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Breefolk certainly thought of Aragorn and the rangers as "undesirables" who didn't belong in Bree: "ranger" was *not* a compliment. Seems like if you reject the stranger you might reject angels (or your future King) unawares.

this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

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You’d think he’d mix a normie in there, no? Just to deflect SOME suspicion?
“Gary Shandling came to my house. Al Roker came to my house.”

crypto bro pretending he's rich and that a woman can tolerate him for likes on the X platform formerly known as Twitter

The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.

I always wondered why France had so many heists but if you can still just put a ladder up to a window on the Louvre in the year 2025 and get away with a big bag full of priceless jewels I guess that solves the mystery

hell yeaj

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.”

<shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade>

Vance spokesperson: No comment.

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.

Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.

Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird

Media: trans activist criticizes media

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Evil, that is, has every advantage but one—it is inferior in imagination. Good can imagine the possibility of becoming evil-hence the refusal of Gandalf and Aragorn to use the Ring-but Evil, defiantly chosen, can no longer imagine anything but itself. Sauron cannot imagine any motives except lust for domination and fear so that, when he has learned that his enemies have the Ring, the thought that they might try to destroy it never enters his head, and his eye is kept toward Gondor and away from Mordor and the Mount of Doom.

Facebook served this up to me… purporting to be from WH Auden’s review of “Lord of the Rings.”

I haven't always piled on for every NYTimes bitch fest, but holy shit, that is a damning comparison.

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Cooooool. Found out the husband of a family member I already choose not to speak to for several reasons joined ICE.

I reminded my parents that they can do what they want, but I don't associate with the getstopo, especially with my greater queer/immigrant/poc chosen family.

This lovely photo has reminded me to share a great MinutePhysics video about how to spot bad moon fakery in media: youtu.be/yY7ZUIbWTyc?...

"Trans people cannot live alongside people who promise to eradicate us from society."

lmao COOL

tweet from: Simone @girlpowertbh If Trump's dead they should bury JD vance alive with him like they did with pharaohs and their cats

this is the funniest one I’ve seen

do you believe in magic? more women, more witchcraft

New!

The prohibition against WiTCHCRAFT in the Bible, what it likely meant in its original context --

& how the Rabbis understood it, in both their own relationship to magic --

& what they saw of their wives, sisters, etc.

"most women are familiar with witchcraft."
(Talmud Sanhedrin 67a)

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.

CINEMATIC

I always love reminding the anti-soy people that beer has the highest phytoestrogens of any consumable available.

This is trying to combat the narrative of "Costco is very pro-DEI and getting more traffic, Target publicly abandoned DEI and is getting less traffic"

"Go woke, go broke" ain't holding up and they're desperate as hell

perfect microcosm of this entire debate: 1) cis ppl convinced GAC is harmful, call for more research, 2) research comes back showing GAC is safe and saves lives, 3) cis ppl ban GAC anyway...

Friendly reminder that using AI damages your brand.

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it's cool how even with my legal name unchanged i can't get a place while pretending to be a dude because the tranny vibes are unconcealable. at least a few have thought I'm transmasc

Includes “only for older adults and for others over age 12 who have at least one medical condition that puts them at high risk from Covid.”

Overweight? High blood pressure? Long Covid? ADHD? Depression? Diabetes, pre-diabetes? Asthma? Sleep disturbances? These and many others are a one.

151. The Supreme Court's (Alien Enemies Act) Patience is Wearing Thin A very quick breakdown of Friday afternoon's quietly significant ruling slapping down the lower courts in the Northern District of Texas Alien Enemies Act litigation—and what it means going forward.

For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

Family, it has been a really bad few months of sales for trans authors. I know there are a lot of reasons for this (the economy is in the toilet, everything costs more, Amazon boycotts, etc), but trans stories still deserve to be read, and trans authors still deserve to be supported.

I think it's high time we start talking about the fact that white men really want to be the center of the party again, and will openly disparage marginalized people to do it.

Gamechanger for more than just obesity First developed to help lower blood sugar levels as a diabetes treatment, it was quickly apparent that Novo Nordisk’s drug semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy jabs) has a dramatic effect on weight. The drug works by mimicking a hormone, GLP-1, which is released in the gut when we eat and acts on receptors around the body, including the brain.

Guardian writers campaigned against puberty-blockers because they were prescribed "off label".

Now the Guardian is celebrating Ozempic, a drug being used off label for obesity.

The difference...?

Puberty-blockers have been used for trans kids for 30+ years, Ozempic for obesity only for 4 years.