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bedabug:

positive election news: tammy duckworth won and will be the first thai-american senator

and kamala harris won and is going to be the first black female senator since 1999

oregon elected kate brown and she will be the first ever openly lgbtqa governor in us history

catherine cortez masto won and will be the first ever latina us senator

Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar, a Somali-Muslim woman, to the house for the first time.

Washington state elected Pramila Jayapal, an Indian-American woman, to the house for the first time.

I love you all so much. I appreciate you. Take care of yourselves.

Title excerpted from “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith, in full below:

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

electricrain:

To the POC, the women, the LBGTQIA, the Muslims, the immigrants, the disabled – to the people who America decided about that their lives don’t matter. I am so sorry.

Voting isn’t the only way to participate in government. Protest, fight together, protect each other, take care of yourself and each other, stand in solidarity. It’s not over. Evil only thrives when good people do nothing. Stay safe, stay strong, stay beautiful.