My 7YO is strong-willed, independent, smart, and kind, and has zero respect for unearned authority. These are all amazing qualities that I want her to grow up with! But HOLY COW they hit different when you just want her to eat her breakfast *before* reciting an entire episode of Bluey in song.
08:37 AM - May 02, 2024
If you dismiss & look down on "red states" maybe this is an opportunity for you to ask yourself why it's okay to write off all the "blue" voters in these states, who are often working for change locally with the odds overwhelmingly stacked against them by their anti-democratic state legislatures 🤔
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Josol @Josol1626So tired of the constant Florida bashing! Just stop it!!! We are fighting down here. Support us- don’t attack and assume you know what is going on! Christopher is predicting we will turn blue and get rid of this horrendous GOP super majority. Let’s fight to make this a reality!!08:27 AM - May 02, 2024
09:04 AM - May 02, 2024
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12:38 PM - May 01, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Joe Madison used to talk about how we need a "Freedom Summer." And we do. This summer.
Mass registration. In 1964 racial tensions were at a high with CRM underway. White supremacy will not let up.
What we are seeing today is white backlash to the progress over the last 50+ years.
Mass registration. In 1964 racial tensions were at a high with CRM underway. White supremacy will not let up.
What we are seeing today is white backlash to the progress over the last 50+ years.
12:59 PM - May 01, 2024
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*cue Sarah McLachlan melody*
Friends, I'm in a bit of a situation, and I'm doing a fundraiser. I just found out I won't be paid for the days I couldn't work due to food poisoning and ridding my apartment of junk cost me almost $700. I'm trying to raise $1500 to cover junk costs and my bills.
Friends, I'm in a bit of a situation, and I'm doing a fundraiser. I just found out I won't be paid for the days I couldn't work due to food poisoning and ridding my apartment of junk cost me almost $700. I'm trying to raise $1500 to cover junk costs and my bills.
10:06 PM - Apr 30, 2024
I attended a church in the 80s where a well-off deacon and his perfect (trad) wife served. He died in a motorcycle accident in the desert. The finances were not what they should have been. She and her four kids struggled. I was gone by the time the church abandoned her.
03:16 PM - Apr 30, 2024
Every woman I know has been raped or sexually assaulted in some manner by a male. Yet every male I know doesn’t know a single rapist. That is not just statistically improbable, it’s impossible. You refuse to see you bro’s for who they really are. And are all too willing to ignore if they scare you.
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Charlie Mel @ChollieWho are these guys you're running with?05:59 PM - Apr 29, 2024
Pick a better class of man to associate with.
02:30 PM - Apr 30, 2024
6 Threaded Spouts
MY SHERO!
20ish young woman, the only other woman in the room, says, "Why are you demanding her time and attention? Maybe you need to ask a doctor about some mind-your-own-business pills."
20ish young woman, the only other woman in the room, says, "Why are you demanding her time and attention? Maybe you need to ask a doctor about some mind-your-own-business pills."
09:05 AM - Apr 30, 2024
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8 Threaded Spouts
I think Not All-ing is done when folks feel implicated by association with people they somehow identify with. I belong to certain groups for which I've Not All'd in my head- for ex., Americans. But I don't Not All "out loud" bc the moment is about those whose injury needs to be understood, not me.
05:15 PM - Apr 29, 2024
In response to My Flying Car 2020.
Well written and well said. It should not be about you and your feelings.
06:46 PM - Apr 29, 2024
"In Trump's America I’m not worried about being killed by an illegal immigrant.
I’m worried about being killed by a Trump supporting, Confederate flag waving, Fox News watching, assault rifle owning, mad because Biden won, looking for a fight, domestic terrorist."
—namwella1961
I’m worried about being killed by a Trump supporting, Confederate flag waving, Fox News watching, assault rifle owning, mad because Biden won, looking for a fight, domestic terrorist."
—namwella1961
02:05 PM - Apr 29, 2024
How about instead of being offended, we take responsibility for our people and work our asses of to change them. Men are scarier than bears? My problem to fix. White people live in bubbles of privilege? My problem to fix. BBIMP speaking out? I shut the hell up.
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Liz N Is Tired of the Nonsense @knitquiltsewst104:31 PM - Apr 29, 2024
06:47 PM - Apr 29, 2024
26 Threaded Spouts
Ok, Man v Bear Videos. I have some from women, and some from men. Some women ask the guys in their lives about their daughters.
I will be adding more, but it's almost bedtime tonight. So keep checking back to this thread.
I will be adding more, but it's almost bedtime tonight. So keep checking back to this thread.
01:27 AM - Apr 29, 2024
Hey you...
Yeah, YOU who follows someone and then unfollows them after they follow you back.
I. SEE. YOU.
That's Twitter shit. We don't play that here. Grow up and quit it. I'm not afraid to expose the shit out of you.
Yeah, YOU who follows someone and then unfollows them after they follow you back.
I. SEE. YOU.
That's Twitter shit. We don't play that here. Grow up and quit it. I'm not afraid to expose the shit out of you.
