Marcy Toal

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If you're staying Saturday night... Hint, hint ;)

I'll be running karaoke at ICON 49.5 this Saturday in Iowa City!

Over 65 protesters this week in Burlington, Iowa with SE IA Indivisible. And I got a megaphone. His name is Pablo. ;)

Visibility brigade strikes again in Burlington Iowa!

I ASKED THESE PEOPLE WHERE I COULD GET ME SOME OF THAT IVERMECTIN AND THEY MOCKED ME

Visibility Brigade in Burlington Iowa! :)

9/8/25 "Hands off our IPERS" protest at Burlington Iowa Fareway grocery store - Zillionaire Fareway CEO Reynolds Cramer is on Iowa DOGE goon squad and recommends IPERS be cut.

See www.facebook.com/share/p/1Yuo...

I thought he already had some kind of arrangement to go to Costa Rica, and that they were sending him to Uganda just to fuck with him. It seems they're willing to send him anywhere except a place he might want to go.

Why has nobody brought up Captain Killy? Be still, my heart...

I remember when I had to do that. I'm really sorry, it was horribly demoralizing. I hope you're able to get into a situation where you don't have to worry about doing that anymore.

The one with the Gustav Klimt print is amazing...

14 Books on Authoritarian Rule - IGCC

Still rounding out your summer reading list? Check out these recommendations from IGCC Research Director Stephan Haggard. These selections explore the commons themes of how autocrats rise to power and, most importantly, how democracy might be preserved: bit.ly/42zZFKS

These dogs should have access to a Klein bottle filled with water. Just saying.

I would very much like to know when this audiobook is available!

You might consider the Quad Cities also, very affordable.

I hope an audiobook pre-order counts, because I just did that. :)

4. Judith Butler wrote about this in a new article that was recently published. It's pretty dense, but check it out, because they're a fuck of a lot smarter than I am, and they discuss the sexist, classist, and political ramifications of this kind of chicanery.

3. Now, as seen in the language of both Trump's 0-day executive order, and in the recently amended Iowa Civil Rights Act, they are trying to define it on the basis of having the presence of organs that would potentially develop large or small reproductive cells. This is just as bogus.

2. A while back it was what was in your pants, "innie" vs. "outie". But that didn't work 100% of the time, excluding and including some of the "wrong" people. Then it was XX vs XY chromosomes, but that doesn't always work reliably either.

Judith Butler · This Is Wrong We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they...

Has anyone besides me noticed that, over the years, those espousing biological determinism as the basis for their attacks on transgender people, have repeatedly shifted their yardstick of what defines or constitutes sex?

opi suomea! 🇫🇮

And that detestable woman will sign it the moment it comes off the printer.

It's not a good day to be #trans in #iowa.

US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.

This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's not looking good for us. But as you can see, I've picked the hill I'm going to die on. I refuse to hide who or what I am, which means I'll be one of the people they come for first. So get behind me, kids. I will do what I can.

SCREEN PROTECTOR INSTALLATION GUIDE IN NONSENSICAL ENGRISH

USING A CPMVERSOPM GIODE JAMDOE WILL PULL THE OLD SCREEN TILM TIFFS.

(and here i was thinking my farsightedness was the problem)

maailma ei välitä mitä trump sanoo.

Well, I'm just drunk. LOL.

Well, at least my white zinfandel is produced domestically, so I don't have to worry about the new tariffs. The facility where it is synthesized can probably double as an oil refinery too.