@mencallmecaptain.bsky.social
I'm hard pressed to pick a low point of this address, but using a child who is a brain cancer survivor as a prop by granting him honorary Secret Service status after cutting funding for pediatric cancer research might be it for me. I need to go take a shower.
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I'm hard pressed to pick a low point of this address, but using a child who is a brain cancer survivor as a prop by granting him honorary Secret Service status after cutting funding for pediatric cancer research might be it for me. I need to go take a shower.
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Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you.
Do something
Do something
February 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you.
Do something
Do something
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"[B]irth control has been in conservatives’ crosshairs for years. And while Trump’s administration will undoubtedly attack it, he’ll likely have additional help from his appointees to the Supreme Court."
The Supreme Court Could Gut Access to Birth Control This Year
Opinion | With Trump back in the Oval Office, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore.
www.democracydocket.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"[B]irth control has been in conservatives’ crosshairs for years. And while Trump’s administration will undoubtedly attack it, he’ll likely have additional help from his appointees to the Supreme Court."
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Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.
December 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
This is something I've been thinking about a lot. Am I brave enough to stand in the gap for the most vulnerable? Am I brave enough to use my diminishing voice to speak up when it's genuinely dangerous? I hope I find out I'm braver than I feel. I intend to make people in my sphere feel the unease.
Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”
A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:
STAND OUT
“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."
A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:
STAND OUT
“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."
November 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM
This is something I've been thinking about a lot. Am I brave enough to stand in the gap for the most vulnerable? Am I brave enough to use my diminishing voice to speak up when it's genuinely dangerous? I hope I find out I'm braver than I feel. I intend to make people in my sphere feel the unease.
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Just so we’re clear -
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.
November 18, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Just so we’re clear -
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.