rj
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Maddow does not have your safety or best interest in mind.
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Maddow does not have your safety or best interest in mind.
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If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
September 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
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I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
Cool surprise on my patio
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Cool surprise on my patio
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.
August 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.
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So much of this essay resonates:
"Most people refuse to even speak the word COVID. When they get sick, they do not test for COVID. When they get COVID-like symptoms, they claim to have the flu...People who engage in COVID mitigation practices are mocked, harassed, & accused of being mentally ill.”
"Most people refuse to even speak the word COVID. When they get sick, they do not test for COVID. When they get COVID-like symptoms, they claim to have the flu...People who engage in COVID mitigation practices are mocked, harassed, & accused of being mentally ill.”
In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
www.thegauntlet.news
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So much of this essay resonates:
"Most people refuse to even speak the word COVID. When they get sick, they do not test for COVID. When they get COVID-like symptoms, they claim to have the flu...People who engage in COVID mitigation practices are mocked, harassed, & accused of being mentally ill.”
"Most people refuse to even speak the word COVID. When they get sick, they do not test for COVID. When they get COVID-like symptoms, they claim to have the flu...People who engage in COVID mitigation practices are mocked, harassed, & accused of being mentally ill.”
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Capitalism insists that everything gets compartmentalized, but my autistic brain sees everything as connected.
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Capitalism insists that everything gets compartmentalized, but my autistic brain sees everything as connected.
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Music is math you absorb through your ears. But it's also an artform.
July 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Music is math you absorb through your ears. But it's also an artform.
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500 rallying for getting ICE out of Pico Rivera tonight.
June 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
500 rallying for getting ICE out of Pico Rivera tonight.
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I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID.
Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring.
America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring.
America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
June 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID.
Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring.
America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring.
America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
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A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.
Not ferns, I'm between two cats.
June 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Not ferns, I'm between two cats.
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While the US attacks public health & disability rights… a new COVID variant is here.
An n95 mask is a reliable defense against acute illness & long COVID. Unmitigated pandemics are fascist projects that most harm marginalized folks. Masking is resistance.
Give/get mask mutual aid: maskbloc.org
An n95 mask is a reliable defense against acute illness & long COVID. Unmitigated pandemics are fascist projects that most harm marginalized folks. Masking is resistance.
Give/get mask mutual aid: maskbloc.org
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
www.cbsnews.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
While the US attacks public health & disability rights… a new COVID variant is here.
An n95 mask is a reliable defense against acute illness & long COVID. Unmitigated pandemics are fascist projects that most harm marginalized folks. Masking is resistance.
Give/get mask mutual aid: maskbloc.org
An n95 mask is a reliable defense against acute illness & long COVID. Unmitigated pandemics are fascist projects that most harm marginalized folks. Masking is resistance.
Give/get mask mutual aid: maskbloc.org
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Facts still correct today.
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Facts still correct today.
My brother texts out of the blue, "I hope you're doing well."
Lol. I bet he does.
Lol. I bet he does.
May 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My brother texts out of the blue, "I hope you're doing well."
Lol. I bet he does.
Lol. I bet he does.
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Killer Mike - "Reagan" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Pitchfork
youtu.be
May 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I don't want to get sick because I don't have a support system
AND
I don't have a support system because I don't want to get sick.
AND
I don't have a support system because I don't want to get sick.
May 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don't want to get sick because I don't have a support system
AND
I don't have a support system because I don't want to get sick.
AND
I don't have a support system because I don't want to get sick.
I'm developing sign-choice pet peeves. I don't like this judgemental part of myself.
If it's not conceptually accurate and is a concept I closely identify with - I'm gonna notice and I'm gonna be annoyed.
If it's not conceptually accurate and is a concept I closely identify with - I'm gonna notice and I'm gonna be annoyed.
May 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I'm developing sign-choice pet peeves. I don't like this judgemental part of myself.
If it's not conceptually accurate and is a concept I closely identify with - I'm gonna notice and I'm gonna be annoyed.
If it's not conceptually accurate and is a concept I closely identify with - I'm gonna notice and I'm gonna be annoyed.
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The Fascists and the Furious: Overton Drift
May 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The Fascists and the Furious: Overton Drift
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i am numbers
i am debts i am calories
regrets and blurry memories
a forlorn stare
a twinkling eye a wisp of hair
a song a cry a mass diseases exhales breezes
do i matter if i’m forgotten
do i matter more if not then breaking down is all i do
taking up space that too
and when i stop
what then
i am debts i am calories
regrets and blurry memories
a forlorn stare
a twinkling eye a wisp of hair
a song a cry a mass diseases exhales breezes
do i matter if i’m forgotten
do i matter more if not then breaking down is all i do
taking up space that too
and when i stop
what then
May 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
i am numbers
i am debts i am calories
regrets and blurry memories
a forlorn stare
a twinkling eye a wisp of hair
a song a cry a mass diseases exhales breezes
do i matter if i’m forgotten
do i matter more if not then breaking down is all i do
taking up space that too
and when i stop
what then
i am debts i am calories
regrets and blurry memories
a forlorn stare
a twinkling eye a wisp of hair
a song a cry a mass diseases exhales breezes
do i matter if i’m forgotten
do i matter more if not then breaking down is all i do
taking up space that too
and when i stop
what then
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By the way the Wikipedia listing of the Smurfs is an existential journey
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
By the way the Wikipedia listing of the Smurfs is an existential journey