🕊Broken Dove🕊

"Get out of the way and let the Texas Guard do it"
In OUR states?! Why the hell should we do that? Texas' guard has no legal right to decide how I am governed

am I responsible for my mother being a bigot just because I was her child? It wasn't great for me.

Not everything is about the Civil War. You might find some interesting information out if you look into things first.

God young earth creationist high school was a nightmare

It's fun to tell the nice big city liberals I meet about it though so like, really wasn't it worth it 🙃

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

A lot of people, in looking at judicial resistance, are focused on how SCOTUS will probably rein all the judges in and quash that resistance. That’s true. But how can we sustain a system where lower court judges so widely think the Supreme Court ruling over them is full of shit?

Massie has been a crank since far before Trump

MEEEEEEE

*woman holding credit card up* "When we came before-" "I'm waiting for an authorization"

*Fox Mulder protesting* "I'm a federal agent!" "Last I heard-"

"the Federal Government couldn't pay its bills"

extremely topical X-Files moment

me if i was a skunk struggling to make a latte

I'm so close to cussing the next libgen hater out. Like, have some respect for the pursuit of knowledge you asshat

Text over Homer in the bathtub (holding a sponge): "a completely unaggressive statement" Text over Bart sneaking up with a chair: "people who spend all their time in insular internet communities where 'constantly being unnecessarily hostile and combative towards strangers' is considered a personality"

Short-form social media:

Yeah Liberalism and it's discontents came out like, 3 years ago. This article is old but the book is actually really well written. Fukuyama has clearly updated his beliefs a lot since the 1990s, although he still seems stuck in the both sideism

every time ICE brutalizes an American citizen we need to shout this exact quote. SCOTUS has already undermined its own legitimacy, we just have to build the public WILL to fix it.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

You ever think about how American Protestantism has completely validated the Catholic belief that interpreting the Bible is something for the priests and monks to do and not the laypeople?

Not the most important thing, I suppose, but Hegseth's last sentence is interesting: "Their place in history is settled."

This epitomizes the yearning of all authoritarians: To control not just the present and the future, but the past. Nothing can be re-examined or re-thought. No questions allowed.

CHOTINER: So as I understand it, your argument is that you couldn't break your soldier's oath to the Fuhrer?

GERMAN GENERAL: Honor would not stand for it.

CHOTINER: What confuses me, though, is that you swore the same oath to the Weimar Republic.

Thinking of pitching a book about US military history the thesis of which is that when America has won wars in the past it has had less to do with ‘warrior ethos’ than with some grown ups in charge who knew what they were fucking doing.

Apparently this is an urgent thesis to restate.

yeah except dems in power doesn't equal universal access to HRT. When I was a broke college student living in a red state on her parents insurance, what was I supposed to do? Vote harder to fix my situation?
Until we actually make HRT free, we need stopgaps.

from 2019-2021 I went through an lengthy hyperfixation on mountain lions. Amazing little guys, super interesting and beautiful. I support reintroducing them to the east coast

No I did.

うさぎちゃん

He only remained important to them during that brief glorious period they could use him to get libs fired

Juvenile black bunny lying on carpet and looking angry af

Why is she mean mugging me

Yes this is why we need to bring the roman practice of following victorious generals and whispering "Memento mori" in their ears during their victory parades.
Death is inescapable. Stop fearing it.

She tried to prevent my transition when I was 23 years old! She's stolen clothes, books, hormones, read my mail, and more and seems confounded that when I moved out I moved hundreds of miles from her and stopped speaking to her