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Jesse O'Lantern, LGPC
Jesse O'Lantern, LGPC
@jesseberney.com
Therapist. 20+ years in politics, advocacy, and labor. Writer. He/him. DC.
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Beyond that it's just incredibly morally bereft. I shouldn't care about people's human rights and conditions all over the globe? What is WRONG with people these days?
I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
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I know this is all nonsense but "incredibly she has the last name as her brother" is so fucking funny
The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.
well he answered the question
😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
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It is so easy to understand why these people hate DEI so much when they are so mediocre and have depended so heavily on privilege their entire lives.
NEW: DOJ argues that having LULAC / NAACP intervene and oppose the TRO request in DOJ's lawsuit against California "creates additional unnecessary work for the Court and for the attorneys" because the civil rights lawyers are "filing motions, calling, and requesting meetings and briefing schedules."
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And just now the NYT out with a 5 byline piece on all of this. It’s worth remembering that not only is Trump’s Iran war illegal and unauthorized, but that bipartisan majorities have repeatedly voted to end it in both chambers of Congress.
Over the past 24 hours there have been escalating reposts coming out of a possible major attack on Iran by Israel and/or the United States. Reports first indicated that Netanyahu pushed for a pre-election attack but that Trump said no. Now there’s new repots that Trump’s changed his mind.
listen I'm not saying the entire drop is because I started working with people with SUD, I'm just saying the timing is awfully interesting
Why are overdoses falling in the US? Check out this terrific and detailed consideration of multiple theories — and a mountain of evidence — from Dr. Nab Dasgupta of UNC. Spoiler alert: Public health matters. americanhealth.jhu.edu/understandin...
I was having a good day and now I'm depressed
I suspect that Trump 2 will be a bit like Covid, in that a) no one will really want to think about it once it's over, in part because b) everyone will be vaguely ashamed of how they acted during it. Almost everyone was complicit so almost everyone will just want to forget it & "move on."
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I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...
Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)
Ramaswamy will never apologize of course because the toxic masculinity driving Republican politics would never allow that. That doesn't mean that every reporter who interviews him for the rest of his life shouldn't ask him if he's ready to apologize for this despicable ad.
Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.
Sir Mr. Trump, sir, you are the best at not mocking people. Nobody on earth doesn't mock people like you don't mock them, you are an inspiration to everyone with your lack of mocking.
Trump on why he disagrees with Sen. Sullivan calling Putin a dictator: “I have to make deals with people, so I don’t go around calling them names…I don’t go around mocking people. Part of the reason you have that war in the first place is Biden went around mocking Russia.”
Mr. Trump sir, I wanted to commend you for your excellent running in that tiger video sir, could we please see a live demonstration of you running just as you did in the video with the tiger, I know it would be an inspiration to the American people to see you run sir, they will all have tears in th
for the better part of a day now the leader of the united states of america has had literally nothing better to do than to post ai videos of tigers mauling people and trump mauling tigers
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