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Happy #caturday to all who celebrate

Not complicated

the power is channeled through God-given orderliness. In Catholic culture, the holy family model. Elevating model marriages onto a pedestal. Sanctified.

people overlook the sociopath aspect, the "othering"

I'm so glad I got to talk with @onthemedia.bsky.social about what is being done to trans people by the law.

thx katie. Same. was blocked.

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#caturday

oh good grief. He fell for the scam.

Well done. Yay! Love to see this sort of content.

Yay! congrats

In Minnesota, we stand tall with our neighbors in the face of hatred.

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PFLAG Celebrates #TDOV Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is an annual day of recognition, celebrated around the world on March 31st.

we are here, we love you, and we are fighting for you and your right to be your authentic, incredible selves. 🏳️‍⚧️

Learn more at pflag.org/TDOV

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Trans and nonbinary folks have ALWAYS existed, and ALWAYS will. This Trans Day of Visibility, March 31st, @pflaggenevatricit.bsky.social is sending a loud reminder to all of our trans and nonbinary loved ones:

Olympic ban on transgender women stems from fear and feelings, not facts | Opinion The International Olympic Committee has refused to make public the science that led to its ban of transgender women athletes.

Imagine telling an 11-year-old girl she can’t compete b/c she has a condition called DSD. Or making accepting discrimination the price all women must pay to compete.

When people say transphobia hurts all women, this is what is meant. And the IOC did it willingly.

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Hiking #nokings today.
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~ 10 miles round trip

Its got to be a weak nitric acid solution because the amount of energy required to break strongly bonded atmospheric nitrogen molecules is basic high school chemistry. There is nothing magic or groundbreaking about this appliance.

🤪 not. As covered on Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver.

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the good life

daughter went to Marquette. I do miss the after-game walks to Sobelmans.

cool.

My folks thought that the world would go through an apocalypse in the 70s. I was small, but I suspect that they wished for the apocalypse. They grew their own veggies, butchered chickens, canned everything. Sauerkraut, even.
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This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt.

The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

Don't drink raw milk. Just don't.

My parents bought raw milk most days until I was 10 or so, from a local NE Iowa farmer they knew, and we lived. They hated the idea of "packaged" milk at the time.

The risk is not worth it.

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Super cool 😎

I have to post this periodically to keep from going insane: In the last couple of decades or so, the right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere generally. This is by far the most important political development of that last half-century, upstream of virtually any other problem that you can identify, and yet in mainsteam political discourse we *never talk about it*. It's the biggest, most salient political fact of all, just sitting there, looming, and no one speaks it aloud. Every day, we talk to earnest liberals who describe, in great detail, problems that have resulted from this ... but they won't name the cause! "Turns out, all the sudden the public is obsessed with trans girls trying to play sports." Oh? Any thoughts about why? Any at all? No? No thoughts? "The public has lost trust in government and come to think that everyone involved is corrupt." Oh? Interesting. I guess they just concluded that through their own comparative study of gov't efficacy. Or was it something else? Thoughts? Anyone? This problem -- the Right Wing takeover of media -- is like Voldemort or something. He Who Cannot Be Named. People seem to think they'll burst into flame if they discuss it. It's baffling. I don’t understand why people don’t call it out.