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All of these white folks and those who think they’re white, felt this system was genius and fought to the death to protect it, but as soon as people of color and the marginalized started to harness their power, it was time to tear it all down and move the goal post so they could hold on to power. 🖕🏽

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Maybe, just maybe, Americans don’t need to be paid money to hold political leaders accountable for bad policy decisions.

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Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

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Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...

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New State Department declaration in federal lawsuit over refugee services says they decided last week to cancel all 10 of the departmetn's contracts with refugee resettlement agencies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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"Racist ideas love believers, not thinkers." ~Ibram X Kendi #BlackHistoryisAmericanHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

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Worth a watch: As videos of angry voters at GOP town halls circulate, worth noting that Democrats are holding them too. Tom Suozzi, who represents a Trump +5 district, got a standing ovation today: “I’m Mr. Let’s Work Together. But after what happened at the White House yesterday, I’m pissed off.”

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The logical interpretation of this is that Trump and Hegseth want to limit recruitment and retention of everyone except for straight white male troops. The question then would be: why? www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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JD Vance whining about not getting respect from President Zelenskyy is the perfect example of a mediocre person demanding something they are incapable of earning

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She’s missing. Please, share this.

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My grandfather, a Mexican, was delivered by Dr. Justina Ford in 1936 in Denver, Colo. Justina Ford was banned from practicing medicine in hospitals simply because she was black. Throughout her career, she delivered thousands of black & brown babies out of her home in Denver. #BlackHistoryMonth

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DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᏧᎾᏓᎸᏉᏗ ᎢᎦ (Ulihelisdi Tsunadalvquodi Iga!) Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Post snow-shoveling siesta.

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Oh. I see that the racist KC football team lost. What. A. Pity.

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Clearly, “END RACISM” was just a fad.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Clearly, “END RACISM” was just a fad, Part II…

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It is notable that Big Law is completely absent from the legal fights to protect democracy. In 2017, they bragged about their pro bono work for the resistance. Now, they are silent -presumably cowering in fear of Trump and Musk. Support the non-profit law orgs and small firms doing this hard work.

submitted 26 days ago • 189 comments

My last food allergy tests came back. I’m significantly allergic to onions and apples, mildly to milk and egg whites. Onions will be the hardest to give up. I like the flavor of onions in just about everything. But the stomach pain isn’t worth it.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I’m reading up on gluten-free baking. Then my mind panicked. Gluten-free frybread? NO-o! I’ll endure the stomach pain for the real deal.

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Might as well. They only stoke anti-Native racism.

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BREAKING: 14,000 FBI agents sue Trump’s DOJ for illegal retaliatory job termination

submitted 28 days ago • 97 comments

Any state being harmed by the changes orchestrated by Elon Musk should sue him for damages and consider criminal charges against him and his little Boglins

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: FBI agents and employees filed two lawsuits Tuesday to block the US DOJ from collecting and distributing a list of those who worked on President Donald Trump-related cases. These include investigations into criminal activity Jan. 6, 2021 and Trump’s classified documents case at Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 28 days ago • 58 comments

You know how we keep saying that America is deeply racist and you keep guffawing that it isn’t that bad? Now do you believe us when we say that America is truly deeply racist? Half the nation preferred this chaos and destruction over sharing the culture with POC and LGBTQ+ people.

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Kind of funny how no lawyers have thought about how Musk isn’t a government employy engaged in the scope of his employment. He doesn’t have a security clearance, Congressional approval, nor is he protected by government immunity. He’s a fat plum and has exposure for tort claims. Just sayin’.

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Tuberculosis cases reported in Michigan and Ohio, now. Two of the Kansas 70 cases died. Now Oregon is having a measles outbreak. I’m going to start calling Trump Pandora.

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Stay weird, my straight dudes. We didn’t fight against social norms just for us gay guys. youtu.be/ELxs46n-hnA?...

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 32 days ago • 1063 comments

We made it to February. January was the longest decade of my life.

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I’m weary of the pretense and it’s too heavy a burden to carry this any longer: Olive oil tastes vile. Don’t put that shite in my food. Just because you have faulty tastebuds doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t taste the nastiness. Wado. I feel better.

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People are calling to put a bust of Trump on the Six Grandfathers, whom the Colonizers call Mount Rushmore. That’s absurd. There’s no orange rock there. How could they achieve any likeness?

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The worst part of living in KC is that the racist football team’s season lasts so long every year.

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I hope this rain melts all that snow in the yard. It has stuck around way past its freshness date.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 33 days ago • 2305 comments

Meh. I guess. If we must. When you are Native, it’s difficult to feign enthusiasm for celebrations of Settler Colonialism.

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The Kansas side of Kansas City is seeing the biggest outbreak of tuberculosis in history. Not a peep from Trump’s CDC. Children stopped being vaccinated in 2005. So take sensible precautions if your kid is in Kansas schools.

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All I can say is that my timing for an egg white allergy is impeccable. While the rest of you are getting a third mortgage for a dozen eggs, I’ll be semi-gloating with my poor-tasting substitute of imitation eggs. 😉

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Yesterday, I mused that the only group truly affected by birthright citizenship is us Natives whose rights extend not from the 14th amendment but by 1907 and 1924 era statutes.

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After two days of blocking right-wing and Christianist ads on IG, I’m finally seeing more underwear ads targeting me as a gay man. I guess that’s an improvement.

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I have changed into my afternoon pyjama bottoms. Now, I’m not saying that y’all are slackers, but meanwhile I’m adulting the hell out of this day. Judgmental stare

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Algorithmically, I am more butch than people probably think I am.

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