There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.

The Contrarian

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

These are the last words of the American president who challenged us to go to the Moon. John F. Kennedy was murdered on November 22, 1963. This is the conclusion of the speech he had planned to deliver that evening.

💙 AOC

I've been having really good luck with my book choices as of late. I've read all of them within a day and had to take a day or two in between just thinking about them. So, I'm looking for suggestions of what to read next. I prefer standalone novels over series. 1/ #booksky

We’ve served our country in uniform. Now we are stepping up to serve again. We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026. Join the mission → www.hellcats.us/

LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today #LEGO

Working at a polling place today and wearing this adorable t-shirt provided by the county election office. #vote #specialelection #california

I just watched the documentary "Dear Uncle Adolf" (2010) on @kanopy.com and it's hard to put into words how it's effecting me. The parallels between the letters to Hitler and so many of the social media posts to you know who are terrifying. (If you don't have Kanopy, you should and it's free.)

I just completed my online poll worker training for the November 4th Statewide Special Election. I know that most Californians will vote by mail, but it's important that we have sites across each city and county for people to drop off their ballots. #prop50 is the sole measure on the ballot. #vote

This only happens to you once

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

This is just an awesome takedown of this disgusting orange buffoon.

Love this 💙💙😀

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

Sadly, the mass shooting at that school today is going to get swallowed up by the death of a man who had no sympathy for them.

California has it covered. gavinnewsomcampaign.com/products/don...

Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The store where I work is being pressured by our DM into having a sidewalk sale this weekend even though temps will be 100+. Why anyone would think that people will shop outside in the heat rather than go into cool store is beyond me. Sure, we'd have game outside but cornhole isn't THAT appealing...

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

Not my representative but still a call for action. Congress is in recess which means your representatives and senators are in their home offices (or should be). Call, write, visit and let them know that you haven’t “moved on” & demand they stop protecting pedophiles, unless they’re one too?! 🤬

I made a cake that I'm taking to work today. Looking forward to the reactions I get. The occasion? My bosses boss is visiting.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year was spent on the public broadcasting budget. If you donate $20 a year, you're covering what your tax dollars would have done. If you do a monthly donation of $7, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on PBS per year.

My Mom died 17 years ago today. One of the last things she said to me was to remember to put the flag out in the morning to commemorate Moon Landing Day. I was putting it up when the Sheriff arrived and he asked me what I was doing. I explained it was the last thing my Mom told me to do.

After living with me for over a year, Izzy has just started to bring me toys to toss for her. This is her favorite toy. It's the plastic ring from the top of the mayonnaise jar. #caturday

Thr Late Show, which the NYTimes assures us is being cancelled for financial reasons, made CBS nearly a billion dollars in the last quarter. We should all fail that badly.

Took my car to a local transmission shop today. They can fix the problem for $600 including labor. The dealership charged me $290 just to look at the car. Is my only recourse a strongly worded Yelp review? While I'm elated at being able to keep my beloved little car, I'm also extremely angry.

LOL. This is so great and such a perfect response to the absolute trash coming from elsewhere.

I had to take my car to shop at the dealership and got bad news about my transmission. Just the labor to fix the car is $3,599.97. I paid like $8,000 for my 2017 Chevy Spark about 4 years ago. I love this car, it's everything I want and need but I can't rationalize doing the work for that price

The joy I usually feel with my yearly ritual 1776 re-watch doesn't exist this year. But it does give me strength.

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

Rewatching this installment of PBS' American Experience and it's even more terrifying than it was the first time I saw it. Of course, the major difference is that when this was going on we had FDR as President as opposed to who's in the White House now. youtu.be/g9HmV_-EE8g?...

Someone should license this photo for the next Penguin Classics edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

And the person who turned up to support him with no notice is the Muslim dude who have cross endorsed each other and who the msm has been going into overtime to cast him as antisemitic

Millions of people marched. Millions. We hear that number a lot, even billion, so it doesn't sound as big as it should. That's a *lot* of people. Do you know, say, 100 people? A million is ten thousand times that many. Want to count to a million one per second? It'll take 11 days. A lot of people.

My favorite sign from the Vacaville #NoKings protest today.

I just walked through the house where my cousin was watching Fox News and I heard a old, white, male pundit screaming "Donald Trump is a man of peace!" while discussing what's going on in LA.

I'm confused by YouTube. I have a lot of lefty channels that I subscribe to, but in my recommended feed there's mostly Fox News, Fox Business, LiveNOW from Fox, Piers Morgan, Trish Regan... WTH. It's like they don't know me at all,

Driving home yesterday I spotted a white dude with a sign that said "Support Your Local Ice Raid". I'm mad at past me for not making an illegal u-turn and kicking the crap out of him. Next time I'm going to make that illegal u-turn and stand next to him with my own sign that says "F*ck This Guy".

Remarkable scenes at Belaya airfield in Irkutsk, Russia. Ukraine has launched a devastating attack on Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers. The base is over 4000 km from Ukraine, but $500 drones are currently wiping out $100 million planes. Russia’s Pearl Harbor.

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

Dwell not, gentle Empire.