Jessica Frost

Deep respect to you, I couldn’t debate my way out of a toilet paper tube with both ends open!

You are truly so random, I love it!

I am curious, as a “speech prof”, what you actually do. Are you teaching HS teenagers how to give speeches? Not being snarky, I’m genuinely curious.

One of these things is not like the others…

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2/2 🧵 Reps. don’t pay attention to emails or letters. This app will give you specific issues, phone numbers for your reps, and even a script to help you if you don’t know what to say.

Trump is affecting our country in so many ways, it feels like we have no voice. But we DO have senators and representatives in Congress, and they tabulate when people call on specific issues, for and against. There’s an app called 5calls that makes it so easy, even I could do it. 1/2 🧵

At the San Diego Protest, #protest #fiftyfiftyone #50501 #NoKingsDay

Unless, of course, you overpaid and are due a refund!

Jafar, did you lose your job?

🧵 10/10

so enormous, so world-altering, that, like the great wall of China,

it can be seen from outer space,

where the gods are shaking their heads even now,

in pity and in awe.

🧵 9/

rabid dogs, ah, bless the animals

we have always been, in our coats and shoes

and clumsy language, bless our willful ignorance,
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🧵 8/

of the hall of mirrors we find ourselves in now, and bless

our overwhelmed brains, scurrying like mice for shelter.

Bless our collective rage, and protect

the officers who stood up on January 6th and now see their attackers

roaming the streets like
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peep show on the internet.

Praise the convict fire fighters on the front lines in L.A.,

battling the insurmountable for ten dollars a day. We gambled

our future for a hot air balloon with a hole in it. Praise

our reckless hubris, and the infinite distractions

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🧵 6/

fugitives with tears tattooed on their cheeks

and fraying backpacks overspilling with contraband books.

Praise the weirdos because if anyone can save us

it will be us. And praise all the glittering illusions

we gawked at, ignoring our own neighbors

in favor of a 24-hour

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quietly

across the great plains and over rocky Sierras,

into the desert where people still leave bottles of water

and packets of food for the desperate

who have always been the lifeblood

of this nation. It will stop in obscure hamlets

to pick up

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girls

and girls who are lions, butch women wearing tool belts,

and all the music theater nerds

who are even now building new passageways

mapping the next underground railroad

and suiting up to be conductors—oh, everybody,

get on board! This train will chug 🧵

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and preach mercy;

praise whatever hidden waterways are still pristine.

Praise music that refused to play at the funeral of democracy.

and the killing cold that swept through Washington

when the fake Pope took power.

Praise drag queens and lipstick lesbians, boys who are 🧵

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automated milking barns.

Praise farmworkers rising before dawn,

their sore backs and aching knees. Praise the myths

that drew them here, stories eagerly consumed

when there is nothing to eat but faith.

Praise the courage of the reverend to look

the dragon in the eye 🧵

Rattle: Poetry … without pretension since 1995.

PRAISE THE BROKEN PROMISE OF AMERICA

Alison Luterman

Praise deep mineral veins under rich dirt,

and fossilized remains of dinosaurs turning themselves into gas

for our benefit. Praise the exhausted earth,

miles and miles of subsidized corn

and cattle lowing from their hell-holes

in 🧵

WHO DID THIS!

What does FAFO stand for? F£%# around and Find Out?

Teslas are not inherently evil. A lot of people bought EVs because they wanted something better for the environment. Implying that Tesla owners are in cahoots with Musk is like saying that Musk’s transgender daughter Vivian is responsible for her father’s bigoted idiotic Nazism. Just stop.

Dammit, a lot of people already own Teslas and don’t necessarily support Musk or Trump. Tesla is not responsible for Musk’s crazy Nazi sentiments any more than his children are responsible for his beliefs. That isn’t fair.

I don't think we can share the side-by-side of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute next to Nazis doing the Nazi salute enough.

Hey I bought my Tesla before I knew Musk was a fascist narcissistic sociopath. I do not support or condone the man, but my poor Tesla cannot help who manufactured it any more than Musk’s trans daughter can.

US to withdraw from the WHO. Here's what the Trump Administration should do instead. Leverage is a good thing. Let's use it.

The case for WHO?

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Cool guide to raising a hand