AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

If you don't believe in the freedom of speech for someone you disagree with, you do in fact not believe in freedom of speech but in dictatorship of your opinion over others. #jimmykimmel #stephencolbert #freespech #democracy @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com

You deserve rest 💙 #art #comics

Perhaps an award for “Breakout Autocrat”?

How eagerly we learn to hate the different. How passionately we vote for their exclusion. How fast we judge a life as "less worthy" based on superficialities. Imagine the world we could shape if that same fervor was spent on curiosity, on empathy, on weaving something new from our shared #humanity.

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. ~ Carl Sagan

This song hits so hard these days. How has it become so relevant again? Maybe more relevant than it has ever been... #politics #usa #trump

post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan, Contact

One of the best books I ever read. 💕

Hits hard as always! Are we too bamboozled to see the truth?

In the '90s we dreamed big—songs and stories told us we could rise, unite, evolve. Now narratives and #reality feel heavier and more cynical. I still believe that empathy is the greater force. Let’s start to tell stories of #love, #courage, and a #peaceful future we can create together again.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. - Carl Sagan

One of the hardest parts of drawing is not the drafting or lineart. It’s the coloring, or rather the shadowing and highlighting. The details create all the emotion and make 80% of the work. Just as in writing. (Done using #Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil) #art #fanart #pocahontas #disney

We are, each of us, largerly responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.

You need this today. For morale.

Repost w/ the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over again for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet. The X-Files Star Trek Voyager/DS9/TNG Stargate SG-1 The Mandalorian Sailor Moon

17. Back in 1999. And it was The X-Files: Mulder/Scully

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

"He had a passion for democracy, for people to make informed decisions so they can think critically. Carl was rare blend of science and poetry and social consciousness." Ann Druyan ❤️☮️🌏 #carlsagan #democracy #science

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos