Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Yep, in order to test the validity of an imperative. By kidnapping a 5 year old you are saying it's good/OK to kidnap 5 year olds.

Another Super Bowl not watched Sunday for me.

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Why not every night?

If we were closer I hope we'd be friends in RL.

Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.
 
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:

“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”

All the shrill raging from the Right against white “race traitors” can’t change the fact that the type of solidarity that has been on display in Minneapolis is not at all confined to Minnesota.

In Surprise, Arizona, for instance, people are protesting DHS plans to build a detention center.

For MAGA, this form of cross-racial solidarity and anti-authoritarian “neighborism” is acutely dangerous. Trumpism as a political project stipulates that whiteness would override other forms of solidarity. If not, then what do they have to offer with their vastly destructive policies?

Even if millions of white Americans understood the authoritarian nature of the threat, there is a visceral quality to the realization forced by the images of the public executions in the streets of Minneapolis that is different: We are all at risk. And if we don’t act, we are all implicated.

In Minnesota, the MAGA regime must now reckon with the fact that a lot of white “heartlanders,” who Trumpist intellectuals love to idealize as “authentic Americans,” are not willing to let race and religion define the boundaries of their solidarity.

Secondly, ideological hardliners like Stephen Miller simply don’t believe there is such a thing as an authentic, organic protest. If MAGA is the embodiment of “real America,” then by definition those who object are not actually “American.” They can be identified and purged from the “Volk.”

The Trumpists have bought into their own propaganda: When they took power, they really believed they represented the “will of the people.” And they exist in a rightwing information bubble that constantly affirms such nonsense.

These are not “protests,” but what Adam Serwer has so aptly called “neighborism”: Acts of democratic solidarity that directly confront the political project that is fueling the violent occupation and defy the MAGA vision of terrorizing those who don’t “belong” into isolation.

And “protest,” in a narrow sense, isn’t even the right term for what we are seeing now. Crucially, in reaction to the regime sending an occupation force of masked goons, a new form of resistance emerged: Communities responded with collective action through locally coordinated networks.

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Thinking about tomorrow's gospel reading - "You are the light of the world."

When day comes, we step out of the shade
aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it.

For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.

— Amanda Gorman

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You can't trim away your hotness

The United States of imprisoning children in measles-ridden concentration camps while allowing wealthy monsters to walk freely among us and run everything.

Guys over 40 offer advice to men in their 20s in the most wholesome viral thread - buff.ly/tF5LZtq

I couldn’t love this beautiful couple any more than I already do. I miss their class, intelligence, eloquence and love in the White House now more than ever. 💙

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Javier, our CEO, wanted to check in with everybody. He hopes you're doing alright. If not, you're welcome to take a few deep breaths with him and think of something you're looking forward to. Javi is looking forward to the Bad Bunny halftime show ❤️

Grindr's new Ai driven Edge means wealthy gays bots will be talking to other wealthy gays bots, have bot hookups, ghost each other, and charge upgrades on the users credit cards. All for $350/month

This is Milo. He has the reflexes of a sloth and the composure of a statue. Learning catch is going to take a minute. 12/10 (TT: milocrazy8)

She has excellent taste

Men of a Certain Age thread.

40+ besties drop a (non nude) selfie.

States would be justified to use the national guard and police to guard voters.

Just wait, it gets worse

Haircut, then text

Gosh, Facebook suggests the same for me. I just don't understand why.

I remember Orlando cold as colder than here in Canada