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If you've spent any time in Jackson or Josephine counties, the notion of Grants Pass being a small town is amusing. Still, this is apparently where the fight over human dignity is going to be fought.

No, but thanks for asking. The rabbit hole still goes far further.

Ghostarchive is apparently blocked from The Atlantic, and other archive options aren't friendly to VPNs, so I'm afraid I can't provide an archive link.

This is going to be interesting to watch unfold.

I'm not here to whinge about the sorts of things depressed people do. Yeah, life sucks, and for my generation, we learned that from The Princess Bride.

But a week into this hell, I find myself unable to identify what a light at the end the the tunnel would even look like, and whether there's any way to distinguish it from a train.

I know many of you have it worse than I do, and I'm not trying to suggest otherwise. My job no longer exists. That's small potatoes against fearing for your life. But this is one battle too many. I'm using short, declarative sentences.

I called my mom today, and it came up that I have no active plans, but I'd not so much complain about not waking up tomorrow. I'm just exhausted. Things have been going backward for 20-plus years, and we were able to paper over it for about three.

What hope is there? I did a coding bootcamp in 2021 because I had nothing official on my resume, and JS was going to be easy. So. Writing is worthless. Editing is worthless. Fact-checking is worthless. Print design is worthless. Navigating data when it's not in your job description is worthless. And god forbid you attempt to code without your handlers' approval.

I don't see what comes next.

I had very low hopes for this, and it was orders of magnitude worse. I guess there's some device that becomes relevant for the climactic scene, but who cares? I don't even know who the audience is for this, because anyone into Star Trek isn't gong to see much here to work with, and anyone not will be put off by the branding.

The mind boggles with the sheer absurdity of this administration, and it's not poised to improve. Be safe, y'all!

She's not just a problem for puppies anymore.

I thought the weather was bad enough growing up there.

I posted the text in !politics, and then I found the video. It is questionable to post the same thing twice, just in different formats, but this needs to be seen by as many people as possible. And fuck it, I'm a mod.

THIS is how you speak truth to power. She was evidently aware that this would be the only opportunity for anyone to try to talk some sense into this supposed Christian without interruption, and I'm not entirely willing to rule out divine inspiration for what she delivered.

This will be remembered as a seminal speech.

We've all seen the clip of the last few grafs of Budde's speech, but this is the full text, and it's outstanding. This is the sort of rational, reasoned discourse so crucial to an enlightened society. I am not religious but stand in awe of the quality of her persuasive prose.

She would have made quite the columnist had she decided not to help others even more broadly.

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