James Kennedy (he/him)

But conservatives are largely just like "Ew, naked people" [but look at porn on their own time, or visit brothels, or whatever else-- beat their spouses].

We want to assume everyone who isn't full Jeffrey Epstein outlier has the same views about kids and sexuality, but I think progressives view our job as empowering children to grow into teens and then adults who step by step develop independence, safety, and strength.

You trust a state run by Donald Trump to make valid legal decisions about this? They think the naked people are the problem. They also-- even more ominously, think fully clothed LGBT people, abortion providers, birth control, or consent trainings are the problem.

I completely agree, but the role of parents is to monitor their kids when they're prepubescent to prevent that stuff from creeping into their lives & to gradually set respectful boundaries for post-puberty kids so they develop their own internalized sense of right/wrong about consent, equality, etc.

Yeah makes sense, although doesn't explain the contrast? Philly is also a major Great Migration endpoint.

Read that a lot of "hillbilly" (self identified) white people moved to Detroit during that time. True in Chicago? Also thought maybe it was Indiana folks.

Didn't see your follow before. Are you a Chicago native? Remember you from Providence.

Seemed like PMC folks though, and yes definitely white.

And of course, unsurprisingly, Senator Brain Hemorrhage voted to keep arming Israel. @fetterman.senate.gov

Voted for you twice, but never again.

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Corey Booker, Elyssa Slotkin, and Adam Schiff belong in front of the ICC with Trump and Netanyahu.

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"No state, only socialism."

I didn't know what you meant at first but "under his Wyoming ranch" sounds entirely too dignified a burial for Dick Cheney.

"No state, only socialism."

And that's a shame because Michelle Alexander and Angela Davis have great ideas!

People who call themselves abolitionists-- not the actual thinkers and writers like Michelle Alexander or Angela Davis, but rank and file randos-- have no idea what police powers are or how a state works.

Yeah I definitely should have walked. I think we just did one block in ten minutes of crawling. Cars ruin cities!

It's really funny. I took the Red Line to Roosevelt to catch a bus to the aquarium, and I think I could walk faster than this traffic. Chicago needs congestion pricing and highway removal!

Man, just in general, fuck all these four and six lanes streets in Chicago. Chicago, you're cool, and this one aspect of your design suuuucks.

Chicago has a Roosevelt (Rd for them, not Blvd) and it's also a crime against urban planning!

Headed to an aquarium to hang out with bio kids, but I'll check it out.

They blocked me I think.

"Someone agrees with me but they didn't do it quickly enough." Classic Bluesky.

PGH kind of makes sense bc it's arguably part of Appalachia. Chicago, not sure what's going on there.

I feel like you hear way more Southern accents in both Pittsburgh and Chicago than Philly, which is interesting.

And it's also not genocide to kill political dissidents as a group! Crazy!

"We wanted to murder lots of people, but not as a group as such, so go away it's fine". And I know this author is not saying it's fine. He clarifies that a lot. But all the handwringing about official genocide really delayed action.

They're always along the lines of, "While I thought Israel wanted to murder lots of Palestinians, at first I thought they did it through indifference." Like, I dunno. Maybe the crime of genocide, which has this high bar of collective group-as-such action and intent, is harming human rights.

I do want to say yashér koach and good for him for coming around, but whenever I read these statements they feel so hair splitting, and it makes me wonder if we need to revisit the way we define genocide.

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woe grief, lament, truth-telling

Tisha B'Av-- the holiday mourning destruction, once again– the annihilation, the desecration, of lives, civilizations, holy spaces.

Another Temple is being destroyed, has been destroyed, now; we must be willing to face it, show up to our obligations to it.

Traditional texts & words from today:

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Like any normal person, and I’m sure any of the prominent experts these people supposedly read and follow, would consider this part of their movement.

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