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Homes , stating Bidens rule disproportionately burden Facilities. Be aware. Part of the elimination of people who cost money. Nothing is more precious than money
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
My law firm is currently litigating 65 voting and election cases in 30 states. We have plans for another dozen or so.
The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be a fight to protect free and fair election. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be a fight to protect free and fair election. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My law firm is currently litigating 65 voting and election cases in 30 states. We have plans for another dozen or so.
The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be a fight to protect free and fair election. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be a fight to protect free and fair election. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
My 24th birthday is just a few weeks away — and I'm throwing a big party in DC to celebrate.
We are gonna enjoy good drinks, fun music, hangout with special guests, and raise funds to turnout Gen Z in 2026!
secure.actblue.com/donate/santi...
We are gonna enjoy good drinks, fun music, hangout with special guests, and raise funds to turnout Gen Z in 2026!
secure.actblue.com/donate/santi...
Join Santiago's 24th Birthday Bash
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My 24th birthday is just a few weeks away — and I'm throwing a big party in DC to celebrate.
We are gonna enjoy good drinks, fun music, hangout with special guests, and raise funds to turnout Gen Z in 2026!
secure.actblue.com/donate/santi...
We are gonna enjoy good drinks, fun music, hangout with special guests, and raise funds to turnout Gen Z in 2026!
secure.actblue.com/donate/santi...
Last day to apply for the traveling ARC program for A LATTE LIKE LOVE!!!!
My longtime beta reader is helping me arrange a traveling physical ARC program for A LATTE LIKE LOVE over on Instagram if any of y’all are interested in applying!
The link for the application is in my bio! (It does require following me on IG, however.)
www.instagram.com/p/DRxajq5EX_...
The link for the application is in my bio! (It does require following me on IG, however.)
www.instagram.com/p/DRxajq5EX_...
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Last day to apply for the traveling ARC program for A LATTE LIKE LOVE!!!!
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
My longtime beta reader is helping me arrange a traveling physical ARC program for A LATTE LIKE LOVE over on Instagram if any of y’all are interested in applying!
The link for the application is in my bio! (It does require following me on IG, however.)
www.instagram.com/p/DRxajq5EX_...
The link for the application is in my bio! (It does require following me on IG, however.)
www.instagram.com/p/DRxajq5EX_...
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My longtime beta reader is helping me arrange a traveling physical ARC program for A LATTE LIKE LOVE over on Instagram if any of y’all are interested in applying!
The link for the application is in my bio! (It does require following me on IG, however.)
www.instagram.com/p/DRxajq5EX_...
The link for the application is in my bio! (It does require following me on IG, however.)
www.instagram.com/p/DRxajq5EX_...
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
Clinical trials & publicly funded biomedical research can be life-changing. I know they were for my family. Yet during the Republican government shutdown, the NIH was not able to support new grants, do in-house research, or operate clinicaltrials.gov. (1/3)
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Clinical trials & publicly funded biomedical research can be life-changing. I know they were for my family. Yet during the Republican government shutdown, the NIH was not able to support new grants, do in-house research, or operate clinicaltrials.gov. (1/3)
Reposted by Persist ★ Resist ★ Survive ★ Find Community
