basic purity tests are good, actually, and anyone that suggests sacrificing people’s rights to gain power is not interested in using that power to benefit anyone but themselves. they are as much of an enemy as stephen fucking miller

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Not only don't I think this is a crank theory, I think it's obviously true almost at the sun-rises-in-the-east level.

The thing, too, about saying Dems should run pro-abortion candidates in red states, or abandon "woke" and trans rights, is that it's easy to suggest *someone else* in the coalition sacrifice core protections. But which core protections are white male Dems willing to sacrifice?

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

I'm actually really good at Alexis Nikole's Poison or Snack game. If you were wondering how country I am.

How brainrotted do you have to be to suggest this to THE POPE? The guy's whole historical PURPOSE is (ostensibly) the steering of the soul, a thing a machine does not have at this point, or possibly ever.

A weird definition of vulnerable where "being detained for months" is somehow less bad than "lost extremely plum job held by maybe half a dozen people per year."

The administration would have folded. They always fold when folks fight back.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Reading through One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This a second time with a pencil in hand and I really gotta say it’s standing out to me even more this round that this book is saying some piercingly real shit about much more than Gaza and genocide

I already was not going to buy another Samsung fridge because mine is garbage that my husband and I have had to DIY fix multiple times but this would cinch it

My weekly hot take: the film Midsommar is actually about how a dude can suck SO BAD that joining a cult is preferable to his company.

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

can't wait till they automate every last thing that brings me joy so i can be free to work longer hours in the pain mines

If you have not grappled with the fact that this happens in this country—that this HAS been happening for a very long time, and you’ve been riding your high horse sniffing and thinking that THOSE people didn’t protest RIGHT—that is on you.

I need people to understand this: you have no choice about whether your protest will be viewed as legal. If the cops choose to make your permitted protest illegal, they will be able to charge you.

...wait Fuck, I DO have cat energy.

Imagine capitulating to a president that is so underwater that he doesn't even have 50% approval with white people as a white supremacist

This man takes better photos on what are arguably the worst days of his life under fluorescent tube lighting than most of us will take literally ever It's borderline faerie glamour, has anyone tried touching him with a horseshoe to see if it burns

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A boycott means you willingly forgo something you would otherwise buy and tell the company why you’re not buying it; not that you just don’t pay for it. It doesn’t “show me love” to tell me you consumed my work but didn’t pay for it, because if enough people do that, I don’t eat.

These people think they can trick us but we literally all just watched kpop demon hunters

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

You're like "hey why don't you listen to voters, find out what voters want to vote for?" And Dem leadership is like "NO fuck you, this Thiel-funded thinktank is my friend. That's my emotional support Ezra Klein"

DO NOT RSVP FOR A PROTEST, ESPECIALLY NOW. SERIOUSLY.

By my count none of the deaths of young Black people found dead and hanging anywhere in this country in the last few decades were considered foul play. There have been several.

I had a REALLY JARRING moment yesterday when I realized that I am more qualified to be lead the FBI than this guy. I am smarter AND I have more law enforcement experience. What the FUCK, y'all?

Everyone has collective amnesia about no child left behind. There is no phonics, only test prep.

a massive wave of children not being able to read by high school is a sign of societal collapse, not just lazy parents and spoiled children

“In one of the reports, the parents stated that if their daughter were to return, they would do everything possible to get her out of the country again, because she had received death threats and therefore could not live in this country.” The govt lied about every single child.

Real, practicing Christians can have very nasty views (I know firsthand). But it’s also really funny how much of the “Christian nationalist” crowd doesn’t actually do anything religious or participate in religious communities.

“Hey why don’t you invest billions of dollars in a factory here, and every four years we’ll flip a coin and maybe a posse of mouthbreathing thugs will throw hoods over your employees’ heads and fly them to a foreign prison”

That ain’t none of my business

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

"How you die does not redeem how you lived." Every. Word. Of. This.

This is the attitude of people who sit in the pews at church next to Klan members & sing hymns with them knowing they go out to terrorize by night.

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

HELLO MEMPHIS WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SPARKLES?????

this is very hard for a lot of people to believe. But it's more true than ever.

Is that-- Is that not what it is???

Centrist scolding has alienated everyone else. I’ve never seen anyone piss away so much goodwill in so short a time.

posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

Oh my GOD, I just expired from secondhand embarrassment.

In the meantime, investigators into the school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado have already said that there’s some evidence that he was radicalized by extremist networks.