what if - instead of attempting to ban porn and end internet anonymity in the name of “protecting children” - we actually protected them by making sure they have enough to eat
Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.
We should all be absolutely mortified, insulted, furious at the fucking unmitigated arrogance of these people thinking voters will gobble this up like little brainless piggies
Our intelligence is collectively insulted every day by these pricks, but this one REALLY got under my skin for some reason
You can't even make jokes about this, it's pre-farcical. This is a heavy-handed '80s media studies dystopia, this is obvious-ass AdBusters shit, this is David Foster Wallace at his worst, this is the blind idiot 20th-century god Television depositing his last steaming turd across the face of America
We! Never! Stopped! Getting! COVID!!!! What the actual SHIT is this headline?????? There has never been a time, in the last 4.5 godforsaken years, when we didn't have people getting COVID!!!
A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Here we see a right wing Twitter account with 1.3 million followers being retweeted by an account with 2.5 million followers calling for conservatives to sabotage the upcoming American election. Musk, BTW, has interacted amicably with these accounts several times.
The most important lesson in eradicating the right is the lesson my dad imparted on my when I held off on beating the shit out of a friend who’d hit on Maura because he started to cry:
“No, that’s when you hit them the hardest!”
LOL at the picture. Don't even have to guess who that chud on the left with the red cap and angry pointing finger is voting for. He's the walking personification of the GOP.
Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas.
In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*.
Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.
Good thing we let drooling idiots with generational wealth & no sense of responsibility to anything beyond "make number go up!" design everything in the US!
Who cares if your kids get a decent education? A small handful of failsons need to make a return on their investment, damn it!
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.
Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025.
1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board.
2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools
3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
the apocalypse is ongoing. it’s been happening since before we were born. if you’re waiting for some irrefutable tipping point to do something different; it’s not going to happen
No the media is totally non partisan and not trying to help the republicans push their narratives of hate and division.
Just out in the open and wild.
Weaponized unreality is a hell of a drug when loosed on a population by media and outside parties hostile to social order.
and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh
I want more folks to know about libro.fm as an alternative to Audible or Spotify or other shady corps.
It’s 100% employee-owned and works like Audible, except your credits support an indie bookstore of your choosing instead of Amazon.
Go listen to a disabled author for Disability Pride Month! 💙📚
these are SOME things you can do to fight the despair demon and build resilience within yourself and your community. don’t wait for The Chosen One to descend from on high to save us from ourselves
do any of these things that you are physically/financially/emotionally able to: vote locally; give to mutual aid; learn about the BDS movement and make it part of your decolonization; protest; call your representatives; meet your neighbors; seek out/amplify Black and indigenous voices
This is exactly why Albert Einstein was skeptical about the whole deal
Dude knew what nationalism inevitably turns into and he considered it antithetical to his Jewishness
What I keep trying to emphasize to Palestine activists is that Zionism was once a national liberation movement for an oppressed people
The problem isn’t that Zionism is Jewish, the problem is that it’s NATIONALIST
Name me one nationalist militant group that won and DIDN’T curdle into brutality
There's a subculture of Greenwald/Dore types who are like "Trump, whomst I do not support, is still not as bad as the PMC shitlibs." But they're not actual leftists.
I keep seeing references made to 'leftists' who 'want 45 to win.' Who are these leftists? Are they strangers on the internet? I just don't see this. No one I know on the Left(s) is pro-45. I know some reactionary *moderates* who are though.
what I think somehow irks me even more than how they don't care that it threatens *everything* is that the focus is out of pure laziness. It can be all op-ed from people we've never even heard of before and the only reason to worry is because the other candidate IS Trump, a perfect shitstorm
I hope they will let today be the Last Day of the Debate. A mistake to do, so don't keep making it. Let focus go back to Trump and the Supreme Court, abortion, all the things the Republicans were glad to not talk about for a week
I’m so sick of this news cycle. Can I please get more focus on “credible child rape accusations against the other candidate, who also consistently shows even more signs of dementia?”
As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet.
Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).
As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
feels like part of the longstanding trend of "complain about the media, but never do anything about it other than Hope They're Nice To Us" from democrats is that a lot of 'em find the shittiness of the media convenient when they want to knife somebody else in the party
The thing I keep coming back to on this post is “bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
He’s not saying “bloodless if the left doesn’t fire the first shot.”
He’s saying “bloodless unless the left wins.”
He’s advocating for violence if he doesn’t like the outcome of the election.
That Heritage Foundation statement threatening a violent revolution against the left = that moment in a movie in which the forces of evil loudly announce their evil plans.
except in real life, unlike in a movie, most normal people don’t even realize this has *happened* (which is our job).
