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Philly, politics, poetry, and silliness. Background in science, long stretch as an editor, now redesigning tired properties. Have creative appreciation of many types!

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My friend Avi wrote this, and he couldn’t be more right. (Posted w/ his permission.) #EatTheRich

It’s December 7, 2022

And we are only now protecting interracial marriage as the Respect for Marriage Act goes to the House for a final vote this week

This has been settled for over 50 years. Yet regressives are constantly trying to drag us into the dark ages — why?

When I hear about the coup attempt in Germany & the desire of these violent extremists to insert Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss as the leader after a planned execution of the German chancellor, it sounds ludicrous, laughable. But that's the thing: These people are deadly serious.

Because the plots of these anti-democratic extremists often seem so ludicrous, they can succeed because the public--& too many leaders--don't take them seriously enough. This tendency is how Trump got as far as he did.

To whatever coworker pulls my name in the Secret Santa drawing today, I'm a size 24 pack of frosted Pop Tarts
@TonyStark When you save the county from needing Joe Manchin’s vote to get progressive legislation passed, you get to throw as big a party as you’d like. Sorry you had to go out and do it twice and thank you, Georgia voters!

The New York Times is bracing for a historic mass walkout as union negotiations go down to the wire - The New York Times is preparing for more than 1,100 of its union staffers to go on strike for a full day Thursday — an act of protest that has not been staged by employees at the paper of record since the late 1970s. #NewYork #cnn

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/media/new-york-times-union-negotiations-reliable-sources/index.html

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

Y'all can start warming up your "epic takedowns" and "scathing dissents" of the impending decision.

I don't believe in "States rights," because most all of the time, that just means "States' rights to be racist to Black folk."

About 50% of all white US voters reliably vote for the more right wing candidate.🥲 50% vote against. About 90% of Black voters vote against right wing candidates.

Who wins an election depends on how many Black folk vote.

Started a #transJoy group to help us follow along and share #trans #joy @transjoy

So much is really tough right now. I know I could use more trans joy in my life

💜🏳️‍⚧️💜❤️💜🏳️‍⚧️💜❤️💜❤️💜🏳️‍⚧️

(Apologies if something already existed, I couldn’t find it)