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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she)

@jazzywildheart.bsky.social
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monster, phd-er, "professional" Bug Lady, queer[ing] ecologist, ex-marine biologist, poet. Facilitator. Environmental Advisor. Critical ecology. Escaping... Writing a book (trying to) Bugs'n'Liberation linktr.ee/altbrownwriter

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/03/2026
I'm looking forward to returning to the Oxford Museum of Natural History on 9 May! I'll be schm-oozing with Bi-Curious George, @jazzywildheart.bsky.social & @connorbutler.bsky.social prior to George's new show, Snail Trail. 🐌🏳️‍🌈🐌🏳️‍⚧️🐌 www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/bi-cur... @morethanadodo.bsky.social #queer
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Bi Curious George ‘Snail Trail’
A slow, slimy exploration of trans-masculinity, hormones and being a pest. Celebrate soft bellies, sensuality, rotting and renewal in this drag-comedy that offers queer alternatives for anyone with a ...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Transness is full of so much shape shifting. People can lose recognition of you, the amount you change face and change interaction, always searching for a way to overcome all the terrible innards of societal trauma.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Imagine adjusting the entire structure of your body by burying yourself in the skin of ancestors and the broken down bodies of plants...Rose Chafer beetle larvae from the community garden last week. Shows soil health, and grows to become a pollinator of such beauty...
White, orange and black grub is visible in the centre of a handWhite, orange and black grub is visible in the centre of a hand
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I was just talking to someone yesterday about how I love beaches in the UK that are quite obviously part of the natural coastline and not a transplanted sand castle with transplanted ecologies and organisms. But this is something even more....is this a closer look at the future of an island that
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Noam chomsky is in the epstein files. Immediately, "how could this happen", "oh my god I'm so disappointed", "we don't get anything", "heartbroken". Really?? Why was this white man on such a high pedestal in apparently "liberational" spaces.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
People calling for matriarchies but can't even decentre patriarchy, heteronormative standards of body, beauty and identity, listen to black + brown trans people, centre disabled folks / needs or even seek to understand struggles that make you uncomfortable or break down your individualised comfort.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/01/2026
Impact the same as last week’s for these twenty-one families: your support has supported hospital care, pharmacy costs, housing, nutrition, winter clothes, and other survival needs. Pretty simple. Keep it going, and hit "weekly" to sustain it:
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Be bold and be sure that you will attract joy aswell as pain, because whilst liberal softness pretends to promise a kind reality, radical boldness promises you will feel again.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Material hope. I wrote it in response to an accusation. Of myself. By myself. Of hopelessness. Which I reckon with as we all do, because truly hopelessness is allowed. But it should sit beside action and aid, not disrupt and affect those things. open.substack.com/pub/jasminei...
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Hope is Material. And it is grown underground.
Where have I travelled in search of duty, whilst I hold a hopelessness that should never be allowed to touch that duty. What can the bug, the soil and the act of aid teach us of this duty and holding.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When you dissappear from the plane of family, fortune and root that held you previous, and you grow in a different direction altogether...there's an aura of silence around you. No one tells you what to look towards. There is no pushing or pulling.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Oh YES it's here thank you Anarchist Gardeners Club 🙏🏽🪲🧡 can't wait to get stuck in and mix this with my own "destroy the system uplift all bug kind and the othered folks of humanity" ways....
