Im so happy that my backyard chickens are producing eggs it makes me fill like i have a little buffer if the food prices really go to shit
Im so happy that my backyard chickens are producing eggs it makes me fill like i have a little buffer if the food prices really go to shit
Turns out it was a bad idea to fund little armies that hate you in every locality
Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.
[darth vader listening to The Jar Jar Binks Experience] now THIS is podcasting!
My theory is that the ICE news are so terrifying and depressing that going on a Charlie Kirk rage scrolling spree is in a bizarre way soothing for some
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.
FE announcement makes me want to replay Three Houses and will force myself to pick Claude this time and will play as my husbando Dimitri later #fireemblem
Trying to not completely isolate myself in these trying times but I live in deep red USA so my socializing options range from normies to boomers who volunteer at the animal shelter on weekends but occasionally rant about how Biden stole the 2020 election 🤪
Cancelled my Disney+ subscription I'll go read Star Wars fanfic
Def a family making 200k a year even combined income is probably doing well, but considering the cost of education in some regions of the USA that's not that crazy imo. I wish secondary education in the USA was free for all, but to me that is a separate issue from poverty
Today im lucky to have a job that pays what I think it's a good salary, but I've been near homeless in the past and according to these metrics I've been wealthy my whole life🤣
I have to take some time to look more but im an immigrant to the USA from a poor country and even back home, 3 USD would hardly have been liveable. Im sure there were reasons for picking these thresholds, but I'd have to take more time to look at it b/c from this angle it's absurdly low a number
I will try to look more closely at this link. I live in the USA now and if I was living on 3 USD a day and someone tried to tell me I wasn't living in poverty I would probably have a rage stroke
I also note where the poverty line is in this graph, so the definition of poverty by numbers appears similarly low
Better info but I still have questions, like how they're estimating stuff like sustenance farming across different countries and how this is related to degree of "liberalism" across different regions. Also still would have question about who is picking these cut offs and poverty is defined
I'm asking why "below 3 dollars a day" is the metric being used. Can we say that "extremely poverty" is decreasing if our definition of it is "below 3 dollars a day"? Who decided that was the cut off? How much would the graph change if we changed that definition to idk 10 USD day? 20? 50? Why 3?
3 dollars per day?
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
does anybody else feel like they are watching a mass psychosis
Wtf is this im seeing about Tucker Carlson am I going insane #freespeech
Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.
I tried to explain this to my own brother who is also American but generally "apolitical" but I did manage to convince him
I don't get it do they have to pay every time they use the program?
Charlie Kirk was a man so deeply committed to freedom of speech and enlightened, reasonable debate that you are not allowed to quote anything he said ever again.
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Im judging myself for understanding this sentence where have I gone wrong with my life
Biden spent almost all four years calling a partisan democratic infrastructure law the “bipartisan infrastructure law” in one of the dumbest fucking branding moves I’ve ever seen in politics. Democrats earned this L
Idk about everyone else but if there's an issue with my documents of any kind I want to know as early as possible so I have a chance to sort it out before the plane takes off; I have a non-English name and have had issues in the past
It's actually getting kinda funny how Hakeem Jeffries refuses to endorse Mamdani #mamdani #nyc
i have to be honest i have no fucking clue what abundance is all about im just here for the memes
Folks, a party iffy on protecting completely innocent and ordinary immigrants and transgender people is not going to go out of its way to defend the human rights of accused drug traffickers. We're talking about people who lack the moral courage of the average Pomeranian. Don't know what to tell you.
Normally I don't pay attention to clothes but now that you mention it, the entire lines of his shoulder look bumpy an odd
The UK is low key weirder than the USA because the USA is simply dumb and weird whereas the UK is a strait-laced country that thinks the USA is dumb and weird, then proceeds to slavishly ape it.
People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
"Mom-and-pop" is code for "rich as fuck but we want you to think of struggling retirees supplementing their social security"; dont think of venture capitalist demons and trust fund babies, think of you sweet meemaw
yeah you should try to hold empathy for every human in your heart. do we gotta talk about these shitheads right this second though
China spends 95% less than the US on healthcare per capita, but has a healthy life expectancy that is *4 years longer*.
The answer to "how is this allowed?" is always "who is going to stop it?"
