Kara Spaulding

"Women should not be allowed to be voluntarily celibate, it seems—not if it means a man might be involuntarily celibate, and not get the sex he has coming to him."

Department of Education Backs Down on Unlawful Directive Targeting Educational Equity | American Civil Liberties Union CONCORD, N.H. – In a victory for academic freedom and education equity, the U.S. Department of Education conceded the end of its February 14, 2025,...

Interesting turn of events for the comply in advance crowd www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort arrested in connection with church protest against ICE Lemon's attorney said he was taken into custody by federal officers Thursday night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.

Is this what you voted for, MAGA?

Absolute Immunity Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.

“If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.”

The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.

“…you need to understand the positive space to understand the negative space, and you have to understand the negative space to understand where the positive space ought to be. You have to it all to see the picture.” www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

Ghazala Hashmi makes history as Virginia's next lieutenant governor Hashmi is the first Muslim American woman in the U.S. to be voted into statewide office.

👏🎉🥳

Democrat Abigail Spanberger elected governor of Virginia Former congresswoman beats Republican Winsome Earle-Sears to become Virginia’s first female governor

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What comes next? “…[I]t’s up to me and you.”

Young Republican Kids Say the Darndest Things “Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bi...

“…antisemitic Leftists are violently holding signs. Every day, you have cruel eighteen-year-old Democrats…shoving their cruel views down the throats of eighteen-year-old conservatives—defenseless little toddlers, green shoots fresh out of the Garden of Eden.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

The Crime of Human Virtue Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

“To be a Republican in 2025 is to be in favor of this. You can stop anytime, and yet you don't. It is what it is. You are what you are. We can all see it.” www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

“This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because ‘we are going to have to live here with each other’ is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about…”

On Being Wrong You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies...

“…even if I cannot cite every relevant date or confrontation throughout history, we are witnessing a live-streamed genocide.”

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Russian airstrikes hit a U.S. factory in western Ukraine Two Russian cruise missiles hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The strike was part of an overnight barrage of more than 600 drones and missiles.

“Russia did not say why the plant was targeted.”

Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with Trump-backed congressional map Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn U.S. House...

“‘Texans don’t run from a fight,’ [Gov. Greg Abbott] said.”

First of all, fuck you. Secondly, the orders you and all your nazi buddies are following from leiber anführer doesn’t amount to a fight. You’d know that if you weren’t a sociopath.

“I believe we have been captured by a human spirit that has convinced us of terrible foundational lies. Our society believes that profit is the highest moral value. It believes that people must earn life. It believes we don't belong to each other.”

Impeachment is a Duty The importance of telling a consistent and accurate story on matters of fire.

“Members of Congress who believe Trump is a danger to democracy should impeach him every day of his natural life.”

My niece Shay at Shay scribbles published her first coloring book! If you’re into that kinda thing, give it a look. 😊🖍️🎨

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Exclusive: TikTok prepares US app with its own algorithm and user data TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the groundwork for a potential sale orchestrated by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

No. Bad. Isolation. Insularity. Do not like.

For those of you who support Trump and also believe in that old building block of Christian eschatology “the mark of the beast,” isn’t it crazy how ya boy is bringing this all about? Curiouser and curiouser…

“It almost seems as if they'd rather have white supremacy than life.”

“We humans are the universe observing itself.”

“It's time to un-kidnap our minds. It's time to become something other than efficient, which is a wonderful thing for a machine or a system to be, and can be a wonderful tool for a human to harness, but is a terrible and enslaving purpose for a life.”

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Don't—don't—don't—don't—
look at what's in front of you

I’m the Imaginary Migrant Who Crossed the Darién Gap to Vote in the United States “The Darién Gap, a stretch of nearly impenetrable rainforest along the border with Colombia, was transformed into a migratory highway in recent yea...

The heart wants what it wants.

Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to Get Too Much Funding “Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed elimin...

“Similes are like ideological gateway drugs—soft at first, then suddenly your kid’s in a black box theater whispering monologues about late-stage capitalism instead of doing something important, like fracking.”

“ . . . we have to understand that we are dealing with the worst people in the world and their cultish followers, who are not the worst people in the world because they are inhuman, but because they are humans who have rejected humanity in favor of inhuman lies.”

Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, judge rules President Donald Trump's administration exceeded the scope of an 18th-century wartime law in using it to deport some Venezuelan migrants, a federal judge in Texas said on Thursday in barring the administration from using it to speed up deportations.

A Trump-appointed judge, no less.

Ukraine poised to sign much anticipated mineral resources deal with the US on Wednesday Ukraine is prepared to sign a landmark mineral resources agreement with the United States in Washington.

This is disgusting. Holding them hostage by denying assistance in the war with Russia until the Ukraine capitulates is anti-American.

Oklahoma family ‘traumatized for life’ after being mistakenly targeted in ICE raid The state agreed earlier this year to increased cooperation with federal immigration agents

We are seeing the actions resulting from his rhetoric being carried out to their logical conclusion. None of this is a surprise. His supporters voted for it, are rabid for it.

We are all in line. No one is coming to save us.