Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

@marcelias Thanks to your team, my family voted yesterday while my college age child was home for the holiday and we were off work. No one standing in line complained about the wait times as we were simply happy to be there to vote

I'll be going into
Doylestown Bookshop
this week to sign and personalize any books of mine you order for the holidays -- so feel free to ping them (on this Small Business Saturday, even) if you want that for yourself or a friend or a cherished enemy.

"Every histrionic warning, every red-faced speech in Congress, every bizarre and creepy and disgusting claim, every threat to life and limb directed at queer people, every bullshit "study" fabricated at the Heritage Foundation -- all of it has been dead wrong."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/they-have-always-been-wrong

A white supremacist was at Mar-a-Lago. And then he invited two anti-semites to join him for dinner.

#followfriday
@marcelias —> voting rights and litigation
@charlotteclymer —> trans rights and LGBTQ+ community
@ifilljustice —> civil rights and justice
@QasimRashid —> immigrants and minority rights

While giving thanks and celebrating the holiday, remember it is a national day of mourning for Native Americans that marks generations of broken promises and oppression -- and deliberate genocide.

It is important to recognize that legacy as we grapple with a resurgent fascist movement.

Solidarity forever.

Wishing you all a #happythankgiving - personally giving thanks, amongst other things, for having escaped the bird’s mired nest …

Before
you finalize your plans
take a moment to consider
that none of your friends
or family or loved ones
will say
Thanks for giving
me the virus.

While Musk cozies up to far right extremists, Twitter just suspended a prominent anti-fascist account.

Glen Youngkin doesn’t give a shit about the mass shootings in Virginia.

My husband and I just got screamed at by an unmasked dude in his black F150 because we wore our N95 respirators while walking our dogs in our own neighborhood.

I am immunocompromised.

But “Iowans do the right thing,” eh @IAGovernor@twitter.com?

No. They. Don’t.

After so much practice
this year we know
exactly what we need to do
in order to prevent
a post-holiday case spike
it’s quite simple really
all we need to do
is stop counting new cases.

Elder Scrolls

Still chuckling at all the Muskovites who would reply snidely with “$8” to every post on Twitter.
How’s that going by the way?

Three days ago, on the other place, I wrote:

"The question of the political motivations of individual shooters is largely immaterial to questions of culpability.

Every shooting is the fault of the Republican Party, which is the party that insists on conditions that make shootings and political violence inevitable."

And another Republican-sponsored mass shooting just happened in Virginia...a *Republican* sponsored mass shooting, no matter the identity or motivation of the shooter, because it is Republicans and their vile propaganda machine who force us to live like this, who demand as a matter of collective political will that we live in a world of plentiful massacres, who oppose any attempt to remedy it—a sabotage of our shared life together I would name war.

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/juliusgoat/issues/sabotage-part-12-the-foundational-war-1433372

I cannot stress strongly enough that genocides do not start with death camps. That’s where they end.

No, they start with dangerous rhetoric that whips up violence against marginalized groups.

People like Walsh, Pool, Shapiro, Carlson, Raichik, etc. absolutely know this. They are fomenting a genocide against trans and queer folks, and it is working.