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Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

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you know the parts of california you don't hear about because they're very red? this is one of those: low income, lots of military (29 palms is next door), not many services and out in the desert

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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when a dog leans into you with the weight of its entire body? one of the top 5 experiences, easy

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

anyway, as a writer who mostly gets paid to sell books, this is correct yes

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Assholes

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1. Through the darkness of future past 2. The magician longs to see 3. One cries out 4. Between two worlds 5. Fire walk with me

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

it's not courage, it's taking measure and sensing opportunity that there is political energy to be tapped into by being very publicly angry about what's happening

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I maintain that they are overplaying their hand because they are drunk on power, believing they have more of it than they do and the backlash will consume them all

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

“We’re going to win.” Leonard Peltier 💐

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This is my favorite iris! Nature's deepest purple...

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

I am not here for this version of nationalism and will point out the only legal path to revoking citizenship in Canada is if it was acquired due to fraud, for reasons that should be obvious

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Let me take this format for a spin

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

nah, no, charge elon with crimes as a citizen and ban his companies but we aren't stripping citizenship due to online petitions, there isn't anywhere good that leads

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

"We either need to move completely back and find a language before empire, or we need to leap forward and imagine a language beyond empire." Natalie Diaz in Brick 114

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Reading space poems in an observatory tonight!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

you don't have to be writing, you really don't, not writing is actually very helpful

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

I am very far from highly informed on any of this but when I say to me Putin is playing for breaking off pieces I mean things like this

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

whew

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I mean presumably every scammer with five seconds to spare is sending phishing links to that email just to see what happens I'd be surprised if the server doesn't just get wrecked

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I've long said that people are sentenced to judicial rape when sentenced to prison or jail. Most people are ok with this.

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

I'll repeat that what is destroyed, makes way for new and better things.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

“How does a poem begin” is a great question because beginnings seem like they’re only pin-downable when you look right at them.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

we truly need to be working on what comes next, which is always the case, but right now? whatever this madness is will crash and burn, one way or another it won't last, so what will that make possible is an urgent question

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I've never had this but I stopped at a seaside ice cream place in maine one time and when the person said hey it's only fifty cents more for a large I said yeah why not I tried, I really did, and I could not even finish half of it

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