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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”

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This is the thing I don't think people understand. The US has been so much worse than this & a lot of people were okay with it because it wasn't hitting their communities. Now it is on deck for everyone. White people better get in the field on the front lines

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Gender identity includes cisgender women.

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If you're boycotting the giants and wanna support indies, and if you need to stock up on sapphic books for your TBR, we've got you covered with this Itch . io bundle 🥰 30 sapphic stories for less than $2 each!

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Call me a radical but I care more about park rangers than I do billionaires.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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They should invent a vaccine for measles.

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I personally consider the boycott a success because it was a baby practice action for people who have never done that before. People got on board! They got to feel what it was like! It was easy! And when they get asked to do something next, they’ll have an experience to build off of.

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Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

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He was drunk the whole time. DUI hire making us all less safe.

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Seems like a pretty important detail

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billionaires are about to raid our social security — money that belongs to us — for tax cuts

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Please stop using Substack. It is funding the most vile shit (white nationalism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, just absolutely vile) and they do not give a fuck.

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Hundreds of protestors have disrupted JD Vance's planned vacation in Vermont. #3E #EndImpunity #StandWithUkraine

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and told him he had the U.K.’s unwavering support, a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

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backed by the full faith and credit of the u.s. government which bailed out silicon valley billionaires when their crypto investments went belly up who then used that money to buy our government and dismantle our regulatory system and default on u.s. debts they don't feel like paying

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passage of this bill would effectively end my career

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So they’re also saying a non-US writer who works on the current novel while in town for a con should be detained? What about watercolorists whose entire purpose of their trip was the paint the once-again visible parts of Glenwood Canyon & plans to sell their paintings? Avoid the US. We’re unsafe.

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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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The impossible leftist purity standards of "don't be a sex monster" and "maybe don't let your political donors kill elderly people in their care while hawking your book about how you solved covid"

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I’ve been suggesting on TV and podcasts—without actual evidence(!)—that it may turn out that DOJ will wind up not having enough lawyers to defend all the lawsuits challenging this administration’s illegal conduct. Turns out it seems already to be true. 👉

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Of all motherfuckers, I can’t believe the country is going down with this motherfucker.

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I was being vague and emotional before since I wasn't sure what we were allowed to say, but THE WORM AND HIS KINGS trilogy and YOUR MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING will be going out of print alongside a roster of wonderful books. Thank you everyone who's checked these books out in that time 🐛🧠

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Duh

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So glad @philipobaji.bsky.social on here. He is doing essential work - please do support him if you can.

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Zelenskyy thanking all of the world leaders who support for Ukraine is an epic troll on JD Vance and Donald Trump. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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And even you do, you make pennies on each sale. Ingram is as bad a monopoly as Amazon, if not worse.

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Other countries should start talking about boycotting the 28 Olympics and pushing to ban the US from upcoming games. Just saying.

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i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

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I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

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Federal workers at a Virginia town hall last night—this says it all! “I know their goal is to make us miserable.” — so they don’t show up to work. And Dems, take note: People aren’t here for your ill-timed, tone-deaf donation requests. It’s going to backfire. They want to see you fight for them!

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THIS PART. Zelenskyy's literally in the middle of a war, fighting to preserve his country. At least his clothes fit properly, which is more than I can say for Trump and Vance, who for all their money/prestige can't get suits that fit properly, for some reason.

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My guidance counselor DID NOT tell me this was a career option 😡

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“Transgender people need champions and voices and not people voting against people because they’re afraid—they need somebody willing to take it on the chin, and I’m willing to do that,” Iowa State Sen. Tony Bisignano told me. www.advocate.com/politics/ton...

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Interesting stuff. The admin wants IRS agents to be seconded to ICE, not just as extra bodies but to bring their protected access to confidential IRS records with them. All sorts of ways that's illegal. But apparently they're trying to square the circle. Or if it's still circly maybe do it anyway?

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If you're worrying about supporting Amazon today or ever, a lot of trans authors are starting stores on Itchio.

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not only will we lose a ton of specialized expertise, we will have a hard time ever getting it back because if we manage to pull ourselves out of this, the people who are interested in these jobs will know they do not come with the stability it was assumed they did

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The decoder ring version of this is that Trump is serving Putin’s interests, not America’s. That’s not a “normalization of the relationship;” it’s an entirely new relationship of submission. The hed and body are so twisted up with anxiety about stating the point plainly that it’s incomprehensible.

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NEW STORY, NEW PAGE, NEW BLAIDENS COME GET YOUR FREE QUEER FANTASY COMICS

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Nate Silver has to believe that Nate Silver and people like Nate Silver are geniuses who deserve everything they got because otherwise he’s just one of a couple hundred guys who did some interesting stuff with baseball statistics and then claimed he was a data genius so could cover all fields.

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I've come to accept that autism is not something inflicted upon me by a mutation or infection, but rather is just ... a natural variation of how to clock my intelligence. Rather than prioritize social intelligence and peer-based data, my brain evaluates everything with equal interest.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Also if y’all come across liberals crying about folks pressing Democrats to act, tell them to stfu. Cuz some folks in these red cities are giving Republicans hell too. Just because 🫵🏾 YOU 🫵🏾 are too scared to tell you reps to do their job doesn’t mean everyone is like you www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

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