I wonder if it will ever dawn on these women that *this entire reaction* demonstrates why "the libs" don't understand why any self-respecting woman would be a Republican? 🤦‍♀️ abcnews.com/Politics/spe...

Many Americans think "equality" or "equal rights" means treating everyone the same, no matter what. They don't understand it's about ACCESS. Giving EQUAL ACCESS means *not* always treating everyone the same because they lack ability or proximity to ACCESS. This is where many Americans go wrong.

Why does America feel so isolating? open.substack.com/pub/ker33/p/...

Question for anyone who's ever taken the Colbert Questionnairet: When Stephen asks, "what's the world's most dangerous animal," why doesn't *human* come to anyone else's mind? 🤔 I sit & scream it at my screen, every time. 🤦‍♀️

Knowledge is power youtube.com/shorts/Bx6Uj...

Telling MAGA what they can already see about Trump isn’t going to help them break free of his spell. Since they see Trump as reinforcing American Exceptionalism & their role in it, liberals MUST say: AMERICA IS BETTER, & AMERICANS SHOULD BE HOLDING THEMSELVES TO BETTER STANDARDS, THAN THIS.

I wrote a new Substack article about what America, especially liberal America, keeps missing about MAGA. This is why there's poor MAGA, POC MAGA, Latinx MAGA. This is what liberals can't see, the hidden context behind MAGA. Y'all don't have to subscribe, BTW. ker33.substack.com/p/what-ameri...

There *is* an objective morality to life on Earth. It doesn't need religion because it existed before religion. It's often in contrast to religious dogma. It's highly nuanced & straightforward at the same time. It requires active vigilance by individuals, not institutions. It's simple, but not easy.

Fascinating TDS segment! ♥️👏 Humans are but one of BILLIONS of species that call this planet home. We have no more right to it than any others. It's important to STOP destroying other beings' home NOW before it's too late. We can be the worst, or the best, thing to ever happen to Earth. Our choice.🌍

Yay!! @booksky.bsky.social

Print newspapers didn't particularly die out because of the Internet. They failed to pivot when the Internet shared their space. There's still room for newspapers but they didn't want to give up their nationalism for regionalism - their actual forté. It's a shame they're so short-sighted.

Just rewatched Schitt's Creek in honor of Catherine O'Hara's death. It had a different affect on me in Trumpocalypsian times. Dan & Eugene Levy created a space where community meant everything, love mattered, hate didn't exist, people chose kindness, rejected materialism, & judgement wasn't welcome.

People thinking they know shit because they read or see it in mass media. I can't imagine bringing a baby to term only to lose it due to being misinformed by too much poor media today. Ignorance is INCREASING, not decreasing. This poor baby never stood a chance. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-mex...

This is a total load of bullshit, via PA governor Josh Shapiro. What happens when a Pennsylvanian tries to use the scam that is the governor's "text me" line? It's official spam. I blanked out my text message, just included the response & where it takes you. You don't get access. Just spam.

If Republicans, the original "States' Rights" PAC before that was a thing, don't categorically reject this, I predict they'll face quicker & more violent reactions than 1860 Ft. Sumter could ever have dreamed. American people have NO tolerance for election fraud. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

When I was a child, we had an elderly neighbor, Frances Valosich, who cared for her bedridden sister, Mary. They lived only in the basement of their home next door to us. When talking with Frances, her mouth moved when you were talking. I only know now that she must've had Tardive Dyskenesia.

"Caroline Hattersley...says that government, councils and social care providers must grasp the challenge of ageing with autism. If not, 'people will become more socially isolated, experience greater health issues and families will struggle to support them'." www.theguardian.com/social-care-...

For the record, America, THE GOVERNMENT FORCING PRIVATE INDUSTRY TO DO ITS BIDDING *IS* COMMUNISM. Not the government making sure all citizens are equally protected & cared for. That's commonwealth. THIS is Communism. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

This was released a few days ago. Powerful lyrics expertly edited with powerful video footage. Its the best I've seen so far #CheckItOut #StayPunk

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

The Regime wants Greenland so they can isolate Canada from Europe. With Greenland, Europe has an air corridor to Canada. In a war against Russia or China, the US can already use Greenland so owning it is pointless. In a war against Canada and Europe, Greenland is an unsinkable missile battery.

I trust economists to give me this news, not the general media, which doesn't exactly understand the nuance of what the numbers mean. One outlet said, "despite the tariffs, the trade gap widened." KPMG explains, it's horrible unless you're a venture capitalist. 🙄🤑 kpmg.com/us/en/articl...

