Principles & Pragmatism🌹🏳️‍⚧️🟣🎗️🟦🇺🇦🐝🪷🇬🇧

He/him. Sane leftist geek. Believer in Jewish and Palestinian self-determination | Slava Ukraini | Team Biden/Harris/Hillary. MAGA must be destroyed.

[Principles & Pragmatism🌹🏳️‍⚧️🟣🎗️🟦🇺🇦🐝🪷🇬🇧 @InherentValues]

Unfortunately I've had to discontinue my old account for personal reasons, but I feel increasingly the need to have my voice counted in the chorus against fascism and extremism. This is my new account intended to allow me to do so.

My principles should be clear, but to be sure:

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some people are looking at this and saying oh well let's continue sending alumina to Russia anyway

[Principles & Pragmatism🌹🏳️‍⚧️🟣🎗️🟦🇺🇦🐝🪷🇬🇧 @InherentValues]

Does this need a facepalm or copium reaction? Both?

This has always been Trump. You're just too bloody stupid to have realised he doesn't actually give a fuck about Jews, Israel, or anyone or anything other than himself.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I’m really hoping President Trump is playing some deeper strategic game here.

Calling Benjamin Netanyahu “crazy” for defending his people, while expressing interest in meeting Mojtaba Khamenei, doesn’t align with the strong, decisive leader I know Trump to be.

Thoughts?

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

It’s pride month and all I feel is sadness and exhaustion. It’s been a year now since I left Kansas City for Baltimore and I’m glad I was able to get out before they took away our driver’s licenses in Kansas, but it came at a cost.

I’m so lonely here. I miss the people I had to leave, and I feel like they’ve forgotten me. I want to make new friends but the people here don’t understand what it was like there, and I don’t fit in. I feel like I’ll always be a migrant and an outsider.

I left KC recently but that was actually the first place I fled to when I was disowned by my community in central Arkansas. It was people I’d known my whole life, that I grew up with and knew on an intimate level. Being shunned by all of them at once destroyed my sense of self. You don’t realize it until you lost it, but your personhood is reflected back at you from the people you know. And when that disappears it can feel like you don’t exist.

I’ve been trying to regain that ever since.

Since then I’ve turned to the internet to try to find my people, and I’ve found a lot. I’m known of by hundreds of thousands, but they don’t really know me.

I’ve realized that when you have a platform like that, the people you know think they know everything about you because they’ve seen what you post. But what I post is <1% of what I think, and it’s heavily edited. It’s no substitute for actual friendship.

I spend most of my days with my roommates, who moved from Arkansas to KC to Baltimore with me. They’re realistically the only people I trust, the only ones in my life who actually understand my background.

Well them and my cousin in New York, who I visit frequently. He’s gay, and while his immediate family supported him, my parents destroyed the wider family to avoid seeing him. We watch the Razorbacks together and it’s probably the closest I ever feel to normal.

What started as complete rejection from my family and church became a widespread political movement to oppress people like me specifically. Every day Trump says something trashing trans people while he’s warring with Iran and everybody else just expects me to go about my day like it’s not happening. Hating trans people seems like the average opinion in this country today, and it’s just a target on my back I have to be conscious of at all times.

Maryland and Baltimore laws and culture protect me from the worst. I’m grateful for that and relieved I don’t have to spend these years of politically weaponized transphobia in Arkansas or Kansas. I don’t regret the moves I made.

But those moves came at a brutal cost. I had to leave the roots I put down multiple times, and there’s no way to get them back. I don’t know how to get over the feeling of loss and the idea that I dont belong anywhere.

Home is important. There’s a reason people usually stay around it, or at least go back to it from time to time. I can’t go back to mine, and I never even wanted to leave in the first place.

So that’s where my head’s at this pride month. I know that doesn’t fit in with the yas queens and slays that drive pride events. So I mostly stay away because I don’t wanna be the sad sack at the party. But I’m glad some people are able to celebrate. We need that. And maybe one day I’ll be able to join them.

[Principles & Pragmatism🌹🏳️‍⚧️🟣🎗️🟦🇺🇦🐝🪷🇬🇧 @InherentValues]

@ThirdAndJauan Adjustment: definitely*

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

Glance up when you're outside the Abbey and you'll spot these grotesques and gargoyles - including the carved figures of dragons, lions and dogs - decorating the walls and looking out across the London skyline.

Together, they've witnessed centuries of history unfold around them. We wonder what stories they could tell...

#MuseumWeek #IfObjectsCouldSpeakMW

[Jewish News @JewishNewsUK]

Falconer accuses pro-Gaza MP of ‘echoing antisemitic tropes’ in Commons debate
https://t.co/18fTxHubCt

[political jew 🏴 @PoliticalJewTT]

Never ask the Irish what they did (and didn't do) during the Holocaust and what they're doing now in the face of Russian aggression

[Teo🗽 @teomanonline_]

Greens are not welcome in pride

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

Do you think it reflects well on him, you, or his other supporters that your standards are that low

[Sir Rottweiler 🐾 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SireRottweiler]

House Republicans are trash. How are you voting against a bill that would provide aid to a country, Ukraine, experiencing genocide.

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

David Miller to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday accused of posting antisemitic messages on X, formerly Twitter, calling for the “eradication of Zionism”.

[political jew 🏴 @PoliticalJewTT]

Do y'all remember when Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn spent days asking for the Israeli ambassador to be kicked out despite there not being an ambassador currently and while completely ignoring that there IS, however, a Russian ambassador sitting comfortably in Kensington

[Mack's Cats @maxkatz515]

Stop sharing from conservative streamers and influencers. They do not care about Jews or America. Their entire goal is white supremacy. They pretend to care about antisemitism but elect people in the pocket of Putin.

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

#OnThisDay 1940, 338,236 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force had been rescued from France by 861 ships and boats of @RoyalNavy #MerchantNavy Private &amp; Allied ships, 243 of which are lost. #OperationDynamo was planned and executed by Adm. Bertram Ramsay a remarkable feat

[The Sooty Show @Sootyandco]

"A curvature of sausages can only take place when the velocity of propagation of ketchup varies with position."

[Jewish News @JewishNewsUK]

Government accepts Lord Mann’s recommendations to tackle antisemitism in the NHS
https://t.co/r3f9FANXQB

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

During the Manchester Airport case Richard was (rightly) demanding we all unequivocally condemn violent attacks on police officers.

But when police officers were attacked in Southampton, nothing except a mealy mouthed, Corbynite, "I condemn all violence".

Two Tier Tice.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Is this the season where everyone suffers from black lung for no apparent reason??

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

@TiceRichard Two-tier eggs? Wait until you hear about semi-skimmed milk.

Creating a culture war over breakfast is a new level of stupidity.

What’s next, exposing the woke agenda behind orange juice with bits?