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Yeah I also don't actually have a lawn lol

You're of course not wrong that there's still good music out there.

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore YouTube video by John Prine - Topic

John Prine fuckin ruled

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Remember when country music was made by people who hated cops, opposed imperialist wars, and also were good at writing songs?

Shitty post 9/11 country music can get its pickup truck off my lawn.

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This month we have "Additional Persecution Likely" a translation by Oksana Mironova & Ben Nadler of sections of Delo Truda, a Russian & Ukrainian anarchist paper printed in exile after the Russian Revolution. Word of the month is about a town in Ukraine. Read for free at TangledWilderness.org

Live Like the World is Dying How do we live in a world that might be ending? By preparing to survive that end and by working to prevent it. A production of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.

This week on Live Like the World is Drying, Miriam talks with Alex about rapid response networks and the importance of getting to know your neighbors.

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brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.

so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm

"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." --David Graeber

The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.

He is waving goodbye to his mother.

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

what the actual fuck

They're not going to run out of the absolute worst people with the absolute worst politics to replace the previous absolute worst person with.

The barrel is bottomless, we have to eliminate the position, the agency, and unbuild the whole institution.

Right, I mean again, language isn't everything, but when the construction is "be a father to" you're speaking in a framework where the role is part of the subject's identity.
There are definitely counter examples, I'm sure. But I think it's illustrative.

"men want women to do untold amounts of reproductive labor and women aren't so sure" is something I suspect has been true for far longer than people think, it's just that women today feel more able to say "I'm not sure I want to have kids."

Anyone getting terfy in the replies is getting blocked and I hope you have a terrible day.

This is not a post about bioessentialism, this is a post about culturally determined expectations of parenthood.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

I don't want to put too much weight on linguistics here, but it does feel illustrative of this dynamic that in English the verb "mother" means "to nurture, to care for" and the verb "father" basically means "to ejaculate."

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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The times I've seen trans people protect and defend gender non-conforming cis gays from queerphobic assholes actually manages to outnumber the times I've seen this exact tired-ass argument trotted out, and that's genuinely saying something.

Septic masculinity.

Just building a ten lane highway along the fecal-oral route.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Reminder # 15673 that Christian Zionism is a death cult

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Venezuelan man says his rose tattoos got him deported to El Salvador’s brutal prison: ‘I thought my life had ended’ Trump administration accused Luis Muñoz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the US

"“When I was detained in the US, an immigration officer saw the roses and immediately said ‘you’re a member of the Tren de Aragua’ and I told him that I had been a college student. 1/2

They also allege that the box contained six incendiary zines, which you can get here to help pay for Des' defense.

detritusbooks.com/des

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.

It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

I'd argue with you but I honestly have no idea what your point is.

A primer on this worldview: www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/eva...

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

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People don't actually care whether the bombs being dropped on them have been authorized by Congress or not.