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Seattle WA | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 | 18+ | local harlot No one is free until Palestine is free
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This is quite literally risking a nuclear war. The US has to exert leverage to keep our allies in check, and every member of Congress should be appalled. I will always be an outspoken opponent of unjust war and in Congress would consistently vote against arming madmen like Netanyahu.

I like living in a big country,but I hate living in a "country so big us and our pet Israel can do whatever it wants with no international push back"

I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

Hamilton Nolan is always on point, but today he is especially on point. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

it's wednesday

UNGGH 💦

The mainstream/centrist punditocracy seems to exist in an alternate universe around discussing protests where 1) BLM happened while Joe Biden was President and 2) it resulted in an electoral wipeout for Dems

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

all this app does is make me care about dense urban housing and sniffing pits

seeing tired gay people on the train to the airport

What does it take, man. They’ve arrested mayors, broken into Congressman’s offices. Does anyone doubt they would arrest governors or Senators? What line needs to be crossed before we all recognize this as lawless authoritarianism?

like fuck these people. my politics are the shooting and everyone in their chain of command should be in prison.

the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Baseball butts drive me nuts

exhausted but I decided I have to go out and be hot again today 🫡