What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

Tell me you're Gen X without telling me you're Gen X. 😆

Blind man’s buff began as a courtly game in Tudor England. Being caught by touch, not sight, was part of its mischief, and a reminder that fate often grabs us blind. #FolkloreThursday Art: Pierre Sala Partie

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The same voices opposing abortion are ALSO targeting birth control access. But we are NOT backing down. Use #ThxBirthControl Day to share your stories and remind everyone why access is so essential 🙌

It’s important to demand accountability for Trump’s sexually predatory targeting young girls whether or not we think we’ll get it in the form we want. If WE stop acting like raping and trafficking minors is a big deal, then we become complicit in normalizing it.

My friend Roger who passed away in 2019 took me to see this tree almost a decade ago. Roger was a true keeper of local history and folklore in his section of the Northern Neck and told me he understood this marking to be the last survivor of five beech trees used as trail markers through the woods.

Here is a repugnant, smug grifter peddling some of the worst ideas in human history. The absence of anything vaguely resembling ethics among transhumanists--or whatever they call themselves these days--is and should remain shocking.

Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️‍🌈

Thank to you @docseuss.bsky.social for reminding us all of the previous confirmed kill when Joyce Carol Oates tactically assassinated Curtis Yarvin.

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.” Carl Sagan, born on this day in 1934

Here's a quick explanation on why the Senate deal is bad for most Americans and for our #healthcare costs. 👇

They truly don't care about us. I'm willing to bet the reason for the end of the shutdown is the same reason for the end of the last shutdown: air traffic control staffing. The rich want to be able to use their private jets safely. Plus all of these people 👇 are safe from being voted out.

How long will we be hijacked by centrists, cowards and Chuck Schumer?

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ICYMI: Senator Ron Wyden sounds the alarm on Republicans plan to sneak a nationwide abortion ban into their funding bill. This is why it is so important for women to remain in the fight for our lives!

“Kunstformen der Natur” (Art forms of Nature) was Ernst Haeckel‘s master work #sciart #histsci wp.me/p3ihHu-1fa

You, me, every workaday taxpayer in the US are being forced to pay into an insurance program for greedy CEOs who take insane risks with other people's $, pocket any gains & make us cover their losses. TARP & every corporate bailout is a financialized version of the medieval corvée & we're the serfs.

There's almost no posting on here about the new SSEP pipeline that will run through Virginia and damage local waterways. November 10th is the deadline to tell VA DEQ NO SSEP. actionnetwork.org/petitions/fe...

Morales: I don’t care if you’re the most individualistic person on the planet—because you “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” and think government should stay out of your business and “don’t tread on me.” Climate change is already treading on you, and you should care about this issue.

Pictures of actual bike lanes on Granby St. So nice to see years of work actually resulting in physical bicycle infrastructure. #bikelanes #bicycleadvocacy

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

actual communism

Day 290 The beef between the DOJ and Sean Dunn came to an end yesterday when he was acquitted on assault charges after throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal officer. The DOJ had tried to secure a felony charge, but the grand jury thought that was baloney. High steaks. You are all caught up.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

#Mood 🌊 #CatsLover #Caturday

I’m a SNAP recipient and I’m asking you if you live in any of the following states to call your representative and tell them to HOLD THE DAMN LINE We aren’t going through all of this for them to fold. These are the at risk ones. If one of them is yours, call! /

Orange Cat Core

The last two lines LOLOL

LOL! I can't wait to share this with the suburban wine moms and angry grandparents who voted for Virginia Dems.

Congratulations, Virginia, we just elected our first woman governor, our first Asian-American lieutenant governor & our first Black attorney general. Thanks to everyone who voted for human rights for all & for an affordable commonwealth. Thanks to those who GOTV. 👏👏👏 #SicSemperTyrannis

Friendly reminder that in the untreated sewer that is American politics, local elections are by far the most impactful on your day-to-day life and while not corruption free, are way less so in comparison. This is how power building works.

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Do they not get the internet in Washington DC? It’s unfortunate that so many Republicans in Congress are unable to stay abreast of the news.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

Good morning, #HamptonRoads! It's #ElectionDay & polls are open until 7pm! Here are briefs on the candidates running in the #757. #Virginia #Election www.pilotonline.com/2025/11/03/v...

please vote. please. please. please. please. show these fascists and billionaires we're fucking done. show the corporations and universities that we're against this and if they stand up to fascism, the public will be there. do what we failed to do last year. please.

Ghazala Hashmi is an American name. Pass it on.

"An average of Virginia polls conducted over the last ~2 weeks that polled both the governor’s race and the AG race suggest Abigail Spanberger will need to win by 11+ points to drag Jay Jones across the finish line." - @admcrlsn.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/11/mond...

This is very near where I did my field/biodata recordings of the trees within the “blast zone” of MVP last month. The blast zone is the area that would be instantly vaporized if the pipeline were to fail.

“The diversity of our ecosystems pales in comparison to what it was, and any remaining life forms we see give us the false impression that we are looking at “an ecosystem“. We are actually looking at the remnants of one”

Phil Greenwood Welsh artist Dream Clocks Samhain🌿

Today November 1 is the last day of in-person early voting in Virginia Voters can cast ballots at local election office and satellite locations Expecting biggest day of early voting After today next chance will be Tuesday Early voting locations: www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba...

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