it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

Contrary to rumour, I am not walking people’s dreams. The county itself is a different matter. Of course, it is the headless ones that follow you home.

Refreshed after her latest trip to Abu Dhabi

“Ladies and gentlemen. I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today… Now, I do not say this lightly but… one of you… is the murderer!”

in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living nature

Bolivian Workers Enter Second Week of Indefinite General Strike

Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.

I know we want to ignore it but it’s so obvious.

A big part of our problem is many many many people in decision making positions never got into a fistfight and they’re incredibly insecure about their masculinity so they project shit like racism and bombings as manliness.

Ask about their luxury they/themenities

His one true belief is immense, incredible pettiness

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

I wait here in the freezing cold, hoping to hear:“Your daughter is okay… My heart aches,and the cold is eating my bones💔 We need $150 to buy medicine, milk,diapers,clothes,and blankets. In this darkness here in Gaza 🤲you are our hope. Your support and sharing can save us 🔗 chuffed.org/project/omsham

On the bright side, at least the Iraq War inspired some great art, like Revenge of the Sith

The sooner you realise that "Who's gonna stop me?" is what motivates the bulk of conservative politics and animates today's male grievance movement, the better.

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I want a configurable one of these on the side of my laptop

Please help Samaa afford treatment for her sick 3 yo daughter Julia in the midst of Israel's genocide:

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

Is there some magical saturation point at which a sufficient number of Epstein Files will accumulate and thus magically depose the President on their own?

TODAY: MOBY DICK WEEK concludes! With Carrie Frye looking at a possible?? erotic charge between Melville and his writerly friend. “After the picnic, Hawthorne went home and read the five books Melville had published so far.” flaminghydra.com/a-heart-as-b...

Something cosmically cruel to female podcasters that their industry's Pivot To Video is happening right when the deepfake revenge porn machine is really hitting its stride

Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.

Context: I teach at an HSI and many of my students are children or grandchildren of farm workers. I'd like to give them more context for their own histories and also counter all the students' knee-jerk refusal to accept the idea of US empire

This Day in #History 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. (Lego re-creation shown here)

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

If his handlers weren’t the real problem, we could literally just lock him in a room with a TV and reverse Truman Show his entire administration to him and avoid the atrocities.

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

Folks like to say "twitter is not the real world" but the government is being run by people addicted to it, and who take actions based on how many twitter likes it will generate, and approving comments it will get from their favorite Twitter accounts

Look, I know the democrats are habitually unable to have spines and won’t stop this, but you don’t have to go on social media and cover for them doing nothing because you’re oh so smart and know nothing will come of it.

reminds me of the time a friend went to Subway and ordered a "football meatlong"

Love this. I can’t wait for Diogenes to use it to piss off Plato.

Christmas morning #supermario #bowuigi #mareach #mario #peach #bowser #luigi #bowserjr

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Shout-out to specifically the Florida Democrats for having fucking THEME PARTIES in their parliament, regularly scheduled ones at that, doing the polonaise with each other and also they all consider that to be what politics is. "Playing with the roaches" is fucking *literal* with these freaks.

The USA really is a One-Party-State. "But in their decadence, they have two..." NOPE! That second one is a decoy. It does not do politics, it only gets tax money to do insider trading and buy $300.000 bottles of champagne with, that doesn't count.

Like, it goes way, *way* beyond shared class interests. The Democrats aren't even a political party in the truest sense of the word, because they do not understand what politics even is. They're all addicted to their country club friends & dinner party rituals. That's what you elect them for.

Once this normalization of the senseless deprivation of a single person's liberty is allowed to sprout, it is almost impossible to contain. This is the enduring import of the civil rights work that we do, and why telling these stories matters to the hope of a better world.

THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.

Art by Mel Milton #xmen #dccomics

Romy Art by Hikiira on IG #xmen

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

open.spotify.com/track/0Mul6f... Listening to surf rock while lying in bed with my dog at 11 PM on a Saturday Night. I Am The Coolest Mother Fucker Alive.

Fucked up and let Instagram know that I like political shit and I like gay shit so now I am sentenced to see posts like this forever

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

The question isn't why am I binge-watching Archie's Weird Mysteries? The question is, why aren't you!?