i'm gonna eat an entire chocolate rabbit. all 100g of chocolaty, easter bunny goodness.

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction. It’s abuser behaviour.

I don't ever want another 24 hours like that ever again.

Lot of truth to this. And now that Black women are the ones needing help, suddenly there's fewer willing people willing to hop in and get shit done.

If you did not enjoy today, then call your reps and senators tomorrow and say this 👇

well today fucking sucked

I read the news today, oh boy… “Stock futures surged and oil prices fell sharply on the news.” Anybody who knew about this in advance just made a lot of money.

& wow, mom put her fork down at dinner & declared 🍊💩👿 to be a scourge on the world & on our family, listing quite a number of corruptions. then turning to Dad, she demands, "...& that's what I think. What do *you* think?" I try w/ all my might to communicate telepathically "don't do it, dad..." /1

to render things meaningless serves a dark & insidious purpose. sharing in meaningful things might be a form of resistance to notice.

Ok, I think I'm going to try to eat something now

Alerts in Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, more in Israel. IRGC command and control is awful.

*silent rage screaming on the lawn*

we need trials and audits and not even in that order

Two Weeks After The Day After Tomorrow (It Depends)

A reminder that nearly three months ago, Trump was on the brink of invading Greenland but at the last minute called it off because of a supposed 11th-hour agreement, which has never been seen or mentioned since. This is how he works.

Just like the US is bombing universities in Iran because education is dual use, the government is now also claiming that any car is a weapon simply because it is a car, a classic dual use case.

i got a 911 text from an eviction-defense attorney today who had a client who needed nearly $5,000 to prevent her eviction i was all ready to barn-raise for it. but then—what’s that? the community-run rent fund in her area had the resources to cover it! need met! done! another world is possible.

Many things about this situation are infuriating but an underrated fury is how thoroughly they've raised the global profile of the Islamic Republic. They've made the people who gunned down their own people in the streets look like the only adults in the room, simply by being such children.

Very happy and relieved it’s TACO Tuesday. Even if it lasts for one night the last month has been horrible. Thank you for all the support in the replies below.

I'm pretty close to thinking all sides are just fucking with us. Just a bunch of guys waving their dicks at each other.

An Iranian source told the Qatari publication Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Iran is inclined to agree to a two-week ceasefire "out of respect for the Pakistani mediator... and to give diplomacy an additional chance". #Iran #Pakistan #IranWar #Iranian

Someone check the markets for insider trading.

The White House threatened to jail a journalist on Monday if they refuse to reveal their source

And we will demand an equal account for what may, in his unique context, constitute dereliction of duty & failure to uphold the responsibility contingent on assuming the power of his seat.

Nothing like creating the problem then acting like you fixed it…..

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

... ... ... *screaming string of expletives*

And we will demand an equal account for what may, in his unique context, constitute dereliction of duty & failure to uphold the responsibility contingent on assuming the power of his seat.

If you're in New York City tonight and feel helpless in the face of the violent genocidal maniacs that run our country — show up. it's better than doomscrolling alone.

welp 😳

America, sort yourselves

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

If you're not in the habit of contacting your congresscritters, the easiest way to start is 5calls.org! Put in your location. They'll look up your congresscritters and their phone numbers and give you a script. You can do it!

I suspect the moderate position in 24 hours will be that all 535 members of congress will have to be charged with dereliction of duty when all of this is over, and all of them will need to serve long prison terms in the same prison as the trump admin members. Shitposting doesnt count. Do your jobs.

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

They want you to become listless and hopeless. They know that's easier for many of us than inhabiting uncertainty. I get it. I don't do well with uncertainty. But I'm gonna stay here, in this ugly, messy uncertainty—grieving, refusing, denouncing, and trying to figure out what to do next.

For people intending this evening to publicly petition our government for a redress of grievances: AM I FREE TO LEAVE? and I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. are the only things you say to police or law enforcement.

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Rewatching the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, as I do when I need to feel something. The line “there’s some good in this world Mr Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for,” hits hard right now. Even harder when I remember that Philippa Boyens, not Tolkien, wrote that line.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

We have been in places like this before, though not quite like this one. We have lived. We have survived. We will continue to do so. The most important thing is caring for ourselves and others. Freezing is the place trauma lives. Connection is how we fight it. So find a way that works for you.

Just to let everyone know: Baby Emily didn't make it. She had another seizure yesterday [from the anaphylactic reaction to the chemo, presumably] that threw her back into cardiac arrest. 45 minutes of trying to revive her, but no. Any new donations > laying her to rest.

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

*Yesterday The next pro forma session is on Thursday. Instead of just posting about how Congress needs to convene: get on a plane and be there to force the issue through Motions to Suspend the Rules via unanimous consent. Strike a deal with 8 GOP members to vacate the Speakership. Go. Do something.

Somewhere Naomi Klein sighs heavily, resets a “days since last incident” sign back to zero, writes “MOON” on a post it note and underlines it twice