Arianna

Child of God and friend of the progrum. Freedom is compassionate.

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@peterboghossian More than enough deLulu for one segment

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@Culture_Crit @conniemmorgan Another entry for your #wamlt

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is single mom Stephanie Wilson. A few years ago, police seized *both* of her cars. She hadn't committed a crime and was never arrested.

The government spent years trying to keep her property anyway.

She is far from the only victim. Their stories will shock you. A thread.

[Naomi Novik @naominovik]

Locus Awards starting in a few 😮
Massive congrats to my fellow finalists for Best Fantasy Novel!!! An incredible honor for THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES to be considered alongside all of these fantastic books 😍
Check out the nominated titles below & add to your summer TBR stack! 🌞📚🏖️

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🧵THREAD: Proof that masks worked during Covid.

[Gina Carano 🕯 @ginacarano]

This is horrifying.
It is NOT transphobic to say that biological men should not be competing against biological women in sports. Many trans people understand and agree with this.
This is so disgustingly abusive and harmful and it is encouraging acts of violence against women. These protestors cannot debate this with logic or words so they resort to bullying and violence. Cowards.
Ask yourself why the majority is trans women moving over into women’s sports and why we don’t see many trans men successfully transferring and competing against men, why doesn’t this go both ways, why are only women’s sports negatively effected?
Mental health, a way of life, living a dream are all directly related to women competing in sports, and so much more.
The knowledge that comes with training, the excitement of getting a college scholarship to go play for a team or go to the Olympics and compete on a fair stage, the ability to make money and support themselves, sponsorships, entire futures are built on women competing in sports. Even if someone doesn’t end up becoming a professional, just playing for a team in high school can be life changing.
Do not take that away from women. Do not rob young girls and women of that experience and shaming them and now PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING them when they say this is not fair.
How many more women and young girls are we going to let this happen to? How many more assaults need to happen? How many careers stumped and cheated?
It’s going to get worse if more people don’t speak out.
Young women and girls need YOU to say ENOUGH, they need your protection as a logical people to say this isn’t the way to invoke positive change.
This is not transphobia it simply means we are not there and might never be so find another way to be inclusive and loving towards trans people without it directly harming women. I hope you are ok
@Riley_Gaines_ you are not alone. 🤍

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

Handheld baskets have disappeared from my local grocery stores over the past couple years. I recently asked the cashier if they would be coming back and she said no since “as soon as we order them, they’re out the door.” Sad state of affairs out here #seattle

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Socialists: Capitalism makes people poor.

Poverty under Capitalism:

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm going to tell the story of Brianne Dressen, a courageous woman who participated in Covid-19 vaccine trials, was severely injured, and found solace in online support groups. Soon after, Facebook & other platforms began shutting the groups down--at the government's behest. 1/

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@dylanfmorgan @JustAnother_Ben Wild

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is the face of authoritarianism - even though it looks different than you were taught to expect. And it's the mindset of tyrants everywhere:

This is someone so inebriated by her sense of righteousness and superiority that she views dissent as an evil too dangerous to allow:

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@dylanfmorgan @breedmylove Fascinating. I must learn more.

[Madi Hilly @MadiHilly]

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem"

REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment!

Here's what you need to know:

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@michaelmalice Not it

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@jtcelich @drinkspindrift Happy birthday!!!

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@kiradavis Some Ron Swanson energy

[Eric @The_OtherET]

Growing increasingly frustrated with the media who try to portray Shanghai/China’s endless, draconian lockdowns as “strict COVID measures” as opposed to what they really are, which are violations of basic human rights

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

Very clever to define authoritarian as allowing mis/disinformation to circulate. Just like the new anti-fascism is fascism, the new anti-authoritarianism is authoritarianism.

[Efrain Flores Monsanto 🇨🇦🚛 @efloresmonsanto]

Trudeau: "we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies. Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders. Countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media"

https://t.co/cTm6cKHpsA

[Samantha Godwin @samanthaagodwin]

Jacob Hale Russell (@jhaler) and Dennis Patterson (@DmpPatterson) wrote what might be the most effective and nuanced concise account of how pandemic policy, public discourse and political culture went so badly.

An article to contend no matter your priors

https://t.co/tRIS0HLY1D

[Arianna @desertroseslc]

@AmabileJoe I do not want to see the group of men that would show up for that. Even if they're there for the right reasons, they're there for the wrong reasons.