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kyburg- Thu, 15:00: ICE arrested a beloved Lutheran pastor in her pajamas, in front of her granddaughter. She has done nothing wrong. D… https://t.co/Eo5cSStngv
- Thu, 17:16: if you bought a ticket for endgame you are required to also go see Fast Color this weekend! support a... https://t.co/bxB7rkQr9h
- Thu, 17:17: RT @RBReich: The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity...When Government cont…
- Thu, 17:19: RT @nowthisnews: .@AOC asked this pharma exec why a life-saving HIV drug costs nearly $2,000 in the U.S. and $8 in Australia https://t.co/A…
- Thu, 17:20: I'm still angry. Tell you what. "DR. BECKETT DIDN'T RETURN HOME. SOMEDAY, HE WILL." Bam, pay me. #ThereIFixedIt https://t.co/wWxceolvjV
- Thu, 17:21: RT @ben_edlund: I'm sorry to say Amazon has chosen not to proceed with @TheTickTV I'm not sorry to say I love this show, its cast, its sto…
- Thu, 17:21: RT @ben_edlund: Meanwhile thank u from my heart's bottom to all the fans who've shared their love with us and the show. Thank you sweet #Lu…
- Thu, 17:21: RT @RashidaTlaib: Presided over the U.S. House of Representatives today. Not bad for a girl from Detroit that didn't speak English when I s…
- Thu, 17:21: RT @ForeverHairy: *woman gets legal abortion Republicans: MURDERER! LOCK HER UP! *Man legally buys AR-15 and kills dozens of innocent pe…
- Thu, 17:22: RT @amymebberson: Tash. Megacon commission. #avengers #blackwidow https://t.co/rLV56ICgpx
- Thu, 17:23: RT @tedlieu: The more evidence that comes out about Obstruction of Justice, the more stupid @TheJusticeDept Barr looks. Maybe stupid is n…
- Thu, 17:24: RT @tedlieu: This speaks for itself. https://t.co/APFFXJ3fmP
- Thu, 17:24: RT @ALT_DOJ: If Trump is going to require certain skills for migrants, can we require certain skills for Presidents? - Troy Hanson
- Thu, 17:26: RT @nkjemisin: Hate doesn't usually look like foaming-at-the-mouth, screaming rage. Mostly it's just this: the complete indifference to ano…
- Thu, 17:26: RT @Stonekettle: Thing is, I *want* to live in a nation where there is no abortion. Where every life actually IS sacred. Where every pers…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: See, if we *really* believed life was sacred -- be that some quality endowed by either god and/or man, depending on your b…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: Before it is even conceived, we would want to optimize the conditions for its growth. I mean, wouldn't we? If life is SACR…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: ...we would expect that environment to LAST for the duration of the life in question, to improve even. What good is it to…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: No, if we truly value LIFE, if we truly believe it to be SACRED, then before it even begins we as a people and as a nation…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: We have to be that nation, of safety and stability and opportunity, now and into the future. The parent(s) must have oppor…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: For that life to have the best start possible, the parents need comprehensive and responsive healthcare, a decent standard…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: If life is born to parents who are not full and equal members of society for whatever reason, race, color, sex, orientatio…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: ... then we fail right out of the gate. If we truly -- truly -- believe in the sacredness of life, then we must every si…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: We must work to truly BE that shining city on the hill for ALL, not just a privileged few. Not just those who can afford i…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: No, don't look away. If you truly believe that new life to be sacred -- SACRED -- do we not then have an obligation both…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: You tell me life is sacred, but then you tell me to provide the best possible future for it costs too much. Heh. You t…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: You tell me all life is sacred, but you don't really mean that. You don't mean ALL life, or even all HUMAN life. Those s…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: If you TRULY believe human life to be sacred, then it's not ENOUGH to demand every conception be carried to term and every…
- Thu, 17:27: RT @Stonekettle: If you truly believe no pregnancy should be terminated, no matter what, no matter the circumstances of conception, no matt…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: You must build a society where women are not impregnated against THEIR will, be it by force or deception or failure of tec…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: If you allow no exemptions for rape, then you must work diligently and aggressively to ensure rape does not happen. It can…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: If you allow no exemptions for intention, you must ensure to the greatest possible extent the right of women NOT to get pr…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: If you allow no exemptions for technology, then you must work to reduce the likelihood of failure. Birth control must be s…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: If you allow no exemptions for defect, then you must put every possible effort into preventing that defect, curing that di…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: Most importantly, if society holds a woman personally accountable for pregnancy -- and that's what these new laws do -- th…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: It doesn't end there. That society, the one which values ALL human life as sacred? Must have a RADICALLY different Foreign…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: But that civilization, the one which truly values human life, which welcomes life in the delivery room AND at the border,…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: I do want to live in a nation where life IS considered sacred. Where EVERY life matters. Where all of us are important to…
