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Naturalist, Artist, Educator. Let me help you touch grass.

Joined January 2013
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This looks like my IMDb tbh
me casting a season of survivor
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Poor whites and poor blacks in the south have insane amounts of things in common— from their diet to their dialects, and preventing people from realizing that is why the Republican ruling class is so racist.
hey so are we ready to discuss how this guy is using a blaccent and mocking speech patterns of african americans in the south
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The man in the clip is Russ Hudson using his authentic Mississippi Southern twang in Scott Colom's campaign ad, not a blaccent mocking Black speech. nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/… x.com/scott_colom/st…
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The costumes have not improved in Rings of Power
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Oh Sauron now has a Game of Thrones throne with the melted helms of his enemies? Jesus man half a billion and they’re not even stealing well
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I love that the Missouri GOP is posting this crash out because the people have figured out a way of direct democracy that has consistently sidestepped their tyrany to keep Missouri remotely livable. Look at the policies! This is how we have to organize in Missouri. Put shit to a popular vote through petition process, it passes, the state GOP panics to abuse state law to invalidate it.
MISSOURI, THIS IS WHAT WE WARNED YOU ABOUT. We warned that Amendment 6 would make sweeping changes to Missouri’s Constitution and laws harder to reverse. Now, just days after its passage, 10 new initiative petitions targeting the 2028 election have been submitted to the Secretary of State. And what’s being proposed should concern every Missourian. Here’s a breakdown of what these proposals would do: 🚩001 – Redefining Marriage & Gender Rights: Removes Missouri’s constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, establishes constitutional protections for gender identity and sexual orientation, and allows minors to seek trans surgery, therapy, or counseling with parental or guardian consent. 🚩002 – Proxy Voting in the Legislature: Allows citizens to assign their legislative votes to individual lawmakers, giving some legislators potentially thousands of votes while others have far fewer. This would fundamentally change how representation works in the General Assembly. 🚩003 – Overhauling Missouri’s Legislature: Repeals multiple constitutional provisions, eliminates legislative primaries, introduces statewide elections for legislators, and radically restructures how representation works in Missouri. 🚩004 – Electronic Initiative Petition Signatures: Allows initiative petitions to be signed electronically rather than requiring traditional paper signatures, raising serious questions about verification, security, and FRAUD. 🚩005 – Stripping the Governor’s Authority: Takes away the Governor’s independent power to issue pardons, commutations, and reprieves, and replaces the line-item veto with recommendations subject to legislative approval. 🚩006 – Ranked-Choice Voting: Introduces ranked-choice voting in Missouri elections with more than two candidates for a single office, replacing our traditional voting system with multiple rounds of vote counting and candidate elimination. 🚩007 – Eliminating Primary Elections: Abolishes primaries for congressional and state legislative races and moves to statewide elections using party lists, stripping voters of their traditional ability to choose their party’s nominees. 🚩008 – Government-Run Healthcare: Creates a state-administered healthcare cooperative funded through income-based membership payments, dramatically expanding government’s involvement in healthcare. 🚩009 – New Taxes for Green Energy: Imposes a new tax on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to fund a government-administered renewable energy program. 🚩010 – Government-Built Housing: Establishes a state-run housing program financed through government bonds, offering homes at cost with no down payment and no interest over 30–40 years. Make no mistake: These aren’t minor policy adjustments. These proposals would fundamentally reshape Missouri’s government, elections, and economy. We warned about the consequences of Amendment 6, and now we’re seeing exactly why those warnings mattered. Missouri’s Constitution is not a playground for radical political experiments. The fight to protect our state and our representative form of government is far from over. 🇺🇸
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What this tells me is all the “invest in the south” stuff isn’t really necessary. What was always necessary was people deciding to show up. The south has always been ready to throw off the yoke. DO IT.
Mississippi is roughly the same % Black as today’s Bed-Stuy, which is represented by an entirely Black slate of local officials, as well a Black member of Congress. But Mississippi does not have early in-person voting, requires photo ID to vote, and has a felony disenfranchisement law dating to 1890 that today permanently bars nearly 70,000 state residents from voting. @DemocracyDocket reports that in the last midterm election, that state "ranked dead last in the nation for voter turnout" and that this year voters there had to overcome "a system that perhaps makes it more difficult to vote than anywhere in the country." Scott Colom's win is a remarkable achievement.
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Button of immense power and historical significance
How it feels voting blue in Mississippi
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No one is prepared for how weird it’s going to get with a French director
MOVIE OF THE YEAR ALREADY WE ARE COMING
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Laugh him out of there. Or throw him over the balcony. Honestly I don’t care which.
I’m not sure the 1st Amendment applies if you’re an adult man storming into a college cafeteria, but let’s see what happens to Jake Lang this time
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My friends are all criminal
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I don’t wanna get hope pilled but this feels generational
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Scott Colom wins election to U.S. Senate from Mississippi.
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Grownups understand that “fusion” candidates — those who leveraged messaging and issue positions from various wings and factions of the party — performed extremely well. This whole us vs. them dynamic being pushed by those in the center and on the left is unnuanced and silly.
Yep. Massive electoral overpeformers like James Talarico ran as far away from Bernie’s message as possible — lambasting a rigged economic system that makes it impossible for working people to get by, calling out the greed of billionaires and advocating raising their taxes, focusing on a top-versus-bottom vs. left-versus-right division, raising the minimum wage, getting big money out of politics… HEY WAIT A MINUTE
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King of the Forest
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*Coworkers fighting for their lives asking for help* Me who clocked out 30 seconds ago:
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Colom winning every county named after confederate heroes WOKE 3.0 IS HERE BABY
Mississippi Senate: 80 new votes from Jefferson Davis County 🔵 Colom: +59 (73.8%) 🔴 Hyde-Smith: +19 (23.8%) ⚪ Pinkins: +2 (2.5%) Colom nets 40 votes, expanding his statewide lead to 2,575.
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Hey look I get the schadenfreude of seeing what goes around come around but the whole point of a civilized society is making sure some lessons are NEVER learned the hard way. This is one of them.
I'm not saying anyone deserves sexual assault but how are you VP of the rape is cool and woman shouldn't vote club, and think that these dudes won't eventually end up doing some shit exactly like this?
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Just got activated like the Winter Soldier
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rt 🔐
What was @Scott_Colom cooking that Mississippi whites liked so much? Whites with a college degree moved 17 points left Whites without a college degree moved 20 points left White men moved 21 points left White women 18 points left Whites 18-29 42 points left via @nytimes
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saving to post on the big day
this trump clip is frying me 😭
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They kicked me out of the birding group cause I got too much MOTION
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Making my Haters my Waiters at the table of success.
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