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Duuude don't question my version of events I'm such a reliable narrator. I'm literally the protagonist and the main character. You can literally read some of my internal thoughts, that clearly means you have complete access to an objective view of my thoughts and feelings and a correct impression of my characterization and the events unfolding around me. I'm not omitting any information from the audience. Nevermind that timeskip just now

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Gavin got Fox News to post his "Trump has dementia" tweet on air lol

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Thus, it was a different Daisy Barr who packed grange halls and coliseums in early 1923. Her belief in voting rights and temperance had evolved into a broader vision of white supremacy maintained by the rising political strength of women. In public, the big heart that had once brimmed with benevolence for fallen humans had shriveled into a raisin of racial animus. While campaigning against alcohol, she’d fallen in with the Anti-Saloon League, her gateway to the Ku Klux Klan. They shared many of the same values, rooted in a militant evangelism. “The father and mother of the Ku Klux Klan is the Anti-Saloon League,” said Clarence Darrow, an assertion that few would dispute. Stephenson modeled his Klan on the well-oiled Anti-Saloon League, using the same Protestant churches as his recruitment base. He envied something else about it—no lobby in America held more power over Congress. And no lobby in Indiana had a stronger grip on the statehouse. They were a moral force that became a political force behind a single issue preached to millions in a nation of dutiful churchgoers. It was “the mightiest pressure group in the nation’s history,” the historian Daniel Okrent wrote. The Klan and temperance crusaders formed a perfect team. Any list of Prohibition violators, as Billy Sunday said, “read like a page from the directories of Italy and Greece.” Even sauerkraut was suspect because it contained 0.051 percent alcohol. And what happens to a Black man with a head full of liquor, casting his eyes on a white woman? “The strongest argument in favor of prohibition is the imperative necessity of keeping whiskey out of the reckless colored element,” said the state’s leading dry newspaper, the Patriot Phalanx. “The Negro, fairly docile and industrious, becomes, when filled with liquor, turbulent and dangerous and a menace to life, property and the repose of the community,” another paper wrote. All of this was a fine fit for Barr’s latest campaign: enlisting women in the fastest-growing movement in Indiana—the female Ku Klux Klan. An adroit assayer of people, D. C. Stephenson drew Barr into his circle not long after he saw one of her sermons. She was better, by far, than the men he’d been paying off to give a spiritual gloss to the Klan. After two decades on the circuit, Barr was an institution. What better symbol of the Klan’s drive to soften its image and triple membership than a person known all over Indiana as Mother? The Klansman and Mother made a pact designed to enrich both of them. Barr would get a staff of recruiters; they would work the crowds in the stands after she had worked them into a lather from the stage. She received a special robe, cape, and hood, and a title: Imperial Empress of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (2023). Timothy Egan.

The parallels between Prohibition's co-option of first wave feminism and suffragist organizing as a pipeline to the KKK and TERF infiltration of feminist spaces and organizing as a pipeline to the far right just about write themselves, don't they?

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A comic for the end of summer 🍃🍂

The full, original version of this comic is available here on my Patreon $4 tier :) tinyurl.com/yyymsx2n

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the only censorship we need is the block, mute and filter option because giving others the power to dictate what can and cannot exist in fandom will eventually lead to banning all nsfw works or even slightly but nuanced ‘problematic’ topics. ​I block and move on because I don’t want to see certain things but to erase them completely is a dangerous slope to having things you like be banned eventually.

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This new piece is part of a collaboration with The Marine Mammal Center! We have made signed prints available and a portion of all proceeds go to them.

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Uncomfortable facts of life:

Nobody's going to magically swoop in to rescue you. You can't just sit there and expect someone else to come save you. You have to get your shit together and do it yourself.

About 90% of the time, the "it" you have to do on your own is pushing yourself to walk up to someone else and use your words to say "hey I need help."

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Sleeping on the job

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(original caption) The devil wears an n95

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For a brief moment in time humans weren't alone on this planet. I do wonder if our ancestors took note when Neanderthals disappeared, or if they ever wondered where these people went

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OH MY GOD

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this doesnt even surprise me man. plants will just do this. this is just average plant behavior