#cw current events

[theyshapedlikefriends]

No crab plushie party today... 😔

[tired-lamb]

holding the hands of every single us mutual or follower of mine. this will pass. this will not go on forever. and if it takes slightly longer to pass than expected, we all are going to be here, holding your hand until it does pass. we will be with you as you go through this journey. we will be with you to offer all the support you will ever need. we will be with you. we will be with you until it passes. and we will be with you while it passes. we will be with you. you are not alone in this.

[theflyinghydreigon]

I see so many people saying not to blame people who voted third party — saying be angry at the Trump supporters. I am upset at the amount of people who voted for Trump.

But how can I not be mad at people abstaining or voting third party, not just people who voted for Trump? In Michigan and Wisconsin the margins were close enough that (according to the current data on USA Today’s live count) if less people voted 3rd party they would’ve gone to Harris. I did the math with the available data. This is subject to change as not all votes are counted (98-99% are in the states I’m mentioning I believe)

Pennsylvania’s was also extremely close. Genuinely if you live in Pennsylvania and abstained from voting or voted third party that may have cost that state. It’s not quite as close as the other two mentioned, but it’s CLOSE

That’s 44 electoral votes. If I am doing my math correctly (and I may not be), that is 270. That means that if everyone in the electoral college voted within party lines she would’ve won. Even if my math isn’t correct: if only one of those states had been hers or it doesn’t add up to 270 that would’ve been less electors to try and get to vote across party lines for her win.

I’m upset the election was so close, that so many people voted for Trump. It shouldn’t be so close. It’s despicable. Of course I blame those people. BUT IT COULD’VE BEEN DIFFERENT EVEN IF THE SAME AMOUNT OF PEOPLE VOTED FOR TRUMP

I genuinely loathe you. Perhaps almost as much as I loathe Trump supporters. Maybe the same amount.

[the-kestrels-feather]

Hey.

I know you're scared right now.

Believe me I am too.

But this world is a better place with you in it.

Be brave, be strong, and know that even though I don't know you I love you and want to see you succeed 💕💕

[buggest]

currently looking at college in canada i’m so fucking done with this shit

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Pope Francis: for real no homo in the Vatican you hear me?

Every Caravaggio and Michelangelo artwork:

Contemporary Vatican fashion and fragrance designer who has created vestments and scents for both Benedict XVI and Francis, Filippo Sorcinelli, going about his job:

[who-parties-on-a-tuesday]

I keep seeing pro is*eal shit on my dash.

If I see any more of that shit, I'm blocking you.

I'm not in the mood to debate human rights with you.

Demand a permanent ceasefire

[natcat5]

I think I've reached my threshold of 'I should stay logged in to Twitter to stay informed despite what it's doing to me'

i mean. yesterday i was just trying to weather the transphobia. today race riots caught me offguard. don't want to plug my ears but i think i'm done for. the next 12 hours at least

[verratensduo]

((I hope you non-voters are happy with yourselves. We now having fucking WWE in charge of education come January from a woman who lied about having a teaching degree 😡))

[theyshapedlikefriends]

Reminder

I'll still post/reblog more plush friends in these trying times to cheer up people

But never forget Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Today and every day...

[quwyou]

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[victorian-lad]

in light of recent events

Hey guys, silver lining. We can, with no room for doubt or misplaced blame, point every finger for every problem that happens to the economy in the next 4 years quite firmly at the Republican party. They're going to fuck everything, and their already kind of abysmal image will never recover. When everything is obscenely expensive because we deported our cheap labor force and enforced tariffs on the goods from the exportation of labor to the global south, and the climate and public health still go down the shitter, we know EXACTLY who is to blame. Not Biden, not the Democratic Party, but Trump and his ilk. And I, for one, cannot wait to vindictively shove the 'I told you so,' in the faces of everyone who voted for the leopards-eating-my-face Republican party when the leopards start really chowing down on everyone's face. It will not be a fun (hopefully only) 4 years, but I can take grim pleasure in this at least.

[sniped-hugger]

Eating cake tonight because things are very scary over here in the US right now. I have hope and faith that the statistic analysts are right. I have hope and faith that people are good and people know what decision is good for all of us.

I’m really scared though. I don’t want him back in office. I don’t want Project 2025 to go through.

But I will eat cake about it. The cake is chocolate. And I’ll eat cake and draw silly little guys until the results are in. It has to be okay. It has to be.

[mswyrr]

One of the most terrible things about this event is the sense of its inevitability. The violence of apartheid and colonialism begets more violence. Many people have struggled with the straightjacket of this inevitability, straining to articulate that its recognition does not mean its embrace. I am reminding myself that it was from Palestinians, many of them writing and speaking in these pages, that I learned to think of Palestine as a site of possibility—a place where the very idea of the nation-state, which has so harmed both peoples, could be remade or destroyed entirely. And it was Palestinians who opened my thinking to multiple visions of sharing the land. On the left, I hope we do not mistake the inevitability of the violence for an inescapable limit on our work or the quality of our thought. Even if our dreams for better have failed, they must accompany us through this moment to the other side. We need to imagine a movement for liberation better even than the Exodus—an exodus where neither people has to leave. Where people stay to pick up the pieces, rearranging themselves not just as Jews or Palestinians but as antifascists and workers and artists. I want what Puerto Rican Jewish poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales describes in her poem “Red Sea”:

We cannot cross until we carry each other,

all of us refugees, all of us prophets.

No more taking turns on history’s wheel,

trying to collect old debts no-one can pay.

The sea will not open that way.

This time that country

is what we promise each other,

our rage pressed cheek to cheek

until tears flood the space between,

until there are no enemies left,

because this time no one will be left to drown

and all of us must be chosen.

This time it’s all of us or none.

[pixelkip]

Oh weird why is YouTube showing me stuff about the trump assassination attempt again that's weir-

Are you fucking serious

[earl-grey-love]

I don't know. I feel like if we're at a point where treating each other as human beings with equal value, respect, rights, and deserving of care is consider radical, even outright dangerous, then society has fundamentally failed.