Oh gods... I am reminded of that Fox News (I think) thing from 10-20 years ago where it said that poor people had... FRIDGES! Here, a big one is flat screen TVs, like you can get any other kind these days at all... I hate this kind of person so much.

Sick of people complaining about people on assistance having smart phones. You no longer pay for your phone up front, you pay $20 more on your bill monthly for 2 years. Saying it's a "$1200 phone" is technically correct, but you aren't being fully honest in order to make other people look bad. Jerk.

Wow. BRING HER BACK is the feelbad horror film of the year, isn't it?

I just saw an add hiring for elder care that specified you have a compassionate, *young* heart. That sounds creepy, right? Just me?

I need Megyn Kelly to explain how the kids could pass for younger than 15 but also looked legal at a passing glance. Megyn? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTqg6xH/

Amazon will sell the exact same product, same materials, same country of origin at three times the price. I really wish more people would call out Amazon as a huge distributor of fast fashion in the US as often as they yell about SheIn.

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

What if pre teen girls start killing billionaires?

I need Megyn Kelly to explain how the kids could pass for younger than 15 but also looked legal at a passing glance. Megyn? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTqg6xH/

More proof that MAGA have utter contempt for Americans as a whole and especially for their own supporters.

And this is the absolute bullshit all the women in your life have grown up with, and I bet they all have at least 1 memory of an adult man that they knew they weren't safe around.

What if, hear me out, a desperate kid approached a rich man and THE ADULT DIDN'T RAPE THEM. What if THE GROWNUP just gave the kid that money towards braces because they had it?

15 is not "barely legal". There's an argument to be had if even 18 is "barely legal", because they can't drink alcohol or smoke at 18 now. But 15 is definitely on the *wrong side of legal* for adults.

This is rape culture. This is why so many people don’t come forward. A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her. She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it. Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:

Naming things after yourself is dorky, I don't care who you are or what it is.

Which means, yes, everything you've heard about the importance of deficits and debt in politics for the past half century is rhetorical bullshit.

That's not how government spending works. The money doesn't exist, the Treasury doesn't have a bank account where it keeps government revenues. When it spends money, it creates it. When it taxes in tax revenue, it erases it from circulation.

So, with Trump taking it all the way to the Supreme Court to avoid releasing SNAP contingency funds, I'm gonna take a wacky guess that that money isn't where it's supposed to be

The amount of divorced or unmarried dads I know saying they'd never be on assistance, while I know for a fact that those kids ate because of WIC and SNAP and saw doctors because of CHIP is making me incredibly angry. They don't know that, because those kids don't live with them, in a lot of cases.

it doesn't even get into the fact that you can't buy necessities with SNAP. even if you can get food you can't get toiletries or medicine. you (usually) can't get hot food. like, SNAP is a bare minimum, which is why it's so absurd that people rail against it

i miss the days when chicken thighs were like $3 because no one wanted them. now they're $7. ground beef is so expensive. pork too. and you would think buying in bulk would help but NOPE. there are no more cheap cuts of steak anymore. there's no more cheap cuts of *anything*.

And let’s be 100% crystal clear: this predates Trump by decades and has been the designed reality through every administration REGARDLESS of party.

I think I am seriously going to have to get groceries at the dollar store going forward for November and December.

Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50. “Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.

A young adult Republican of the incel wing committed rape and when asked why, cited being an incel.

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.

Ok, my niece is super into Kpop Demon Hunters, like everyone else. I like the songs, catchy af. But Soda Pop is definitely filthy dirty, right? It can't just be me.

A defining feature of this admin is attacking as antisemitic everything they don’t like while constantly engaging in rank antisemitism.

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Environmental problems are complex, and they are not going to be solved by the first thought that pops into your head after thinking about the problem for seven and a half seconds. We often need your help. But we do not need you to reinvent the wheel poorly, or to guess how to help.

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts. Six people are being deported because of what they said online. Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended. It won’t stop with these six people. Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

I'd actually like to see someone ask the vice president whether calling these people Nazis is out of bounds.

Musical lyrics updated

Finally figured out who Rki Linhome reminds me of, and it's Carol Haney. I'm watching Pajama Game.

"Not Allowed" by *who*, Danica?

Samesies

Dave Chapelle, barely scraping by on on his frequent Netflix specials, being canceled is sad

Disabled and Covid Cautious people: “Don’t ban masks we’re in a pandemic and they’re a critical tool to protect ourselves” Government: “Too bad. Masks are criminalized”. ICE: “Don’t ban masks we need to hide our faces while we torture people” Government: “Mask bans are unconstitutional”

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

horny season is being attacked by the republican party and to me this is flatly wrong

Plenty private citizens keep protesting the ongoing genocide, nothing stops her "breaking heart" from doing likewise... unless ofc she doesn't care half as much

An excellent example of how you should definitely never ever trust any kind of sexual statistic you see published in a newspaper because this headline is a load of horseshit

Cool that the CEO of Bluesky is aggressively pushing a one-word meme (which is just a corruption of a better meme) solely to insult the idea that trans users' safety concerns are valid! Smooth move, @jay.bsky.team!!!!!

I don't know how many more ways I can explain to Republicans that actual radical leftists would never, ever, identify as Democrats

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

October ain't looking like it's gonna ease up either, looking forward to Carimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs, Tormented Souls 2, The Seance of Blake Manor, and Mina The Hollower, and there's probably gonna be a few surprises. It's all stacked folks, all the time! Maybe November will bring respite?