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"Quick, into the blanket fort!"

@idiopathicsmile / idiopathicsmile.tumblr.com

She/her. Mid-thirties. Semi-professional writer, amateur singer/songwriter, well-intentioned ball of pure quivering anxiety. Buy my queer sci-fi/mystery YA novel STARS, HIDE YOUR FIRES now available in paperback wherever books are sold!
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on finding each other if this whole magical terrible basement really does implode—

Bluesky @jesserbest

Instagram @jesserbest but my presence there is mostly just photos of charcuterie boards

Wordpress jessicamarybest.com, you can also sign up for my extremely periodic newsletter at the end of this post ETA: idiopathicsmile on pillowfort as well!

mutuals, if you're okay with it, pls drop me a line (you can do it privately if you'd rather) and tell me where/how to follow you across the various webbed sites.

in the meantime, i will be here posting til security chases me out. <3

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hey btw if you're an american and you're upset at the way that the trump administration has repeatedly ignored court orders—including supreme court orders—in order to illegally imprison and deport innocent people, this is your reminder to go to 5 calls, enter your location, choose the button to the left of the screen that says "Fight the Trump Administration's Defiance of the Constitution and Courts," and call your reps.

if you have social anxiety and you don't want to talk to a person, wait until after working hours and you'll get their answering machine. if you don't know how to even put it all in words, read the call script, which sums it up pretty succinctly. it will take you less than five minutes, they will log another dissenting opinion regardless of how awkward or nervous you sound, and if enough of us call, who knows?

5calls.org

#fucking 2025#honestly at this point i call to make my egregiously conservative senators hopefully feel uncomfortable#uspol
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You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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#fucking 2025#uspol
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working on a kickstarter for a pretty ambitious cherished secret project (shh!) and quickly losing my entire mind

something about adding the captions to the video portion makes me feel like i'm writing a fucking autobiographical dating sim.

#imagine choosing between like five characters specifically created to be appealing and then also#there's this five foot two gremlin in a jean jacket who just wants to talk about fictional tropes with you#if you try to flirt with her she just starts gushing about how great her girlfriend is#i'll post the link to the kickstarter when i'm done btw#cherished secret project
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something i didn't fully anticipate about the beginning of the second trump presidency is the urge to take everything as a grim portent of what's to come. we ordered middle eastern food tonight and when i bit into what turned out to be a small rock in my mujaddara, my brain went, "well, US food and safety standards are gonna be in sharp decline for the time being...better learn to chew carefully..."

which may even be true but like. i have tried repeatedly to cultivate some degree of any spiritual practice, any belief in transcendence, anything remotely approaching some higher holier sphere and it has always, always crashed and burned. do you know how bad things have to be to turn me into a soothsayer? don't mind me, i'm just over here reading my dinner like it's tea leaves. practicing legume-based divination. fucking lentilmancy.

#fucking 2025#uspol cw
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For those of you that may have just finished watching Cory Booker’s record-breaking senate speech and are inspired to “get in good trouble”, you have a great opportunity for it this Saturday!

On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!

www.handsoff2025.com

Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to
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I’ll be volunteering as a safety captain at my own local rally, and I encourage all of you to go out there too and get in some good trouble as well!

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for the record when I say a lot of major cities I mean a LOT of major cities :P

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I will be hitting up one of our Twin Cities rallies tomorrow representing the Great Lakes. Let's get out there and raise hell!

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1272 protests listed for today. 686 were counted in the women's march in 2017, which was 1% of the population. 🎉

#fucking 2025
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watching contrapoints' newest video about conspiracy theories in bits and pieces, i am reminded that the first time i ever heard of the bilderburg group (one of those supposed all-powerful cabals of world-controlling people)

and ok in my defense it was via zoom and also everyone else on the call had a british accent and uh i guess i can't stall any longer i just need to explain to you how deeply confused i was because i swear to any god you wish to name that initially i thought they were all saying build-a-bear. yeah, like the custom teddy bear store at the mall where they give each stuffed animal a little stuffed heart. and look obviously i know that the build-a-bear group doesn't exert any particularly sinister control over the world as we know it, but they were all talking about it so seriously and so many conspiracy theories are so absurd already that i was briefly willing to entertain the notion that maybe this was a thing?

i don't want to be self-deprecating here—i'm trying to do less of that—but my point here is that if anyone on this particular site has ever wanted to stop by and say hi but for whatever reason was too intimidated, uh maybe don't be?

fucking. build-a-bear.

