I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Because the federal government doesn't seriously fund rail travel and would rather pump billions of dollars in subsidies into airline companies that shit on customers daily. And because the automobile lobby has spent decades fighting rail spending at local, state, and federal levels. Next question.

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When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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If Jonestown is going to teach us anything, let it be how human needs can be weaponized, and how power destroys the possibility of refusal. Remember the victims as people instead of cheap synonyms for being an idiot.

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That’s what disgusts me almost beyond reason — the casual assurance that these people died because they were foolish, and that our cleverness would have saved us. Like murdered families are a compliment we pay ourselves for being so smart.

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