- Thu, 17:28: RT @Stonekettle: If you want to talk about building THAT world, I'll listen. But until then, until we live in a world where we actually D…
- Thu, 17:29: RT @joshgad: To the 35,000 people taking time out of their days to write HBO to tell them to reshoot Game of Thrones u don’t like the arc o…
- Thu, 17:29: RT @DVSblast: SO IF FELONS CANT VOTE...AND A MISCARRIAGE OR ABORTION IS A FELONY....WAIT IVE ALMOST GOT IT...HMMM
- Thu, 17:29: RT @GeorgeTakei: Turning points in history are often marked by the likes of what we have just witnessed in AL and GA. True colors are revea…
- Thu, 17:29: RT @BMcCarthy32: there's not a single thing in this world a male could experience that would even come close to the indignity of being lega…
- Thu, 17:30: RT @scalzi: The internet speed on this plane is seven times faster than I get at home. This is your occasional reminder that @centurylink r…
- Thu, 17:34: RT @Lin_Manuel: Gnight. Courage. Courage. Courage. Courage. Courage. Yes you’re tired, so are we, you’re not alone in the slightest so…
- Thu, 17:35: RT @gelles: KISS frontman Gene Simmons was at the Pentagon today and spoke with DoD employees. Simmons spoke from a podium that has not s…
- Thu, 17:35: RT @Stonekettle: "not based on race but capability to contribute" Weird though how turns out only English speaking straight Christian whit…
- Thu, 19:02: RT @ALT_DOJ: Oh nothing to see here. Just another @GOP Hypocrite! https://t.co/j8FCwpdcFr
- Fri, 08:07: RT @tedlieu: Hey @TheJusticeDept Bill Barr: Why did you want to hide this information from Congress and the American people? Also, why are…
- Fri, 08:07: RT @SeidmanLea: “Quiet Mode” on @Uber is for Uber Black, the “higher end” Uber. It’s super-important that affluent riders, the ones *least…
- Fri, 08:07: RT @nkjemisin: Nora, why does your supposedly-lighthearted forthcoming trilogy about magical New York have so much stuff in it about gentri…
- Fri, 08:09: RT @RogueNASA: Rules for thee, not for me! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/FMZJtdpqNF
- Fri, 08:09: RT @MarkRuffalo: If you find your heart has hardened when it comes to the complex issue of reproductive rights, read this and remember this…
- Fri, 08:09: RT @tedlieu: Hey @TheJusticeDept Bill Barr: Why were you hiding this information from the American people? https://t.co/407ForgYhR
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: On fan petitions, two things are simultaneously true: The audience does not control the art, because art is not a democr…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: It's a weird form of adoption. "I had a baby, it took a lot of effort and time and transformation to MAKE this baby, and n…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: Art and story -- especially a pop culture fandom sense -- ends up in a tricky place, because the audience is invited to be…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: "We do this for the fans!" "We're telling this story for the fans!" "We put that Easter egg in there for THE FANS." And th…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: And then the artists (or, cynically, the Brand Holders), say, yeah ha ha no fuck you, you don't actually have a say. You'r…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: Because art/story is a wiggly, fiddly thing. You can't just acquiesce to "fan demands" because fan demands are a herd of h…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: And then come a fan petition to just... remake a thing. They've been out for games, for LAST JEDI, now for GoT, probably a…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: (Hell, making anything the first time -- not even REmaking it! -- can be Sisyphean. Particularly the bigger the 'brand,' t…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: But but but but BUT -- Let's also not pretend the "fan petitions" are not a natural extension of how brand holders have t…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: Is a 'fan petition' also 'fan entitlement?' You bet your ass. But let's also recognize how they got entitled in the firs…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: And here I'm sure I'll get a half-dozen YouTube videos that I hate the consumer and think fans are assholes. I don't. One'…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: I'm just saying, larger corporations creating huge media depots of content have essentially lied to you and created artifi…
- Fri, 08:10: RT @ChuckWendig: Two things can also be simultaneously true: a) fan petitions will do no good, will go nowhere b) we shouldn't be surpris…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: For my mileage, the best form of fan engagement (not entitlement) is through fanfic and fan art -- really great ways, I th…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: There's no great takeaway here, just: fans, keep loving what you love, while recognizing that the thing you love is not a…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: As a point of trivia, one of the AFTERMATH petitions is here: https://t.co/FRSDFWI8mo
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: And for the record, I hated the penultimate GoT episode (YMMV!). Beautifully rendered, dipshittedly narrated. But I'd rath…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: Adding here that in addition to the tricky art versus commerce stuff, there's also an aspect of simply how stories work on…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: What I mean by that is, at its core, the audience takes in protagonists and plotlines and wants to protect them. We want g…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: And the storyteller's job is to draw those empathic bridges between the character and the audience -- to help us understan…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: But then it's the storyteller's job to also fuck that all up. It's not our job to keep these people safe, but to put them…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: We're trying to surprise and delight you and sometimes surprising and delighting you is preceded by, followed by, or accom…
- Fri, 08:11: RT @ChuckWendig: I apologize for the very long and rambly thread, here is a fox pic by way of penance. And the foxes are telling you to buy…
