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Look at the proud parent in the background 🥺

incredible picture of my neighbours puppies

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Listen to me. Listen very carefully:

They are trying to wear you out.

They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.

So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.

Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!

Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.

That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.

Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.

Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.

Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.

It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?

Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.

*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.

**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.

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If y'all don't mind me adding to this I wanted to mention something.

In general a VERY big majority of 🍊's executive orders also fall into the same "take months or years" situation. Example if wanted to legit dismantle the DOE it has one path& one path only. 290 of House, 60 of Senate THEN 38 States. I don't want to say it's 100% impossible but the possibly of most of those actually passing/ enforced is under 5%.

That being said as we see unfortunately lgbtq+ issues by far have the highest chance of being passed through. Stay vigilant, be very careful& if absolutely needed make up some sort of signal/ code to indicate to other lgbtq+ people(and allies I guess?) that you're part of the community.

These next 4 years will be INSANELY difficult but we'll get through it

Also if y'all seen that 2025 politics bingo on Tiktok before it was shut down for the most part it's predicted lots of infighting between repubs& that's better for us

To reiterate:

Trump's transphobic Executive Orders regarding healthcare and Federal documents are currently unenforceable and are not current actionable policy of the Federal government.

Do not despair.

Do not panic.

And most importantly: do not comply in advance.

Staying alive is a radical act as a trans person in Trump's America.

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*17 years ago

*10 years ago

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fuck y'all!!!!!

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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does anyone else stop liking a safe food after eating too much and then don't have an appetite for anything until you find something new?

that's me right now

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10-15 days? I check mine 3 times a week 😅

it's dangerous that you have to log into your bank account to see your balance i should have it in the corner of my vision at all times like a video game

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Me being 5ish months clean from SH vs my alcohol intake spiking back up after my birthday

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Will be very happy if you consider supporting me on Patreon 🥹❤️‍🔥

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this is their foreplay

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My fellow autisms how do we feel about this fork

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Please be patient. I'm trying very hard to be A Person™ but it's really difficult for me, and I'm not particularly good at it. There was no tutorial and the rules seem wildly inconsistent.