Theodore C. Whitchambres

Speech That Plays It Safe Does Not Remain Free for Long Fierce disputation and colorful variety are often a sign of a society in good health, not terminal decline.

“There is nothing about this view of free speech that suggests that a quiet and passive discussion of ideas in the safety of one’s home or on the quiet sidelines of society is the ideal mode of expression in a democratic society.”

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Kavanassault & battery

Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen
Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards
Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,

A photograph of CyberKitsune in fursuit at night

A night fox on the prowl for cuties~
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More like "bored of peace."

On paper, all puns are tearable.

Happy birthday!

Hold still, good sir. I must document your fluff.
#FurCon2026

A small, round, fluffy bird with white and gray plumage on a bare twig. The bird is looking into the camera. Likely a bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)

A California towhee (Melozone crissalis) on a railroad track surrounded by fallen leaves.

A white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) on a mossy branch

A small, scruffy, dark gray bird on a reed, maybe a young yellow-crowned sparrow

There were a lot of birds on the trail today ^v^

Whistles of Moderate Disturbance

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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

[chanting intensifies] Nur-em-berg! Nur-em-berg! Nur-em-berg!

You can't kill them back to life, either.

Happy birthday!

The New Gender Synthesis To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being.

It's like this article. There's a whole sexual identity aspect that seems to drive reactionary camp and the urge to harm other people for fun and profit.

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

To elaborate, I think certain people have an /obsession/ with power and domination. They like it when violence and humiliation and other nonconsensual things happen to others because it satisfies some primal urge within them, and their self-image issues keep them from processing that productively.

I genuinely think there's a libidinal aspect to his and his cabinet's evil.

The New Epstein Island Is Right In Your Pocket: It’s Time To Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.

“X must be held accountable. But I now have to ask, why are so many people still there? Why are MPs still posting there? Why are organs of the British government still using a site one of its own ministers just condemned in such clear moral and legal terms? Why are other governments?”

Stay aware, alert, and prepared.

Iceout.org is an informative site where you can see real time witness reports of ICE and their locations: observed, active, and critical.

It is more important than ever to share these resources. Do not ignore what is happening.

And like that, another commission completed

Character belongs to @LevyLevyTime twit

Cute!

Anything but building more housing in cities, I guess...

I hope you feel better soon!

Americans generally like wolves − except when we’re reminded of our politics New research shows how identity-driven assumptions can turn common ground into conflict.

Wolves are often framed as a polarizing issue, despite widespread support. New research shows political identity can increase division, even when people agree.

Finding common ground and recognizing shared support for wolves may be key to protecting their future.

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Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.

Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Happy birthday!

A small, round bird with a dark orange beak, a dark brown stripe down the head, and white eyebrows. The back feathers and tail are striped, and the underbelly is light grey to beige. Found in a flooded field. Maybe a marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris)?

A black phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) perched on a roof. Deep black plumage on the upper body, white on the lower. Fluffy and round with a black beak.

A red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) with the characteristic black and white pattern on the back and rusty orange-red on the head and breast. Perched on a branch looking majestic.

Seems to be another black phoebe, this time catching the golden, evening light in its down.

A few birbs in the 'burbs near Sacramento