A newspaper page from the anarchist gardeners club publication by black Lodge press, with the headline "weeds are comrades - on mulch, devotion and the quiet transformation of soil"
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Ok so bc of the crushing weight of the world [honestly life is so touch and go atm] I did actually miss the deadline for the article I wrote [the one that broke my writers block finally], so it won't be published where it was going to go originally, but I'm going to publish it on my substack instead
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
GUYS. I DID IT. AFTER MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS OF NOT BEING ABLE TO WRITE ANYTHING I FINALLY FINISHED ONE OF THE ARTICLES IVE HAD DUE IN FOR SO LONG. THIS IS HONESTLY FUCKING INCREDIBLE. Excited for you to read. Perhaps comeback isn't too far off. Got a different flavour to my thinking now...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The possibility of pain is more powerful than the actuality of it in the western project and the other imperial projects. We live in a state of constant fear as to when, where and how we are watched, and then theorising ways we could be attacked or incarcerated...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
How is lgbt history month coming up again so quickly??? Now I've got to see companies sticking random rainbows on ai generated posters and products made by people so poor and repressed (by said "inclusive" company) they don't even get to think about their identity or express it...its almost like
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Jusy you wait jaz is making a comeback I used to publish work and do so many workshops and talks but god life has flattened me recently I'm working on trying to come back to life
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"We, the people of the US, do not condone the actions of the gov, and we are against their actions...." MEANS NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. IF you don't divest. If you don't dismantle the structures that you use every day that rely on state money gained from the toxic exploitation of resource.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I would love to learn to embroid...embroider...do embroidery??? anyway, I'd love to learn so I can sew my favourite Palestinian insects into my keffiya...I can sew a bit for repairs but it would be so lovely to be able to make little worlds on cloth like that and alchemize my clothes 🐛
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Peak crimmus activity is watching the grinch, agreeing with all his anti consumerist, anti capitalist and generally EXTREMELY valid reasons for loathing Christmas, and then getting angry at his gradual indoctrination into the cultish capitalist coca cola Christmas identity.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Imperialist frameworks rely on exploitation of land and people to exist. When we fight for stable ecosystems, biodiversity, ethical and liberated social systems (which is directly connected to autonomy and agency, which is directly connected to identity and materialist feminism,
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
MPs aren't going to save the future, but we can dig our heels in to save vulnerable folks, whilst working on the ground to make sure there are spaces to shift into as the system that should crumble is dismantled. actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We talk about the power core of our devices, the very things we scroll through our realities, the very thing that changes whether we have medical appointments that save our lives, the very thing that we are reaching out to other souls on and that is keeping us from isolation...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Part of "decolonising" charity work is understanding that "aid" can't stand on its own. There must be sovereignty of resource and land that is achieved for the folks who have had their worlds destroyed, and this must be worked towards alongside a charity format structured around community, mutual
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If western wildlife charities had always been in charge of the world's largest ecosystems then we would have all died a long time ago. The communities that have lived in reciprocal relationships with the land for centuries are the reason we are alive today and
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
THIS BREATH YOU TAKE is entirely impossible without the people of Congo. Without their liberation and their thrival. The sovereignty of the communities of this land, the dismantling of their oppression and repression, and the reparations [for the oppression that www.worldbank.org/en/news/feat...
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Journey into the Congo Basin – The Lungs of Africa and Beating Heart of the World
Spanning over six countries, the Congo Basin is the world’s largest carbon sink. In the run-up to the Africa COP-27, Central African voices are calling for adaptation. Listen to voices of local climat...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I've completely burnt out. I was so afraid to say it before, but the way things are in my life and in society has pushed me to the end of my energies. I can't even get through a paragraph of writing, barely even one line some days, before I lose the ability to think and it just dissappears.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I think what's so interesting about the differences in butterfly and moth cocoons is the way they are formed and why - essentially, if moths as a group are older than butterflies, and butterflies evolved from them seemingly to feed on different kinds of nectar and flowers
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It's me and queering ecology !!! This episode was an absolute joy to record ! 🦋🪲🧡
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
All of this queering ecology malarkey seems a little performative...perhaps that's the point? Perhaps the performance is a process...but then does that process provide soil for regenerative movements to emerge? Does it unearth the toxicities present in colonial ecology?
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I need to get a van with "queering ecologies" with a big cross through "queer" and a circle around "ing" to highlight the action of "dismantling queerness", and not a static understanding of colonising queerness...then I can travel around doing my research and talks and workshops and seeing bugs...
