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Imagine unfollowing me but I'm just over here living out loud with my empathy because I refuse to accept an ignorant attack on any individual, and the oppression and regression of any groups of people.

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One of the biggest differences between me and my ex-husband? I don't make me cry.

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Snow day. Working from home. Mid-afternoon coffee break with my thrifted Anthropologie mug. A statement for the ages.

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“I would rather be a little nobody, than to be an evil somebody.” -- Abraham Lincoln

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Oh sorry, did my empathy for other humans offend you? Watch me keep having it anyway.

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You're either an ally or you're not. It can't be both ways. You don't get to choose for whom and under what conditions. Claiming to support a trans person you know personally but then also celebrating the EO that bans trans folx from sports as a win is doing it wrong.

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No time like the present, all this mess and muck and upheaval for an empath's soul, to be a single orphan with no one to look after and take care of you. 😔

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Remember a few winters ago when we were so exhausted by the words "polar vortex"? Right now, for this era of history, it's "breaking news." 😮‍💨

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Heartened to see the announcements of significant lawsuits filed against DT and parties by: The FBI The ACLU PFLAG AFL-CIO The three largest unions in America and that many members of Congress staged a protest (re: Musk) outside the US Dept of the Treasury today. The resistance is building. ✊🏻

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I'm just gonna say it, I don't like people with red hair. The way they parade around, flaunting their identity at everyone, demanding acceptance and worth makes me so uncomfortable. I don't want to see a redhead in the bathroom and I don't want to ride an elevator with one, either. I can't relax.

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Sometimes I think about my snobby, popular classmate named Shannon who, circa 1996, made fun of me for wearing leather Eastlands instead of Birks. I wonder if she grew out of her shallow ugliness? Has anyone ever made her feel small for such a stupid, superficial reason? They were good sandals.

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I just made a donation to @hrc.org. (Not my first.) Who will add to it?

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“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.” -- Leo Tolstoy

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me: "He's dangerous." her: "I won't listen to that." In almost the same breath she said that while my certain loved one is awesome, she doesn't support the trans agenda. She was proud of her "educated" beliefs. Which was why I ended our 20-year friendship. I'll never forgive her vote for DT.

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I'm embarrassed for the DT voters. Ragey, too. But today I want to focus on how mortified they should be. Shameful.

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Make good choices. Ominous Chihuahua is watching.

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I keep thinking about a former friend -- isolated by choice, safely tucked into her bubble of privilege -- who watched The Handmaid's Tale w/ her husband for pure entertainment value, with zero awareness its premise was what she (a Trumpess) was choosing to vote for. How deep is her delusion today?

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No one has enough power to make me hate another human.

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Who wants to tell DT's new cabinet members that their sharp suits and arrogant swaggers and slick, short haircuts are gender affirmation?

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If you refuse to accept that LGBTQIA folx exist, you are breaking the heart of someone you know personally, whether you know it or not.

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I happily live in a diverse, urban KCMO neighborhood. This morning on my drive to work I saw for the first time a statue of Mary outside a neighbor's home. As quickly as I recognized her as Mary, I realized she was bent by emotional torture, weeping. Which feels so apropos as this week closes.

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Haiku-esque text from my 22yo daughter today, after she got to the gym for her regular workout: "there's a lot of men more than normal I blame the patriarchy" I laughed! Then I realized how apropos it is for her to assess her immediate surroundings for potential threat, especially now. 😮‍💨

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On the one hand, my soul is heavy. Waking up each day, unsure which kind of surprise awaits at the hands of a disordered and manipulative narcissist? What will the new game be?

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Ladies, we go high. We use our platforms to educate & empower those who are hungry for growth & empathy. (Entertainment is good, too.) What we don't do is waste our time & energy arguing with hostile internet trolls who will never listen or learn. Block. Don't engage. Let them languish away.

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Tonight I am ever so glad that coparenting with my abusive ex-husband, which was forced upon me by the patriarchy embedded in our American family courts system, expired in 2023.

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