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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Abolish ICE. I have a headache.
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klingons gone dishonorable spring break
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
Obama had far more experience behind him in politics. Vance had far less. It isn't the same.
I just want to remind everyone that JD Vance got the VP nom as a JUNIOR SENATOR with less than two years of experience in government. He is not fit to be VP, and he certainly isn't fit to be president.
🚨INVESTIGATION: Trump is exploiting a loophole buried in post-Hurricane Katrina legislation to stealthily funnel FEMA's disaster relief funds out of communities & into ICE. The Lever exposes the secret scheme & how lawmakers created the little-known loophole - please re-post this on your own feed👇
A split is forming "between the internet that people... willing to identify themselves or go through age verification can see and the rest of the internet,” EFF’s @thejasonkelley.com told @APNews.com. “And that’s historically a very dangerous place for us to end up.” apnews.com/article/age...
Frey has been a right bastard on a number of things but he was absolutely right here to point out that prayers don't protect people. Not alone and not without action.
How is America supposed to get healthy again when bell peppers are $4 each?
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
If they bring that pumpkin spice cold foam back this year I'm a goner
Imagine swearing an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and the domestic enemy your commander in chief has you battling is...*checks notes* petty littering. It goes without saying that this is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Read the article. The pay is $8k..per month. I don't know how much influencers make, but I know I'd be tempted to make content on a topic for double what I currently make at my day job.
GOP hired influencers to push their agenda the last several elections. Unless Citizens United is overturned, Democrats and any other players are going to have to throw money around to get the message out.
If EOs are laws then we aren't a democracy anymore.
IIRC there was a case in the 1980s that rendered the US flag code basically useless, which is why you can buy matching American flag pajamas, thin blue line flags, and all sorts of other materials that bastardize the US flag for profit. So with that precedent in mind this EO is a nothing burger.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Nick Fuentes is doing something similar, gaining an audience every time he goes on Alex Jones' show and steamrolls him. He's just a younger version of the same asshole, only with even less of a filter.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Well if you go into that ring me up if you get hold of one of the grey "Big Into Energy" Labubus - they're a 1/72 shot but I like that one WAY more than the others.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
I was so proud to have Tim Walz as my governor and I was SO EXCITED about the rest of the country getting to see the kind of good he's capable of. We need MORE men like him in Washington, not less.
IDK where you live but in my state it's illegal to financially incentivise voting for any value higher than $5 USD. So in some states companies will offer a free coffee or something if you come in with an "I voted" sticker but since most coffee is $5 these days you can't even do that in my state.
You want young people to pay attention to what people over 30 are saying and doing on social media? You'd have better luck getting them registered to vote, not that they'd show up to the polls.
The kids call it cringe now & they use that word as an excuse to live in fear of making honest mistakes because they never know if one of their "friends" will post it online. Heinous crimes ain't shit but if your ass tripping on the curb walking home from the bar winds up on TikTok you're cooked.
With more and more Americans choosing not to go to college due to the expense, those foreign students may be the one thing keeping some of these schools afloat. My gut feeling is the Trump admin doesn't care - closed schools mean less educated people means more people who can be taken advantage of.
Slavery. Wrote a song about it. Wanna hear it? Here it goes. IT WAS BAD, YOU DUMB FUCKS.
All of this corruption, and no one is giving me money OR chips.
We either fund schools, healthcare, and the safety net now, or we spend even more on policing, jails, and prisons later. The best way to prevent crime is by building thriving communities now.
In my house we literally called that room the computer room. It wasn't an office, we didn't conduct business there. We just goofed off on the internet or with computer games.
Turtle Tribunal
Target has become expensive, beige Walmart over those 11 years. A change in leadership may be a good thing.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
"We didn't care for these, but you might!"
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!
*has tanked not have. Forgive me, I'm pre-coffee.
Food prices are skyrocketing, our nation's goodwill with the rest of the world including our closest neighbors have tanked, and the party that gave us Trump is now protecting pedophiles. I don't see how any of them could win by a wide margin without gerrymandering and voter fraud being at play.
It's giving all the same energy as "I'm not racist, but..." Only so much worse.
Ngl it's been a huge bright spot for me to see this former feral fat and happy and enjoying the cozy indoor life. Congrats to Adonis, and Kudos to Cait the Caretaker!
Life comes at you fast
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF SIX WEEKS TO RECOVER FROM GIVING BIRTH. That's assuming you didn't tear anything or suffer complications during delivery. Fucking ghouls.
I'm in Minnesota for the weekend, and one of the local news channels covering the opening of RenFest showed B-roll of a knife-throwing performer. When the knife stuck into the wall, the knife was blurred. I understand networks have rules about not showing violence, but this is a bit ridiculous.
I’m not saying there’s a connection. I don’t want to get head-bagged by ICE. But since Trump took over and face-fucked NOAA, all my weather reports have been minimum 10-15 degrees off & literally just a shrug emoji when it comes to when & if precipitation will precipitate. GREAT AGAIN!
I can't believe that the one Democrat talking sense and standing up to this admin of bullies is Gavin fucking Newsom. Better than no one at all, I suppose.
It's okay Ken, I get emotional at the penguin exhibit too
Our whole lives the gun owners claimed they needed arms to prevent a police state, yet here we are, with many of the same characters taking over cities, brushing aside elected governments, & goose-stepping with great enthusiasm. How predictable was that?
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Women don't owe men romantic affection. Women especially don't owe men affection when the morning after sex the man starts treating the woman like shit, because he got the sex he wanted and has decided she isn't useful anymore. (yes I AM specifically calling you out, men who follow Andrew Tate)
Are those female partners happy with them, or have they been socially and culturally conditioned to believe that the only way they will be safe in this world is if they cling beside a man, no matter the cost?
