"Everyone of us is a world of infinite possibility. We are an army because we have to be. We are an army because we are so powerful. (We have so much to fight for; we are the most precious of endangered species.) & we are an army of lovers because it is we who know what love is."

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RI not only doesn't give a fuck, no one wants to be caught giving a fuck. Tell them your pronouns and keep it moving.

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"Oh it's she/huh? awright. Anyway--"

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RI does not give a fuck

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It's really amazing how incredibly chill Rhode Island has been to be trans in

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All I want is a boolean search engine for the web, does it still exist

ditto Duckduckgo

Bing's results are not better

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We're at a point where I type >abu ghalib bead factory< into google and the first hit is about the Abu Ghraib atrocities. Why has their search algorithm gotten so terrible

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May 6

everyone says “you’ll settle down and get married and lose your enthusiasm for your special interests” but *what if* you marry someone who’s equally deranged and your enthusiasms DOUBLE

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@sirosenbaum

May 6

like if I was making up a headline for a "ha ha I'm so old and out of touch that headlines read like this to me" joke IT WOULD BE THIS HEADLINE

Am I really high or what is this "‘I’M A LIKABLE PERSON’: DAVIDO REVEALS WHY HE HAS SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS THAN WIZKID, BURNABOY"

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

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May 6

For those who don't know, Paul was the long-time editor of the New York Times Book Review.

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May 5

It’s really incredible that the person who spent years dictating which books did or didn’t get reviewed in the Times Book Review is yammering about cancellation because a top journal declined to publish a particular submission

Jamal Adeen Thomas: First born son of controversial U.S. Supreme Court judge

However, for Jamal Adeen Thomas, the allure of finance and acting proved to be too strong. In this article, we explore the life and career of Jamal, and how he

S.I. Rosenbaum

@sirosenbaum

May 5

why can't Jon Lovett and John Leavitt do a podcast called Lovett AND Leavitt

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seems like Thomas had signaled pretty strongly that he wouldn't help Also the nephew got 30 years for selling, in a major sting operation that nabbed 13 people in a couple of places so small they aren't on the map

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Justice Thomas's Life A Tangle of Poverty, Privilege and Race

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(trying out using tags for the stories i feature sorry if this is a bother!!)

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Talila "TL" Lewis

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May 5

Being disturbed by &/or resisting injustice has always been labeled illness/crime & punished-esp when that injustice is the societal norm (slave codes, drapetomania, dysaesthesia aethiopica during enslavement; vagrant, noncompliant, disorderly, resisting in carceral-medical era)

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IDK IDK. I don't even know why his solution was to take in the kid, rather than support the family.

So ... it's not that he didn't want his family taken care of, it's that he didn't want to do it himself?

He could have poured money into Pin Point, the desperately poor neighborhood he grew up in.

He could have bought and renovated his mother's house himself. He could have made sure that his nephew didn't have to run drugs when he was laid off. Could have paid for all the grandkids to go to good schools. He and Ginni were pulling high 6 figures.

The weirdest part of the Thomas/Crow story is that Thomas was happy for Crow to take care of his extended family financially, but didn't seem inclined to do so himself.

In hindsight Rittenhouse might be when the country tipped over into something that isn't democracy again.

well, this is the counter-example. And it definitely raises questions about whether our gun laws are compatible with democracy.

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May 5

I suggest you read up on Dr. George Tiller. twitter.com/sirosenbaum/st…

this is someone with a solidarity fist in their user icon who thinks that asking for a mass noncompliance movement is a waste of time I'm so confused

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May 4

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We would literally be out of doctors. There is no backup. I fully believe we’d have seen Drs stand up for their patients (like they should) had COVID-19 been handled correctly. Too many died or quit/retired. Can we maybe instead focus on the actual fascists?

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May 4

Reupping my tribute to Carrie, who heroically embodied strength and weakness. bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/20

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Billie Lourd with Carrie Fisher’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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May 4

There have been many times and many places where the medical profession has become a tool of an oppressive state, including here in the US, and it's always extraordinarily ugly.

real commitment

shout out to the guy in dark jeans, black leather jacket, white high heel cowboy boots, slick-back balding mullet, and aviators I just saw on Hope St

These laws are existentially dangerous to both the medical profession and the nation as a whole. It makes medicine into a tool of oppression of a minority group. I don't understand how doctors can continence that.

There are clinics -- both abortion clinics and trans care clinics -- that have sued to block or overturn these laws, and that's one valuable tool. But refusal/noncompliance is another powerful tool.

Here, we have doctors who have been performing legal abortions suddenly being told that their practices are now illegal. All they have to do is continue to do what they've been doing.

Morgentaler was also fighting an uphill battle: abortions had not been legal in Canada when he started performing them. He'd publicly testified that they OUGHT to be, and immediately began hearing from desperate women who asked if he could help them.

That's ONE GUY. I'd prefer to see doctors refuse these laws en masse, in an organized action. It would be easier on them as well. But even one refusal can change everything.

Arguably every abortion performed in Canada occurs because of him.

It's wild to me that someone could say that a doctor standing up for justice is throwing away their life, that they're no longer saving patients. The number of women who are alive bc of Morgentaler is incalculable. Women he never met and never treated.