They're right. Offering help to people does not itself have to be a moment of exceptional catastrophe.

Hashtag: DoesNotReadLikeYouThinkItReads

I am so far disappointed that apparently no journalist has taken the golden opportunity to introduce coverage of Operation Charlotte's Web with the headline SOME PIGS.

Freaking BIble Belt deep-red Kansas and Missouri voted to codify reproductive freedom in the state constitutions. Absolutely not unwinnable terrain, and too many vulnerable people there for us just to turn our backs on them.

SHARIIIIIIF DON'T LIKE IT

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop over reacting

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand.

Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

And how many of those folks were just there to see big vroom-vroom boom-boom machines?

Me: <spends less than 2min behind the mic at the Staunton No Kings protest>

Brayne: <spends ENTIRE FUCKING AFTERNOON dissecting, critiquing, and rewriting what I said like it was a manuscript up for review>

thanks for nothing, brayne...but i am proud to have spoken up

Don't forget he pardoned all the "RIOTS [sic] AND LOOTERS" who vandalized the Capitol.

"Fuck your concrete"

"Can't go left in General Pinochet's Cadillac"

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

Every. Single. Time.

That whole thing about unequal power creating two groups--one of which the law protects but doesn't bind, and the other whom the law binds but doesn't protect--comes to mind here.

I mean there's not much more than that level of thought given to everything in the current US administration. "Ooh, makes Teh Libs cry AND fattens my wallet? HELL YES! With sprinkles."

So much for their purported strong support of "Stand Your Ground" laws. Or any law, for that matter.

My husband has worked in local government for over 25 years and routinely has to deal with wealthy, entitled landowners who take it as read that his office is "hiding something" or trying to cheat them. The emergence of entitled MAGA was not a surprise.

TFW you have so many unmatched socks you're tempted to suggest to them that they form a polycule

Autocorrect turned this poor guy's legit mushroom question into a theme for the ages

US politics has basically BECOME a giant reality show, except with consequences we *all* feel in *actual* reality.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

New entry in the "ruin a band name by removing one letter" game:

Terri Allard - Never Ceases To Amaze Me YouTube video by Dream of the 90s

Been thinking about this song a lot lately. It packs just as big a punch now as it did when it was released over 30 years ago, by Charlottesville's own Terri Allard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aizR...

I learned how to needlefelt an opossum today--IJS

...arguing all the way that they're actually "enrichment centers" and their handlers are going to make them rich and famous.

That "heart" is for you, Congresswoman, not the child-hater in chief.

The remaining sane people down here in Yankville all have our fingers crossed for you ❤️