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“no one for president” you sound like such a fucking cringe edgelord and unless u plan on staging a massive revolution in a country of 300 million spanning 3.8 million square miles and overthrowing the government before November I would suggest voting for the candidate who DOESNT cater to white supremacy subcultures, getting involved in local community services & initiatives, donating to causes, or campaigning/protesting instead of this performative mock activism

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Tim Walz and his wife don’t own a single stock. Their only investment is in their state pensions. He supports safer gun legislation. He supports meaningful housing reform (namely policies that make building housing - the only thing that will solve this crisis - easier). He supported queer youth in an era where support was even more difficult to come by than it is now, and he still does. He has a pittbull lab mix named Scout. He regularly asks his daughter what’s important to her and what her peers are saying on Tik Tok. He supports abortion access. He was a geographer and a teacher and only entered politics because he got so mad that one of his class field trips to a political rally was cut short by a republican staffer who denied them entry because of a student’s John Kerry pin.

He was also developed in a lab specifically for the purpose of appealing to as many white Americans as possible. He grew up on a farm in Nebraska in a community of ~400 people. He joined the Army National Guard at 17. He coached football, taking a losing team to the state championships. He hunts. He goes to the state fair every year. He uses diet mountain dew as a sobriety aid.

This was a smart pick from Harris. It’s clear from their interactions at the rally that he’s there to support her rather than hog the spotlight, as I worried Shapiro would have done. They’re able to put forward this “happy warrior” campaign together because they have good chemistry and are young enough not to be falling asleep on the job. They’re both corny as hell. They might pull this off.

No ticket is ever going to be perfect. I have always been left of the ticket and I suspect I may always be, but this is a real step in the right direction, and there’s so much more energy in this campaign. I’m feeling so much more hopeful than I was a couple months ago.

Make sure you’re registered to vote (voting rolls have been purged in places all over the country. I myself had to re-register recently, and will be checking regularly). Make sure you know what’s happening downballot in your district, because those races and initiatives are vitally important, too. Support local politicians doing excellent work.

For instance, these may be the people responsible for making new bike lanes, transit options, and housing developments possible. Where I live one of these (young, awesome) politicians was recently run out of office by insane nimby whiners sending death threats to his family. I wonder if he’d been able to stick it out if more people were paying attention and vocally supporting him. National-stage MAGA politicians are not the only people fighting to make our lives harder, so it’s worth figuring out who’s fighting against the wine-and-property class hoarding all the quality of life in your town. Find out who’s fighting to shut down your library and who’s telling that person “over my dead body.” Then go to the polls armed with that knowledge.

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sorry im listening to a recording of that woman who threatened to call the cops on a black man because he told her to put her dog on a leash. and she literally said "well I was a woman alone in a park" as her excuse for verbally out loud on camera telling him that she would call the cops and tell them a black man was threatening her life. this is what i mean when i say fear isn't apolitical or neutral white & cis women actively use their fear, whether its put-on or genuine, to kill men of color and trans people. "its okay to say kill all men because im a woman im just coping with my trauma!" cool could you find a way to cope that doesn't lead to murder because a white cis woman felt like her life was in danger because a black/trans person existed near her.

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i have fallen down the stairs thrice, reblog for bigger sample size <333

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train passing you are the most beautiful creature the deep night holds

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Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

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me at age 10: school is LITERALLY a prison. they keep us here for hours and dont let us eat or use the bathroom unless we ask. and we're forced to do dumb unnecessary work and we can't leave. this sucks

me at age 15: that was a little dramatic i think i mean it wasn't that bad

me at age 20: actually 10 year old me was right the way they treated us was incredibly inhumane for no fucking reason

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Pls reblog if u vote :)

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this legislative session, 12 anti-trans bills were introduced in virginia. 3 were intended to ban trans healthcare, 4 were forced-outing bills, and 5 would have banned trans people from sports. these are the same kinds of bills we’ve been watching pop up country-wide. but as of this morning (2/16/23) all 12 were defeated. it’s obviously the bare minimum to ask for from a government, but it should still be celebrated. so many of us in virginia have been holding our breathes for weeks, and the relief we felt today was notable.

things feel grim right now, but there are still people out here fighting tooth and nail to keep our family safe, and we are loved, so there’s your good news for the day

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The trouble with public art installations is that even among those that don’t strive to be inoffensively bland, too many of them are designed to be cute or inspiring or edgy or otherwise provoke a specific, well-defined emotion. What we need is more public art whose intended reaction is “what in the goddamn…?”

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if I show you my boobs and you don’t act like it was one of the top ten best experiences of your life then you don’t get to see them again

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Iconic Tumblr Blorbo : Round 1

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This might be my favorite submission so far