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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 26m

Some people will bend over backwards to create moral equivalencies that ignore salient facts. The vast majority of statues that have been removed over the past decade have come down following public input, a review by local government officials, and a final vote.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 23h

Guys, my family benefited from SNAP when I was a teenager.

My dad was out of work, my mother was fighting child support; SNAP saved my/my sibs' lives.

Losing SNAP then would have been disastrous.

Support your local food bank:

NPR @npr.org · 1d

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities. n.pr/48PNNIt

'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

n.pr

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, I'm supposed to brief a Halloween case for my Tuesday lecture and I'm 99% certain I can't use the poisoned candy case from the '70s.

I did find one ruling a house legally haunted, though, so that has potential ...

L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 1d

This piece made me feel really smug about using the subway, y'know?

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I do container gardening REALLY badly and ... nope.

On my third of an acre heading into November? So much nope!

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 1d

It's a day ending in -y, so here's Noel Coward: open.spotify.com/track/0WeQc5...

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

open.spotify.com

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 2d

God, I love the Rotunda and dome so much.

Some of the iron used in its construction was purchaed through the Cooper Hewitt Iron Company, which has ties to my northern NJ hometown.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 2d

If he's breathing, he's lying.

Tagging his shit with incredulous headlines like this is fucking bullshit.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

The RAC is also an abomination, but its construction didn't also involve destroying a chunk of a historic building.

L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

I turn it off on every device & in every new program, which means ... all typos are my own.

I'm fairly consistent, but sometimes? I'll catch one two days later and feel like my 1st grade teacher took a red pen to it.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

I understood what you meant; autocorrect is the bane of my existence!

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

Truly.

Ron is also heckin' fun to watch in interviews, because when he's really into a subject, he kinda lights up inside & you get swept up in his excitement. It's really powerful.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

It's my curse for being entirely too online.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

Graham Platner.

He's running for Congress in Maine.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

It's such a joy to hear he's IRL as wonderful as I have wanted to believe him to be since I was an awkward preteen watching him on TV.

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 3d

I've had a crush on Will Riker for several decades.

Dude was hot. (As an adult, I also enjoy a good Frakes interview or panel video, but he's a real person & Will Riker isn't.)

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 4d

No.

L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 5d

Great question, tonight, Jason!

Anything I saw in the theater was An Event; I have 5:

• Annie
• ET
• Return of the Jedi
• The NeverEnding Story
• Ghostbusters

(Aaand dinner tonight was take-and-bake pizza.)

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 6d

Good.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d

"This does not mean that you are doomed: it means you are already brave. You are brave for not bowing down: this makes you different than the universities and newspapers and state officials who capitulated at the slightest provocation."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Lady Samhain (she/her) @maggiesox.bsky.social · 9d

You do not, in fact, have to excuse shitty teenage boy behavior.

Fix the shitty teenage boys or you get shitty adult men. (Like, for example, the 30+ year olds on that chat.)

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L. Wednesday (as in Addams) @lizzywednesday.bsky.social · 6d

I had the EXACT same reaction.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

A fallacy that I see some organizers promote [sometimes] is that people 'just know what to do' and this is simply not true. Tell people what you are doing and invite them to join in.

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