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Reblogs of things I find worth sharing. None of this is originally mine. I was born long enough ago to be a teenager when Woodstock first went beautifully out of control.

[liberalsarecool]

Centrism and incrementalism are done.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[futileexercise]

"Cascade of preventable failures": Men shot at 2024 Butler Trump Rally sue United States

Two survivors of the 2024 Butler Rally assassination attempt are suing the U.S. government, claiming Secret Service failures made the attack

[dracula61]

[democracyunderground]

[quakerjoe]

[briarhide]

In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[onlytiktoks]

[probuccalfat]

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

[ouijawaydidhego]

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[futileexercise]

👏😂

[thesingingporch]

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🦋 Maya and I believe in making great fiction, and we know the oral tradition is the best way to tell a story. So, we created Tales From the Singing Porch to bring the magic of campfire folktales to life and directly to your ears!

🌼 Well… aren’t you just a teensy bit interested? Make sure to give us a follow and listen to the Singing Porch—you’re welcome here with us anytime. 😉

[wilwheaton]

“In post-coup America, we remain a long way from truly grappling with the persistence of a powerful cultish movement that includes seditious conspiracists who have already proven their willingness to bring down the Constitution.”

— Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump?

[gaslit-dipshits]

[groanings-0f-a-dying-empire]

💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

Nothing but facts

[saywhat-politics]

Missouri Republicans have cut $4 million in funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library literacy program, which sends monthly free books to kids 5 and under.

No more children will be able to sign up to receive free books in Missouri.

@factpostnews

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trump appoints Bill Pulte, unqualified loyalist who targeted his foes, as acting intel chief

Trump elevated Pulte to the country’s top spy role despite the fact that he has no known intelligence experience.

Jacob Knutson at Democracy Docket:

President Donald Trump tapped loyalist Bill Pulte, a top housing official, to serve as acting director of national intelligence (DNI), a cabinet position tasked with overseeing the U.S. intelligence community. Pulte currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and has no known experience in intelligence. What he does offer is loyalty: Known in MAGA circles as “Little Trump,” Pulte has used his relatively minor federal housing post — and his chairmanship of mortgage groups Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — to help target a swath of the president’s enemies.

In a statement, Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, slammed Pulte as “someone who will be willing to shape intelligence around the president’s wishes, regardless of the cost to the American people.” “This is how intelligence becomes politicized, how inconvenient facts disappear, how agencies charged with protecting our democracy become tools to manipulate it, and how Americans are left more vulnerable to a terrorist attack,” Warner said. Asked Tuesday about the appointment, Senate Republican Leader John Thune (S.D.) told reporters that Pulte would have “a lengthy road ahead of him” if Trump nominated him to take the position permanently. “He’ll have to go through a confirmation process and hearings and everything else, so we’ll see,” Thune said, adding that “we don’t need a weaponized DNI; we need professionals there.”

Donald Trump appoints fascist kook Bill Pulte to the DNI spot vacated by Moscow Agent Tulsi Gabbard on an acting basis. Putting Pulte in that spot is endangering national security, as he has used his FHFA post to conduct bogus “investigations” into the Trump Regime’s foes.

[minmaneth]

The totalitarianism continues/accelerates.

[saywhat-politics]

Trump's ex-border chief speaks alongside neo-Nazis at pro-fascism summit - LGBTQ Nation

He also praised a Nazi leader before the summit.

Gregory Bovino — the now-former tactical commander-at-large for U.S. Border Patrol official who oversaw the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaigns in U.S. cities before Trump removed him last January — spoke alongside fascists and neo-Nazi at a “remigration” summit in Figueira da Foz, Portugal last weekend.

The summit’s lead organizer, Afonso Gonçalves, once said, “Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions,” a reference to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s Third Reich, the independent journalistic outlet The Redoubt reported. Gonçalves also founded the far-right, anti-Muslim group Reconquista, the outlet added.