It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Normally people don’t stress much about the odds of giving up six runs in a single inning, but I’m a Mariners fan and that’s its own kind of generational trauma.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

bragging about how much gold you’re putting in the oval office while all the economic lights on the dashboard are starting to flash red and the government is about to shut down is some shit that would make the marie antoinette caricature wince

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

If you plant a seed that grows into a tree with poison fruit that you water and nurture and care for, then it topples over and kills you, you don't get to complain.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

I hold no sorrow in my heart, but I think only more bad things come of this.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, why is every single outlet characterizing it this way?

Maybe because it’s not actually “post-covid”, given covid continues to circulate and many places are experience surges at the moment. No matter how much we *want* it to be over, wishing something doesn’t make it so. But actual layers of protections could make it so… www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

if all of this isn’t enough for every democrat to call for rfk jr.’s removal, then what the hell is? from: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

Two of the single greatest advances of our lifetimes are mRNA technology and renewable energy tech and somehow the United States is now virulently against both.

Exactly this. Please think about how many people will die in a civil war. If we have the same proportion of casualties as last time, we are looking at around ten million deaths. And I think it'll be worse.

animal crossing was super popular in the scariest days of the pandemic for a reason

remember that we have an entirely predictable time bomb waiting in the jobs report when federal severance runs out this fall

I can solve a whole shit ton of social problems with two words: free time. Want people to exercise? Eat healthy? Cook from scratch? Use outdoor recreation areas? Socialize? Participate in group activities? Volunteer? Meet new people? Make friends? The obstacle is there's nothing to sell here.

Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie

mfer really took all the trees and put up a tree museum

Folks complaining about how ugly solar or wind power is should be required to live near some mountaintop removal coal mine sites for a while

There’s money for ICE There’s money for concentration camps There’s money for tax cuts for the wealthy Yet there’s no money for healthcare, housing, food assistance, social support, or public broadcasting. There’s no money to help the sick, homeless & starving Suffering is a political choice

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

I need y'all to get it out of your heads that Indigenous societies were primitive and simplistic. That's colonial thinking, perpetuated to justify the creation of the colonial state in order to "uplift" and "educate" Indigenous folks It's pure BS

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

I want to scream and break things

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

I don’t really trust the FDA right now but not in an “I believe in pseudoscience” kind of way. Rather it’s in an “our Secretary of Health and Human Services believes in pseudoscience” kind of way

If you are sincere about wanting to make America healthy, the last thing you should do is cause millions of people to lose health insurance.

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

the President of the United States, everyone

This is violence. It’s eugenics. It’s fucking evil. And the worst part is it’s gonna get very little attention and most people aren’t even gonna notice cause y’all have simply moved on.

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

While I'm over the moon happy for Canada and Australia, this accurate image kind of broke this American's heart.

at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?

"do you have food safety tips" yes as a matter of fact I do I think the people should elect representatives who appoint experts to keep food safe theres a tip for you

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

these motherfuckers are making me stare at shipping charts nobody outside the shipping industry should have to stare at shipping charts

Wily Economy Coyote

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...