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american & religious studies. UVA. local history, local politics. teaching high school history. Michigander living in VA. elected official πŸ‘‹πŸ». personal account, personal opinions. rtβ‰ agreement

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Gray longboi cargo shorts with a built-in belt on the rack at Kohl’s

Gray longboi cargo shorts with a built-in belt on the rack at Kohl’s

We’re at war in the Middle East and there’s cargo shorts with a 12” inseam and a built in belt on the shelf at Kohl’s, 2007 is so fucking back.

01.03.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 30
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Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

02.03.2026 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2218    πŸ” 445    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 60

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

01.03.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3790    πŸ” 1042    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 22
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

02.03.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 17114    πŸ” 4379    πŸ’¬ 381    πŸ“Œ 254

β€œTo labor unions, everywhere.” - Noah Wylie, accepting his Actor award

02.03.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 881    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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G. G. Santiago Obituary February 21, 2026 - Billing Funeral Home View G. G. Santiago's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

The artist behind Rainbow Brite, G. G. Santiago, recently died. Her life story is incredible. She survived the dark horrors of WWII at a very young age.

Thank you, G.G. You added such joy to my life!

www.billingsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/g...

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Leave your comment here:

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01.03.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1176    πŸ” 1408    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 94
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The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people β€œrecover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

23.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1782    πŸ” 1161    πŸ’¬ 150    πŸ“Œ 739

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

01.03.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1162    πŸ” 453    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 10
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ICE surge in western Wisconsin echoes trauma, intimidation of Twin Cities Volunteers have raised money to pay rent, coordinated rides to school for children and donated groceries and household supplies.

Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities.

We're standing up anyway.

So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting:
Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI

FUCK ICE.

28.02.2026 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 614    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all

01.03.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2624    πŸ” 423    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 24
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So cool to see Swiftie Dads in the Sunday New York Times! I would have tucked in my shirt if I knew I was going to be in the Gray Lady

01.03.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this

Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

01.03.2026 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 867    πŸ” 397    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

Ahh, look who didn’t get invited to the Secret Curtains in Florida war room.

01.03.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 369    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

01.03.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4473    πŸ” 1116    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 71

"It's our goal, but we don't have to have a plan to achieve it," said Senator Graham with a straight face. And the fact that he didn't immediately get struck by lightning proves there's no God.

01.03.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump getting U.S. service members killed in a war the vast majority of Americans oppose is frankly all we should be talking about right now.

At a minimum, it should be treated with the same level of shock, outrage and discourse that the right fomented after Benghazi and the Afghanistan withdrawal.

01.03.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 317    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

Oh come on.

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One reason they’re ordering release of detainees β€” rather than bond hearings: Berger and Johnston say the hearings are increasingly a pre-cooked sham, resulting in detention without a genuine chance for bond. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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We've received many questions about when precisely the Minneapolis vehicles will arrive in Williamsport. We don't have that info. What the comms we reviewed said: vehicles are en route from MN to MD, and ~90 Baltimore-staged vehicles are moving to a separate in-state location.

01.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here We Are LET'S GET THE FEMINIST PARTY STARTED! Have you ever wanted to be a superheroine? Join a fandom? Create the perfect empowering playlist? Understand exactly wh...

It's March, so it feels appropriate to promote my anthology HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. This young adult collection of 37 essays, lists, comics, and art explores the angles and nuances of feminism.

Grab a copy from your favorite retailer: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kelly...

01.03.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia β€” and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

01.03.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8585    πŸ” 2531    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 119

Shrinking didn’t drop all at once?! What the heck. 😭 (I love that shows do that now, but also, rude!)

01.03.2026 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Just had a story from my son’s college friends who had a medical emergency and they ChatGPT’d it (not my son πŸ€—) and it gave them a long list of things to do first, before calling 911. When 911 was definitely the first response. πŸ’€πŸ« 

01.03.2026 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
What the Donald Trump of 2016 would think of the Donald Trump of 2026 will never be known. But they are starkly different figures when it comes to overseas intervention. A

What the Donald Trump of 2016 would think of the Donald Trump of 2026 will never be known. But they are starkly different figures when it comes to overseas intervention. A

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

01.03.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3636    πŸ” 414    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 45

holy shit they really killed him?

01.03.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œIt’s part of this larger landscape of how the Trump administration is manipulating history to advance their own particular ideology,” said Adam Rothman, director of Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies. β€œIt’s a whitewashed patriotic history.”

β€œIt’s part of this larger landscape of how the Trump administration is manipulating history to advance their own particular ideology,” said Adam Rothman, director of Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies. β€œIt’s a whitewashed patriotic history.”

Anyway, I'm fine with the quotation they went with.

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From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for β€œIAEA” wrong.
They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel
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They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary.
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Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood
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Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for β€œIAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

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