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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Now's The Time, 1985

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This week, we applauded the reintroduction of legislation to investigate the atrocities committed against Native children at so-called Indian Boarding Schools. We finally address the legacy of our gov's policies of cultural genocide.

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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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One can hope.

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Sick day.

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"I like that tall hat! Some things never change." Was my favorite compliment given by my ex of seven years when we shared dinner with mutual friends last week. It probably sounds insignificant, but to me it was acknowledgement of so many years I was truly seen. We have known one another since 2000.

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It feels good to see people I shared so much with, and to laugh with them so hard. To remember old lovers and think about how a tank top hit their collarbones on a hot summer day or how they bent their legs at the thigh and leaned in when conversations got philosophical.

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Jarret Moseley

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For your consideration

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Excited to listen to this on my bus commute in the morning.

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Support for disappointment and other pitfalls of a human life.

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Made this linocut one year ago this week. RIP Aaron Bushnell, free Palestine.

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A city is a collection of altars of stories of missed connections and mixed messages

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Scotland’s national flower—spiky but beautiful 🌿💜 #Thistle #Scotland #ScottishNature #WildScotland #NaturePhotography

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White Lotus fans please don’t flock to Thailand and colonize it with over tourism. You will destroy everything beautiful and sacred just as you have with almost everywhere else in the world.

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poetry prompt of the day: write a poem.

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I'm anti-military yet I accept that the us military is real. I know lots of veterans who depend on the va as well as nurses who work for various va hospitals. In terms of the big picture, it seems insane to do this when military enrollment is quite low and you're aiming for ww3. Of course logic = 🤷🏼‍♀️

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#BHM2025 Read the 🧵below by Professor Blair Kelley, then listen to our interview with her and read her excellent book, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class." www.zinnedproject.org/news/blair-l...

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The national parks, among many if not all other public services, don't actually maintain themselves. Creating thousands of unemployed workers who hold jobs that benefit the population doesn't actually help an economy . But it does free up one's time for organizing so um yeah.

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— so many stars ✨

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Really grateful for my local goth club.

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JD Vance looks like he jerks off to People Magazine

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Hawthorn 💫

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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Y E S

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Tabular view of the orders and leading families of Reptilia and Amphibia /. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1862. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190702

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Why Oakland High students walked out to protest Trump, in their own words

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Cupid with a Pistol on Top of a Mountain of Skull by Paul Gustave Doré (1832 –1883)

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something I wrote about ideas distribution, four ways: llps.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...

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An inspiring piece about the culmination of a very long walk and some of the complexities of California, and this moment in this country

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You should read this blog post by my comrade Susan Raffo. It's the final post about their 9 month walk across the U.S. www.susanraffo.com/blog/officia...

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Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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Not unexpectedly, First Nations students benefit from learning through a First Nations lens, but non-Indigenous students reap the rewards of an interdisciplinary and regionally attuned education too. thewalrus.ca/first-nation-sch...

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❣❣❣pop

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We haven’t had a president in Korea for two months since December 3rd, essentially. He’s just been away and detained, and we’re doing quite well. The country has not fallen apart. And no one really likes the other person that is first in line to replace him either, so we're not in a hurry.

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Only losers erase Queers. Page 192 in my poetry book POST. AnalogCruising.com

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When you apply the “move-fast-and-break-things” approach to government, the things you break include human beings.

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