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Liberal in a small bluish dot in a medium sized red state. Bookseller by trade. Support indie bookstores and democracy. #TeamPete On bluesky @aunteef.bsky.social
I'm primarily on Bluesky now at @aunteef.bsky.social. See you there!
Next up for picks in the Trump White House, announcing tomorrow:
- Scott Baio
- Hulk Hogan
- hitlrfkr69 from X
- a can of spray tanner with googly eyes glued to it
- one of the melted Nazis from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark

All people needed to do was turn out to vote Dem. Not make love to anyone. Not marry them. Just come out and vote.

So now you have the dude with open cases against him as AG. And Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. She's been linked to Russia, but no big whoop because something, something not good enough for you.

Meanwhile a bunch of y'all running around doing arts and crafts and demanding Black people do MORE work and not be upset/mean/or demand better from the majority of WP.

Them: So, what did you do in America this week.

Me: Oh, we just set the clock back.

Them: Ah, Daylight Saving Time ended!

Me: Hm? Oh, yeah. I guess we did that, too.

98% packed and ready to ship

#Caturday

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.

My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."

Long?

Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.

And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.

There’s a Lot of Fighting Over Why Harris Lost. But Everyone Seems to Want to Avoid This Explanation.

I’m surprised more people aren’t saying this.

Slate
“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." - AR Moxon