Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

bluesky has been really bad about treating the suffering of federal workers and their families as a nonfactor in all of this. with that being said, i’ve been asking around, & most of the federal workers i talked to are angry that they went through all these weeks for nearly nothing

Politicians running the country like a casino & those of us who bet on democrats are once again finding out that the whole bit with casinos is that the house always wins.

And that’s just the acute stage. “She contracted COVID-19 in mid-October, calling it the "most brutal illness" she's ever had & comparing her experience to an "exorcism." "I went down hard. I got COVID & everyone's like…it's like a sniffle here and there... "Well, COVID 2025 is next level."

Yup. The way I see it, all the decisions the Trump administration have made so far are exactly the kind of response we can expect from people who believe in The Great Replacement Theory

Autistic breakdown

once you leave academia, you truly realize how little impact or importance being a scholar has in the real world. Nobody cares about your degrees or publications. No one wants to hear your lectures on a niche topic. The Ivory Tower people look like nothing more than devout secret society cultists.

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Are you fucking kidding me????? Bruh . . . Made people go without food and paychecks to come out WORSE?!

if you’re still trying to remake the Democratic Party you are building your house on sand

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

just in time for folks to return to brunch and fly home for the holidays to spread covid everywhere. wake me when everything ends.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

poor children literally went without food. people lost jobs and went into debt and got evicted and sold their cars they need to get to work. people who otherwise would have lived longer will die younger because of the stress of this. people did things for money they can't undo

The next march has to be against the Democrats.

One thing about being aware of the existence of terms like "social death" is to realize that sabotage of safety nets and healthcare is part of the recipe.

i've been registered nonpartisan for a lot of years so they don't have my contact information. Last year, whenever a Kamala pusher came to my house, I told them I shoot people trespassing on my property and they stopped.

do they really send these out that frequently?? How embarrassing. Give that money to mutual aid; it'll be spent better than lining a millionaire's pocket while they vote to kill you.

I feel more like this with every passing year. We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all. We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

"If they wanted to, they would" . . . famous saying for fuckbois and Democrat politicians

Senate Dems: actually it’s totally fine to make life worse for Americans as long as you promise us a performative vote

the message is clear that Republicans are in charge permanently, can kill any D legislation with the filibuster, never need to govern at all, and when pressed, they can threaten the lives of millions any time they want and they will be given whatever it is they demand in exchange for their mercy.

the issue is that when you call these Dem Senators "cowards," you're implying they give a fuck about you somewhere deep down. i'm so sorry, but they don't care about you. Not at all. They never will. Take the fact at its face, process it, and start moving accordingly.

The problem with "we have no choice but to do this thing Trump and the GOP want because otherwise the government stays shut down" is that there's no limiting principle.

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

Anyone waiting on the Democrats to be an opposition shouldn't expect much. Don't be surprised if or when the Democrats (starting with the high-level establishment) start joining the Republicans outright and pushing this society toward a more openly one-party state.

This entire thread

So we can all agree this is controlled opposition at this point?

'Princess Mononoke' (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki 📽️

of course Peters is here. I had to plead with him to fund electricity subsidies for low income Michigan families and he didn't even show up to meetings. Both Michigan senators are absolute trash, but I am surprised Slotkin the trash can isn't here.

They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.

weaponized incompetence ass party

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

Actually, yes, I have. And I would love to see whoever owns this website update it.

American liberals keep talking about how chuck schumer isn't fit to lead the blue maga genocidal democrats, lol. I would argue the old ghoul is a perfect fit. He really does embody the values of the blue maga genocidal dems. The american govt is a plutocracy, and he is a dutiful servant of it.

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

i'm so sick of both parties. i hope they all eat each other in their respective Congressional floors. A small way to appease the gods for their hubris.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

all these "I'm voting no! statements" from senators are empty bullshit to me unless they are calling for new leadership and shunning each coward caver and swearing to make their life half the living hell they just put their constituents through for no reason

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

Jay reskeeted this. Cool. Link is still permanently banned because she lied about him being a violent Black man, by the way.

@longersky.com dearest, it has snowed here.

May your day be as good as the one Andre is having.

People in the U.S. just do not care about privacy enough and it scares me. We talk such a big game about being the “land of the free” and being “anti big government”. But, we love big capital… we’ll blindly spend a pretty penny on surveillance that will ultimately be used against us.

Octopi. They have been filmed helping humans repair pipes underwater, they take lights, cameras, and breathing masks off divers to investigate them. The lights and cameras they are known to DISASSEMBLE to look at the insides!!! It's hard to confine them and if they ever live on land, we're screwed!

Sometimes you just need to embrace the solitude of anonymity.

There is something deeply rotten at the heart of modern tech that goes well beyond the corruptions produced by capitalism.