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Your first clue.

Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party.

This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

I stg, the people who engage in right wing political violence, with only a few exceptions, fall into only one of two categories.

1) Teenage boy/young man whomst you feel like you can smell through the phone

2) The most divorced looking dude you have ever seen

Photo from Carlin Stiehl from the LA Times. Dozens of people holding American flags on the streets of LA are in frame, with a massive cloud of tear gas billowing in front of them. One protester holds a sign that reads Immigrants Make Us Great.

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

Yesterday, millions of us reasserted the “We” in "We the people."

We gained strength from our solidarity. We celebrated our numbers and our power.

We will be steadfast. We will not cower to a dictator.

We will win.

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Alright everyone, one last push.

If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

trvr.org/survey2025

This is your periodic reminder to moisturize, hydrate, medicate and eat something. Take care of you first

Six portraits of Stormlight Archive characters. Top left to bottom right: Evi, Taravangian, Lift, Nale, Rua, Maya.

#sixfanarts, #stormlightarchive edition!
My Patrons (plus my daughter) supplied me with six Stormlight Archive characters to draw. All watercolour/gouache in my sketchbook.
#traditionalart #watercolor #gouache

There’s an author currently calling Black people “KKK leftists” to sell books.

Im sick of this. Let’s flip the script. Instead of racists getting rich, help my Black publishing imprint thrive to spite them. Go subscribe. We’re out pandering racists today.

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I saw this post while in the ER.

Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk

Punk as in rejecting capitalist definitions of "freedom" and believing in community as the thing that will get us free.

Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report.

Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today.

opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

A drawing of a crow hiding a knife with a wood handle over a pink background. Black text reads this is a doomscrolling checkpoint post a cat & go drink some water

Zooey is doing WORK in Montana and teaching everyone several lessons:

1) You can stand on your values as a Democrat and not harm trans people.

2) Doing so can actually move hearts and minds in a traditionally conservative state.

3) There is value in having representation in our halls of power.

90?! Omg wow. We had a high of 49 today in Northern Nevada

The Unite Against Book Bans logo above the text: Raise your voice. Join the movement. UniteAgainstBookBans.org.

If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.

Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

Kelsier would be 'Too Fast Too Furious' ing the whole place lmao!

Ooo color!

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

If you are reading this, I have been killed, wrote @HossamShabat | I risked everything to report the truth & now I am finally at rest — this land is ours

Judge Blocks Texas A&M Drag Ban: Trump Executive Orders "Cannot Override" First Amendment The Texas A&M Board banned an LGBTQ+ group from holding a drag event on campus. A federal judge has ruled they must be allowed to proceed with the event.

1. Huge! Texas A&M's drag ban is blocked. A&M argued that Trump's recent EO on trans people mandated a drag ban, and also argued that drag is obscene.

A Bush-appointed judge replied that Trump's EOs "cannot override the first amendment," and that drag is art.

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Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

“Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision”

Just when you thought there wasn’t any boot left to lick, Columbia finds even more ways to comply.

my NIH grant was terminated today - the grant that pays my rent and my bills and my loans and my health insurance - because I study how to improve the lives and wellbeing of queer people #episky #medsky

"Have You No Decency?": Republican Calls Sarah McBride "Mister," Dems Erupt And End Hearing During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the "gentleman from Delaware." Dems pushed back.

1. Finally some fight.

"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.

McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."

Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.

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Remember kids,

If they have no problem being cruel to the homeless, they will have no trouble being cruel to you if you inconvenience them.

That Jack Daniels parent company has pulled out of @hrc.org's annual Corporate Equality Index is a reason every #LGBTQ Bar, Pride, festival, event should boycott Jack Daniels/Brown Forman Corp products