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mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I spent probably 25+ hours per week as a teen coding and running a Harry Potter website and neopets guild after making the majority of my online friends in AOL HP chatrooms. It was a huge part of how I could socialize when I was home sick from school for a year. The TERFism and hate ruined it for me

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

Not thrilled to see this on the Trevor project chat's terms of service 😒

Does this mean that Maui is canonically trans and opted to go without nipple grafts for his top surgery?

I talked to multiple financial advisors last year who INSISTED that Trump's primary goals were keeping CEOs happy and the stock market growing and that he wouldn't make any national or geopolitical decisions that might harm those objectives and sometimes I just want to email them and be like "so..."

Between rising fuel costs, the GOP holding TSA pay hostage, and the threat of ICE in airports that will almost certainly deter people from risking air travel, airline company CEOs must be LIVID. Guess the leopards really do come for everyone, regardless of donations to inauguration funds

Folks, you need to this *today* if you want to have a say in who gets nominated for statewide races like Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Supreme Court, UM Regents, etc... Note that there's a free option: act.michigandems.com/a/member-free

well this made me cry

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

I’m finally watching the gay-ass “Importance of Being Earnest” and it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen

A stylish turn-based combat RPG about fighting corporate convenience with home cooked meals and makes you feel something in a 12-15 hour story. Dosa Divas is for you. Made with humans and zero AI. Try the demo! Every wishlist helps. We’re out in April. store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/...

Search your camera roll for hell.

Our local news coverage of the attack on the temple in West Bloomfield is light years ahead of national coverage. Detroit, Dearborn, and SE Michigan is not utopia. However, there is a very long history of interfaith cooperation here. Many of us mourn for and with our Jewish and Muslim neighbors.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

I don't recommend watching this unless you are prepared to be completely enraged. Like sit down, have some water ready, grab a fidget, prepare for absolute fury. Pet a cat. Something.

I know it's not the point, but he sounds like the Sheriff of Nottingham 😭 youtu.be/y6lh5cdIEII?...

Any Michigan lawyers want to do this for my family's friend? He's coming up on 10 months in detention while his asylum case goes through appeals

One of my favorite lessons from Jewish tradition is the idea that every life is a universe. I can't imagine a state which claims to operate on behalf of the Jewish people thinking it's legitimate to kill dozens of innocent people just to find the remains of others. A shanda beyond comprehension.

Went back to reply to a comment about immigration that made me mad on nextdoor (I try to give myself a 24 hour waiting period to make sure I'm replying from an effective emotional state) and I couldn't find it so I made my own post. Let's see how much I regret this...

The thing that bothers me most about the people who say that we have to support a nazi bc Mills is old: I see way more older liberal ladies in the movement now (ICE watch groups, doing community support, protesting, etc.) than fake blue collar former mercenaries. They're mad af and ready to fight!

"why are there so many more queer people today than there used to be?" because Regan made sure that 90,000 of them died and then pretended that it didn't happen. this is what queer genocide looks like.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

I just did this and was on hold for a few minutes but when I got through the operator was very friendly and said that they're taking it very seriously. I was given the option to give my name or stay anonymous and just share my county or city. The whole process took under 5 minutes!

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Project 2025 and the way the news talked about Trump denying he would use it always reminds me of these articles from just before the invasion of Ukraine. "What, these troops and equipment that we assembled at the border? Noooo, they're just for training exercises!" edition.cnn.com/2022/02/10/e...

Dispensaries provide the bread and gambling apps provide the circuses

Met someone today whose Dad was a medic in WWII and was in the first wave liberating a concentration camp. Met someone else who lives across the street from where they want to build one in Michigan. Met a lot of good folks fighting the good fight in Romulus tonight. Fuck ICE.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

Has he finally flown the private jet too close to the sun?

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Spent the afternoon simultaneously watching women's hockey and the free skate and what an incredible experience. So many reasons to be proud of the Olympians* representing us and what they have achieved even when our leaders in government are disappointing us *Most of them anyway 😒

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

Obscene. www.mlive.com/news/2026/02...

This is EVIL

I guarantee the ice-supporting kid has been bullying kids (including this hero) for years. Hero was so ready to get to finally hit him. One of my kids punched someone at school last year and I got multiple text messages from other parents saying that it was about time someone stood up to him. FAFO 🤷

I love this!!

One of my favorite things about living in A2 is the fact that this magic gets created and we get to just encounter it as we go about our lives

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/