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This year, in the absence of any media outlet or corporation asking me to write about Pride, I challenged myself to write a Pride essay I’d actually want to read. This is what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

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"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength." -- Donald Trump, 1990

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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

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A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

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Sad news, just discovered one of my best barnacles “Geoff Jr” has a tiny Calvin peeing on Biden sticker on his host shell :-(

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The name's Bond, High- yield Junk Bond

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my dad: people today are too sensitive me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric

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If Howard Hughes were alive today he would not make the list of the top five weirdest billionaires

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Good morning and welcome to Pride Month 2025, when "straight" white Christians get on social media, TV, and their pulpits and demonstrate how they think about gay sex way, way more and in far greater detail than than gay people do.

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Truth be told, Leviticus is the gayest book of the Bible because it urges men not to mix garment fibers and smites “he who doeth blends.” Happy Pride!

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It's June, baby!

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Who is this “god” they worship? This god of guns but not of grace. This god of greed but not generosity. This god of the womb but not of the woman. This god who cannot hear children cry. This god who fears dark skin. This god of America but not all of America? That's the Devil, yo.

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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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Who is this “god” they worship? This god of guns but not of grace. This god of greed but not generosity. This god of the womb but not of the woman. This god who cannot hear children cry. This god who fears dark skin. This god of America but not all of America? That's the Devil, yo.

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pride is next week pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan. do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

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this is all unsustainable lol

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Wizard of Oz (1939): A hapless teen suffering from head trauma is led down the wrong path to cosplay, heroin, organ harvesting and ultimately, homicide.

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Apocalypse Now (1979): A wacky surfing and boating buddy trip is ruined when Marlon Brando shows up.

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remigration is neo-nazi speak for ethnic cleansing. wrote a whole story about the origins of the word here: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Gott im Himmel.

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It’s the Kristo Klepto Kakistocracy, Charlie Brownshirt.

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hate it when I finally get on the local news and then they pixelate my junk.

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THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

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Can't someone just do something about everything?

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A dishwasher that when loaded “correctly" plays the drum break from In The Air Tonight.

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[meeting a newborn baby] Please will you save the world

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Blessing from today’s #CharlieBrownJesus Bluesky isn’t dying, we are.

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The older I get, the more I lose control of my blather.

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My latest: "We're In American Idiocracy Thanks to White Rage" America can't have nice things, including a normal "Memorial Day" greeting, because of the country's inability to confront and uproot white rage and grievance that has turned us into an Idiocracy. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Nostradamus said, there’d be days like this. There’d be days like this, Nostradamus said.

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"We might’ve stayed open to enlightenment if it had a more efficient delivery system, but after a few days of meditating we realized that true presence couldn’t make our teeth 8 shades whiter in 10 days." Memorial, by Heather Havrilesky. open.substack.com/pub/askmolly...

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my dad was finally laid to rest at Arlington last week after a 14-month wait. he was a reporter for the AP who once interviewed then senator JFK during his run for president. my grief is only tempered by the relief that’s he’s not here to see what’s become of us. and that he’s at last with my mom 💔🇺🇸

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Cats are not mentioned in the Bible because they wrote it.

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Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

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what happened to the gentle man who bombed his way to the presidency in 1999

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Nostradamus said, there’d be days like this. There’d be days like this, Nostradamus said.

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Cats are not mentioned in the Bible because they wrote it.

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You criticize our inaction and willingness to accept the shitty status quo, and yet you, individually, have failed to solve the problems of the world. Interesting

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Sir my posts are not "material." This is my life, I have to live like this, I have a condition.

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take at least five seconds every day to escape the gloom & dumb and savor a moment of joy or whimsy. find a hole in the fence and sprint away like a delirious zoo animal.

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great day to send trans people a bunch of money

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The pelican opens its beak to yawn and you catch a brief glimpse of me crouched inside, playing an old GameBoy. I make eye contact with you as I reach up, annoyed, to shut the beak again like a trash can lid.

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