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AOC: It’s bone-chilling. Every day, there’s something new. And today, we saw Trump express openness to sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons without due process. It’s anti-American.

I realize there’s so much going on rn, but I was rejected from the community theatre production I was really hoping to get into. That was my entire summer plan. What’s going to keep away the void now?

5 things Trump did this week:

1. Defended leaking war plans over Signal

2. Took away Elise Stefanik’s promotion

3. Tanked the stock market again

4. Left work early on Friday

5. Protected the Epstein files for another week

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Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Do adults need a vaccine booster? With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

Lisa Sterle's incredible Ten of Swords tarot card from the Modern Witch tarot, depicting a woman with long hair lying on a jagged landscape under an ominous sky. She's stuck full of swords and looking at her phone. It's captioned EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Wrestling, Buddhism, and OnlyFans There are talks of A24 turning this into a movie starring Elle Fanning with Nick Offerman as her father, so you might as well read it now.

I’m trying to get better about sharing my work 🫰https://bookriot.com/margos-got-money-troubles-by-rufi-thorpe/

Deevers Introduces Slate of Legislation to Restore Moral Sanity in Oklahoma | Oklahoma Senate OKLAHOMA CITY — Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, announced on Tuesday a bold slate of eight legislative measures aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma.

This bill in OK is exactly what Project 2025 threatened: to make all pornography illegal, and criminalize the people who make it, using a WILDLY broad definition of pornography, which would include any book with sex in it.

We're talking jail time for romance authors.

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Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of…

The funding freeze by the White House could affect trillions of dollars and cause widespread disruption in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. Even grants that have been awarded but not spent are supposed to be halted.

It's getting increasingly difficult to wake up, see whats happening in the world, and then have to go on with the rest of my day.

It's still January.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.

“there’s no way leopards will eat my face,” says woman slathering her face with BBQ sauce in the middle of the leopard enclosure

The weirdest thing about Americans embracing Nazism or the Confederacy in the name of patriotism is that actual American patriots fought *against* both of those movements and won decisively.

You’re celebrating a loser movement.

A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate.

The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.

If target has a pride collection this year, I’m 💩 on sight.

Trans Kids, Here's What You Need to Get Through the Trump Administration From navigating anti-trans laws to protecting your joy.

Though the government can make it more difficult for trans people to navigate certain spaces, they cannot decide who you are or how you identify. Here's how trans people can protect themselves now that Trump is in office. ⤵️

“For those who didn’t grow up with authoritarian dynamics, here’s one piece of unsolicited advice from a transgender exvangelical: when communicating with authoritarians, never assume they mean the same thing you mean when they use the same words—and never take their rhetoric at face value”

Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson · Jan 22 Bishop Budde hijacked the National Prayer Service to promote her radical ideology. This was an opportunity to unify the country in prayer, but she used it to sow division. Even worse, she’s continued her political crusade in media interviews. Shamefu

Ben Garrett @tompawnbadil Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God’s enemy and yours too. She hates God and His people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity. [with picture of the Episcopal Bishop of the National Cathedral--the one who spoke to Trump and Co. about kindness, thereby upsetting Maga very much]

When they show you who they are, believe them. Christians against Christ.

As a kid, I always wondered why I was so obsessed Star Wars. I always wondered why it was so important.

As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.

Red lipstick was a symbol of womenʼs struggle for their rights, and during World War II it also became a weapon for victory over Nazism, as it was hated by Hitler — a story in archival photos We recall the symbolic history of red lipstick during World War II, as well as how lipstick helped women fight for their rights

Anyways, what shade of 💄are yall rocking these days? I’m partial to Mac Chili
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“The sin of empathy.”

Book banners want to ban “emotional learning.”

All of these ideologies are tied to authoritarianism. Resist. Resist. Resist.

We need MORE empathy, compassion, community

Right now, two states–Utah and South Carolina–have state-sanctioned ban lists. That means these titles need to be removed from every. single. public. school.

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How do I go on, knowing that there’s nothing I can do to stop the horrors 🍊 is preparing for my country? Hopelessly. I go on, hopelessly.

Remember the end of The Lion King when the hyenas realize Scar lied to them to secure power so they eat him?

Thinking about that a lot for no particular reason.

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!

I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.

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A template for what we'll see coming to other public libraries nationwide.

"It's a red state" is a comment that showcases a lack of concern for other people, btw. NO STATE has a population which deserves this kind of fascist behavior.

Children continue to be marginalized and harmed.

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