I'm gonna need folks to understand that just because the worst people in America are obsessed with GLP-1s exclusively because of weight loss does not mean they are not LIFE SAVING for a lot of people. There's a reason they're studying their impact on Long Covid right now.

There's something about the optics of "making a deal" to lower the cost of weight loss drug prices at the same moment you're starving your own citizens.

Trent's brother Vent

The documents further note that users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests.

A May 2025 presentation by its (Meta's) safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S. (Think about who these scams target - the sick, homebound elderly)

Bill Cosby is out of jail, Louis CK sells out stadiums, even Woody Allen is being invited back into polite society. What "excesses" are these people talking about?

“If you are not talking to your kids about socialism, somebody else is!” 👻

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months for medical reasons, and I'm still about 1000$ behind on being able to pay for my car and storage. I'm sorry to keep asking, but if you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Don't talk to the New York Times about trans issues. They will betray your trust and use your story to undermine access to care. That's exactly what Azeen Ghorayshi did with families of trans kids in Missouri.

It's just such a transparent con. But then again, what isn't?

sorry it's just that none of us are used to people with principles so everything feels new and shocking

Don't cross the picket line, burn your own coffee!

the Dog Park Dissidents’s song Good Boy just came on my algorithmic radio station and I think maybe a lesbian version of this could fix me

Anyway my new pronouns are www.she.they/index.php

Let's make AI jealous. Write what Al can't touch. Humans can think with their heads, hearts, and bodies. Try moving your hands. It's fine if your mind remains a jumble. Ideas scattered across the paper. Sometimes they connect by chance, and something new is born.

The weirdest part about us election discourse right now is that VT holds their local voting in March so this is just all spectating for me

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

“the problem with a lot of leftists is” really? today? 100,000 volunteers did the work for zohran mamdani, who was polling in single digits. if you want to find people way way to the left willing to do slow work for a post-scarcity utopia, you can find them! sorry you’re annoyed by online, though!

you should also probably see if you’re thinking about/talking to actual human people to the left of you with whom you’d like to build a coalition, or if you’re just bitching about irony poisoned extremely online shitposters. you can really save yourself some typing with thumbs with this one!

me, currently looking at my phone: oh shit, am I sitting on my phone? *checks pocket, find it empty, returns to looking at phone, realizes* no, i’m just an idiot.

the made-up Tragedy of the Commons feels directly tied into Elite Panic, in that the natural state of regular humans is to take care of each other, and elites refuse to believe this and keep insisting the opposite.

Yes, and also I find (cis) people just absolutely awful both at making accurate assumptions to anyone queer at all and at taking correction. But also I find this to kinda be the default in the real world anyway? People assume based on my presentation, and maybe ask if they’re unsure

these fucking fucks www.adl.org/resources/pr...

“All the leaves are brown And the skies are grey-“ yeah, man, that’s what i like about it. grab a latte, sit and share a joint with me and we can talk about your seasonal depression or go sing your sad song someplace else

Legislative change operates inside the shell of the last revolution :)

Three-letter agencies have been spreading the teachings of Marx since before our time

If you’re happy about this imagine how happy you would be if workers became the whole ruling class and next morning rent was abolished and all surplus went back into society instead of being appropriated by capitalists

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

maybe actually everything being run by private companies isn’t the best for people and leads to rampant rent-seeking instead of better services for humans

sometimes you have to pay a $0.35 fee for free parking and it just feels indicative everything wrong with late stage capitalism

Thinking of this today 😌

"Biden had to end the COVID emergency because it'd look ridiculous if he hadn't" Not really, if it went on long enough it'd be a little factoid 20 years later "Did you know we're still under that COVID law? Weird but it was how they kept medicaid going"

it should be illegal for a gambling website to even exist.

You know, in other systems, when the government isn't able to pass a budget or do other basic parts of their job, it's cause for an immediate election to be called to replace these people. I can't help but think how nice that might be.

I'm not going to spend precious company time on educating people on why I exist or why DEI is important. I'm not paid for that. But give me triple pay plus a hazard bonus and maybe I'll think about it.

we put together a megathread of onion articles on one of americas favorite now dead war criminals, some real gems in here

ur over 6'?? what r ur pronouns, fee/fi/fo/fum?

Y'all thought we were full of it all these years when we said Socialism Will Win, huh

IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.

“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

for reasons not worth getting into I've been talking to straight liberals about medical transitioning and these are not transphobes, they fully support people's rights to do what they want but its shocking that everyone of them did not understand transitioning as a NEED rather than a choice.

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

Congratulations, you have outlived Dick Cheney!