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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈
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I was particularly struck by Henry VIII's careful drawings of birds and manicules in this book. he was clearly a prince with time on his hands... 🗃️
#BookHistory
Bigoted school boards are citing HR 2616 as the reason they're taking anti-trans policy actions now. This is from Colorado, which you may recall has an anti-book ban bill. They've banned a book because it centered a trans narrative: gazette.com/2026/06/12/d...
"We don't want to be known, but we spend our days feeding ourselves into a great engine of knowing every single thing about us: our tastes our opinions our beliefs, what we’ll buy who we’ll love where we’ll go. The unseen actors who harvest this knowledge modify us to their own ends."
Zadie Smith
Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government.
Dems say it's clear evidence the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.
Importantly: this comes with all the user watch data because Roku tracks everything you watch
"And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man, am I right America?"
Said on a UFC ring on the White House lawn while Joe Rogan holds the mic as it's broadcast on the Ellison controlled Paramount+.
Just to be clear, this affects all LGBTQ+ veterans.
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Goodnight, friends.
Watching the #RiseUpSingOut program this evening has amplified both the hope I hold in my body. In the words of LaTosha Brown, "If you aren't raising your voice, you have already chosen a side...Our politics won't save us. Our humanity will."
I love you.
I learned everything I know about government from Jay Ward cartoons—and our gov't. It's still all true, only worse.