ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

“Bill, come check this out! The squirrel in that tree hasn’t moved in like three hours. It’s freakin’ weird.”

I'm a poet, an author, and a teacher. I use my words for a living. And because I use words for a living, I feel like I need to point out something that's painfully obvious to me, and apparently less so to others, particularly journalists. Here it is.

They know what "woke" means.

They don't have any trouble defining it. They've never had trouble defining the exact target of their ridicule, scorn, and hate.

Woke has had several synonyms throughout the decades. Before we were "the woke mob", we were "cucks". And before we were "cucks" we were "snowflakes", and before that, we were "SJWs". Before "SJWs", we were "betas". And before we were "betas", we were "globalists", and before that, we were "libtards". And before we were "libtards", we were "bleeding hearts" and "tree huggers", and before that, we were simply "ni**er-lovers", "Jew-lovers", and "fa**ot-lovers".

All these terms are synonymous in the GOP mind, and it's time we stop pretending that we don't know it.

@TonyStark @Angeleyez407

Our only solution to MAGA lies, racism, white nationalism, ChristoFascist domination, destruction of our Constitution, and FASCISM, is DEMOCRATS in every office, every seat - state & Federal.

Get involved. Stay involved. WORK TO GET OUT THE VOTE.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced a bill (cosponsored by Boebert & Santos) making the AR-15 the “National Gun of America.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a bill to award killer Kyle Rittenhouse with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says Ukraine is not our friend and Russia is not our enemy.

The GOP is far, far too extreme to govern.

I've been trying to draw wolves the last couple of days, these are the first two I'm willing to show.

Realistic vs cartoonish:

𝗣𝗥𝗢 𝗧𝗜𝗣:

Whenever debating online, ensure you tag the person and quote their post so the record will remain long after they inevitably realize they were wrong and delete their own post.

As @JosephMenn reports, Russian propagandists are eager buyers of Twitter Blue.

This is because Twitter Blue privileges their posts in Twitter's relevancy algorithm, ensuring their propaganda achieves more reach.

It also gives them a fancy blue badge.

Russian propagandists aren't the only bad hombres buying Twitter Blue. A few months ago, I discovered that the Taliban are also paying for the service.

Twitter Blue: loved by Putin and the Taliban!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/22/russian-propagandists-said-buy-twitter-blue-check-verifications/

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Democratic governors in 20 states are launching a network to strengthen abortion access in wake of U.S. Supreme Court decision nixing a woman’s Constitutional right to bodily autonomy

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-politics-texas-gavin-newsom-5db36213df3b4de5ad94ebbb53d01d30

Every single police officer in the United States of America should have a running body cam AT ALL TIMES!

No ifs, ands, or butts...

#DemsForThePeople

This explains a lot.

⚠️🇺🇦How Putin's and Biden’ Addresses Went Down on Kyiv's Streets (more) https://www.kyivpost.com/post/13370 #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Today I bought the collection of comics "Way for Victory". Funds collected from the sale will be transferred to the "Army of Drones" project.

If a fetus is a person given abortion laws then isn’t putting a pregnant woman in jail, illegal detention of a person that hasn’t been convicted of a crime?

A legal argument I bet ChatGPT couldn’t have come up with. 🤔

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/22/pregnant-woman-fetus-jail-roe/

Enough hail fell this morning to make it look like it has snowed

#CoosBay
#ORWX

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany alongside her brother Hans. Hans was also killed.

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 @histodons

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