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-Twitter was for years the gathering place for a community of clergy abuse survivors who taught me daily what true empathy, righteousness and love look like. I would not be the person I am today without them. -Jerry Falwell’s belly button.

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

I just know that we are all meant for so much more. That’s what’s so frustrating. It’s knowing deep in your soul that this isn’t the way things are supposed to be. It was made this way. And just as it was made. It can be unmade.

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

HOW IT STARTED VS. HOW IT'S GOING In 2019, I was cited for protesting our former Speaker of the House, now serving time for corruption. In 2025, I'm the only woman running in this seat. Women don't wait for permission to lead — we fight, we build, and we change the game.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

I wish more people understood that them not liking what I say, or how I say it, doesn’t make me wrong. Sometimes I am wrong. More often than I want to be, for sure. But when I’m not, their strong preference for a different outcome won’t change that fact.

Doing evil looks exhausting. I would be so tired.

I’ll take Things Literally No One Has Ever Asked For for $200 Alex

There’s no intellectually honest argument to be made that Mormonism is not a part of Christianity but the vast majority of rightwing evangelicals believe Mormons are not only not Christians but actively part of a hellbound satanic cult & I wonder if Donald Trump knows that because I kind of doubt it

I’m so mad that I am *quite literally* seven houses away from being able to vote for Aftyn Behn but I need everyone seven houses to the west of me to GET OUT FOR THIS ONE and vote for Aftyn for TN-07. Tennessee was a swing state during my lifetime and they want you to forget that.

Currently in traffic behind a dusty semi truck that has both titties and “RIP CHARLIE KIRK” drawn on it

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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Do you understand that a huge portion of the wellness podcaster and influencer community is now going to be paid to push folic acid as a treatment for autism despite no actual evidence for it. This is a windfall for the supplements industry. It's all a grift.

The Heritage Foundation is urging the FBI to see speech in favor of trans rights as an incitement to violence. Perfectly normal day in our great country. Plus, schools are finding out how cruel anti-trans laws impact their students, and an inspiring effort to help poor trans people afford hormones.

I wish the rapture would

I’m 34 and this is the first time in life I’ve felt OLD. My partner’s kids are super into Labubus right now and we don’t even know what they are but we tried to google it & now our algorithms think we want to see Labubu content so now we just send each other Labubu memes we don’t understand all day

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

Can you imagine being in the situation we’re in collectively as a country, actually having an issue that the vast majority of Democrat AND REPUBLICAN VOTERS have a pretty large degree of agreement on, and then being like “you know what we need to fix this? More women bleeding out in emergency rooms”

This fantasy of "civil" debate that white cis hetero men (and some people who share some of those identities) have is only ever safely possible for those people. They get to debate the civil rights, the actual lives, health, and livelihoods of people they will never be.

Everyone forgets about how some guy blew up an RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day in 2020 and destroyed a bunch of historic buildings on 2nd Ave. My house is close enough that it shook and I didn’t have internet for three days!!

As a decade+ Nashvillian I need people to understand that Rosepepper’s primary audience with their marquis sign is drunk bachelorette parties live-gramming #BrittsLastBashInNash and white people who think cinnamon is too spicy. They are not out here trying to alienate Republicans lol

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

Also, I think the idea that there is “political violence” and nonpolitical violence is a comforting fiction.

Hi, everyone, it's me, one of the 231 members of Congress who just said "violence is not the answer" and then proceeded to vote for an $848 billion military spending bill

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

“THIS IS WAR.” “Civil war.” “The Left is the party of murder.” “The Left won’t stop unless it’s forced to.” Influential figures across the right have decided to use Charlie Kirk’s death to promote their fantasies of war and retribution against Democrats and leftists.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

MSNBC is gonna have all white men talking about “extremists on both side of the aisle.”

Don’t get trapped in the worst most circular parts of this conversation, the parts where you already know where you stand. WHAT’S NEXT? I refuse to die without trying to make sure the kids I love get something so much better than this. I know I owe them that more than I know anything else.

I have never been able to figure out what kind of violence is not political

Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common." For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending. For Trump, it's just Monday.

The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?

This is not reporting. This is propaganda.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.