Jessica

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"The country we knew isn’t here anymore except to the extent that we knew it, and if anyone is going to remember what it meant or what it could have been, it will only be because people like you and me find a way to tell them." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

The Supreme Court is a disaster, but we knew that. That slippery slope sure is slimy.

Have I been laughing at everyone? Yes. Are my sounds on, just in case they’re right? OBVIOUSLY.

Same-Sex Marriage Is Absolutely On the Chopping Block—Opinion Marriage equality isn’t safe. Don’t believe people who tell you it is.

🧵 We've had a decade of marriage equality—and that may be all we get. Just like I warned about Roe for years, I'm warning you now: Obergefell is absolutely on the chopping block. The same "history and tradition" test that killed abortion rights? That's their blueprint for same-sex marriage.

He’s so hard to listen to. I never know whether to laugh or be horrified. Doing both is such a mindfuck. Walking and chewing gum, INDEED.

My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.

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@marlasrose.bsky.social I can’t believe your account is still gone in the bad place.

Look, KIRSTEN, I know you don’t know me. You can’t be number one though. Back off.

It really is not normal to live through all the shit we've lived through.

The only way to watch.

Too much to say todaaaaaay… 🇺🇸

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?

To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.

Yes, along with getting to know your community, connecting with your local library and food pantries, not giving money to assholes, and starting your garden, I’m fucking asking for you to invest some time in local politics.

Ruuude.

I love you, but stop it with the whole, “There will be no more elections!”

Obeying in advance, rolling over and playing into that narrative makes it so much easier for them to flatten us.

I am operating as if these midterms are going to MATTER.

We have 486 days. Who needs your help locally?

On days like this, running into good people is everything. They’re not giving up. We’re not giving up. 🔥

Becoming ungovernable, but with cotton candy.

Good afternoooooon. ☕️

The Supreme Court is trash, and people who were born in America, educated in America, raised in America are Americans. You know what? Fuck it, so are their parents. They pay taxes, and they get next to nothing back from a community that relies on them. What criminal??

My algorithm is amazing though. You all pop up right on time. You are so sweet and fierce and glittery and scary. I love your cats and dogs and birds and fish and kids. I live for your art, and your humor, and your bravery.

If we all go poof, thank you. ✨

Did I forget to say that war is stupid, and that this administration is the worst kind of parody. Nightmare president, surrounded by actual circus clowns. Clowns with tanks and bombs, but still clowns.

*laughs, cries, laughs*

Another hot morning in Cleveland. Baking early to avoid the kitchen after it gets unbearable. Cheers to fruit and pasta salad and all things cold. 🥂

Picture it. June 2025. You will laugh and cry before noon, more than once. You will do something, anything, to dismantle the systems that will one day burn, because of all of us doing our part.

Drip, drip, drip.

There are three different drinks in front of me, and they are all very necessary in their own way.

Sleep tonight. Drink water. Dream about a new world. Tomorrow is going to be big.

Watching, with the world.

Whenever I try and raise awareness of the risk disabled people face when detained by ICE, I’m met with a chorus of voices asking “were they illegal?”

Here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter if they’re here legally or not

No human being should be made to suffer this way 🧵

Stay strong, stay united, Democratic governors!

ICE is already the agency for fuck-ups who couldn’t survive the police academy, iirc? Their agents do not have the discipline to face this much resistance