Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
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🏳️🌈⭐👏Newsletter Writer & Contributor @The Barbed Wire, formerly Digital Editor @Texas Observer, bylines in Teen Vogue, etc. Austin, Texas. They/Them.
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Reposted by Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
As I was saying: "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
As I was saying: "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
Reposted by Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
POLICE JUST KETTLED AND ASSAULTED THE SMALL CROWD OF PROTESTERS. Sorry for shaky cam just staying safe
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
POLICE JUST KETTLED AND ASSAULTED THE SMALL CROWD OF PROTESTERS. Sorry for shaky cam just staying safe
Reposted by Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
Chanting “Trump is a pedo.” Police are giving warnings to protesters to exit the roadway at 8th Street
January 11, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Chanting “Trump is a pedo.” Police are giving warnings to protesters to exit the roadway at 8th Street
Reposted by Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
This stuff is terrifying to me not because white ladies are unsafe now (though I know that's what's scary to a certain subset of white folks), but because it speaks to just how thoroughly they have decided that this is war and their opponents are all terrorists deserving of violence and death.
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 PM
This stuff is terrifying to me not because white ladies are unsafe now (though I know that's what's scary to a certain subset of white folks), but because it speaks to just how thoroughly they have decided that this is war and their opponents are all terrorists deserving of violence and death.
Reposted by Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
Here's the link to the story
Organizer arrested in Grand Rapids following protest in response to U.S. attack in Venezuela
An officer can be heard telling the woman she's being arrested for "obstructing a roadway" and "failure to obey a lawful command from a police officer."
www.wzzm13.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Here's the link to the story