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im so tired so here's a recap of what trump did today summarized and probably incomplete because we are in super hell:

End birthright citizenship (a.k.a the 14th amendment)

Remove the legal existence of non-binary people

Withdraw from the world health organization

pardon jan 6 people

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“media literacy should be a subject in school!” it is. it’s english. you’re talking about english classes. that’s what high school english is supposed to do. we cannot keep having this conversation

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things I'm fond of:

vampires as a metaphor for surviving a trauma but becoming "different" because of it: control and vulnerability

werewolves as a metaphor for having something inside you that everyone else hates and fears: repression and release

ghosts as a metaphor for the pain, suffering, and anger of past generations: revenge and healing

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"I'm not disabled! on a *good* day I could totally get way more done than this!"

- girl who's last "good day" was several years ago

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Don't cry. The ALCU has already filed a lawsuit against Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. The ICE raids on Chicago are '"being reconsidered" after the leak. There are plenty more of Trump's decisions that can still be stopped or stalled. All the Americans out there fighting the good fight didn't go away just because Trump took office yesterday.

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If you live in the US and want a way to follow good non-right wing news for free, consider:

Subscribing to PBS News on YouTube (they have a news hour every night/half hour on weekends, broken up into smaller consumable segments. Sometimes they live stream national events like the inauguration. You don't have to watch it all, but pick and choose what to watch & when. Like, say, only watching the half hour weekend segments).

Subscribing to NPR News on whatever podcast app you have (they do 5-minute news updates throughout the day; you usually only need to listen to it 1x/day to get highlights).

Subscribe to nonprofit investigative online news source ProPublica; you can sign up for either daily, weekly, or top news stories sent to your email. You can also follow them on sm.

Okay this one isn't free, but if you have any extra money, don't underestimate how important or endangered local newspapers are. Subscribe if you can. Some papers will also send you short summaries if you're a subscriber, and you can also follow local papers on social media.

Remember that just generally getting deluged with news on social media is not good for your mental health, and is much more susceptible to misinformation or propaganda. Getting news online works best when it's supplemental to verified news sources; usually as grassroots, on-the-ground info from people you know and trust who are living out a certain experience.

You can keep a particular online space "safe" from politics without hurting anything, provided you make routine space for good, responsible news in your schedule.

AND that you make sure to follow a diverse group of people and support their inclusion in that space, even if you're online for a niche interest (in almost any online hobby, there are lots of people who are not at all the same class, race, ethnicity, gender identity, from the same place, etc, etc). Honor, protect, and value a wide variety of voices even in your online hobbyist spaces, while also making regular time for real news? You'll find yourself with a decent snapshot of information from both the top down and the bottom up about how the world works and is impacting a wide variety of people.

Without feeling like you have to absorb/respond to everything happening every single moment of every day. For the next 4 years

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This dumbass just made everyone female

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— gülce via exitsenses

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would plastic man make a decent period cup or

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“Raw milk is better for you as long as you boil it” so true bestie now imagine if we could like. Super boil it. To really get all the bacteria out. And if we could do that quickly and efficiently. Imagine that.

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Not even 24 hours in and the richest man in the world just did a Nazi salute in 2025 on national television

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I'm talking about this because it's funny and completely immaterial, and so much else isn't. And I'm not quite ready to go there yet.

Following Jimmy Carter's death, government buildings like the Capitol were supposed to fly the US flag at half-mast for a month, including today. Trump wasn't having it and suddenly Mike Johnson was promising to fly the flag at full mast for his inauguration. Some state governors did, too. It's one of those nothing stories that's only worth noticing because it's such a ridiculously small thing for Trump to focus on.

Apparently Mother Nature still didn't get the message.

I swear there's a joke to be made about Hell freezing over in here somewhere.

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love watching CBS News cause they're just clocking shit.

"Looking at this inauguration crowd, you don't see one person of color. I wonder why that is."

"People stood and clapped throughout Trump's inauguration speech, which is unusual. And it's notable that the former president's did not."

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preemptively censoring "Nazi" and "third Reich" on US TikTok so musk can do a fucking Nazi salute during the inauguration (TWICE!) on live TV and people can't search it or have to find workarounds? yea..

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I can't believe the horse is back in the fucking hospital