Jennifer

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

Beautiful. 🙏🏼

Because we are ruled by ignorant, hateful Islamophobes and racists, here's a scenario they probably didn't plan...

The Ayatollah is also a religious leader for many Shias around the world, including Bahrai, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Yemen.

If this is framed as a religous war...then?

Stumbled (inadvertently) on things I didn’t know, nor did I want to know, about the central VA area. While logically I know things, encountering the things is jarring.

“Oh I should get gas, even though I have time to get it later”
“Why?”
“War”
He mocked me “war?”
15yo doesn’t know how quickly gas prices may be affected by war in the Middle East.

Elderly neighbor walking in complex: “what do you think about the bombing of Iran?”
“Good morning, I hate it.”
He agreed but worries those who don’t recall its history of endless war are doomed to repeat it

Fun fact:
These are all the same people.

A friend of mine went to a big university training yesterday where U.S. citizens were instructed to carry passports and to memorize the phone number of someone to call if they were detained.

Scene:
me writing on my laptop, child peers over "what are you doing?"
"writing my story"
"what type of story?" I explain lightly.
12yo "what is the central conflict?"
"what now?"
12yo "I think you need an outline"

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

fantastic!

it's weird how the typo in this post is I forgot the word *see in the last sentence.
I have to battle to see trump voters as human, but I actually try knowing that dehumanizing opposition leads to fascism, concentration camps, and genocide.

I see a way to attract more women fans to the game

Saw West Side Story put on by the CHS theater department. As I get older, watching kids excel in their passions is one of my favorite things. The Jet ensemble was particularly delightful.

I will NEVER forgive the “pro-life” movement for being the ones who wrought the most deaths of live humans with zero fucking remorse

Fuck you Trump voters

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The relative autonomy of tech workers, and the need for the bosses to obtains some degree of active consent from them, seems to me a central axis of the politics of big tech. There aren't many industries where you can imagine seeing something like this.

Fuck you Trump voters for failing to see the horrors he would create for generations of Americans after a century of attempting to foster good will. At least I still you as human, unlike how he views those who disagree with him.

When will it be enough?
This isn't hyperbolic.
We are losing our freedom of privacy. We are losing our freedom of speech. We might as well be North Korea or China.
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT AMERICA???
WE MUST DO SOMETHING!

Decades ago I ordered liver at a restaurant in Florence (on rec of the server). Because I grew up poor, poor, I had liver as a child. I recall hating it but the server insisted it was delicious. So I tried it. He kindly let me switch my dish after one bite. My recollection was correct. It’s awful

Scouts on the wrong side of toxic masculinity history - the same side that bankrupted them this century. Devastated for the kids who are being betrayed by bootlickers

National Sing-Out Friday, February 27, 5 pm at the Free Speech Wall Downtown Charlottesville Raising voices in solidarity with singers across the nation against authoritarianism. All are welcome; we'll learn songs together!

For those in Charlottesville, Virginia today, I want to mention this:

🎯🎯

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A useful list given the growing right-wing ownership of mainstream media. go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Death Zone but Afton mountain on a foggy morning.

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This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible

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Look. Things no one tells you (I mean unless you’re getting Mirandized) but I’m going to give you some free legal advice: shhhhhh. Seriously, don’t dig the hole deeper just be quiet. Especially in court. Less is always more. And more is always too much.