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Cancer survivor, peace lover, book lover. Believes in humanity (despite Nov. 5).
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If you had told me the bitchiest moment of Pride Month would be this...

To hate another human being for their gender identity or sexual orientation is the marker of someone whose humanity is fundamentally broken.

I saw this on Meta… FYI - Harvard launched a free online government course on the constitution and how to recognize a dictatorship. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but something good happened, in Ohio of all places, and I wanted to share…

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

Agreed! 100%

regular reminder that we can trace features of autism through folklore back to like, the prehistoric era. the fuck do you think ‘changelings’ were

This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...

Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣

Emergency Announcement youtu.be/U1kPW5MGxQQ

On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white 100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon... And how "The Great Gatsby" became white

Sign of the day…

OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.

#handsoff

Favorite sign I saw at San Francisco hands off protest

@maddow.msnbc.com

“The greatest asset of a nation is the health of its people.” -William Mayo Quote on Mayo Clinic’s subway wall. Passed this every time I had cancer treatment. Hands off cancer research!

thinking about the amount of context necessary to explain to someone from 2010 what people are protesting with signs reading "cheap eggs not measles" or "tax the rich, not the penguins"

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

PROVIDENCE… BOSTON… #HandsOff2025

Higher inequality is correlated with higher level of societal violence.

Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on penguins.

This is the best use of 2 minutes and 15 seconds of your time today! Please watch it yourself and then share it. 💗

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Good to see the woman who restored that Jesus painting still getting work.

Senator Murphy: 😂 "Mar-a-Lago cabal" Republicans are in the midst of a massive transfer of wealth to billionaires, while gutting Medicaid from our children and seniors. Call your Senators. 202-424-3121 Tell them to VOTE NO. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Reading about the Rupert Murdoch family trust mess. My favorite anecdote is when Rupert’s lawyer cross-examined his son James, trying to get him to admit that his plans to make Fox News more honest would hurt its value because it’s business model was to just tell viewers what they wanted to hear. 👀

Concerned Bartender Takes Away Pete Hegseth’s Security Clearance theonion.com/concern...

I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +

Someone needs to take away the Sharpie

Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂

FACT: Adolf Hitler was also a convicted felon when he took office in 1933.