Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

Catching up on the news of Germany's election today. I have been dreading this day. Basically, a guy who's an American libertarian spendthrift type, who represented a TINY minority party, in a coalition, refused to work with the coalition and agree to a budget.

"Fair or not, Jewish Germans are angering Hitler. Is their style hurting Germany?" (I hate to go immediately to Hitler, but JFC. Literally everything but toadying angers Trump. That's what abusers do. Get angry and abusive. There is no working with it.)

dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch

I just got this ad. 🤨

Our Black middle school had a NASA-approved mission control center. Lost funding yrs ago - conservative school board members. An elementary school here had a whole microvillage run by students - banking, groceries, businesses, everything. School got torn down 🙃 But this BS is allowed to thrive lol

IMPORTANT: Otters in hats.

Meanwhile in 21st century USA... I want to know how the judge allowed this line of questioning and if they are going to be held responsible as well.

If the US is going to go all blood and soil while razing civilization, can we go back to old school surnames? My last name means Strong, and it was corrupted in expatriation. Why persist with these several steps of remove? Just let me put GILDED THE STRONG on my driver's license.

In glorious confirmation of stereotype, Germany, a country with 1/4 the population of the US, has generated more than 50% as much XP. So they're studying literally twice as hard. #duolingo

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.

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Anxiolytic [ang-zee-uh-LIT-ik] (adj.) - Having an anxiety-reducing or eliminating effect. (n.) - Anything that reduces or eliminates anxiety. Used in a sentence: “The mysterious music had an immediate anxiolytic effect on her shattered nerves.”

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

Temps are improving but it was still an 8 on the Chickadee Enfloofenation Scale™️ today #birds 🌿

A Sunday morning at the beach with their pals 🐾🐾🐾 #basset #bassethound #dogsofbluesky

This is so beyond evil that I don’t even have the words

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.

Anyway, here’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tweeting about renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe when he’s done fighting culture wars he can try to get planes to stop crashing.

Aside from the obvious, watching "gender ideology" be removed from quotes and accepted into common parlance in real time (as I watched "biological sex" do a few years back) is terrifying. They are teaching you that we are not human, but "ideological". They are teaching you not to value our lives.

If any parents of children with disabilities received similar emails like this, message me on Signal at emgarcia.85

This is why the Dems response of “pick your battles” is stupid and impotent. THIS, THIS is the battle! Those other things are the ingredients into the bigger picture! They are also in denial that the people they work with are actually not acting in good faith, and WANT everything to crumble.

A big problem with American politics is that a third generation hvac company owner is seen as more working class than a teacher’s aide

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

It's a horrendous flu season. It's killing kids, it's killing adults. It's killing people who were perfectly healthy before and people who, like most Americans, have chronic illness. It costs NOTHING to keep existing resources available. Our government is spending money to make Americans sicker.

While influenza-A is the worst it has been in like a decade...

Know what might slow down DOGE? If Democrats publicized a campaign encouraging federal workers to record their interactions with DOGE as potential evidence for future prosecution. Get names, audio (DC and Virginia only require one-party consent), take notes and print out emails.

I, for one, am eager to see what the final expense line for legal fees turns out to be. How much are taxpayers going to spend on the lawsuits brought against DOGE alone?

NYMag recirculated this 2019 profile of Tulsi Gabbard. It explains some things. I appreciate that the piece doesn't dismiss her as a nut because she's a member of a cult, bec honestly it's not different from people saying we don't need healthcare because we have Jesus. But— nymag.com/intelligence...

Lambrini Girls recorded the video for Cuntology 101 while in NYC. I make cameos throughout 😆 youtu.be/20TDd19oA1Q

When you're walking in the snow, listening to Immortal's "In My Kingdom Cold", and you accidentally open the self-facing camera

30% of those infected with measles experience, blindness, deafness, and encephalitis or death

If you're a music lover & you're not hip to Music League, check it out. You submit a song on a theme, everyone votes. It's great for breaking out of ruts. This week one of my leagues as a "metal-ass metal" theme and I'm listening to an Immortal album I haven't listened to in entirety in yeaaaars.

“Fix your hearts or die” is so good because the character is not threatening anyone. He’s warning them that they’ve fucked up and there’s time to change before the universe notices.

A devastating piece of #MeToo journalism -- by a college student, no less. Brava to her. Read it and weep. thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/05/h...

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said a former Noaa official. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

From a colleague who worked for for USAID until he was abruptly fired last week. As he says, courts take time. If you shatter things with a hammer it doesn’t matter if the courts eventually rule in your favor. You destroy lives—of government workers and of millions of poor people around the world.

An important, essential column. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

You know you're good friends with someone when you're trying to remember how many times you've been to the emergency room together.

Hegseth knows nothing about strategic planning. What would “victory” against Mexican cartels look like? Is there a hilltop to seize, flag to capture, river to cross, or capital to occupy? It’s easy to wade into a quagmire, but hard to get out — especially since cartels will have their own responses.

I was promised a granite island.

I'm with this 100% but I think what's more to the point is, billionaires don't have to run for office to control entire countries. They already have that power. It's just especially transparent at the moment.

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s... Man who makes $squillions by invading people's privacy angry that his privacy has been invaded. #zucksucks

You reckon TFG started using darker foundation because he admired RFK's "old shoe leather" complexion? It seems like the full shoe polish look came about after he started hanging around with RFK Jr.