I think people should be allowed to live how they want as long as they aren't harming anyone. I think government should use taxes to invest in society in ways that have proven to have long term returns. These days that makes me a far left extremist.

I get all the people speaking up against political violence, but at one point or another, we have to draw a line in the sand and admit that the only reason we're talking about it is because the other side told us to, because it's the only thing they have left to fear.

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

I cannot believe that it's taken me this long to discover Octavia Butler

Greta For Nobel Peace Prize!

Greta started with climate change and everyone was okay with that, until she noticed the global mechanisms of wealth that made improvement impossible. So now she's going after those power structures and even though it's all non-violent they see her as a threat.

The only way to fix the whole mess is with a number of Constitutional Amendments, and the system is so broken that passing an Amendment is impossible.

Any reporter who doesn't immediately reply with "But you're the person who picks the judges," needs to have their press pass revoked.

I hate to break it to people, but they will never release the Epstein files. They will do anything to prevent being forced to release the Epstein files.

It would be easy to look at all of these cases and just shrug about how embarrassing it is, but it's not an accident. A deep well of support for Trump comes from men who want women and girls relegated to the role of sex slaves and unfortunately they have an Old Testament to back that up with.

I need this to happen to every filmmaker who uses AI actors. Literally from Siri to Hal in one minute.

I worry. I think protesters think they are sending a specific message to Israelis. The message that is being received is likely "see? The whole world is still against us so anything we do is justified."

Israeli air strike on Al-Shujaiyah neighborhood, east of Gaza City

I just watched Ordinary People for the first time. They should have invented new categories so that they could give that film more Oscars. Every line, every shot, every performance is perfect.

These days, when I'm scrolling through my feed and see something that I absolutely do not care about, it's like a relief.

I don't know. Maybe if we take the most insecure men in the country and give them the right to assault anyone who they think is not being respectful enough... maybe that will fix everything.

Too often on here, I will follow someone only to have them begin to curate my entire feed by reposting everything that they think is interesting. Within limits, that's okay, but when I log in and see 50 reposts from a single person, then they have abused my hospitality.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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For about 2 years, it seemed like Haley was the only thing I was listening to, but I gradually moved on. Just recently rediscovered this song, and it destroyed me all over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6go0...

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"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

I think the whole thing with sending the NG around from city to city is purely because he gets a thrill out of inspiring fear at this point. There's a strict limit on what those troops can do when they are deployed domestically, and I'm not ruling out a Kent State type situation.

My first assignment after basic was in a line infantry battalion. We had a good old boy 1st sergeant who seemed like a real hard case but he found a way to get the best out of every soldier. When he was replaced we got a guy who Hegseth is reminding me of.

Something that has bothered me for years is how people do CPR on TV and in movies. It's almost never correct, and it would be such a simple thing to give an actor a 30-second briefing on tilting the head back and clearing the mouth, and the proper palm/arm positioning.

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

Jeffries walks into a bank robbery. Robber has gun to bank manager's temple. "How dare you take away that person's Healthcare!"

"Most Israelis want to see Gaza ethnically cleansed" - Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov Take 25 minutes of your time to listen this about the so-called "Israeli progressives". youtu.be/3W5oMovARYs?...

In the last couple of days I saw two prominent people on here from both ends of the spectrum claim that acknowledging it is fascism is tantamount to giving up. I just don't get it. That's just the bell ringing to start the next round.

The lesson here is that if you fire all of the people with scruples, the ones you will be left with are not going to be competent people without scruples. It will be people who have only ever made it anywhere by cheating. Without peers covering for them, those people will fail.

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

All of these never Trumper Republicans come over and expect liberals to kiss their asses just because they refused to support Trump, after supporting every Republican monstrosity that preceded him. I honestly don't even think it's policies. I think it's because Trump is too gauche for them.

"Which is the excuse that we need to demand more authority."

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And that is how the nation found out that their President had psoriasis. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

Been thinking a lot about love lately and its many forms. One thing that always drives me nuts is when people say something like "she's my Mom. I HAVE to love her." I understand being loyal and that familial bonds count, but you don't have to love anyone just because of shared genetics.

Israelis are stealing humanitarian aid for Gaza. How disgusting can they be?

At last count, I have three trans people in my family, and I wonder how many people also have trans relations that they don't know about because they've either forced those people to stay closeted or are just shut out of their lives.

Important to remember that this happened before the cold war and half a century of American propaganda against socialism.

After the French Revolution, Europe's nobility abandoned wearing excessively expensive clothing, for fear that advertising their excesses would get them marched to a guillotine.

The rally cry for any anti-Trump/anti-authoritarian protest should be "We are the people." A lot of MAGA think of themselves as the only real Americans and a lot of people in government forget that they rule at our leisure. Both groups need a reminder.

Gun advocates really hate it when another gun advocate shows up at a funeral for a gun advocate with a gun.

I think she might be the kind of transitional figure that we thought Obama would be.

Tom Homan is doing corruption the right way By Ezra Klein

If there is one thing that I could give every person on Earth, it's the experience of being loved by someone who knows you well enough to accept that the things that are your fault are not your fault.

Mahmoud Nasser al-Jumla, his wife, and children were killed by the Israeli occupation forces in a new massacre bombing their home in Gaza City, now officially erasing the family from the civil registry.