No, we can’t expect people to grow their own food. We need proper regulation and a functioning government. There’s no life hack that makes up for not having a functioning government.

The whole economy is slowly morphing until it only serves rich people.

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Afternoon! I was just in my local pride parade! Meanwhile, ive seen a lot of motion! Please help a girl get over the finish line! ko-fi.com/dreamingnoct...

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

it is important that we have a government that can look at companies trying to pull this sort of bullshit and go “lol no pay your taxes”

Absolutely deranged understanding of American government and the current times. The number of Justices isn't even in the Constitution, it's a statute from 1869! It is, in fact, not essential our Republic has a hyper-partisan GOP SCOTUS that makes sure its favored candidates and policies always win.

For some reason, I'm picturing them beatboxing.

Taco Bell doing more to protect public health than the FDA is unsurprising given that the current administration is populated by 4chan poisoned road kill eating freaks who are all insider trading on E. coli outbreaks

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

So, yeah: when DOES Andy Beshear just go to the hospital and demand to see McConnell for himself?

you're not in the party anyway you fucking plant

A sincere "popularism" would account for actual polling: www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/d...

trans healthcare is also largely cis doctors telling you the amount/type/delivery method of HRT you want is super dangerous because they operate on thirty year old info they refuse to update because they don’t see enough of us to care about staying up to date on modern advancements

AGAIN: the #1 predictor of a mass shooter is violence against women. Cops perpetrate VAW at higher % (though exact # unknown ofc) than the gen population. At some point our culture must take seriously the fact that this is a real red flag. It requires hating women less, though.

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And we have the precedence, they didn't dial back the surveillance GWB instituted after 9/11. It's one of (many) reasons I am so anti Newsom. He absolutely will not want to give up any of the things Tr*mp has implemented in this regard. Or many others for that matter.

The two genders

Whaaaat, this guy?! www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

To me, any Democrat who runs for President and doesn't begin by promising to fire everyone at ICE on week 1, cannot be taken seriously about anything else.

If tech executives hadn't placed themselves above the law, refused to abide limits, bought politicians and flaunted their impunity, then people wouldn't feel as though their only recourse was violence. Not a one of these dipshits understood that abiding the law wasn't a prison but a protection.

Kind of a wild thing for Black Panther's diversity hire to say

this is pretty disheartening. it's also right in line with what trans people have been telling you the entire time you've been chastising them to let go of the sports thing and the bathroom thing

bitch I can’t fucking go piss in five states because of you, I don’t want to hear about encroachments on personal life

A lot of people thought that "video evidence" would show the world what cops are like. Well, we are awash in video. We know what cops are like. And.

What will inevitably happen is these literally repurposed realdolls will be piloted by both people working in sweatshops in the global south, or weird pedophile DOGE techdudes who got the job specifically so they can be creepy to children by proxy.

So many people still think fertile farmland can simply up stakes and move north, displacing the miles and miles of peat bogs that dominate the north and will never grow anything except forests and forest fires

you know that kwame ture quote about how nonviolence only works as a strategy when your opponent has a conscience? something similar at play with pointing out your opponent's hypocrisy. that only works if your opponent agrees that he's playing a word game not prosecuting a holy war

The natural evolution of post-9/11 security/surveillance hysteria is treating every person and every device as a possible vector of violence without cause or warrant.

Not to be ageist but maybe we should have politicians who can actually learn from experience and respond to current conditions instead of being constantly blindsided by decades of dependable Republican behavior.

it is 2017 and we are still doing this it is 2019 and we are still doing this it is 2021 and we are still doing this it is 2023 and we are still doing this it is 2026 and we are still doing this

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

It's ironic, as always, that almost every Black person uplifted by people in this country was or is a socialist or Communist. So how strange to assume that Black liberals don't admire socialists given the people they uplift as touchstones.

I've got a sadly applicable quote. "Women quickly learn that rape is only a crime in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is not set at the level of experience of women's violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men." - Judith Lewis Herman

By the way, the UAE is currently engaged in genocide in Sudan. But sure, let's give them advanced computer chips in addition to a bunch of weapons. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Whenever Democrats insist they have to craft their messaging to appeal to white conservative men or to head off inevitable attack ads -- that's the stuff they really believe.

in this piece here is @neeratanden.bsky.social recommending that democrats in florida run the exact campaign that val demmings did here in 2022. she lost by 16 points because it turns out that yelling "I'M A COP IM TOUGH ON CRIME IM NOT A WEAKLING LIKE REPUBLICANS SAY WE ARE" is terrible politics

wow imagine doing things that impact people's personal and family lives. that would be a bad thing to do I guess. let's go back and look at some rulings from this court with that in mind

for years, Democratic elites would sigh and patiently explain with graphs and “simple math” how they didn’t WANT to do the evil thing, but they HAD to b/c *voters* were bigots or stupid or whatever, and politicians had to follow popular will on the issues it was always just stuff they wanted to do

When trans people are talking about international anti-trans movements and the multi-decade, systemic failure to stand up for us, that's a bad time to come in swinging like the current US president is the source of the issue. It's actually pretty offensive.

Only problem is that the average person doesn't believe this Too many people still thinks cops are here to serve and protect and its only a few bad apples when something goes wrong.

The reason the GOP is perfectly on board with treating these cities like occupied territories they must occupy or reconquer ...is that so many people within these cities and states imagine them as occupied territories they must occupy or reconquer.

He's as worthless as Schumer.

a thing i've been on a lot over the years is many of the old thoughts and strategies on what could move, pressure, change elected officials are kind of out the window because they do not even respond to attempts on their lives with energy more intense than "damn, that was weird"

The perfect example of how good Israel has had it for seven decades is that its version of the state backed KKK can hold an American member of Congress at gunpoint with guns made by Americans and that Congressman will still go home and say they don't want to be too mean to Israel.

Expected, but what is more interesting is that he admits that it is impossible to whip against the vote and so his office will not even try.

every hospital that's still illegally denying trans kids healthcare needs to be sued now, by every Democratic AG and trans rights legal org. it's unacceptable at this point to still be cowering to fear of nonexistent laws.