To quote @rincewind.run, what they learned from California was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

July 12, 1926: Publishing houses Henry Holt and MacMillan have begun altering high school biology textbooks to satisfy Texas officials who regard Darwinian science as anti-religious. All references to “evolution” are changed ro “development” and mentions of human evolution are entirely removed.

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

Y’all know what I’m going to say. It’s up to the whites.

Fox News did not “poison” America. It merely extracted, collected, and amplified the poison that has existed for centuries. If there is any hope for this country, white folks need to be honest re: white supremacy, how it has ALWAYS existed in America, & how feigned ignorance helps to perpetuate it.

Oh, so they had to ritually sacrifice Graham to revive McConnell, that makes sense

Rest assured, he will return to fucking over everyone soon

Hey, a good way to celebrate Lindsey Graham kicking the bucket is to contact your senators about KOSA and the KIDS Act. Graham was a big proponent of these kinds of laws, as well as of gutting section 230.

TERFs are not all women, they’re also men and trolls that live under a rotting old bridge demanding we agree with their bullshit. #GFYTERFS

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

This is the report Gender Criticals don't want you to see and they want to censor with legal threats. It also proves how anti feminist the gender critical movement is since a good portion of the report documents anti abortion groups tied to far right Christian fundamentalists.

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Most of all, Lindsey Graham should be remembered as a passionate defender of rapists.

California just made the largest special-education investment in state history—record support for kids with disabilities—while Washington works to dismantle the department that protects them. Nobody covered it. We did. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-good-wee...

Hey remember in 2020 when Lindsey Graham, the Senator from South Carolina, called election officials in Georgia to try to browbeat them into changing the election outcome to Trump? Elected Democrats don’t seem to

people will say it's too soon to criticize enormously harmful people when they die. maybe we should consider that it's too soon to praise them, given the suffering that they inflicted on so many?

Somebody’s going to need to explain to me, real slowly, why ICE is detaining nuns simply because of the color of their skin. What government purpose does it serve, because it sure as shit isn’t about public safety or even immigration enforcement.

Historian Thomas Lecaque, following the news of Lindsey’s death, posted here: "To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us."

🎶Lindsey and Mitchy sittin in a tree, R O T T I N G🎶 Two useless entitled wastes who helped destroy our democracy. Fuck em both.

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Maybe we should remember Lindsey Graham the way Fox News is remembering him this morning. For his rabid defense of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. Never forget: Graham’s speech helped push Kavanaugh across the finish line and onto the Supreme Court.

This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

The fucking asshats doing homophobia are not going to ruin my good time My block list grows. As others have said, there's plenty to hate upon with Lindsey Graham. You don't need to call him 'Lady G' and you don't need to talk about rumors he was closeted. Whether true or not, that's hardly apropos

Dear doctors and nurses: next time you tell a patient to walk around to lower the pain of a huge kidney stone maybe find out if that patient is a fucking paraplegic first, thaaaannnkssss

This is bad science and worse activism, and everyone involved should feel ashamed.

"Trump is criminalizing calling out his corruption."

Facts

She is the blueprint!

Security camera footage sheds a tiny bit more light on the murder of Araujo in Houston Texas. Surprise surprise ICE lied

We need more candidates like Rep. Underwood! Flipped a district. Defended that flip. Has had 17 Bills passed Got to work day 1. Collaborative and focuses on results not attention

And she isn't hostile to her party. She talks about issues. Real issues people go through

We should outlaw these hacks

Andy Beshear should just steal mcconnell's senate seat the way mcconnell stole Obama's Supreme Court seat.

Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.

I hope that someone is writing a long read about the month after Charlie Kirk died and the collective psychosis experienced by white people on the Right & embarrassed white Liberals. It will be important to document the calm and incredulous responses by Black people and some other POC in comparison.

Nearly 100 Epstein victims had their names exposed on Todd Blanche’s watch — & he withheld files the law required him to release Why? The bar complaint from 100+ judges suggests he was protecting Trump & himself My latest publisher’s note has the full story👇 -TN

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/a... Should anyone else wish to explain why they should just shut down and fuck off with their racist fascist Naziism:

If you think masking and vaccines are just not for you, I kindly beg you to fuck off all the way to the Oort Cloud. YOU are why people like me are trapped in our homes. YOU are who infected and killed people like me. YOU and your ego deserve each other since that’s all you care about. #MaskTheFuckUp

This woman contracted polio as a child about two years before a vaccine became available and spent much of her life in and out of an iron lung to survive. I truly can't fathom anti-vaxxers who seem happy to resurrect these diseases. people.com/the-last-us-...

It is genuinely heartbreaking to see all of the people losing SNAP benefits. In West Virginia, 14,000 SNAP participants have lost their benefits. In Arizona, it’s 500,000. That’s not a typo. Half a million people in AZ no longer have nutrition assistance. Republicans strike again.

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If you’ve never punched a Nazi it’s never too late to learn. I’ve punched a few over the years, like crying baby punching bags. Tears flowing, snot bubbling, drool falling. Almost art, but the medium is anger against the hate they have in their veins and brains. #AlwaysPunchNazis #FascistsToo

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Why use ChatGPT when you could waste power and water by playing with a toaster in a rainstorm

NEW FROM ME: "As Bloomberg says, DHS *wants* to create its own deportation airline. But we’ve known that since last year. What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant." gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...

The descendants of the people who were brutalized, excluded, and killed have a say in historiography too.

Donald Trump cannot cancel elections but he can try to make it harder for people to vote and easier for the GOP to cheat. That includes misuse of the federal government and inciting his MAGA mob of election vigilantes. We need to be ready to send up and protect elections.