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Please help Talesha if you can!

Chip in to "SHORT ON PHONE,FOOD AND ETC" until May 8, 2025
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I've been helping out my friend Talesha in Minnesota for a little while now. She is a single disabled Black mother of four children and is supporting all of them by herself. She is kind and loving and is just trying to do her best by these kids -- it's incredible.

At the moment, I'm super low on funds, so I cannot help her, but she is raising some cash for the necessities you need in a modern life. If you have even a little bit to spare, please consider donating.

If you don't have cash but you have Amazon gift certificates or a Visa giftcard, those are also welcome. If you have nothing, just a reblog is helpful.

Thank you everyone!

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HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

#gonna try not to be soppy on main but as someone whose religious beliefs could loosely be called#'struggling to be a humanist'#i am having some quasi-religious feelings about tonight.#(also i called my absolutely useless senators and complained to their answering machines about their rank cowardice to not support booker)#gotta be me babyyyy
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LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
Senator Cory Booker, D-NJ, is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "Tonight, I rise with the intention of g
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NJ Democrat senator Cory Booker takes the floor in protest of Trump/Musk, "saying that he will keep going “'as long as I am physically able'.”

“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”

“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” -source

I am posting this at 2:30am EST. He has been speaking since 7PM EST. This link (at this moment) is to a live stream.

FUCK YEAH, JERSEY!

So very proud of my state at the moment.

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Reblogging and adding the livestream link from Senator Booker's YouTube (the other one was glitching) . It is almost 4am. He is still going STRONG. If you are watching and plan to go to sleep, turn the volume down and leave it up so that the "watching" number reflects the involvement of people supporting him.

If he can LITERALLY stand and protest as a single voice, we can keep it playing and symbolically stand with him.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who a
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Senator Booker is on Hour 13 and going STRONG

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Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. No business as usual! Slow the Fascists down! He should get some Democrat colleagues to join him so they can periodically cede to each other and spell each other off to keep it up longer!

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STILL GOING! If you can open up the livestream to show support.

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Folks, he's still going - and importantly, he's talking about his own shortcomings, his own failures and the things he wants to do better because he knows he fucked up the last time.

If your disdain for Democrats has been rooted largely in their reluctance to meet the moment, then I heartily encourage you to watch the livestream — other Democratic senators are asking long-winded "questions (which is part of the rules and allows Booker to take the occasional break for a drink of water or to rest his feet or whatnot) and helping however they can.

Booker's going to hit 24 hours at 7 pm and it's worth watching a few minutes, don't you think?

#fucking 2025#holy shit cory booker is going for it
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Hey Americans, if you have a state Supreme Court vote coming up, vote in it. A Supreme Court can make or break a state, especially in this current political climate, and we actually have control over who gets into our state courts.

Wisconsites, we have a Supreme Court vote coming up in April and if you don't vote in it, I'm going to cut a hole into all your window screens, right on the very edge so it's in a place where you can't just patch it but it's too big to just ignore. Enjoy your box elder bugs and grass spiders 🔫

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is on April 1st. That means that it's happening this Tuesday. Wisconsites, for the love of god, if you haven't cast your vote already, go out and vote.

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Ya know how we’ve been saying “WHY DOESNT ANYONE DO ANYTHING” this is how we elect people who will do something. Please let’s not make the same mistake many did wiyh the election and think that sitting out elections will help. As we’ve seen. It doesn’t. Vote. I’m begging you. And for Wisconsinites Wisconsin is SUCH an important state! Please vote! There’s other elections happening too and Wisconsin repubs losing could help us break the razor thin repub majority.

#fucking 2025#Wisconsin I beseech thee
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