Remember, they hate it because it worked

No no keep letting ChatGPT write articles this is ART

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

I marvel at how fascist Republicans took the righteous, powerful anti-fascist energy of the Summer 2020/BLM/Floyd protests and used it to *their* advantage, while Democrats, ostensibly champions for justice, also helped Republicans use the movement to their advantage.

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

You ever think about how the Mafia boss in The Rocketeer has higher ethical standards than everyone who attended the WHCD

unrelenting

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

lots of handwringing about political violence and yet

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

LOL poor C-SPAN host, "Well, this is a first."

Republican voters were more angry and politically involved about wearing a mask than they are about child rapists and I will judge every single one of them based on that fact.

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

When people don’t answer yes or no questions starting with yes or no the microphone should just be turned off.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Thiel is an existential threat to humanity, and it’s not an exaggeration to say so.

In the US you can't even take off a day to care for an ill human lmao

Pope Leo: Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth Republicans:

wouldn't mind several orders of magnitude more of this

“No one fucks with the Jesus.”

Reminder: they are never as powerful as they want you to think they are

It's always good news when fascists lose.

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

I liiiive for competency. It's one of my favorite things to watch.

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

In effect, the US congress (by not wanting to do its job yesterday) has effectively give the rest of the world the cue to begin divesting of the US dollar (which means nothing without the rule of law), taking back any assets, and begin closing the US military bases in their countries.

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

he still needs to be dragged out of office in chains btw. nothing has changed

HAPPY REX MANNING DAY

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Can I cheer everyone up a bit by pointing out that it's the anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher? Happy dead witch day, girls and gays🥳

my what an invigorating cocktail of relief, anger and anxiety

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

Periodic reminder: human beings are still basically wired like the hunter-gatherers we began as. Our brains are designed to face immediate danger, retreat, & recover. We have no neurochemical mechanism for sustained, unrelenting stress. If you're tired, forgetful, etc, that's your brain shorting.

You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is