Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

Americans are fed up with skyrocketing premiums, deductibles and copays - blatant insurer greed. A majority now support #MedicareForAll - universal healthcare, lower costs and an end to insurance abuses. Healthcare should be a right, not a bad scam. #RemoveTheMiddlemen jacobin.com/2025/12/medi...

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.

The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.

In Night City, you’ve come a long way - all that you’ve done, all that you’ve seen. Thank you for the past 5 years in this City of Legends. 💛 Now, please, enjoy this special anniversary trailer we prepared for the occasion: ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHrE...

oh yea

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

for the emperor

oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen

Shockingly our meritocratic elites are obsessed with excuses to find people wanting, & that obsession is strongest & most pathological regarding the people they deem suited for menial or domestic labor, & the people charged with raising their sons

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

I worked my butt off on my @officialgdc.bsky.social talk this year, come watch the public debut with us tonight and heckle (or encourage) me in chat!

From Scraps to Spectacular: The Advent Mini Skein Wrap Knitting Pattern You'll Love: 👉 tidd.ly/3BmZd83 - designed by Nomagugu Ndlovu of Bigger Than Life Knits #knitting #handmade #knitwear #etsy #affiliate 💜

1) Not how anything works (to be expected from someone who thinks you need ID to buy groceries) 2) Ask any uninsured person how great it is to "buy your own healthcare" and how easy it is to negotiate prices as an individual 🤬

The story of John Lennon's bloodied glasses, 45 years after his death 🎸 Kate Mossman

Formula is one of the many miracles of modern science that literally saves lives. Fuck this guy.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

The statement read: “If you strike us down, we shall become more autistic than you can possibly imagine.”

These anti-vaxxers will kill babies. It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

I swear to Bob, I will curse Robert Moses with my dying breath. Was driving on New York's parkways yesterday, some of those bridges only have a 9ft 6in clearance, because that racist mofo purposely designed the bridges too low to allow buses to go under. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

I am seen. cc @cheriepriest.com From 'It Was Her House First'

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight

… and he SERVED ✨

🎇🏮CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL🏮🎆 Kyōto has many light-up events during the autumn, but Manpuku-ji's is something to behold. As one might expect from one of the country's few Chinese-style temples, the colourful lanterns are heavily influenced by festivals on the mainland. #Kyoto #京都

Blindspots for Millennials 😅 IMO: it’s pretty accurate.

Weirdly iconic role in Mortal Kombat for us elder millennials and I’m glad the franchise brought him back to bask in the glory a bit

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, prolific actor known for his roles in “Mortal Kombat,” “Last Emperor” and “Man In The High Castle,” has died at 75

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

Scottish friends! I'm looking for a voice actor (roughly 30-40 years old, female) for an unannounced game✨ You definitely don't need to be an established actor, but you must be UK based with your own recording equipment. This is a paid role, DM for brief! #voiceacting

So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.

you think you need to leave intelligent, thoughtful comments? lmao no “loved it!” is all you need to say. blurt that out on Steam, YouTube, Amazon for whatever game, book, or video caught your fancy The algorithm is all consuming but you can help cool people by just commenting “👍🏼”’ so do it

Today in amazing semiotic news: libraries, which actually have physical media you can rent, rebrand themselves with retro Blockbuster aesthetics.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

'Komatsu River' - Takahashi Hiroaki, ca. early 1900s. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

look at old Rust Belt towns that HAVEN’T attracted immigrants many are still 75% smaller than they were in their heyday, many are just letting large buildings rot because they don’t have the population to use them or the tax base to raise funds to demolish them

I listened to a biography of FDR recently and the throughline of his first 2 terms is that he was boldly against monied interests in word and deed and the American people fucking loved him to death for it* *kept reelecting him until he literally died in office

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago /me: crumbles to dust

Two new studies dig into the long, curving path that cats took toward domestication

Start your week with Prince smoking the While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo

In 1974, Gary Tyler was a Black student bussed into a newly desegregated Louisiana high school. When a white mob attacked his bus and a white student was killed, Gary was wrongfully sentenced to death by an all white jury.

There is no state in America where the average gas price is below $2.34 / gallon.

Roger Stone & Matt Schlapp were banging on the doors in Miami to stop the vote count (The Brooks Brothers Riot). Meanwhile, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were on W's legal team drafting the legal arguments to make sure those votes in Florida never counted.

This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.