01:34 PM - Apr 29, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
In case you missed it: Testeria: (noun). The state of men being worked up over women discussing or pointing out misogyny.
adj: "testerical"
"The testerical men flooded social media to decry women preferring to take their chances with a bear in the woods rather than a strange man."
adj: "testerical"
"The testerical men flooded social media to decry women preferring to take their chances with a bear in the woods rather than a strange man."
01:43 PM - Apr 29, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Let's call out bad behavior toward women when we see it BEFORE women have to.
Let's shrug off being called pussies or whipped and call THAT out too.
Let's accept whatever blowback we get as the price of being a good person, even if it hurts us professionally and/or in the wallet.
Let's shrug off being called pussies or whipped and call THAT out too.
Let's accept whatever blowback we get as the price of being a good person, even if it hurts us professionally and/or in the wallet.
11:39 AM - Apr 29, 2024
Because she is a gotdamn sociopath. Just like tfg and all of the brain-dead, mediocre, privileged assholes who worship him.
These people are fucked up. I'm so tired of these think pieces trying to "figure out" or analyze them. They are fucking sick people.
These people are fucked up. I'm so tired of these think pieces trying to "figure out" or analyze them. They are fucking sick people.
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Salma Typhii @EpidatageekBecause she thinks this is totes normal. Didn't occur to her most people would think otherwise11:41 AM - Apr 29, 2024
11:44 AM - Apr 29, 2024
In response to BurgerFanMan.
Maybe we should stop giving tax cuts to the richest, outlaw stock buybacks (like they used to be), and fund the IRS enough to catch all the tax cheats.
10:37 AM - Apr 29, 2024
#MoodyMonday This is another rather melancholy album, which I love. #SpoutingClassics
Nothing Else Matters (Remastered) - YouTube
Provided to YouTube by Blackened RecordingsNothing Else Matters (Remastered) · MetallicaMetallica (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)℗ 2021 Blackened Recordings Inc....
12:00 PM - Apr 29, 2024
5 Threaded Spouts
I found the first line of that quote interesting (repro'd in full below).
I just recently learned that women diagnosed with cancer are warned by health care providers not to rely solely or largely on a male partner for support and care because they're 6x more likely to leave after the diagnosis.
I just recently learned that women diagnosed with cancer are warned by health care providers not to rely solely or largely on a male partner for support and care because they're 6x more likely to leave after the diagnosis.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandezOne thing it doesn't do is discuss differences by gender. This quote suggests the answer to happiness is not marriage but getting a wife.
/207:17 AM - Apr 28, 2024![“But then what we discovered was that marriage provides all these benefits that are quite mundane, like somebody who gets you to remember to eat, somebody who gets you to remember to go to the doctor, to take your medication. It sounds trivial, except it turns out to really matter for whether you’re happy and whether you stay healthy.”]()
09:11 AM - Apr 28, 2024
Thank you Biden, Harris & Pete! US passenger rail networks need to expand. I love the ease of passenger rail in Europe.
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Eddie Stewart @EddieDexterThis is what POTUS JoeBiden @VP KamalaHarris have been talking about! Rail cars & locomotives are being built HERE in America! Manufacturering! SecretaryPete & SecGranholm when they talk about transportation and the Green Economy it's this!05:24 PM - Apr 27, 2024![Video]()
Why Passenger Train Manufacturing Is Booming In The U.S - YouTube
The United States ranks below many industrialized nations when it comes to ridership on its passenger rail, but investment in U.S. rail is picking up. Railca...
05:41 PM - Apr 27, 2024
Never done an escape room. But wouldn't mind trying.
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Bev Turner @BevturnerHave any of y'all been to one?08:13 AM - Apr 27, 2024
06:08 PM - Apr 27, 2024
All I can think about after seeing a Banana Slicer is Amy Fara-Fowler does not eat a banana like a whore!
03:43 PM - Apr 27, 2024
I had not thought about this, before. So, good original question that led to this excellent spout.
04:11 PM - Apr 27, 2024
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"Thoughts and prayers" is how conservatives say, "suck it up."
06:11 PM - May 10, 2023
I want to live in the United States that would have existed if we'd listened to Anita Hill, Dr. Blasey Ford, and Hillary Clinton.
07:29 PM - Feb 10, 2023
Spoutible: where the CEO and a podcaster won't send crazy people to attack you because you believe in getting vaccinated
03:57 PM - Jun 18, 2023
Someone should ask Bill Barr what is so terrible in the "progressive agenda" that democracy should be ended to stop it. Healthcare for all? Equal rights? Environmental protections? The frog pig is some kind of despicable.
09:37 AM - Apr 27, 2024
OMG y'all, I have a job! I got a job in my field, for people who seem to be decent, doing what I'm good at.
FINALLY. I can breathe a sigh of relief and let go of the constant worry and knot in the pit of my stomach.
FINALLY. I can breathe a sigh of relief and let go of the constant worry and knot in the pit of my stomach.
05:22 PM - Apr 26, 2024
