I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.
I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.
Republicans are monsters.
Photo of feet standing below some text on a floor. βThe point is not for women to simply take power out of menβs hands, since that wouldnβt change anything about the world. Itβs a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.β - Simone de Beauvoir
A reminder from Simone de Beauvoir on International Womenβs Day.
Republicans. Are. Monsters.
Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.
We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE.
But Iβve moved on to prosecute ICE yβall. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
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One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.
If youβve had enough of Donald Trump consistently siding with our enemies, then vote EVERY Republican out in 2026.
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If you wanted to start a civil war in the US, what better way than:
- brutalizing populace w/a paramilitary police force
- start a foreign war
- crashing the economy
- interfering/stealing an election
His actions are indistinguishable from what a foreign adversary would to to destroy our country.
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Jesse Jackson was an early political ally for the LGBTQ. He did a lot of AIDS activism. He was the first major U.S. presidential candidate to include LGBTQ+ rights in his platform (candidate for 1984, 1988 primaries), anti-discrimination laws, and openly gay service members.
Canβt wait for the Benghazi 2.0 hearings to happen over abandoning US Officials and Diplomats across the Middle East because a child rapist and money launderer is being blackmailed to start a war on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu.
He wants to give βcover,β to a pedophile.
Useless.
The fact that Kristi Noem's relentless plastic surgery couldn't save her job, even in the MAGAverse, signals that feminism has achieved its goals.
This times a million
No. One. Gets. A. Nazi. Tattoo. By. Accident.
Wait, *another* one?
"You can only be decent because we are horrible" is a very, very popular line of thinking among horrible people.
Donβt let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.
All red states who vote for predators.
Miss me with the performative concern for the children.
On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.
Just another day/reminder of how βthe richest and most powerful nation in the worldβ cannot do mass transit.
We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.
A street in Pompeii under a clear blue sky
A street in Pompeii near where I've excavated
Victorian painting of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius
Plaster cast of some of the victims of the Pompeii eruption
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Iβve never voted for a Republican and Iβm proud of it.
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. Theyβre tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.