I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

I always thought it was so unrealistic when the villain explained his plan step by step and then people fell for it anyway, yet here we are.

Repeat after me: the more you feel the need for media to explicitly tell you who's good and who's the villain, how to behave and how to love, the more you expect it to give you answers instead of making you think and ask questions, the more vulnerable you are to all kinds of propaganda.

Sorry to get political again on the silly Nintendo fangirl account but hey gang: when do we start really worrying about this shit. Are we there yet? Feels like we are there.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger. Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

'Experts' refers to financial consultants and occasionally people in academia when the narrative needs to pivot. Laborers do not have a voice in corporate media regardless of expertise

messing with watercolor

“astrology for men” was too generous

If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time

some sketchinggg from the past couple of months

People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities. We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.

Had a long discussion in class yesterday about how it’s not that kids don’t get confused about, say, trans people—but kids are confused about so many things all the time that they’re pretty comfortable with being confused and only having partial answers.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

congratulations everyone

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

hi i really, really needed this event so i created it <3

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

I wonder how many calories I’m spending daily on the cognitive dissonance created by thinking “this is exactly what I knew they’d do” and “I can’t believe this is happening” all day every day

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Sometimes you send something you found online to a friend because you want to brighten their day, and sometimes you send something you found online to a friend with the precise attitude and bearing of a cat very carefully lining up their paw with the back of another cat's head.

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Masked federal agents are ignoring people's basic constitutional rights in Minnesota. We're taking the Trump administration to court to put a stop to it.

Ah, capitalism, the bubble making machine that will end us all.

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

At a time when the Trump administration is trying to force people to conform to their ideology, last week's ruling is an important reminder that the government can't restrict speech based on its political agenda.

Hey if you live in Ohio, calling your reps and expressing your displeasure over this upcoming law is worth doing

A while back, my old friend Brennan Lee Mulligan made a great video about this for a mental health organization my friend started. I felt a shameful sense of recognition when I watched it. youtu.be/2-iWyqhx9Xk?...

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since I've been too tired for art lately I'm just gonna start posting pictures of my cat her name is Winona

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

This person is the perfect complement to the fan I came across who wrote over 100 of the 200 fics for a single ship on AO3. Be the change you want to see in the world

If we can make more regular people aware that "the machine that can't stop getting things wrong is going to raise your power bill whether you use it or not", I think we can get more people to reject generative AI. People in Baltimore are already sick of BGE rate hikes as it is.

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

ICE detention facilities have a track record of abuse — and this facility is no different. No one should be treated like this.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...