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I've never been called a slur for being straight. No one told me I'm going to burn in hell for being straight. There aren't any programs where I could be tortured into no longer being straight. There aren't any countries where I can be put to death simply for being straight. Happy Pride

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If you kill people with the stroke of a pen are you more or less of a monster than someone who does it with a weapon or a special camp?

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Don't downplay real suffering or assume that growth is automatic. What makes people stronger are strong systems that help when help is needed.

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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My song Tiger Child features a lead sound made from the voice of my oldest daughter when she was 3. Tiger Child is a reminder that sometimes breaking from the expected is what brings us beauty and innovation. (It's available on all streaming services.) open.spotify.com/track/3xYiWf...

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So, Hegseth is War, RFK Jr. is Plague, Vance is Death, and Trump is Famine.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

The Devil Wears Makeup... Evil or negative intentions tend to hide behind an attractive or appealing exterior.

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It's odd that we can't all agree that a world where everyone has their basic needs met, without discussing how that would happen, would be a better world than the one we currently have.

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ICE is becoming the MAGA Gestapo The Gestapo could arrest individuals without judicial review or formal charges. Their actions were considered administrative, not criminal, thereby bypassing legal protections.

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You are not imagining the high cost of housing.   While the ratio of median home to median income has risen since 1960, there was a significant jump post COVID.  1930: 2.8 x median income  1960: 2.1 x median income 2019: 3.2 x median income  2023: 5.4 x median income

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Dear white people in the US: You can't say systemic racism doesn't exist, while also being worried about becoming a minority. A truly just society would treat everyone the same making being a minority irrelevant.

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“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” (Trump - 8/9/24)

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The fight for trans rights intersects with workers’ rights, racial justice, reproductive freedom, and anti-fascism. This kind of solidarity is exactly what the far right fears. transarmy.org/articles/why...

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My song 'Be" was born from the raw emotion following my transgender daughter's rejection by her grandmother, it speaks to the universal longing for authentic self-expression. It's a quiet anthem for those who simply wish to be, without pretense or concealment. open.spotify.com/track/6YUtj1...

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here's today's post: "SignalGate is bad. StupidFuckingIdiotGate is worse." — Donny doesn’t know, and Donny doesn’t care. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 84 days ago • 128 comments

The silence from MAGA voters makes me think they didn't actually care about the price of eggs.

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if you know a trans person, please contact them today and wait for an answer... the US is a bleak place for them right now. Thanks, and REPOST if you agree.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

As a kid in 1970's West Germany, this was the (Russian backed) terror group people talked about. I saw some of their aftermath firsthand.

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Did you know that many liberals are also gun owners? This is my take in a The Columbus Dispatch article back in 2020. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

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Friends, I’ve been working on an analysis showing how MAGA is like 1934 Nazi Grrmany… but these daily points that make it self evident keep stopping me. This is not a fucking drill.

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They demand respect for disrespect, kindness for cruelty, and tolerance for intolerance.

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As Trump set out to eliminate the Department of Education... "...states that decided to change [the standards] in most cases made things worse rather than better..." www.the74million.org/new-study-sh...

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Dick Tater says that immigrants reduce opportunities for Americans and cause an increase in crime. In reality the opposite is true. "Immigration is enabling economic growth despite the sharp deceleration in the growth of the U.S.-born workforce." www.epi.org/publication/...

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Opinions are easy… especially emotional ones. Solutions on the other hand are hard.

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It’s hard not to equate MAGA with the early NAZI party. NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g...

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The only country to EVER invoke NATO Article 5 was the United States of America (September 2001)... dozens of countries joined the US and lost hundreds of soldiers in the process. So much for the rest of NATO not "pulling their weight".

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

Now more than ever.

submitted 132 days ago • 439 comments

Interesting fact: the US does not manufacture antibiotics.

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$1 Billion dollars... it means you would have: $45,000+ per day or $1,300,000+ per month for your entire life. That assumes it never grows. At just 5% annual growth you would have $4,000,000+ per month FOREVER. TAX THE RICH

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