Chris I
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Chris I
@tobyvp69.bsky.social
1969. Proud U alum. Go Utes! 🇺🇸 #BLM. Ally 🌈 support science and support mental health. politics and Utes. Fundamentalism is distortion of God. Wu Tang is for the children
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Oh, snap!
January 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Conservatives - "Merry Christmas"

Liberals - "Happy holidays"

Nationalists - "Wishing you a white Christmas"

Leftists - "It's time for a gender-neutral Santa"

Libertarians: "SCROOGE DID NOTHING WRONG! HE WAS JUST A SENSIBLE BUSINESSMAN! WHY ISN'T ANYONE LISTENING TO ME?!!"
December 24, 2023 at 7:05 PM
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“Just hours after Watts, 33, was admitted to a hospital for a life-threatening hemorrhage after she miscarried in her bathroom Sep. 22, police removed her toilet from her home and searched it for fetal remains, according to a GoFundMe set up to fund her legal expenses and home repairs.”
A Black woman in Ohio was charged after miscarrying in her bathroom. Experts warn of the dangerous p...
Brittany Watts, 33, was charged after police searched her toilet following her miscarriage in September.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2023 at 5:38 PM
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I don’t want to alarm anyone but, there’s an ill omen on the wind
December 23, 2023 at 5:39 PM
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The way they are coming after Claudine Gay. The way they are taking the unabashed plan of a white supremacist to undermine her seriously. The way the media has not named it for the misogynoir that it is. Is why your Black women colleagues never feel safe and have to work harder than anyone else.
December 21, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint

The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book
The police officer who searched for a book in a Great Barrington classroom also used a body camera. ...
The ACLU is looking further into why and how police thought it was their place to go looking for a book in a classroom.
www.berkshireeagle.com
December 21, 2023 at 12:59 AM
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A 2 year old in the car with the fentanyl wasn’t affected but 5 officers outside the car went to the hospital for their “exposure.”

The police rep said “it’s protocol” bc they know if “a person has used fentanyl, it could be in their hair & that can get transferred to our officers through the air”
Oklahoma's Own In Focus: Muskogee Police Protocol For Fentanyl Exposure
Muskogee Police says it's protocol to get checked out by doctors if one of their officers was exposed to fentanyl because it's better to be safe than sorry.
www.newson6.com
December 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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In the wise words of Aamer Rahman:

“I would like to defeat Nazis on planet earth first, and then after we eradicate them here, you can fight them in the marketplace of ideas, fucking Narnia, Mordor, whatever imaginary realm you think Nazis can be constructively debated in”
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.

Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
December 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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Tesla refused to negotiate with 130 workers in Sweden now a bunch of Scandinavian unions are like fuck Tesla. Postal union isn't delivering license plates. Trash union isn't picking up Tesla's garbage

abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Tesla's Swedish labor dispute pits anti-union Musk against Scandinavian worker ideals
Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring countries
abcnews.go.com
December 21, 2023 at 1:24 PM
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Speaker Mike Johnson and his 13-year-old daughter were profiled in a German TV news segment attending a “purity ball.”

abcnews.go.com/US/speaker-m...
Speaker Mike Johnson and daughter were profiled attending 'purity ball' in 2015 German TV news segme...
Years before becoming speaker, Mike Johnson and his family were profiled attending a "purity ball" in a German TV news segment, underscoring his deep conservative views.
abcnews.go.com
December 21, 2023 at 4:01 AM
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when we say the fascism is already here...
A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint

The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book
The police officer who searched for a book in a Great Barrington classroom also used a body camera. ...
The ACLU is looking further into why and how police thought it was their place to go looking for a book in a classroom.
www.berkshireeagle.com
December 21, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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TX Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding Seattle Children's Hospital turn over medical records of any transgender Texas resident under 18 who has accessed gender-affirming care at the WA-based clinic. SCH has sued Paxton who has no authority to prosecute care accessed outside of Texas.
Seattle Hospital sues after Texas Attorney General asks for handover of patient records
The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related…
www.kxan.com
December 21, 2023 at 12:15 PM
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It is in fact amazing to me how many things I've lived through are now "old people" things. TV static. Rotary phones. 8-track tapes. The universal agreement that being a Nazi was a bad thing. New Coke!
December 21, 2023 at 1:20 PM
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Mike Godwin, author of Godwin's law: Go ahead and compare Trump to Hitler.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.
My very minor status as an authority on Hitler comparisons stems from having coined “Godwin’s Law” more than three decades ago.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2023 at 10:38 PM
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Breaking News: Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled, disqualifying him from the state’s primary ballot.
Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules
It’s the first court to find that the disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment applies to Mr. Trump, in addition to affirming that he engaged in insurrection.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2023 at 11:20 PM
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We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...
Internet Archive Defends Digital Rights for Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
December 16, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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Man, I hope the pundits crack the code on anecdotal episodes of reverse racism in the Ivy League so they can turn their attention to relatively smaller problems, like the impending threat of dictatorship and a planet on fire.
December 16, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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The framework for weaponized unreality is built around thisconcept and the use of language and institutions to destroy themselves and the democratic principles of knowledge, common understanding and shared truth that they support and rely on. The rights inversion of Woke is an example of this tactic
December 15, 2023 at 11:21 PM
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"Everything led by Trump is a disaster for Republicans. And the impeachment move against Joe Biden is yet another."

www.signorile.com/p/why-impeac...
Why impeachment will backfire spectacularly on the GOP
Everything led by Trump is a disaster for Republicans. And the impeachment move against Joe Biden is yet another.
www.signorile.com
December 16, 2023 at 2:12 AM
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just a periodic reminder that sex worker rights, trans rights, and abortion rights are all the same issue.

you’re either for bodily autonomy, or you’re against it.
December 16, 2023 at 12:37 AM
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Fucking people for money and attention filmed in location reserved for fucking people for money and attention

www.mediaite.com/politics/con...
Congressional Staffer Filmed Porn in Senate Hearing Room: ‘Appears to be Unprotected Sex’
A congressional staffer reportedly filmed a gay porn video in a Senate hearing room, according to footage leaked to the Daily Caller on Friday.
www.mediaite.com
December 16, 2023 at 3:38 AM
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found a guy who absolutely LOVES the cybertruck
December 14, 2023 at 11:17 PM