Alls I'm saying is that losing your battle buddy hits different when the body lying next to you was your uncle and not some random guy the same age as you whom you met at basic.
Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
Not with that attitude that just rolls over and accepts what's happening. Show some backbone.
On b), have you seen this? brownstone.org/articles/rec...
I strongly feel that if you are involved with or close to anyone involved with the John Birch Society and/or The Heritage Foundation, it should immediately disqualify you for public office. These people are interested in subjugating and controlling the public, not protecting democracy.
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
What we see happening in real time is actually part of Martial Law. Oh, it hasn’t been officially declared, but his federal takeover plans for cities across the nation…under the cloak of “attacking crime,” is pre-positioning for when he does. It will happen prior to the November elections. Watch.
We need a stronger Democratic Party. This current crop still isn't it. They still don't get it.
I love Hoagie Guy, and I yearn for a million more like him. Show me a city of agents speckled with mustard and meat. But it’s hard not to imagine how differently that scene would have played out — and how it will play out — when it’s not a pink polo shirt frat bro doing the tossing.
What kind of snowflake gets triggered by a sandwich?
Torrential rains are ravaging Wisconsin. It’ll have to endure the aftermath on its own. The Serial Liar in Chief won’t help blue or purple states with disaster relief funds. It’s basically his petty, juvenile way of getting revenge since Wisconsin didn’t vote for him. That’s how it works these days.
AE was a terrible brand even before this controversy. Between this and the increased price of goods because of tariffs (companies will only eat those for so long before they start passing those costs onto their customers) I expect their sales will continue to dip through the end of the year.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
The new housing that gets built is also enormous - far more than people need a lot of the time and out of the price range for most first-time home buyers. The median home price is over $400k, and it leans higher for new construction. Stop building McMansions!
"Republicans hate women" has been an evergreen statement for decades.
The rally in D.C. to protest the Trump regime’s attempted takeover of the city has begun. or those in D.C., join the protest: 📍 815 16th St NW ⏰ NOW
SECDUI committed several felonies when he was discussing TS attack plans on Signal. www.nj.com/politics/202...
reversing Roe v Wade was a test. (and it had nothing to do with fetuses). it was a test to see what would happen if certain rights were taken away from american citizens -- to see what would happen, if. essentially, nothing did. women and children are always going to be the first victims
If she doesn't, I will. Women went under torture for the right to vote. You don't get to take that away without a fucking fight.
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
There's so much more going on that is 1000% more disgusting, to be clear. I just hate the look of this over the top, gaudy American Rococo. It isn't refined, it's tacky.
Well get after it then
There was an interview with Trump from shortly after the oval office got it's gold and he was whining about how gold paint doesn't have the same color or sheen as real gold 🙄 what a brat, and he's using our tax dollars for it!
We can't afford to feed children but we can slap gold leaf all over the white house. I'm always going to be beside myself with disgust over this administration, but this particularly so.
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
Superman is literally an Alien who came to Earth without documentation. Why the fuck would Superman be anti-immigrant in that context?
SO WE CAN'T AFFORD KEEP KIDS ON SNAP BUT WE CAN SPEND $10 MIL ON STATUES OF CONFEDERATE TRAITORS TO THE UNITED STATES
"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
If you have a moment today, check out Colin and Sophie Hortman’s tribute to their parents on @thecurrent. It’s moving, powerful, and full of great music!
Reminder that saying someone "isn't a criminal" while talking about their kidnapping by ICE implies you're ok with dehumanization if the person has a criminal charge. No one should be kidnapped and thrown into a cage to be neglected or worse.
Too many people are scared of touching things with their bare hands. It's fine. You wash them before and you wash them after. It isn't going to kill you to touch raw meat and eggs with your bare fingers!
This is not right. If someone served honorably, they served honorably -- period! If we can get a change of Administration and end up with common sense and loyalty to country, hopefully this is one of many things that will be corrected.
It was never about illegal immigrants, congressman. It's about aggressive optics meant to de-humanize and other anyone in America who isn't white.
I think first we need to redefine what antisocial behavior is. When I was a kid somebody with green hair was considered anti-social behavior for example. So was homosexuality. To an extent feminism is considered anti-social too, even today.
This, of course, comes after Tim Cook personally donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Since then Apple has received tariff exemptions. We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. www.theverge.com/news/737757/...
For 60 years since its passage, the Voting Rights Act has been undermined by politicians trying to make decisions on behalf of voters. It's time to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, get rid of partisan gerrymandering, and give power back to the people. www.npr.org/2025/08/06/n...
I keep saying this. For a better world we have to bully the bullies.
In eroding the gender rights of trans people she erodes her own rights and that of her cisgender female peers. It feels ironic, but not entirely surprising from someone who took the "use some initials so people presume you're a male author" route to get published.
There's already advertisements on websites promising people their "dream girl" with AI.
This is the kind of nonsense I expect from the hippie in his 30s who works at my local coffee shop and is concerned about "de-calcifying his pineal gland", not an elected official.
Victims of pedophilia will tell you that it affects every aspect of their lives. Used to be taboo, as it is so horrifying that most do not like to even think about it. Now the GOP is essentially sanctioning it. “How much more are the American people going to take?” - Maddow
Vance wrote the foreword to the 900-page document. He isn't just cognizant of it, he's best buddies with the architects and wants it put into action even more than Trump or most of the sycophants in the cabinet do.
I'd like to point out that the felon interfered with the last census, and now he wants a redo? Really? www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1...
Billionaires shouldn't exist. I don't even think multi-millionaires should exist.
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.