They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

i hate the whole “poor people only deserve crap that will fall apart and need to be replaced in a year” its bullshit and ends up being more expensive in the long run

Happy Public Domain Day, gang! Nancy Drew, The Shadow, Japanese superhero Golden Bat, and Betty Boop (dog version) have all just had their copyrights expire. Go nuts!

They're prepping folk for the fields, the mines, and never being able to arrive at a conclusion beyond "plausible as long as you don't care to know more." And y'all defend their exploiting workers in the global south, squandering finite resources, and actively poisoning human habitats to do so.

A county fired its entire library board for refusing to ban a trans children’s book www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"You cannot kill me in a way that matters" was the mantra that got me through 2025

Look, I just think everyone needs to see Jet Li use his son as a yo-yo

The pandemic showed us the whole conceit of “red state”/“blue state” is more an emotional crutch than a true state of safety. I always raise this but in Chicago—the alleged Paragon of Blue—our kid was in the ~9% of those in his age cohort up-to-date on Covid shots when the city stopped tracking.

Shot in the dark: anyone I know have access to equipment to digitize Super 8 film? I now have about two dozen reels I’d really like to see…

private prisons are places where people are imprisoned by a third party contracted by the government in 2022-2023 the US had roughly 100,000 inmates in private, for-profit prisons, the vast majority of the world's privately held prisoners an early 2000’s estimate suggested around 132,000 worldwide

happy new year’s eve 💜🌸

I will never understand why they replaced community submitted subtitles for this nonsense Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used And they GOT RID OF IT

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

Entire families in Gaza are being drowned and frozen, their tents washed away, their deaths utterly ignored. I have so many loved ones I can’t reach. I’m so scared and so exhausted of the unending brutality. How much cruelty can one body, one people, one planet bear?

Orion is so so so trans .

Sometimes I think about how even when Trump and his crew are overthrown, the rest of the world will never trust American voters and politicians again and soft power was its most successful foreign policy, and while the ideologues in charge don’t understand that, Putin does

Sadly I do believe that broader trans spaces have completely failed trans women of color in every way. Both tmes and tmas.

We’ve allowed nostalgia to become a right wing thing when Norman Rockwell art is actually a good example of how soft-focus Americana can also be used for progressive ideas.

I think we need to wipe out describing watching films, reading books, listening to music etc as "consuming content" before any kind of healing can begin

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

I posted a not fun update to my GoFundMe. I fell and broke my back. I'm almost certainly paralyzed for life. I'll start a new GoFundMe when I know more what my life will look like in the future, but until then donations will help with lost income and my mom to pay for gas and VERY expensive parking.

lol she blocked me too for some reason

I think many people don't realise this: we very often have to pause or delay cancer treatment when patients have COVID. Protecting yourself, loved ones and the community from COVID makes sense.

We’re at the point where we have concentration camps and slave patrols and the people with the most safety think a mean joke is the pinnacle of resistance

Artists! The US Copyright Office has changed the rules, starting in Feb. we can register up to 20 published 2D works of art in a single application, making it way more affordable! Important as registration is needed to fight theft in court or the CCB. #art #artists www.copyright.gov/rulemaking/g...

This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery" archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.

Not long ago, the Civil Rights Division would’ve condemned this kind of thing bsky.app/profile/even...

Once again, the whiplash I’m getting from finishing a book about the 1960s Civil Rights Division *fighting* discriminatory measures designed to suppress the vote and then reading its current leader defending those same kinds of measures today.

Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands." Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."

I was wondering why he was standing and then I got to the end and... I really like this dude.

Here’s Pumpkin Spice Latte using Cinnamon Roll Jones as a pillow

Cinnamon got his name because he has this distinct spiral or swirl pattern on either side of his torso, like a Cinnamon Roll. Pumpkin has the same swirl but longer fur, so it looks like coffee foam art. The added “Jones “ was an added flourish for funsies.

I am gonna be honest with you: Taking an edible to go to a mall with in-laws I don't like sounds like something the devil would inflict upon sinners

There are Ferguson protesters, Black men mind you, that ended up dead after the fact...for "mysterious reasons". The gall of these folks to come and talk shit when our people literally get targeted and killed for standing up for ourselves is wild. They have no clue what we have to deal with.

This is all designed to break us. Many of you are actively acting as demotivator agents. Others are propaganda victims, drowning in manmade despair. Your functions are the same

I’ve said it and I believe it is true There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed

There are a lot of people who are stronger than you and braver than you. The least you can do is give them respect for what they’re doing for you.

This makes perfect sense to me—a person who uses touch screens at home but also knows how to drive a car For the level of detail and speed that you need a machine to function when it’s life or death, there’s no way that touch screens are sufficient

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Asheville has been a cultural hub and an LGBTQ enclave since at least the 1970s. There are a lot of liberal college towns across the South, but Asheville is an artists enclave whose left/liberal tradition goes much deeper than most communities in any part of the U.S.

(also, as someone from NC, yes republicans obviously exist here, but NC is also gerrymandered to all hell. even if we wanted to elect a democrat, our districts are literally built to prevent that from happening, resulting in more “red areas” than there probably should be)

(also, even if you’re okay with things only happening in “red areas,” the demographics you claim to care about exist in “red areas” too!)

(also, hot take here, but if this only occurred in a “red area,” it still wouldn’t be okay to act like OP is. you either think people deserve housing or they don’t. if you think something is a human right, you don’t get to make it conditional)

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Summoning Demonic Adam Serwer:

Love how elites be out here lowkey admitting that most of their free speech discourse has been a cynical ploy to blunt criticism and encourage acquiescence, and yet if you argue that same thing to a regular person you prob seem nuts.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”