I know the term "nightmare blunt rotation" gets bandied around a lot, but

Vaccines are literally one of the foundations of modern civilization. Along with sanitation and clean water, they are one of the key pieces of infrastructure that allow so many people to live alongside each other.

When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this

I’ve got to hand it to them - I’ve never seen such an accurate depiction of how it feels to be too high on edibles, where each moment feels disconnected and overlong and I’m wondering if my brain is dying.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Don't let me catch you hating on Chuck Schumer on here. The man has been in office since 1980. I *think* he knows a little something about politics. Do not ask me what's happened to politics since 1980 please

Philly mentioned.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Body cams are definitely going to fix this.

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

Mood in minneapolis right now

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

biggest cultural acquisitions of the 2020s so far: action movies the NFL domestic beer having sex with women not maintaining a shiddy doo doo ass

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Open House is still on for today, 2-5pm. Members, we’re meeting at 5pm to discuss layout now that our basement woodshop is open.

yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

Checkout lady at the Asian grocery told me “this mango’s no good - go get another one” Could never get that kinda tough love from Acme self-checkout.

Struck by the detail that his ex-wife, her sister, and his stepdaughter are providing his palliative care around the clock. A traumatizing and difficult task that I too have helped perform. Anyway here's what he thought about women! I'm glad they could be there for you, Scott, in spite of it all.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

half of the top few replies start with “brother”, “my friend”, and “homie”

Holy fuck they actually did it

and everyone saw it coming from a mile away. Like. Sorry but the t-rex is still going to eat you if you don't move

Scoreboard here: ✅ Pritzker ✅ Whitmer ❌ Shapiro ❌ Newsom

Was pondering "did they use AI to make this tutorial?" then got to the point where it thinks the trashcan icon is a kebab. Unfortunately it seems AI has, however unintentionally, created true art. 🗑️

This feels like finding out there’s a William Wawa in charge. www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-n...

Watching this and saying over and over "I cannot believe I've never heard of this"

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

Palantir. Sauron. CyberDyne. Blackrock. Mr Beast Inc. Cerberus. Blackwater. Anduril. Citizen. Citadel. Gilead. Bain Capital. Darktrace. Oracle. Umbra.

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

been thinking about something

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

reminder:

Remember when that one guy shot Abe and it kicked off months of embarrassing political investigations because he was just right.