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Writer, Raconteur, Curmudgeon. USMC, Teacher, Advocate for I/DD. Whiskey is my spirit animal. He/him #LFK #BLM #FEMINIST #LGBTQ #AMWRITING Lawrence Fucking Kansas
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Maine Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump in a room full of reporters. Officials must keep showing people Trump is a weak tyrant. We need to show defiance collectively, because like all bullies, with pushback he will snap & break. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

submitted 16 hours ago • 49 comments

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 17 hours ago • 221 comments

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1176 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 965 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 8 days ago • 137 comments

True words.

submitted 5 days ago • 554 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

it’s a lot, I know

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

This is deranged.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Good advice ⬇️

submitted 9 days ago • 506 comments

The fact that only 2% of professors identify as fascists shows just how insular and out of touch universities have become.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Same

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Connections Puzzle #612 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟦🟦The one time when watching The Simpsons would have paid off.

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"The people who persuaded me that Republicans are fascist are Republicans. What this tells me is that actions are persuasive in ways words are not. I mention this because a lot of people seem to think that what is needed in this moment is persuasion." www.the-reframe.com/youve-persua...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Library of Congress to visit four Kansas cities with history, resources on educational tour kansasreflector.com/briefs/libra...

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/hea...

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

“A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild deadly cars if ever there was one.”

submitted 14 days ago • 647 comments

They’re such small gross people.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Elon Musk was not elected to hold Office DOGE is not a Federal Task Force Trump is not a King Keep reposting this

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments