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Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.

Yes, we know Illinois and Maryland are Dem gerrymanders. And WI, PA, NC, OH, FL, TX, UT are Republican gerrymanders. The Democrats support a nationwide ban on gerrymanders. Do any Republicans?

Doesn’t appear to be a trans person or liberal…again.

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination. #HealthForAll

Male privilege in an article about public toilets

Have you never wondered why your world is so small?” They want to keep you sick and stupid. Because the sick and stupid are easier to control than the healthy and enlightened.”” — Blood Circus by Camila Victoire a.co/6qYS1HR

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Bluntly? In the eyes of payment processors and anti porn lobby groups, if you make NSFW content at all -- even if you're strictly an artist or strictly a writer or a gamedev -- you are a sex worker in their eyes. You're in the same boat as us. Please remember this next time we ask for solidarity.

This doesn’t even talk about the rich people bones aka teeth much apple.news/ApY71JwWxRnm...

As someone who grew up going to the Smithsonian at least weekly, this feels like an enormous betrayal www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

What is a fake feminist? I keep seeing a woman described as a fake feminist and I’m not sure what that means.

This woman at this bar said “I go to bed by 10 every night but I know haw to stay up for a good time and I love that.

I chortled. I’m a southerner. How could I not? #BookQuotes 📚🦋

I’m thinking the second sentence can’t be true.

The thing about the Hillary and Obama wrote the Epstein files is beyond comprehension since Bill Clinton is widely thought to be on it. If Hillary was going to throw Bill under the bus, that wouldn’t be the way

Just finished "My Friends: A Novel" by Fredrik Backman and it was well worth reading

Mom life

“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.” — My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman a.co/5ckDPNd

Amazon Prime days feel like a good time to remind you that it’s easy to have good ethics when you don’t live in a food desert. It’s easy to be righteous when you have another choice. It’s easy to be an activist online where no one sees everything. Trust, I’m not pro-Amazon. I’m anti-hypocrisy.

“I’m not sure I’m ready to give up on Florida just yet—even though some days I feel like it’s given up on me.” Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield

our country rn

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

Every time I see a “New painkiller could bring relief to millions without addiction risk” headlines—I think of the early OxyContin stories

We’ve been calling this security cam regular a fox for a year… until last night it jumped and we got a better look. Taller. Built different. Not the same as our front yard fox. So now we’re asking… what is it?

You know, when one of my kids was small, she thought the Holy Land Experience used day laborers for the Live Daily Crucifixions and we laughed at her naivety. Now with the rise of the current climate, I wonder if she was right.

Fucking lunatics, fuck you all who voted for Republicans.

How do you take your coffee?

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Some days the poison feels faster.

Margaret Cho margaretcho.bsky.social, tells her story of her dad being deported when she was a baby. Her father took her back to Korea with him away from her mother. The trauma of family separation goes deeper than most people realize. Thank you Margaret for sharing your touching story with us. 💙

Families will need to move if they can and to be sure, most can not. So, now they are in the position where SCOTUS thinks a ~75% probability of suicidal ideation because of lack of health care is A-ok. This policy kills children.

Democrats need not apply?

Did anyone get the birthday boy one of those inflatable tank pool toys?

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

This is not something I’d ever expected a White House comms director to say in print or in public.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Nope. If I need just short of a notarized permission slip to allow my partner to pick up my kids from school—lying feds should need far more paperwork

This is not how the first amendment works.

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So, if 47 deports Leon because he is here illegally—does that mean he faces penalties for accepting campaign donations from a foreign national?