Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

My gut reaction to all these announcements of “AI” driven layoffs is that it’s ideological cover for recession-driven layoffs

i’m increasingly convinced that many people in d.c. are just suffering from x dot com brain rot

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." – Grace Lee Boggs

This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

You're a regular person, not a pollster or pundit. You can just post whatever the heck you want on social media and you can stick to your principles, lol.

anything I don’t like is a distraction from the real issues and anything I like is finding joy in dark times

It’s wild how billionaires are like “I couldn’t possibly pay more money“ when faced with a tax increase and the rest of us have no choice in the face of higher cost of living yet we make it work. Don’t worry guys you can do it!

Dude is just locking in rn

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

i will note again that there is a really unhealthy, unpleasant and strong current of consumerism that runs through the left in a way that genuinely didn’t used to be true

wow, which common vaccine was it?

one very funny thing Zohran Mamdani said in this interview: Bill Ackman has spent more money trying to defeat Mamdani than Mamdani wants Ackman to pay in additional taxes www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEX1...

LFG

Somehow had never watched Haunting of Hill House so am currently 5 eps in and this is incredible stuff, thus far it's hands down the best show I've seen in ages

Bring back earnestness and sincerity as virtues...

daily affirmations: i am likeable, my friends are not ignoring me, i am not crashing out, i say normal things that make sense

looking forward to at least one op-ed on how that Dem Senate candidate‘s Nazi tattoo is the type of moderate politics we need to embrace

My what

Keep pissing away your millions Ackman, it's not moving the needle a fucking inch.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

Please keep going, bro. Take breaks if you need them. Take care of yourself. Shut things down for a bit. Surround yourself with your favourite things. Just keep going. I get it's easier said than done. I've been through this. It's crushing sometimes. Please don't give up. Don't let anyone else win.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

Amazingly coincidental that all the staffers are Nazis but all of their bosses are just hard working simple folk who love this country.

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

I'm probably going to get "canceled" by the Mob for saying this, but sometimes you just have to tell the truth, and I'm not afraid: My boss is big and strong and beautiful and handsome, and is that a new tie sir? Very nice! How's the missus? You know sir, I picked up a little something for her

Hey guy it’s almost like you hold a massive amount of power to change many people’s lives for the better, almost like you can do that with whatever time you have left on this planet.

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

watching donald trumps administration be the most terminally online presidency in history has made me realize that we can never have this again. it’s way too soy, and so so annoying in a completely inescapable way that will hopefully backfire on them

yes i’ve seen the stupid post by the writer defending the writer for defending the free press owner and my only thought is that it’s a club and you ain’t in it. everything else is just noise.

Ok, hear me out - what if we called it “Medicare for Y’all” and just covered everybody? Shutdown solved!

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

tanking an existing ceasefire and letting that many more people die so you could create your own ceasefire ten months later should probably disqualify you from a “peace” prize

1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%. Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%

Drake's gonna go full MAGA after this

One of our venerated pop stars almost took a stand on behalf of the poor and marginalized but thankfully he returned to saying nothing at all. A modern day Cuban middle crisis.

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."