“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

I am unspeakably angry.

The phrase “according to a new @propublica.org investigation” now makes me go “ohhh, I’m about to get mad about powerful people for serious ethical breaches.”

Actual conversation my coworker once had with a patron: Patron: I would like to buy this CD. Coworker: Well, you can’t buy it but you are certainly welcome to borrow it. Patron: Young man, I do not ‘borrow’ things. I was on Broadway.

Daylight Savings is a quiet killer. Let's put it permanently to bed.

Cool, we all need new things to flush down the toilet

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

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If I wanted to see a virgin onscreen, I’d simply tune in to Ben Shapiro’s show.

The more you stop thinking of the way sighted people with fine motor control use a site or app as the "default" and assistive technology being the exception, the more you start to design accessibility in from the ground up, instead of trying to bolt it on after the fact.

With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support. Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com WBEZ: @wbez.org

Evergreen advice tbh

what the hell

Every time I see a picture of Brett Kavanaugh, I realize that the mental image I have of him is actually Tucker Carlson and I think that is actually reasonably accurate.

How come no OMB director before him has made unilateral RIFs during other shutdowns? Like why is he acting like this is somehow a requirement

The next time Mike Johnson lies that he hasn’t seen the latest Trump screwup that the rest of the nation is discussing, the TV anchor should just quietly say “that’s ok, not everyone follows politics.”

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

Russ wrote an entire paper about wanting to do this.

Trump, September 2024: “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.” October 2024: “I have no idea what Project 2025 is. I’ve never read it, and I never will.” October 2025:

The three Trump shutdowns have involved Democrats offering money to keep the whole existing government open and Republicans refusing because they want to shut down the government either in-part or all at once.

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

Arlington Heights does not have the infrastructure to support this and it’s a terrible idea. Also, I’m gonna say it: the Bears haven’t won a Super Bowl in my lifetime. Maybe they should work on improving their game instead of siphoning off taxpayer funds to complete this ridiculous vanity project.

“Why are you talking about [nonpolitical topic] when Trump is destroying democracy” is an objectively ridiculous expectation to place on other people. Donald Trump is the only person in the world who thinks about Donald Trump 24/7 & it made him a miserable person. Don’t put that fate on other people

Some brave reporter needs to ask Trump why he’s had 200% more government shutdowns than Obama and Biden combined

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

Federal workers not getting paid but still expected to work during a shutdown is ridiculous. At a minimum, they should be getting their back pay *with interest* but I don’t know if that’s sufficient enough to mitigate the harm this does.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

We don’t want you here, Donald Trump.

Note to all news organizations: this is the correct still image to use from that speech.

Listen, trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are bodily autonomy rights. Trans rights are healthcare rights. I don’t care if you “believe” in trans or not. Human are humans and all deserve to have control over their medical care, whether they be trans or not, women or not.

Undocumented immigrants aren’t even *allowed* to access Medicare, Medicaid or ACA credits. Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.

My whole life I was told that the left hates America, but it’s MAGA that declared war on American cities.

“I did pushups and off brand supplements instead of having feelings or thinking about others! Thats what makes me a warrior and this is what will transform our armed services into a lethal fighting force. None of this woke ‘going to therapy’ or ‘acting respectfully’ radical left bullshit.”

To Donald Trump: Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities. Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US. Stop attacking the 1st Amendment. Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Not just the subsidies are at stake. Language that would ban healthcare facilities that receive federal funds from providing transition care must be expunged. Call your Dem senators and reps and tell them to protect trans people.

My 3 year old at the airport: “why aren’t other people wearing masks” buddy how much time do you have

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Is this the warrior ethos

"[T]here's no real difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr. and an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling ... [B]oth spread lies as easily as they breathe, it's just that certain segments of society feel a bit icky about the idea of trans people and so are more likely to listen."

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Bad Bunny implies the existence of Good Bunny

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

On the first day in office, this President pardoned actual violent insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol. Now he’s making up shit in Portland to justify using the military AGAINST the American people. Real POS behavior from this TEMU dictator.