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
Americans see statues of state leaders/generals, flags on every suburban porch, national anthem before sports, pledge of allegiance in kindergarten, framed pictures of presidents in gov't buildings and schools, and they say "This is normal." They see a banner in North Korea and say "This is wrong."
Justice for the women who were raped and abused by #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein and others* on Epstein's island and around the world. #DonaldTrump #PrinceAndrew and others should face justice #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
the past months discourse in a nutshell
'I promise guys, we just need to act more and more like the asshole republicans and eventually we will win' even though literally all evidence points to that attitude being the literal reason we don't ever win.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
I wish we could stop talking about Twitter; stay there if you must idc but why pretend it's not modern 8kun at this point?
they'll say he's the only fighter, the only one standing up to trump etc, but that's all a way to avoid admitting (to themselves, in some cases) that they simply agree with his conservative politics
tfw you’re voting blue no matter who
I'm honestly not sure what to do about the media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents
I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law
Not surprised they have no interest in appealing to what is their supposed base. They are still chasing the mythical fiscal conservative that is begrudgingly accepting of gay marriage and would like some ethnic friends, but despises the poor, trans people, refugees, and unions.
I think the DoD is making the same calculation that every other societal institution is; if Republicans get mad at you, they will try and crush you, if Democrats get mad at you, they will try and appease you. Nobody actually believes that there will be consequences for this from a future Dem admin.
This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional. It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
it is remarkably transparent how "the Mental and Physical Competence of the President" were profession-defining issues for political journalists for like two years but now they don't exist
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Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
I dont know what's happening but I do think the one on the left looks cooler
What burns is they've spent so long raging about how cities are while their own communities rot and now they're sending their goons to destroy those very cities It's so transparent to me that this is coming from profound jealousy They are not as stupid as they pretend to be
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To Oklahoma doing a road trip to Tulsa with my bro Probably because I was meeting family, not because of location Second fave would be a hiking trip to NY in winter
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
Lmao how many teachers from NY and CA are looking to move to fucking Oklahoma??
Me, being told by the manager that my two hours at Fogo de Chão are up
Wait wait wait Nate Silver lost $100k on Trump getting Putin to agree to a peace deal? Do I have that right?
Dr. Yael Harrari receiving diploma at Tel Aviv University’s School of Medicine graduation. Shirt says: first do no harm, and harm is crossed out and it says GENOCIDE
"Who's gonna protect you if we defund the police?" I dunno, man, who's protecting anyone now?
hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously
has anyone noticed that labour came to power but they have kept doing the same kinds of awful things as the tories. i noticed that
Its the cars. Where can they go that they don't have to interact with drivers? I biked for pleasure for most of my life and gave it up when my kids could start because city biking in Houston is insanely dangerous and I don't want them to do it. Everything they want to go to is way too far to walk
"I want to talk about my pain — but I hesitate. I fear I might offend the martyr resting in his grave, or the mother who buried her child. I worry that if a prisoner sees this interview, my words might feel like a complaint too small to bear ... Our homes are gone, but our children are with us."
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
There was one where a teen supermodel with androgen insensitivity syndrome (so XY chromosome) and the twist was that she had testicular cancer/also she "seduced" her father b/c she knew if they had sex she would be able to "control" him; she was ofc misgendered and also dx as a sociopath
"You're in a leftwing echo chamber" Man, I live in America. No I'm not.
huge W
This is a photo of genocide. Gaza/Khan Younis, before and after.
At San Quentin, incarcerated people had ‘no expectation of survival’ during tsunami scare, ray levy uyeda reports. CA’s failure to include incarcerated people in emergency plans shines light on the dangers facing people in custody as climate change worsens. prismreports.org/2025/07/28/s...
the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis
politicians and political commentators shouldnt be giving young men advice on how to get laid, what are we even doing here people
In his book, Peter Pomerantsev mentions Ruslana Korshunova, a supermodel who died mysteriously at the age of 20 by falling out of her New York apartment balcony. As became known later, she had visited Epstein’s island as a teen.
Is capitalism working on a macro scale?
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
I have done my half assed "preparing"; my proudest achievement so far is my backyard chickens who are not laying eggs yet but it makes me happy to see them every day
leftists get accused of running on losing positions and get blamed for losing elections, but tell me this, liberals: why are so many of you ready for endorse the loser of the last election? isn't that the losing strategy that you are allegedly only against for practical purposes and not ideological?
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social