Can this be a solution?

Thinking about Landlocked Blues, one of the great protest songs of the Iraq War and especially these lyrics: But greed is a bottomless pit And our freedom's a joke, we're just taking a piss And the whole world must watch the sad comic display If you're still free, start running away

We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country. In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits. This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians

waking up to more american atrocities and running out of places to put my disgust

It’s 2003 again

Dunkin Donuts: Sorry, we’re out of chocolate glazed. Me: [about to lose it] No Mark, save this feeling. Use it for your art.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

we are ruled by a class of men incapable of experiencing joy

“It doesn’t have to be that bad, / it doesn’t have to be bad at all, / but if it is, please call.” — Lena Oleanderson (@lena-oleanderson.bsky.social)

Any time you’re tempted to take legal academia seriously, just remember that John Yoo has never paid even the slightest price within the academy.

"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"

Scholarship that challenges white supremacy, colonialism, or state violence is labeled as divisive. Programs rooted in Indigenous, Latinx, and Black knowledge are consolidated, put under review, or dismantled. The result is not balance—it is containment.

It’s a good time to revisit this Current Affairs article from 2020 about library cuts in New Orleans: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/12...

Thrilling catching up on the wild, epic poetry of megalomania in the last episode of Industry and then switching on the other reality where Trump is imposing 10% global tariffs as some kind of clap-back.

There ain’t no rule that says dogs can’t capture the hearts of Olympic viewers.

i think all the time about what @scumbelievable.bsky.social said about the Targaryens: they're like if each individual Kardashian had their own F-16 fighter jet

오이를 서리하는 고슴도치 민화랑 비슷하네요. 귀여움.

It will very much be worth your time to read this.

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

no one: absolutely no one: me: what if gender bent stannis

#TWOW visions, predictions, and maybe theories series. Almost finished. You can watch these and more painted live on twitch.tv/sanrixian Wednesdays and Sundays! @sanriscribbles.bsky.social

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

sweet puppy moods

Good morning from my new friend.

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

just remembered that there were no paywalls for news when I was in high school

"...and I'll let you down bloody, poets: There is no such thing as endless distances. God can't even see which tattoos we bought..." !!! from Chloe Bryan https://www.havehashad.com/e924v

You must, and I do not say this lightly, watch this video. Sound on.

feels like poem used to be like "inside of me there are two wolves / they keep my population of dears down / which is to say my dear / I love only you / and tacos" and nowadays poems are like "THE SKY IS A GUN / ITS HOLSTER OUR THROATS / LET'S GET LOADED / AND SHOOT THE / EVERYTHING" i wonder why

"Mr President-"

What, is he fled?

This hit so fucking hard today.

People are worried about Trump not leaving office in 2029 but they should be more worried about the Supreme Court enabling perpetual Republican rule by overturning what remains of the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance laws. SCOTUS has those cases this term.

Infinite respect to Woke Hoth Guy, who freestyled a two-minute Federalist paper.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Please circulate!! This deserves to be a big story.

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

The conservative movement that sold America as the shining city on a hill backed the contras in Nicaragua. The shadow of the conservative vision has always been death to its outsiders, brought by death squads, slave patrols, and now ICE.

these people never had any intention of battling a tyrannical government, they wanted to be able to accuse minorities at the walmart of shoplifting and then execute them for it