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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. (PfP defaced sign from Seattle in 2000s stick figure man with claw hand and caption "Stop for me it's the claw" where the original sign had no claw on figure and said law. Banner is early ARPA map.) He/him

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How will I get clout if i do the rational thing?

03.08.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re all crooks

03.08.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

High bar to clear.

03.08.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Madam,

On checking my diaries, I discover that I weighed just under ten stone in 2015, at the time the Gender Recognition Act came into law. Far from being erased, as John Boyne would have it, there appears to be considerably more of me today. 

I wholeheartedly support the rights of transgender people to live their best, authentic lives and, as a woman who has been a feminist since the 1970s, I know that this does not affect my rights in any way. The 10,000 people who marched at Trans and Intersex Pride in Dublin last month would seem to agree.

The β€œgreatest sin of our time” is not transphobia but, as so often in our past, the failure to believe women when we tell you who we are.

Bernie Linnane

Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.

Madam, On checking my diaries, I discover that I weighed just under ten stone in 2015, at the time the Gender Recognition Act came into law. Far from being erased, as John Boyne would have it, there appears to be considerably more of me today. I wholeheartedly support the rights of transgender people to live their best, authentic lives and, as a woman who has been a feminist since the 1970s, I know that this does not affect my rights in any way. The 10,000 people who marched at Trans and Intersex Pride in Dublin last month would seem to agree. The β€œgreatest sin of our time” is not transphobia but, as so often in our past, the failure to believe women when we tell you who we are. Bernie Linnane Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.

Sunday Independent...

03.08.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 229    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Good ro know bigotry is a universal value.

03.08.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's so unfortunate that he aligned with the Soviet experiment culminating such that his supporters could assign responsibility to him.

03.08.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A letter to Reagan Admin official Morton Blackwell, in which a grade schooler calls him "dumb" for closing a church.

A letter to Reagan Admin official Morton Blackwell, in which a grade schooler calls him "dumb" for closing a church.

A child asks Blackwell to do him a favor and keep the Christian schools open

A child asks Blackwell to do him a favor and keep the Christian schools open

Spending my Saturday evening in the Reagan archives, reminiscing on that whimsical time evangelicals organized a childrens letter-writing campaign to the White House in defense of a Christian Identity preacher who was arrested for operating an unlicensed school in defiance of court orders.

03.08.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Jersey rebelling against Haba.

03.08.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suspend even, stupid phone.

03.08.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we may end up in a place where we suspect current order to be allowed back into the community of nations.

03.08.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
03.08.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jolt doing numbers.

03.08.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Advertise your account with a gif.

03.08.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm old enough to remember when right-wingers considered it a HIPPO [sic] violation to ask someone how they're doing.

03.08.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They want sex to be deadly but also more babies???

03.08.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's the point of being around artists without inspiring more art?

03.08.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These defenses of Prasad never mention what he actually said.

My articles do.

03.08.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! The rampant lawlessness is why need s functional legislature. And to the contention that it willl create extremism miss that with the prospect of bills passing the out party will have incentive to be involved in process (which was true until Republicans suckered Reid for a year on ACA.)

03.08.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a good sign when they are telling each other not to write anything down...

02.08.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 178    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

Specifics did not seem to have broad backing.

03.08.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's awful touristy but the circle line on an average summer day temperature wise is a good afternoon with kids.

03.08.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a breakout Zoom.

03.08.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am not giving up but think we need a constitutional convention. The problem is who gets invited.

03.08.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes and I've read other proposals that have a second section and meant to include about meaningful representation. That's the part where they do the origknalism to.

03.08.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

24.07.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 14610    πŸ” 6970    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 60

An explicit right to vote in federal and state elections but I also know Roberts would aborgate that too.

03.08.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you going to steal my um I do not have any people...

03.08.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate what they do but feel sorry for them and sometimes am worried I could have gone that way.

03.08.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I find it so weird that there are two replies apparently from accountsthat blocked me?

03.08.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would just like to add to this that if my late grandpa-in-law, a Sephardic Jew born in 1900 in the Ottoman Empire, who fought for the Spanish Republic in the Civil War and then also for France in 1940, could avoiding being a doomer, I think a successful climate blogger probably can too

02.08.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 414    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5

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