Mary Chapin Carpenter - He Thinks He'll Keep Her (1993) YouTube video by countryback

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"This isn't a conflict between religion and secularism. It's a conflict between constitutional governance and the coercive use of military authority to impose one commander's end-times theology on the troops beneath him."

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"The air vibrated with that very specific end-of-empire energy where your brain says this is insane but your soul says don't stop, this is sacred."

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Magical Transition

#transgender #magicalgirl #humor #actor #anime

Off to a good start

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🧵③"...retained but censured, and left the university soon afterwards.
Here is an excerpt of that lecture. I have changed a few things for clarity of exposition. I hope you enjoy reading it.”

🧵②"their refusalto give testimony to the U.S. House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Professors H. Chandler Davis (mathematics) and Mark Nickerson (pharmacology) were fired. The third faculty member, Clement L. Markert (biology), was..."

Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age My Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture at the University of Michigan

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🧵①“On Thursday, November 6, I gave the David, Markert, Nickerson lecture. This is an annual lecture on academic and intellectual freedom…[the] series’ origins go back to the McCarthy era. In 1954 the University of Michigan suspended three faculty members for..."

🧵④"...to their manic need to leave their mark on the nation."

🧵③"...The lack of boundaries also means that their personal obsessions and grievances can shape domestic and foreign policy. State resources are reallocated for vanity wars, ethnic cleansing and population engineering schemes, and grandiose public works projects that attest..."

🧵②"...and society are supposed to serve the leader...This proprietary mentality feeds corruption because it translates into a belief that as head of state, it is their right to possess and exploit anything in the nation, from female bodies to natural resources to economic assets to information..."

"Both Sane and Insane": Autocratic Visions of Governance, and Chaos as a Strategy Plus gratitude practice and a discount on paying subscriptions as a thank you

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🧵①"Autocrats don’t recognize boundaries between public and private, and they don’t see democratic ideas of conflicts of interest or accountability as legitimate or applicable to them. Only fools are in office to serve the people: rather, the party and government

Oh hey — you know that big Chicago raid where Stephen Miller said the building was “FILLED” with gang members?

@propublica found 0 evidence of Tren De Aragua, the men weren’t charged with any crimes. 🤔 (sound familiar Tennessee?)

All for show. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

On the difference between a pedophile, hebephile & ephebophile: "... it's very hard to explain the difference without sounding like a pedophile."

Yup.

Me, I'll take "Things I wish I hadn't learned for $1000, Alex."

My clowder of goofballs 😊😊😊

What’s Up With That Stay by Justice Jackson?! And why we should all take a breath

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The Trump Coin I'm adding my design submission

I'm in love 😍😆🤩

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Essay: If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim Are White Women Awake Yet?

🧵⑤a man who is a danger to the entire world.
The blatant and bold theocracy that the conservatives have been working for over the decades is going to embolden other theocrats and hurt anyone who is not a white, wealthy, cishet and able-bodied man."

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🧵④submit to misogyny?” questions and obsess over their white sisters who benefit from white supremacist patriarchy and who don’t give a flying fuck how it hurts the entire world.
And it is the entire world. Those women who voted for Trump: they helped put in place

🧵③which conservatives have worked for since the early 1970s. Amy Coney Barrett is not an aberration. She is the fruition of decades of work by white supremacist patriarchy...I want white women in the U.S. to take all their earnest “How can I help Muslim women” and “Why do Muslim women...

🧵②built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, & sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?...Just as Trump is not an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot, so too is the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court...

🧵①"So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home. It was being...

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.”

Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Essay: What Does a Rapist Look Like? Gisêle Pelicot, centre left, leaves the Avignon courthouse with her sons, David, left, Florian centre background, and her lawyer Stephane Babonneau, right, in Avignon, southern France, Sept.

Content Warning ⚠️
-rape

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November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

Eff the MAGAts and POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

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