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Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/activism/disability performance). MA Univ of Colorado-Boulder (2026). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
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The proposition that was tested yesterday was not "Will socialism sweep away all lesser ideologies on a tide of the people's will?" it was "Can anti-socialism, backed by millions of dollars, scare the public away from an appealing candidate with a modestly socialist quality-of-life platform?"

Not disproving the "Economist writers are some of the most vile, useless, unimaginative, self-serving individuals in history" charges, I see.

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

Echoing many others to encourage actual Leftists to forget about these phonies. Miserable as this thread is, it's helpful in demonstrating how utterly untrustworthy 50501 is as an "activist" entity. Big "let's put daffodils in our oppressors' gun barrels" energy, except here it's all performative.

“Then Civil War soldiers marched by, but they were in the WRONG COLOR uniform, not the one worn by the folks all our best forts are named for, but the blue one.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

NEW: Colorado has adopted legislation strengthening requirements that election offices provide people with ballots in Spanish. The reform comes at a time where the federal government has become very hostile to language accommodations, and to immigrants more broadly. boltsmag.org/colorado-lan...

If you're reprehensible enough to blame the voters because the candidate failed, especially by misrepresenting actual concerns in favor of your own shitty narrative, then you should never be listened to. And in 2028, they'll be once again begging for our votes, having learned nothing.

this is so emblematic of the differences of the centrist democrat and the leftist democrat. centrists have nothing to offer and have to rely on fear to gain power while the left actually has a vision for a better world, this is why centrists have to resort to this rhetoric

A Tale Of Two Papers