You guys see where this is going? Right?
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
You can always trust the French Academy to make things weird.
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
Maybe it's the pressure of being solely responsible for birth control.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵
We have a serious problem in that there is a large swath of self-described leftists who would rather have the GOP in power than Democrats.
As I make the jump to hyperspace, I realize I left the baby on top of the ship.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this
is it good if the judge blames you for interrupting her sleep
If everyone in my orbit wore hats with my name on it...that would be weird, right?
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Genuine lol
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
What an incredible read.
Or who would say the cancellation was motivated by the desire to "optimiz[e] resources for 'maximum impact.'" I can't stop thinking about this. Curing children with brain cancer isn't enough? There's another tier of impact? Wtf
Hello. My professional life includes oversight of several federal grants. Justification for cancellations and paused has drawn from predictable fascist logic. I cannot fathom what kind of logic would lead to the cancellation of funding for pediatric brain cancer research.
Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
Explorers have found what appears to be a giant doorway located in the Dzungarian Alatau Mountains of Kazakhstan.
critically: it’s just as important to know a guy as it is to be a guy that someone else knows
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
If this man is on a television show, he did it! Whatever it was, it was him! Case closed!
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for
I will keep saying: stock up on canned and dried produce, if you can.
Karl E.H. Seigfried reflects on his 15 years of running the popular Norse Mythology Facebook Page and offers advice to new Heathens, including why you shouldn’t advertise your faith like a brand and why you should start making interlibrary loans. wildhunt.org/2025/08/frie...
You mean the price or...oh my fucking god
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
He's got that nervous heh heh energy like he never knows what to do in any situation unless someone tells him. Empty smiling shell.
this was our chat gpt
I know next to nothing about architecture but found this fascinating. Good writing.
Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.
I’ve been told I’m going to hell for excessive use of the word “fuck”… I’ve rented a bus if any of y’all need a ride.
"For the last time, women are not people! Jeez!"
This is Parker. He will not eat until he receives a forehead kiss. 13/10 would give him so many smooches (TT: parkerthegoldenboy)
Either prayer doesn't work or people ain't praying, because children are definitely still dying.
Behold this beautiful trash warlock!
I've only watched five minutes and my life will never be the same!
We could stop all this but Republican politicians and judges don’t want to
@swilua.bsky.social
This is the kind of shit you hear from combat veterans
This was definitely worth my time. Highly recommend.
The joy I feel at the moment he turns around and starts booking it...
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
but for these vile guns
“In a scientific sense, this is a total loss.” US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Notable that "she started an online fundraiser that raised hundreds of thousands to help her relocate," which means lots and lots of people were outraged at the consequences of her racist behavior toward a small child. We're doing great, everyone!
PLEASE PROTECT FARM WORKERS. THEY FEED US. Farmworkers are 20x more likely to die from heat than other workers. fas.org/publication/...
Looking at woodcut references for a small project and just noticed how chuffed the devil looks with the witches giving him gifts. I mean he looks so touched. The feelsssss.
Oh, so that’s the problem. He doesn’t know what capitalism is.
Friends, we are far beyond the buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride quips. We have passed the secure your oxygen mask moment. So, allow me to say it plainly. FUCK YOU, Republicans who won't stop this mad man. You could stop this and have him out of office if you wanted. Impeach, Convict, Remove
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Discipline me, Big Daddy.
I found out that that Taylor and Travis got engaged from some woman absolutely losing her shit at Key Food. I think it’s how several people in the dairy aisle out 🤣
HUGE FLIP: Democrat Catelin Drey wins deep-red state Senate seat in Iowa, breaking the GOP's supermajority. Drey won by 11 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's another massive overperformance. The Iowa GOP should be very worried for the midterms. Our full writeup:
New Coke
Boston flew a Christian flag outside City Hall in what was deemed a public forum. Now they refuse to fly a Satanic flag under the same policy. open.substack.com/pub/luciengr...
I am still waiting to hear a convincing origin story for the windmills and showerheads.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Jesus take the wheel
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Academics and activists have tried to help people see that social problems are structural--that people's struggles often stem from the way systems of power and privilege prevent them from getting by or getting ahead. That kind of structural thinking is inoculation against authoritarianism.
People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."
Ignoring the power and problems of privilege is precisely what got us into this mess.
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
It's HOT out there! 🥵 Check out this video about farm workers laboring in the sweltering heat. ¡Hace CALOR ahí fuera! 🥵 Mira este video de campesinos que trabajan bajo un calor sofocante. #Calor #WeFeedYou
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
This appears to be the same man who burned the flag in front of the White House today avlwatchdog.org/army-veteran...
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Went offline for two hours; two more constitutional crises showed up.
gosh, why would Trump focus on her
Moskowitz on Vance's comments about Russia's war on Ukraine: "It's just adjective, verb, Joe Biden."
'Wild Rose' IG @anamariaedulescu
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Yikes
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Sure, Hitler negotiated his brains out, and then we negotiated tf out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading Hirohito to unconditionally negotiate.
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
LMAO! I would be so mortified, because I am a regular person for whom that is possible.
Would be curious to learn more about her renting practices.
“It is difficult to imagine a path the government could have taken that would have better emphasized its vindictiveness.” This regime is truly evil.
So weird how the folks freaking about "socialism" are just totally okay with government market controls and state ownership of corporations when Republicans are the ones doing it www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/i...
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
What if it’s the “Epstein files” that are the distraction from our descent into being an authoritarian police state?
I sound insane when I say this but I truly believe a big part of the Trump admin’s approach to energy policy is driven by gender anxiety. They think coal and oil are manly and renewables are effeminate.
saw this on fb marketplace, we must have lost a legend
The Trump administration's Justice Department has declared it believes a decades-old Hispanic college grant program is unconstitutional and will not defend it from a legal challenge brought by the state of Tennessee.
Justice Dept. declines to defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional via @apnews.com
"This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump water, etc." I have never admired an etc. more
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
In ancient Greece, sex workers wore unique sandals that left a “follow me” imprint in the dirt as a way to promote their services.
