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Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear. #StillWithHer and her too. 💛💛 🐝 ⚖️ 🐝 💛💛
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olofahere Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to f. cking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished. Source: olofahere 15,684 notes
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Because this deserves to be widely read.
Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
October 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Screenshot for those who don’t click link…
Screenshot of HUD website that reads: The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people. Close hud.gov
September 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Interesting to note who is included in this round of firing…
Text from article reads “One of those, Steve Jensen, helped oversee investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Another, Brian Driscoll, served as acting FBI director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted Justice Department demands to supply the names of agents who investigated Jan. 6. A third, Chris Meyer, was incorrectly rumored on social media to have participated in the investigation into President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida,. A fourth, Walter Giardina, participated in high-profile investigations like the one into Trump adviser Peter Navarro.”
September 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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By Seamus Heaney
The Tollund Man Some day I will go to Aarhus To see his peat-brown head, The mild pods of his eye-lids, His pointed skin cap. In the flat country near by Where they dug him out, His last gruel of winter seeds Caked in his stomach, Naked except for The cap, noose and girdle, I will stand a long time. Bridegroom to the goddess, She tightened her torc on him And opened her fen, Those dark juices working Him to a saint's kept body, Trove of the turfcutters' Honeycombed workings. Now his stained face Reposes at Aarhus. I could risk blasphemy, Consecrate the cauldron bog Our holy ground and pray Him to make germinate The scattered, ambushed Flesh of labourers, Stockinged corpses Laid out in the farmyards, Tell-tale skin and teeth Flecking the sleepers Of four young brothers, trailed For miles along the lines. Something of his sad freedom As he rode the tumbril Should come to me, driving, Saying the names Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard, Watching the pointing hands Of country people, Not knowing their tongue. Out here in Jutland In the old man-killing parishes I will feel lost, Unhappy and at home.
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Okay, I love that the two “local law enforcement” babies are basically CHiPs
Photo of tv show CHiPs stars Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada
September 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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NickFrank40 & @NickyFrank30 “My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.”
September 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Photo of Ross Ulbricht with caption that reads: “Hello, I am Ross Ulbricht! I was sentenced to DOUBLE life in prison +40 years, with no possibility of parole, for selling drugs on the internet. I paid Donald Trump a $1 million bribe, and received a full pardon.”
September 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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For those too young to remember
From Wikipedia re: Charlie Hebdo Attack On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack
September 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Today alone, the White House has claimed: -$8 trillion in new tariff revenue. -$4 trillion in net deficit reduction. -$5 trillion in new business investment. -Hundreds of thousands of jobs from these investments. -Record low gas prices. Each claim is completely, 100%, made-up.
September 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Hitchhiking in Belgium- went to a random concert, outdoor venue in the country. Didn’t know anything about the event. Turned out it was Rock Werchter and this was the line up!
Amazing 🤩
Concert Line up: Peter Gabriel, Eurythmics, The Pretenders, Echo and the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, The Housemartins, and Julian Cope
August 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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A perfect distillation of the orange menace.
Oliver Kornetzke 12h • Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul-all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul-it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
August 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Text image that reads « How about we pay teachers those ICE salaries (100k + 45k sign on bonus) and pay ICE those teacher salaries. »
July 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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My fave fridge magnet
Picture of an awkward girl in green coat with the text « As much as I try to be an easygoing, stretch your wings and fly type… I just can’t stop trying to burst people into flames with my mind. »
July 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I like it!

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Menacing photo of Donald Trump with the text: « We need a law called the "Donald J. Trump Act" that makes it clear that a sitting president CAN be indicted for crimes. By naming the law after Trump, it will remind people for generations to come of Trump's corruption and ensure the name Trump will forever be associated with criminality. »
May 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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And to think what we could have had…
Photo of Conor Lamb
May 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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@ PawlowskiMario Trump officially entered the psychotic emperor phase. He's not coming back. The Pope image was it. That was the line. He crossed it and kept walking. This isn't trolling anymore. This is clinical delusion. The tariffs on movies. Reopening Alcatraz. These aren't policies. This is a man deep in a psychotic loop thinking revenge is leadership and trolling is governance. He's in a feedback loop with his cult. Every time he does something more insane, MAGA cheers louder. And every cheer convinces him he's still the chosen one. So he takes it further. And further. He's not trying to win. He's trying to feel worship. He's not making decisions. He's playing dress-up in his own hallucination. And the worst part? His cult loves it. Because they're broken like him. Because in their minds, every delusion he has is another way to "own the libs." This is the loop now. The psychotic, delusional, final act. And MAGA is clapping along like it's a church revival. No one's driving the bus anymore. They're just throwing gasoline and screaming kumbaya and Hallelujah.
May 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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And as far as I can tell, he's using Dem donor databases to do it. Just got this text
Text message from David Hogg and "Leaders We Deserve" fundraising to primary democrats
April 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Photo of Correta Scott King with the quote: Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn’t work that way.
April 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I just got one too. Never heard of the org/PAC. They donated $0 to candidates in 2024. Super sus.
Picture of text from « Dems who win »
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Has everybody forgotten this?
Ivanka Trump holding a can of Goya beans
March 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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A rooster just walked up to me on my front porch.
Rooster photo
February 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Picture of Dorian Gray image of the painting by Ivan Albright.
February 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Arched bridge lit underneath with reflection in river resembling crescent moon 🌙
February 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Text reads: “Texas, which has 12.2 million head of cattle, is absent, as are Arkansas, Mississippi, and North Carolina: some of the nation’s largest poultry producers.”
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM