Terrified historian
Buddhist/contemplative Christian, lover not a fighter, perpetually tired, historian in training, and professional nerd. Loves birds, science fiction, religious studies and poetry!
- Reposted by Terrified historianIt’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...
- Reposted by Terrified historianA man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them
- Reposted by Terrified historiani hate every body
- Reposted by Terrified historianShut. It. Down. "Twenty-five demonstrators were arrested and removed from the building." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Terrified historianWe need to understand this as a victory against trans hate and discrimination — it’s what otherwise moderate Mayor Jean Stothert made the entire end of her campaign about. Regular Americans don’t react to or receive the call to trans panic. Enough. We are speaking to the future.
- OMAHA HAS A NEW MAYOR: Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing Jr., a Democrat, was the clear pick of Omaha voters on Tuesday, ousting three-term Mayor Jean Stothert, a Republican. Get the story from Cindy Gonzalez and Aaron Sanderford: buff.ly/QdNbISc
- Reposted by Terrified historianI put up with this for four years as The New York Times and others kept insisting that this race or that race was The One that would prove The End of the Progressive Prosecutor. No number of wins would be enough, and one loss meant they could declare it was over. They never wanted it!
- Reposted by Terrified historianI’m laughing and crying
- Reposted by Terrified historianBaltimore: there are ICE agents questioning people in Waverly this morning. Be careful and know your rights.
- Reposted by Terrified historianAny day is a good day to repost this reminder that Marc Andreessen's view of South Asia is that he, explicitly, wants to colonize it. Fortunately, Indian activists were able to stop Facebook. In Myanmar, they weren't so lucky, and Facebook enabled a genocide almost immediately upon its arrival.