We are on the way to thawing out! The furnace repairman finally came! Unfortunately, due to the 4+ months of flooding in the furnace room, the motor is making terrible noises. He has to return tomorrow with a new motor. However, he did get it started today. 🎉🎊 I'm so relieved, mostly for the cats.🐈🐈‍⬛

Things are pretty desperate here. It's 5° outside, it's Day 5 w/o heat, my space heaters are overworked. My health problems make this worse for me & my 8 cats. I have nowhere to take them, no one to look after them, even if I could get a hotel room for me. Not how I thought being 60yo would feel.🫩😭🥶

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

I know it's technically not Caturday but everyday is Caturday in an 8-cat home. I never thought they'd quietly share a space again, yet here's the 3 babies, all grown up! The only good thing to come from the broken furnace! 🐈💗

5-year-old Liam Ramos is getting ready to die in an ICE detention center in Texas. He has a fever, vomiting, stomach pains, and is no longer eating. If this is what you voted for, get out of my sight (and quite honestly stop breathing), forever. www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Just an FYI for people w/ consciences, it's Day 4 w/o heat in my house; I have 3 little space heaters upstairs & am living in my BR w/8 cats. Furnace still not working & it's not a priority for Weatherization.🤷‍♀️ LIHEAP's done as much as possible. Temps downstairs I wouldn't let the cats outside in.🙄

This is only a partial article from 08 Nov 1982, just days before Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's death. However, the parts I've highlighted could read like a current article on Trump's America. The emotional logic of empire always turns inward when it starts to collapse.

I have an idea for an art installation. Here's the title: Please Do Not Touch: An Interactive Display.

I've never used Tik Tok. Not because I'm an older Gen X. Because of the saying, "where there's smoke, there's fire." Too much political wrangling over it made me suspicious. I'd never put my face in media any government can use. I'd never trust any gov't-owned media. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Mr. Ginger suffers from anxiety & hip dysplasia. Charlie, my 6yo rescue, is like house father to the other kitties. I regret that the roar of the space heaters drowns out Mr. G's purrs because they're loud. We're also on heated blankets. It's been about 54 hours since the furnace went out. 🥶🫩🐈🐈‍⬛

Roughly 36°F in my living room. I got my Crisis fuel delivery this a.m., but the furnace is still sending out frigid air. Either the pilot light is out or there's an air bubble in the system. The furnace room's been flooded since September & no one's responded to my requests for help. Disabled life.

To Adam Winkler: Democrats haven't abandoned their stance on gun laws. ♦️IT'S A MOOT POINT HERE.♦️ I cannot stress enough, the law of the land is the extreme right stance. But when it's inconvenient for THEM, THEY ABANDON THEIR VALUES. THAT is the SOLE issue here. apnews.com/article/trum...

If we don’t keep talking about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good at the hands of the Trump Stormtroopers They will die twice Once executed in the street and twice when we let it go We don’t even know who killed Alex Pretti WTF NOT? Isn’t this America?

Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator. The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him. It's time for a massive general strike across the country.

Authority does not equal legitimacy. And legitimacy does not require authorization. When the system commits injustice, which it is now, waiting politely for the system to correct itself is not neutrality, it’s participation by delay.

Leaders of the so-called “pro-life, small government” party who relentlessly warn of tyranny are standing by as masked agents roam the country and brutalize its people. The hypocrisy isn’t surprising — but it’s staggering. Remember this.

We grew up knowing reality: life doesn't hand you perfection, it hands you what you get. It's up to you to make a Garden of Eden out of a briar field. Don't ask others to make it for you. music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9Q...

AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE. We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.

The government should have zero authority or ability to kill citizens. Period.

I want to take this opportunity to remind Pennsylvanians, Article I, §8 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania grants the residents of PA more stringent PERSONAL & PROPERTY privacy protections than the US Constitution & the PA Supreme Court upholds them. youtu.be/nMhoA3zPk78?...

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.

Throwback #Caturday Herb, Missy, and Benny at 2 months old in November 2021. Can't get them in the same space anymore without sibling squabbling. I hear echoes of my own mother's lament, "I only had 3 babies, why can't you get along?" 🐈💗

The 2nd Amendment crowd needs to explain: when does our legal "right to bear arms" become the federal government's excuse to rip them off us & THEN execute us? I thought the Democrats were coming for your guns? I thought Biden & Harris were the threat to legal gun owners protecting themselves?🙄💔

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

Trump is coming after all of us. All of us who oppose his tyranny and brutality. All of us who defy his dictatorship. All of us who seek accountability and challenge his murderous goons. All across America we must rise up against this oppression, as peacefully but as definitively as we can.

George, who just celebrated his 6th birthday yesterday, on the left, and 6½ yo Charlie, my little rescue, on the right. #Caturday cuties