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Republicans: “Why are you so obsessed with the environment?”
PNW Dems: gestures at literally everything around us 🌲🔥🌊 #PNWDems

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Back then people acted like the tragedy was the scandal, the divorce, the fallout, the gossip.

Not the fact that a teacher had a relationship with a student.

That part got absorbed into the background like weather.

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my toxic trait is thinking workers helping each other survive capitalism is the closest thing we have to a social safety net sometimes.

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people keep acting like they're worried they'll miss some coded plea for help.

my brother in christ, if i needed help i'd use words.

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I grew up assuming certain doors would always open. Now I see locks being installed in real time. I’m voting like I want fewer locked doors for my kids.

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And sometimes that difference feels enormous when you’ve spent your whole life surviving things that should’ve never been survivable in the first place.

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Sometimes addiction isn't a failure to cope. It's evidence that someone was forced to cope with far more than they should have had to.

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Nobody wakes up and says, "I'd love to build my life around this substance." They usually say, "I need this pain to stop for five damn minutes."

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A billion dollars for projects with no plans.
Endless funding for wars nobody asked for.
Congressional stock trades.
Lobbyists everywhere.
But somehow the problem is always the disabled person getting $900 a month to survive.

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I remember being terrified of the men living in the woods behind our place. Now I look around and realize there are a whole lot more people one missed paycheck away from joining them.

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There used to be more spaces between "doing fine" and "completely screwed." Family, neighbors, churches, unions, community groups. We've spent decades tearing those buffers apart.

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i don’t think healthy people understand how much energy disabled folks spend pretending to seem “normal” so others stay comfortable

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You open up the dumpster & see this, what do you do?

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On this father's day I'd like to take a moment & thank both of my exhusbands for being deadbeat dads who never saw our children as anything more than pawns & financial obligations.

I have no doubt I'm a better mom today for filling in all this time.

Burn in hell.

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@RachelBitecofer you know what they say about projection...trump does seem to prefer well oiled up men though.

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He's been gone going on 20 years now. I'll never have another chance to ride in his truck & play on his CB radio, warning others about Smokey. Pulling alongside bigger trucks & pumping your arm to get them to sound their air horns.

I miss you, Dad.

Over.

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I only got to spend a single Father's Day with my dad. He'd quietly gone along with the farce that my 2nd step dad was my real dad, so long as he & his family got summers with me. But my stepdad was abusive & the only Father's Day I got with my dad was when I was 14.

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He was so proud. He took us all over town that week, re-introducing me to his old boss, his friends, bragging about how smart, funny & pretty I was. He made a reservation to a super fancy restaurant where I had virgin margaritas for brunch.

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