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this is bad for lots of reasons, but not least--why the fuck are the federal bureau of prisons agents doing this work?

abolitionists are once again right: what we are experiencing now is a direct result of the carceralization of the nation--the whole fucking country is a prison now

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This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

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One-day s a l e celebrating the birthday of my tireless publisher, JM Snyder! @jms-books.com
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This is an art boulder not a science boulder

Hookworm

I've seen five or six similar posts today regarding emails purporting to be from authors, agents, and publishers, along with the four I've received from nonexistent book clubs and the one from the Editorial Director of Penguin.

If you get any unsolicited book-related messaging, assume it's a scam.

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Phenomenal writer you should be reading!

Animals are way less likely to harm for no reason.

It's midnight and I'm drunk but I'll repost this and come back to it tomorrow.

I hope they weren't in crinkly wrappers.

This is probably one of the reasons you have loved ones. Because you try not to hurt them.

Too many people interpret "love means never having to say you're sorry" as "if you love someone let them abuse you."

Why are you inflicting this on others? Diffusing curse? Misery loves company?

I'm really enjoying this so far!

Somebody help so Steve doesn't cry

One month away, for those of you who are into calendaring and lesbians. @yearofqueerlit

My problem is finishing projects, not finding new ones.

Similar (minus the album because I'm tone deaf)
I should start ranking my WIPs or something, because I'm not finishing everything I want to write in this lifetime...

How totally expected

What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest, possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me. We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members…Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. — Fredrick Douglas, Lynn, Mass. April 28, 1845

This could have been written this morning. How exact and how applicable every word is. "Stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." No better description exists of the blasphemous, murderous, corrupt America of Trump and of ICE.

Go for it! I do not need more ideas, I have too many incomplete projects.

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This reminds me of the story I have in the forthcoming Love & Dragons antho, where the dragon mistakenly snatches a pregnant cow and then has to take care of her and the calf.

He resembles that gay muppet, too.

To the person that commented “turtles aren’t gay” on my Pride Turtle art:

One of the world’s oldest animals is a 193 year old gay tortoise that has been having gay sex with another gay tortoise since 1991.

Kick rocks, bitch!

Make Trabants Great Again

In fact, war is a boost for this area of manufactures.