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Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well.
-- Alan Moore

#anarchism #quote #bot

Y’all ever find yourself thinking about the parents of the kids of Sandy Hook? Or Uvalde, Parkland, & Covenant. Or Columbine, Santa Fe, & more?

We may move on—but their lives are frozen in time. Forever fixated on a moment they can never change.😓

It just doesn’t have to be this way.

Ahhhh. You truly can’t make this shit up. What a clown show! #RudyAkaHelen

Rudy Giuliani Used A Female Alias In Emails About Plan To Overturn The Election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rud

@barney@mas.to Wouldn’t you love to see it though? Except that would mean he’d been re-elected, so never mind. @Teri_Kanefield

@barney@mas.to Interesting question. Then again, there’s no law saying presidents can’t be tried while in office, it’s just the way it’s always been. @Teri_Kanefield

👏🏻#Tennessee state lawmakers who were expelled from state legislature earlier this year for protesting gun violence on the House floor easily won their special primary elections on Thurs

State Rep. #JustinJones ran unopposed for the Dem nomination in his Nashville-area district, while state Rep. #JustinPearson sailed to victory over challenger David Page in the Dem special primary for his Memphis-area district

thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

@Litzz11 Before long, FL high school grads won’t be accepted in colleges or universities outside of FL.

N.C. Lawmaker Who Switched Parties To Allow Abortion Ban Now Denies Having An Abortion: Rep. Tricia Cotham, a former Democrat, spoke passionately in a 2015 floor speech about needing abortion care after she found out her pregnancy was unviable.

huffpost.com/entry/nc-lawmaker

#HuffPost #TriciaCotham #NCabortionban #politicalswitch #denialofabortion #reproductivehealthcare #Politics #News

Apparently Rudy Giuliani is saying the whistleblower witness in the Biden bribery case had died.

Oh gee, I hate it when that happens ...

PGA Tour’s Deal With LIV’s Saudi Backers to Be Investigated by Justice Department.

DOJ was investigating PGA Tour and other leading golf bodies for anticompetitive behavior - and will now review merger for antitrust concerns.

A bill has been reintroduced in the House to strip the Tour of its tax exemption. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a CT Democrat, said earlier this week that he was opening an inquiry into the agreement and demanding documents from both parties.

wsj.com/sports/golf/pga-tour-l

47 per cent of Black people surveyed believe they have been treated unfairly by an employer in hiring, pay or promotion in the last year. That’s three times higher than white Canadians at 15 per cent.

Some of the report’s findings include 90 per cent Black Canadians surveyed, and 82 per cent of Indigenous people view racism in the criminal justice system as a serious problem.

#BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #HumanRightsViolations #DefundThePolice

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Publicly commenting on a woman’s body, clothing and appearance in general, illustrates how we as a culture are ok with treating women’s bodies as “public spaces”. It’s dehumanizing and puts all women at risk. Let’s please knock it the fuck off.

Tom Fitton told Trump to declare victory before the votes were counted in 2020, and he also advised Trump in the documents case that got Trump indicted. Trump has had legal experts advising him, but he listens to the advice of a guy with a BA in English instead.

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#Kbin update:

- The kbin.social server is now federating with the rest of the Fediverse. You can follow/interact with kbin.social magazines & users from other Kbin servers, Mastodon & rest of the Fediverse. For example the TIL group is at @TodayILearned, the lead dev of Kbin is at @ernest

- There's a new Kbin server at readit.buzz which is run by the same people as the Universodon.com Mastodon server. It's open for signups, just click "log in" and then "register".

If you're guilty and you know it, run for president.
If you're guilty and you know it, run for president...

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