He's been doing the same "Nice country you got there, shame if something happened to it" shtick since the beginning, it hasn't worked at all, but it's all he knows

I'd forgotten that this is Ralph Bakshi and not Chuck Jones, who made several other Seuss adaptations. Anyway, the 80s were wild.

“a whole civilization will die tonight” should be reason enough for the 25th amendment

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Far too many in our culture see healing as something to be done on behalf of the abuser rather than the abused, and ego e it as repair not of the damage done to the victim’s life, but of the damage done to the abuser’s reputation— which is how we can tell that this is a culture of abuse.

conservative pundits, GOP apparatchiks and their various enablers spend 10 years insisting that racism is marginal to trump and trumpism trump:

my favorite is that they act like trans people just popped up in 2015 or something. like dude we’ve been here this whole time. transphobia is worse now than when I started transitioning in 2004. people were way more patient and understanding it seems like. idk what happened but the cis went nuts

FIRE was always a right wing project funded by right wing dark money. They've made grievances about trans people central to their entire project. They supported a constitutional right to bully trans children. bsky.app/profile/walk...

Here's the CEO of @thefireorg.bsky.social being extremely transphobic. Which side is the one criminalizing care and research? Which side is the one defunding all research? Which side is purging dissent? It ain't trans people. These people were asked not to be transphobic and they lost their minds.

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imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda

Y'know, one problem I find with Bluesky is that if you're doing any kinda long threads, it requires folks to keep clicking through "Show more replies" and it seems like there's a drop-off in engage the longer a thread goes on, which is annoying. So, upcoming games! Start here and work backwards:

I think the opposition party widely expected to make historic gains in the next election(s) has an obligation to explain how they'll stop this and prevent it from happening again or it's reasonable to conclude they don't plan on doing those things, which raises more uncomfortable questions

voters elected decadent money man to make them rich, what they've gotten is warmongering fanatic who wants to cut their health care to pay for more bombs

It’s crazy that RFK Jr. positions himself as a health expert when he looks like a Costco dinosaur chicken nugget.

yes

based on my experiences as a parent i genuinely believe that if someone is feeling irritable the first thing they should ask themselves is “have i pooped today?”

I’ll take it further. Rich people should be forced to use the same social programs everyone else uses. There should be no option.

They don't need there to be an actual divide, just the perception of one among the cis hetero population so they can justify crackdowns and rolling back rights to themselves. They can have their pick mes they can point to and say they're not hateful because they have a gay friend.

One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.

According to the Atlantic, the right never has agency, everything they do is a reaction to the left. Therefore, everything the right does is the fault of the left.

The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

Liberals say shit like this and what they mean by ride to battle is vote

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The president's former personal lawyer taking over in a position he views as his personal lawyer.

in an exciting turn of events, my genealogical research appears to show that one of the founders of the league of the south was lying about having a confederate grandpa.

"Girl, manifest some standards"

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

If the roles were reversed, and a Democratic president lied that the families of soldiers who were killed in a reckless needless war he launched had insisted he "finish the job" in their memories, Fox News would meltdown and Republicans would be howling for impeachment.

may this be the beginning of something

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

Think about this one like once every 45 minutes

Still my favorite. I find it both very funny and galvanizing.

news to the enslaved!

SCOTUS didn't acknowledge him as he entered the court, the legal arguments aren't going his way, and the 'intimidation factor' is officially hitting zero. It’s almost as if the Constitution is immune to his specific brand of theatrical pouting. Tough day for the 'King'.

Funniest possible outcome: Evanston Mayor Kat Abughazaleh

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I wrote about how the Hasan Piker drama serves as a proxy fight between centrists and the left, and how it exposes the real priorities of Democrats like Cory Booker.

nice try Sam but you can’t get me

I feel like the nutcase who makes long, rambling videos calling Ms. Rachel evil probably shouldn't be invited on cable news, tbh

I mean you joke but thats how apartheid worked, declaring black South Africans not actually citizens but citizens of different tribal homelands and if they annoyed the White Government they got deported "back" to their Bantustan.

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

uncanny valley shit.

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

Ohio just introduced HB798, an omnibus anti-trans bill that targets every aspect of trans peoples lives. It bans trans people from bathrooms, even in private businesses. It retroactively bans gender marker changes on birth certificates and drivers licenses. It compels misgendering in schools.