american

just your average politically active, philosophical Buckeye

[american @Americanaf2]

@BiniKitty @tedlieu ...By definition, it’s still book banning.

[american @Americanaf2]

@Just_A_Guy_N_TX @Grandma_Funk @tedlieu Roberts is appropriate for high schoolers. I had a shelf dedicated to her when I was a sophomore. Some of her books have bits of explicit content, but it’s nothing teenagers wouldn’t see on Gossip Girl. We should encourage teenagers to read what they want to read.

[american @Americanaf2]

@BiniKitty @tedlieu Nora Roberts has been an author for decades. Banning her books, along with a slew of others, is an overreach.

[american @Americanaf2]

@MarchandSurgery @jimbologyFTW @StrikeDebt No one is getting anything “for free” except people with forgiven PPP loans 😉

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Pay attention to the growing attacks on the press. These aren’t isolated incidents. Glenn’s false assertion (in reality, the feds had ID’d him before NYT or WaPo) is not unrelated to Elon Musk’s war on NPR, BBC, NYT, etc.

This is a coordinated attack on democratic institutions.

[american @Americanaf2]

@PalndanLake @galewisnhp @Bill_Xmith @KeithOlbermann @RepMTG I’m a farmer telling you firsthand it’s harder to grow crops because of the erratic conditions but here’s what the EPA has to say: https://t.co/45adGfJ6BO

[american @Americanaf2]

@PalndanLake @galewisnhp @Bill_Xmith @KeithOlbermann @RepMTG Growing under controlled conditions is different than growing where there’s erratic drought, flooding, temperature swings, damaging wind, pest outbreaks, and other erratic climate-related issues.

[american @Americanaf2]

@Marcel14Joe @galewisnhp @Bill_Xmith @KeithOlbermann @RepMTG That’s because of farming practices changing, not because plants benefit from climate change. They don’t. Ask a farmer and they’ll tell you how much they’ve seen the impacts.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

If masculinity and femininity are so normative and natural, would their maintenance require the public cruelty of men like this?

[Kristen Mulrooney @missmulrooney]

Yesterday I asked my kindergartener what she did in school and she said "nothing," then later I went on Instagram and her teacher had posted a picture of her holding a crocodile.

[american @Americanaf2]

@boredrotten @Confirmasian @SDSPOLICE @msolurin If you think trans rights are ruining our country, you’re part of why our country is fcked.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

The AP is reporting Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's emergency order restricting access to gender affirming care applies to youth. This is incorrect; the regulation applies to "individuals of any age" https://t.co/hr3a38rIjw

[Monica Hesse @MonicaHesse]

A profound generational divide is Boomers came of age when education and houses were cheap but homegoods were expensive, and they now don't get why their kids aren't grateful for the furniture and tchotchkes they keep trying to pass down, when kids are renting 600ft apartments.*

[american @Americanaf2]

@serioustvwatch1 @PollyFirebrand @iamharaldur @mangoman123123 The year of girlhood is a beautiful concept because it validates identity. Oftentimes, trans people realize at an early age they don’t identify with their assigned gender but aren’t able to experience the life they want. Now that she can, she is.

[american @Americanaf2]

@floorplaycrew @Huttoneer @BeeNiaNichelle @msolurin If I told you my name, you wouldn’t say, “Show me your birth certificate to prove it. Til then, I get to decide your name.” You’re decent, I hope, so you’d say, “Hello,” and call me by my name.
Identity matters.
How people want to be perceived matters.
Just be a decent human.

[american @Americanaf2]

@Jdm8778 @RodenboShauna @KateShelor @ChristnNitemare @Mike_Hixenbaugh @JoeMyGod Again, I’m sure they believe what they died for. Most martyrs do. That doesn’t prove what they believe, it reflects their mental state. People have died for their beliefs long before Christianity. Here’s why: https://t.co/iFnJY0HtoN

[american @Americanaf2]

@RexYerDay @JudithCardamone @chrislhayes Both Moses and Moses’s are correct, but how very Catholic of you to assume your way is the only right way lol
God made many of those barbaric laws.
God can’t change, and he can’t tolerate sin, correct?

[american @Americanaf2]

@Jdm8778 @RodenboShauna @KateShelor @ChristnNitemare @Mike_Hixenbaugh @JoeMyGod But belief isn’t fact. In fact, you can’t believe something that is true, because then it requires no belief. Just because someone dies for a belief doesn’t make that belief valid.