Berni
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Retired techie spends her days playing stringed instruments. Cat and dog lover. Black Lives Matter and so do LGBTQ+
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The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
March 31, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.
March 31, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Does anyone know why, when a book is announced for pre-order, the electronic version is only available on Amazon? This is at least the 2nd time I’ve gotten an email from them about something I’m interested us (the new T. Kingfisher Snake Eater) and want to pre-order an ebook from Bookshop.org [cont]
Bookstore.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Does anyone know why, when a book is announced for pre-order, the electronic version is only available on Amazon? This is at least the 2nd time I’ve gotten an email from them about something I’m interested us (the new T. Kingfisher Snake Eater) and want to pre-order an ebook from Bookshop.org [cont]
Sorry for the duplicate. As someone who had a malignant melanoma removed over the summer, this is very encouraging.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sorry for the duplicate. As someone who had a malignant melanoma removed over the summer, this is very encouraging.
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MAGA must mean make America grim again. Rather than the joyful lady with the laugh, we’re stuck with the guy with no sense of humor and a vendetta against comedians. Our next motto should be MALA: make America laugh again. He hates that. Resistance through laughter.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
MAGA must mean make America grim again. Rather than the joyful lady with the laugh, we’re stuck with the guy with no sense of humor and a vendetta against comedians. Our next motto should be MALA: make America laugh again. He hates that. Resistance through laughter.
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The blacklist capitulation by movie studios in response to the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt proves that there is NO history of corporations prioritizing values or free speech over profits. #JimmyKimmel
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The blacklist capitulation by movie studios in response to the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt proves that there is NO history of corporations prioritizing values or free speech over profits. #JimmyKimmel
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I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination
September 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination
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You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta
Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
This is incredibly unfair. No taxation without representation. Perhaps Hispanics and Blacks in Texas should pay their taxes based on their representation.
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
Just now…
August 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is incredibly unfair. No taxation without representation. Perhaps Hispanics and Blacks in Texas should pay their taxes based on their representation.
Musicology Duck posted a video of a brass band playing in DC. In love that they’re playing “Which Side Are You On?” an old union song.
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Musicology Duck posted a video of a brass band playing in DC. In love that they’re playing “Which Side Are You On?” an old union song.
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still quite a lot to see—we have Nadine with her homemade protest banners, soldiers patrolling on foot, an anti-Trump brass band, and the guy who walks around draped in an Israeli flag offering to baptize people in the name of Jesus Christ. But no tanks!
August 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
still quite a lot to see—we have Nadine with her homemade protest banners, soldiers patrolling on foot, an anti-Trump brass band, and the guy who walks around draped in an Israeli flag offering to baptize people in the name of Jesus Christ. But no tanks!
Hello. I work in engineering. You can tell by my white lab coat with a pocket protector in it, slide rule, and heavy glasses mended with white tape over the nose. I’m very serious and pompous and tell you it can’t be done.
Hi I’m a romance author. You can tell because of my pink feather boa and poofy pink feather pen that I twirl as I stare up into space before opining on biceps.
Hello Ich am an English professor yn a filme or televisioun drama. Ich am sittinge on a deske yn the fronte of the classroome. Ich open a booke to the firste page and reade the firste sentence out loude.
July 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hello. I work in engineering. You can tell by my white lab coat with a pocket protector in it, slide rule, and heavy glasses mended with white tape over the nose. I’m very serious and pompous and tell you it can’t be done.
Dying to pick lettuce. ICE is going to be pretty hot where they’re ultimately going.
July 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Dying to pick lettuce. ICE is going to be pretty hot where they’re ultimately going.
I read this. It’s a good, powerful book.
sorry about the amazon link but the ebook of Wild Faith is on sale on Kindle for $3!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CT...
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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America - Kindle edition by Lavin, Talia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I read this. It’s a good, powerful book.
I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is performance art that kills.
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is performance art that kills.
Today’s paper had a warning for Americans not to travel to Nicaragua because it is “sinking deeper into authoritarianism.” So Americans should feel right at home, eh? Did they realize the irony in printing that?
June 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today’s paper had a warning for Americans not to travel to Nicaragua because it is “sinking deeper into authoritarianism.” So Americans should feel right at home, eh? Did they realize the irony in printing that?