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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 1d

What a fucking night! So proud of @jael.bsky.social and @ekkoastral.bsky.social doing the thing and swinging through Seattle on their first (but not last!) West Coast tour! My friend is a rockstar!!! 🥹

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 2d

Procrastination isn’t laziness. It’s fear—of rejection, of change, or sometimes the quiet knowledge that you’re betraying your own values. The cost of your new life is often your old one. The cost of stagnation is your life slipping by. aridrennen.substack.com/p/procrastin...

What Procrastination Is Trying to Tell You

The cost of your new life is often your old one. The cost of stagnation is your life slipping by.

aridrennen.substack.com

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 3d

There's nobody behind the curtain. Joe Biden hollowed out what was left of the Democratic Party to try to get a second term he didn't even make it to the ballot for.

Politico @politico.com · 3d

Amy McGrath has announced a second bid for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat.

McGrath announces second bid for McConnell’s Senate seat

The retired fighter pilot said she is “battle-tested and ready to fight.”

www.politico.com

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 6d

Candace Owens when she hears “Father Figure” on Life of a Showgirl

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 7d

Bench Schumer and Jeffries. This is who Democrats should send in to negotiate with Trump.

James Neal - will know what will happen when it does. @jameswneal.bsky.social · 8d

#bernie and #AOC today

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 7d

I am tired of hearing assertions that Democrats "threw trans people under the bus" in 2024 from people whose primary interest in the trans community is as cannon fodder for their revolutionary pipe dreams

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans would rather shut down the government than release the Epstein files

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks this is not the best lighting and the first time I've done video since The Bangs Incident so I appreciate the vote of confidence

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

Trans healthcare is not at stake in the government shutdown fight. Don't let Trump and the GOP fool you.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

They have not been able to pass the full approps bill in three years, and whatever they pass needs to be able to get 60 votes in the Senate.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

There's a lot of misinfo going around right now that I would be wary of. The GOP has been trying to make it seem like Democrats are shutting down the government over trans healthcare. Neither side's funding proposal does this. Don't do their job for them.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

Shutdown update: there are currently two Continuing Resolutions under discussion:
1) The GOP version represents the current status quo
2) The Democratic version represents the pre "Big Ugly Bill" status quo
3) Neither of them contains provisions around trans healthcare

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump administration floated but seems to have dropped a ban on gun purchases for trans people after it attracted significant opposition from the right, showing the limits of anti-trans politics in uniting their coalition. t.co/T9ROWLl0r8

https://www.mediamatters.org/national-rifle-association/right-wing-media-fracture-over-potential-gun-ban-trans-americans

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

Why don't we ban white men from buying guns until this epidemic of terrorism has ended?

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump administration floated but seems to have dropped a ban on gun purchases for trans people after it attracted significant opposition from the right, showing the limits of anti-trans politics in uniting their coalition. www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans

Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...

www.mediamatters.org

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 9d

Unpopular opinion but I'd be fine with trans people not being able to buy AR-15s if it meant this nutjob couldn't get one either. Just ban them for everybody.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d

Here's Michael Knowles a month ago once again calling for the "eradication of transgenderism" and here is a man who threatened to shoot up a gay bar because he wanted to "eradicate transgenderism." This was retweeted by prominent conservatives such as Chris Rufo.

This is stochastic terrorism.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 10d

I absolutely did not.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 10d

Most people rejected His message

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 10d

We've all heard the lectures from the Right about how words are inciting violence in this country so maybe they should take their own advice and cool it on the "vengeance for Charlie Kirk" rhetoric

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20d

There was nothing to be gained from voting no or not voting. The right is it hing to portray trans people as blood thirsty terrorists, why reinforce that with an ultimately meaningless vote against a national day of remembrance that none of us will remember in 5 years?

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 20d

Charlie Kirk dehumanized trans people as “a throbbing middle finger to God.” That cruelty was infuriating. But Sarah McBride was right to condemn his assassination — political violence will not liberate trans people, it hurts us most. aridrennen.substack.com/p/when-viole...