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Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.

The Biden Placeholder Presidency was designed to exist between two terms of Trump, Mafia Grover Cleveland style. The threat of Trump returning to office to complete his autocratic agenda is severe. But that he is able to do it – that the US is the only country in history to allow a coup to go unpunished and a seditionist to run for president again – is due to Garland, the DOJ, and their accomplices in Congress.

Garland is not unique in his role as a mafia state enabler. He follows a long line of DOJ cover-up operatives marketed as saviors of American democracy: James Comey, Robert Mueller, Bill Barr, Cy Vance, and so on. Over and over, Americans are told that these prosecutors are going to “get Trump” and dismantle his criminal network. Over and over, they serve their real role, which is to run out the clock and allow criminal elites to escape accountability.

At some point I'm going to truly internalize that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been right about all of this from day one

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the Gisele Pelicot case is RIGHT THERE. jfc.

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks

Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying

We already know conclusively that abusing adult women doesn’t violate our norms. We are well on our way to demonstrating just as conclusively that sexually abusing girls doesn’t violate our norms, either.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

I saw someone say that this thread is saying there is no difference between Aziz Ansari and Trump, which is a bizarre misread. What I suspect it *is* saying, however, that if we collectively agree Ansari’s behavior was unacceptable we never have to worry about getting to Trump.

i fully agree with this theory and in my actual field, british architectural history, The Problem is that Salisbury Cathedral is built on top of a lake and no i am not exaggerating

excuse me what???

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect

Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic

Having a coherent response to a fascist onslaught is difficult, to be sure. Not being able to come up with a coherent message against it, perfectly done here, is what suggests that Dem leadership is truly clueless and rudderless.

Reposting with alt text because nobody’s done that yet. Will be doing this in multiple parts because it is MASSIVE.

I badly need to buy cat food and I am $16 overdrafted. I need to raise $40 to avoid fees and feed my boys. Sorry. Every little bit helps, shares are appreciated

If a country’s people have to turn out in record numbers and coordinate flawless grassroots effort every four (really two) years to narrowly stave off a catastrophic descent into fascism, that’s a failing state

I'm desperate for experts again. For actual journalist and critics. Simply having a phone and access to social media doesn't make you knowledgable on certain topics.

I have almost run through all of my silk filament (I do not use silk normally but it works great for these whistles!) but I'm gonna keep printing whistles.

If you want to donate filament to the cause, the stuff labeled FOR WHISTLES will, you know, become whistles.

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This coward needs to be gone and every single one who agrees with him

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

Listen in ⬇️

If you lecture disabled people about shopping at amazon, I hope mice eat your plumbing.

This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.

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your occasional reminder that if a police officer wants you to stop by the station and help them complete some paperwork, call an attorney and do. not. go.

What a queen

During the holidays, I highly recommend that when someone tells you "The party just doesn't have anyone to get behind for President," you remember that this is not a serious statement in 2025, and instead of engaging it, you eat more pie.

This is who your subscription dollars are going. For the New York Times to launder conservative talking points designed to limit where and how women work to force dependency on men. They want us back to before women could own their own bank account. But sure.

“The return to ‘Every man has a huge dick and nobody is using condoms’ is a really bad indication of our sexual politic right now. There has grown to be this common lip service in romance: ‘Oh, we've both been tested. It’s okay.’ This is not me saying [every book with condomless sex] is bad, but I read a lot of romance, and this is the mode experience. It’s a bad thing that as a whole, we’re in a politic that communicates that sex is not as good or meaningful if there is a condom being used. The fact that it's appearing in almost every book is revealing of a conservative politics soup we're in.” - Rachel Runya Katz

I never know what to expect when I offer my guests an open floor to vent. This week Rachel Runya Katz had a brilliant hot take on why we should worry about the amount of big penises and condomless sex scenes in romance right now.

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OMG OMG I was just doing dishes and it occured to me (based on @olivia.science's comment about Iceland's AI nonsense:
GEN AI IS THE THNEED FROM THE LORAX #AI #antiAI

thank you. you're one of the bravest women I've had the privilege of knowing. 💗