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Thing is, the Internet made a lot of places, ideas and communities accessible to those who society and governments have sidelined, and to those who have had a lot of mainstream living made completely inaccessible and difficult to be a part of.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
They do not deserve our misery and our hopelessness. They deserve what little we can do, the redistribution of wealth and platform. Life is hard, today I could barely breathe and I could barely see a way forward, but it isn't being dragged from my body at the capacity that it gofund.me/027e39cf
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Donate to support lovely 20 year old Abdulhai, organized by Emily Chalke
Hello! I have got to know Abdulhai over the past six months, we have talked regularl… Emily Chalke needs your support for support lovely 20 year old Abdulhai
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Sorry everyone been a bit absent on here bc life has been very difficult! Will be back as soon as I can !
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Nah but the whole Contrapoints drama is a bit uninteresting. Cos we've been telling u that whiteness as an oppressive structure is not erased by transness or queerness, and that white trans women are still capable of recycling this oppression (and often do), and that the "left" in the heart of
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Reimagining our relationships and interactions is important alongside mutual aid and alongside redistribution of wealth and resources. The biggest obstacles that western hemispheric colonialism places before groups - in tandem with systemic strangling of wealth - is the limitation of mindset.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
So about Kier starmer and his continued mission to take down trans people - this is for a purpose. This labour government is Not For the Working People or Liberation. It seeks to appease funders (elite think tanks, resource exploitation organisations, etc.) and neoliberal democratic process.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hello entities of the net, I need some help updating my website as it is not showing literally ANYTHING I've done recently, and I'm so exhausted from everything else I've not been able to do it up myself. Up till now it's just been me, myself and I with all my admin, all my work and all my stuff,
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
What a load of rubbish about mamdani and sharia law I'm seeing online. Let's get this straight- "sharia law" is not a linear thing anyway, literally every SINGLE muslim country that even uses it DISAGREES or DIFFERS on most of what it actually is, and doesn't use ALL of it (whatever that means) and
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So happy to be returning to The Common Press on the 1st to perform some of my poems, I've missed spoken word so much, and amidst the ecology walks and talks it's been difficult to get it in 🦋🐛🙏🏽
Jazmeen isa qureshi is sitting looking to her right in the centre of a poster. She is set up against a backdrop of trees and greenery and QCL Poetry Night, 7pm to 9pm, Tuesday 1 July, The Common Press Bookshop, is written across the poster to her left
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Once again, it doesn't matter who you are, or even if you're from elsewhere - the most evil part of living in a colonialist empire is that you don't get a CHOICE in being complicit, we all just are by default of living and existing here...you know why? Capitalism.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I keep thinking I should learn how to use social media properly to get followers for work, etc. but I think my stubborn want of long form rambles and inability to comply with short and shiny pieces is one of the FEW things I'm finding joy in myself in these days
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Been writing a LOT (in private) about growing up with no future planned and living day by day, and how it keeps you from dreaming beyond your tomorrow, and how being trans, racialised and muslim is soaked in this in western colonial society...the future often is not spread before us magnificently bc
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It's too hot today I can barely breathe let alone write an article
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🐛The Keeping it Wild Collective will be exploring the ecosystems of Sydenham Hill woods through a queer lens with a guided tour led by queer ecologist Jazmeen Qureshi, and then a chance to discuss the walk’s learnings while building your very own bug hotels🪲 www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...
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Queer(ing) Ecology Woodland Walk - Keeping it Wild Collective | London Wildlife Trust
Join us for a weekend woodland stroll where we'll chat about all things nature, queerness, and ecology led by our guide Jazmeen Qureshi.
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
How are people dealing with the reality of multiple (PREDICTED AND WARNED AGAINST) catastrophes playing out in the most extreme forms at the same time from all sides (FOR YEARS), and on top of that watching people who have shown vicious hatred of you and your communities, starting to learn about
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Returning slowly. Life's been an absolute bag of pesticide lately my god. Next week and the week after busy busyyy with bugs and queering and talks awaiting 🪲🦋🤎
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Liberation movements always progress further when liberation is considered beyond the human identity, but then also when the identity of "human" is deconstructed too, in order to find the source of how we have been cut up into shapes that are apparently not "nature" but instead "human"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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