A tune to take us out of February and into March. "Funkytown" - Lipps, Inc. #QuarantineHobby

“Black voters are voting for Jasmine Crockett because she’s Black!” Meanwhile in Michigan John James (also Black) has 0 Black support. Zero. Y’all don’t understand us at all and never try to.

Show the lady some love y'all.

Godsdammned golf trips cost the American people fuckin Billions! While you waste our $$ on golfing & overtime for FBI agents to redact that you bought that FL golf club, & turned it into a rent-a-hoe & a stop on the pedo swap meet tour w/ your best bud Jeffery Epstein.

So.. do you have any pictures of you protesting Trump because he’s wiped out Gaza, kissed Bibi’s ass and actually killed people? I’d love to see your messages to republicans. ANY republican letting them know your unhappiness. Please share

I'm not exaggerating. I'm not being hysterical. They want you dead. If you are disabled or sick. If you cannot provide manual labor for a wealthy patron, you are useless to them. You are considered a drain on the society that they want to build where life is worth living solely for a small minority.

IT’S “SAVE ALPHA QUADRANT ACT,” NOT “SAVE ACT.” CARDASSIANS MUST START USING THE TERM, “SAVE ALPHA QUADRANT ACT” — MUCH MORE POTENT, AND DESCRIPTIVE! #StarTrek #Sisko197

In defense of Speaker Hakeem Jeffries..

I have my issues with the entire concept of masculinity, but assuming you care about being masculine, then fucking *lead* in these situations, and stop being a fragile little coward trying to make himself smaller than the other fragile little cowards *You* put them in *their* place.

Because let me be very clear: When men mock other men for standing against misogyny (or racism, or transphobia, or any other bigotry) They are “punishing” you FOR SUCCEEDING AT MEETING THE STANDARDS OF MASCULINITY YOU ALL CLAIM TO HOLD

You’re a coward, and given that you want your manhood to make you be seen as strong, as courageous, as a leader and a protector You have already failed at manhood, and you care more about the opinions of other failures than you do about actually being what they’re “punishing” you for “not” being.

But when you’re telling me that the reason you can’t call out men who are misogynist, why you can’t shut down your friends’ sexist jokes, etc. because of what will happen to you when you do I need you to know that I know what will happen to you, I can empathize And I don’t care. You’re a coward.

Which isn’t the same as marginalization that causes you to be immediately visually tagged by everyone as belonging to a marginalized group. So it’s not really the same, for most men who somehow “fail” at masculinity. But you might experience, for a few hours, being treated somewhat like a woman.

Except not REALLY. You’re still not likely to get raped or murdered by an intimate partner (assuming you’re straight). You’re still not at the same risk of violence. You’re worried that you might get treated with contempt by other men. That you might be excluded.

I need men who come into my threads to tell me about how patriarchy punishes men for not living up to the standards of patriarchal masculinity to understand that the punishment you’re so terrified of is literally being treated like a woman.

The follow up question every single reporter should be asking them is whether they are also cutting back on beef consumption. I mean we know the answer to that. The reason beef prices are going up is because there is less of it to go around and the rich people are just outbidding the middle class.

I need to remind people the Ellisons are not buying up Warner Brothers so they can make more money. They don't care if the aquisition cause them or the company to lose money. They're buying these companies to control the flow of news and information in the same way Elon bought Twitter.

One of the mothers I interviewed for this story was frustrated that she couldn't find many resources to help her navigate these conversations with her 3-year-old son. So, we also created a guide to taking with your kids about ICE, based on tips from child development experts:

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LMAOOOOO my mom, who hates politics but always votes and knows what's going on, and wasn't a big fan of the Clintons, is my bellweather. She just read Bill Clinton's opening statement and said, "Oh, those MFs are fucked. It's about to get real Prince Andrew here. THAT was just their warning shot."

EPA rolls back rules as chemical firms claim provisions in RMP protection system too expensive to implement

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

John 3:16 in the Trump Bible: "For Reagan so loved the nation that he gave the US Donald Trump to enrich himself and cheer up hateful idiots."

How proud I am to live in the greatest, most morally superior and blessed country in the world! I know we're above everyone else because God said so. Of course he didn't speak directly to the heathen masses (how gauche!) -- He told white American men to let everyone know that He thinks we're #1.

Hey #CatSky there's a new Tiny Goddess!

Stress Break, Baby Bobby WaffleCone Flashback

The liberal has no rights which MAGA is bound to respect.

“WE decide who gets to be a citizen,” says the dudes in the Spartan helmets who don’t understand what happened to Sparta.

At least the birthright citizenship case resulted in having the US Catholic Bishops file a brief that schools the right-wing Catholic SCOTUS justices on actual Catholic Social Teaching. With a "Table of Authorities" like they've probably never seen. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

/7 What I mean by that is: do you see ANY moral component in making arguments to limit or reduce other people’s rights? Do you acknowledge ANY moral responsibility in pressing an extremely implausible argument in an effort to strip citizenship or rights from people?

/6 I do have a question for the people who are supporting/defending Wurman et al., the dishonest academics who are pushing this farce. The question is this: are there any limits to what arguments you will defend, so long as they are done in the rituals and style of academia?

/5 I think — hope — that getting SCOTUS to lie about history, law, and facts to overturn birthright citizenship is still a couple of votes beyond their grasp. But it’s far far closer to possible than it ever should be.

/4 “Whether this fundamental right exists will depend not on law or logic or good-faith argument but on the votes of corrupt stooges WE have encrusted onto the high court.”

/3 “WE will take advantage of the vapid both-sidesism of useful idiots in academia, relying on them to support knowingly bad faith arguments against rights as long as they are uttered as part of the charade of Doing Politics Right, and laugh at them behind their backs.”

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

FreePalestine… the world’s greatest FAILED movement EVER. “Erases Palestinians from Governance” Now clock that shit.

Lauren Bobblehead snapped a photo of Hillary Clinton mid-testimony and then deliberately it off to right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. So spare us the “I do not recall” routine. 🥴 The real question is, how much did he pay her?

There are 50 pages, 137 items under his mother’s name! #MePolitics How much of Maine does this family own?

Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr. TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.

Notably, as we know, a huge chunk of Musk’s acquisition of Twitter also came from Saudi Arabia

JFC

"All of [the boys] were Black, and researchers believe many actually died because they were overworked, underfed and denied proper care."

Meritocracy!

No, you really DON'T gotta hand it to Anthropic.

IMO CNN *BEEN* MAGA. This acquisition would just be making it official. I turned CNN off 18 years ago when they tried to manipulate the audience into believing Obama did terrible against McCain in their first debate when everyone actually there said Naw, Obama did great. I haven’t watched since.

I am so thankful that for all their faults, my parents did not raise me in conservative white Christian nationalism. NPR, local student radio, and PBS were our big media sources.

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A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s

YES! I've been saying this for years. The rightwing agitprop/disinfo machine began in radio with Limbaugh and then was expanded into TV with Fox News. Roger Ailes was on a mission to create a conservative media empire to counter the perceived "liberal media". And it worked.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.