Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Whew this article. Every paragraph is both validating and a revelation. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I don't do Elf on the Shelf for my kid because I am lazy, yes, but also because once you start giving dolls fake sentience that allows the opportunity for something evil to inhabit it

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

I say this pastorally... you gone have to cuss

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Who has made this 🤣

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

liberal dark arts 💀🙌

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen -- Depeche Mode Jacob Collier Gogol Bordello Andrew Bird Tori Amos

What a city ❤️

My Dad likes to say that Jesus almost certainly existed as a historical figure, because if he'd just been made up by Christians they wouldn't have made up somebody who so clearly disagrees with them on almost everything.

So hard to know where to turn for advice. . .

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

It's not too many books if I have loose intentions to read them all, eventually.

Mark Zuckerberg is profoundly evil. This has been incredibly obvious for a very long time

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

"“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

I homeschooled my kids during covid, specifically studying the tuberculosis pandemic and response as an effort to show how far public health and awareness has progressed as we navigated covid, both individually and as a population. 🫠

i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

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I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.

I'm convinced that if we simply removed every pedophile or pedophile enabler from the US government, the future of the US would be instantly, significantly brighter.

Joyce Carol Oates has inspired legions via @maiamindel.bsky.social

what if the firehose of fascist shit isn't wiping out the memory of the electorate? what if it's just hitting different things? and idk it seems like a persisting problem to me that dems aren't in lockstep with and fully tied to no kings, possibly the biggest social movement in american history

Part of any future political campaign should include a demonstration of the candidate performing a normie task. Grocery shop with a budget. Handle an insurance denial for a long-prescribed medication. Get the kids to school and to and manage a workday when there's been a school weather delay.

It is readily apparent that most lawmakers in the United States have never been poor; do not know any poor people; have never actually had a conversation with a poor person; and have no clear understanding of how poverty actually affects people’s health and opportunities.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Noooooo. Oh no. This is a memory care facility with awful kerning but a nice printer.

What I really want everyone, not just folks in New York, but EVERYONE to come away with from this, is that ANY of these motherfuckers can be challenged. Their stance in the status quo is THAT flimsy, and their grip is fucking FRAGILE. We CAN change this shit, dude

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

The best sound.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

This IS how I found out about Dick Cheney 🤘

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

one possible limiting factor around modern fascism is that the potential squadristi are for the most part not organised soldiers in their 20s and 30s but a middle aged man with something to lose.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

I just want Trump, Miller, Vought, Thiel, and Musk to live in a average-priced metro apartment building together, all needing ACA insurance, working low-paying jobs, having to procure and prepare their own food and find their own healthcare. And I want to watch what happens. Every minute.

Exactly this part of the White House is gone.

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

Today is a good reminder that the elites of both parties collapsed and capitulated with fascism selling us all out but the average population has not.