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Be strong sweet little one. Some day they will all be dead and you will do a shit on all of their graves.
🌈She/her - Minneapolis - N95s and vaccines work - trans rights are human rights
🌈She/her - Minneapolis - N95s and vaccines work - trans rights are human rights
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They depend on places “falling apart” to stay in power. And to ensure a place is “falling apart” you must deny people basic services and dignity.
It’s amazing.
I see it in the South all the time. It’s a dump so…they vote them back in??
It’s amazing.
I see it in the South all the time. It’s a dump so…they vote them back in??
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
They depend on places “falling apart” to stay in power. And to ensure a place is “falling apart” you must deny people basic services and dignity.
It’s amazing.
I see it in the South all the time. It’s a dump so…they vote them back in??
It’s amazing.
I see it in the South all the time. It’s a dump so…they vote them back in??
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Rights are not "politics."
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Rights are not "politics."
I used these in Europe 30 years ago - I hadn't thought about it but it's wild how behind the US feels sometimes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
Sanisette - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I used these in Europe 30 years ago - I hadn't thought about it but it's wild how behind the US feels sometimes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
I think that she's a woman now, if he was convicted six years ago, but the way they are writing it is unclear
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think that she's a woman now, if he was convicted six years ago, but the way they are writing it is unclear
Is she a woman now and you're reporting on what happened to her when she was a girl? This post is confusing. 14 - 16 year old teenage girls are not women.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Is she a woman now and you're reporting on what happened to her when she was a girl? This post is confusing. 14 - 16 year old teenage girls are not women.
I know a Minnesota hemp farmer that votes for conservatives. Wonder how he's feeling today.
a close up of a leopard holding a red frisbee in its mouth
Alt: a close up of a leopard holding a red hat in its mouth
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I know a Minnesota hemp farmer that votes for conservatives. Wonder how he's feeling today.
The future is here
a painting of a circle of triangles with a black background
Alt: The Jetsons opening where the children are put into little pods and sent to school and Jane is put in a pod and sent to the mall
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The future is here
Do you just put the kids in and send them places?
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Do you just put the kids in and send them places?
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All my Christmas presents this year are food bank donations and subscriptions to indie pubs.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
All my Christmas presents this year are food bank donations and subscriptions to indie pubs.
I completely agree that it should be considered intimidating, but when they do it, we are told it's not and that it's their right to do so.
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I completely agree that it should be considered intimidating, but when they do it, we are told it's not and that it's their right to do so.
Contrast this with the response of a president who was an actual decent human being.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy.
"Liberty once lost is lost forever."
"Liberty once lost is lost forever."
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy.
"Liberty once lost is lost forever."
"Liberty once lost is lost forever."
On one of the threads there was a video of Obama facing the same kind of situation but he stopped talking and helped the woman and cracked a joke about how that happens when he talks too much. A contrast to Trump standing there staring.
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
On one of the threads there was a video of Obama facing the same kind of situation but he stopped talking and helped the woman and cracked a joke about how that happens when he talks too much. A contrast to Trump standing there staring.
A midge looks like a tiny mosquito but they don't bite.
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A midge looks like a tiny mosquito but they don't bite.
"They found that microbes thriving in the cave system were consumed by tiny midges, which in turn got trapped in the giant web to provide an abundant food source for the spiders."
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"They found that microbes thriving in the cave system were consumed by tiny midges, which in turn got trapped in the giant web to provide an abundant food source for the spiders."
"Liberals will never understand why Americans carry firearms, it is not about intimidation, it is about independence"
"Intimidation is an actual act, not some paranoia coming from the minds of gun control propaganda artists. That act of intimidation involves much more than carrying of a weapon."
"Intimidation is an actual act, not some paranoia coming from the minds of gun control propaganda artists. That act of intimidation involves much more than carrying of a weapon."
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Liberals will never understand why Americans carry firearms, it is not about intimidation, it is about independence"
"Intimidation is an actual act, not some paranoia coming from the minds of gun control propaganda artists. That act of intimidation involves much more than carrying of a weapon."
"Intimidation is an actual act, not some paranoia coming from the minds of gun control propaganda artists. That act of intimidation involves much more than carrying of a weapon."
And to be clear I'm not advocating violence because apparently neither were they, according to comments on this article.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
Perspective | Why are people bringing guns to anti-quarantine protests? To be intimidating.
The mere presence of weapons at a protest expresses a threat.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
And to be clear I'm not advocating violence because apparently neither were they, according to comments on this article.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
*gasps in French Canadian*
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
*gasps in French Canadian*