Lindsey Phoenix

Things I'm Struggling to Believe After the Election Not only do the times change, the times change us.

Over recent weeks, I've realized how many of my once-sacred givens are now up for debate in my heart and how much grieving this reality has yielded.

Maybe you’re in the same place of uncertainty and instability.

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Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months?

Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

@piperformissouri.bsky.social I’m trying to put together a meeting for the dozens of Dem groups that I’m a part of to get us all working to organize together. Would you be willing to chat? I need help.

America Chose the Monster We all make mistakes.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.

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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere What’s more, we’re expanding.

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”

Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but President Biden is NOT in the White House any more... the three-ring shit show America is witnessing now is 100 percent the result of putting a fucking convicted felon CLOWN and his cowardly cohorts in the White House.

trumpflation is UP!

If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.

But plastic straws are back…

Leopard meet face!

WOOO HOOOOO! 🙏💪

Selective outrage of the right.

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

Democratic leaders must punch Trump in the face—every single day. This is their job!

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This is your daily reminder that both Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell can go fuck themselves forever and ever.

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Yessssss 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

So............ I have to teach about the U.S. Constitution today to an introductory level class.

How on earth am I supposed to pretend everything is just working normally?

Answer: I'm not going to pretend. I'm telling it like it is.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Grafitti

#StreetArt
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Has anyone else noticed that all the third-party “Free Palestine” voters are strangely very quiet right now??? 🤔

In the beginning, God created Man. However, contrary to the common telling, God did not say, "Man, thou must have a mate." God said, "Oh, shit, what did I just do?" So, God created a better model and said unto his initial creation, "Behold, I have created People 2.0, with fewer bugs and glitches. I give you Woman." And Man was pissed. —It's a Wonderful Wiccan Way of Life

Best intro to a book I’ve seen in awhile

I’m so glad we followed all those norms and traditions for the last four years. Maybe they will find books about them in the rubble someday.

MAGA: We want all the immigrants deported & eggs to be cheaper! America first!

Trump: Actually, we’re gonna hire immigrants for all the tech jobs & it’s too hard to make groceries cheaper, but we are gonna take over Greenland & Canada to help Putin!

MAGA: Works for me!!!

(Fucking idiots).

We will never again witness a peaceful transfer of power.

Ever again

Reminder:
If America was less gullible & tribal and more educated & informed, we would now have an intelligent, competent, honest and strong woman president incoming.

Instead we’ll have the opposite in orange. That really stinks. And believe me, it will hurt almost all of us.

This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago.

In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists.

Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.

Dear Greenland:

I invite you to look into how the United States has "cherished" and "protected" Puerto Rico, especially after Hurricane Maria.

You'll thank me.