With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

"Go where you may, search where you will ... search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival" FD, 7/5/1852

If there's one thing the US knows how to do, it's pour a horrifying amount of money and resources into a war, and then lose. Vietnam. Drugs. Now immigration. Get ready to lose again, assholes.

Come what may, I will bet on us, every time, because there is no other bet worth placing. I am all in, fam. I will never stop looking for openings and aiming at them. I will never stop reaching for people and saying, “Take my hand. We can do this.” Because we are worth it.

I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.

come midnight tonight every cybertruck in new york will spontaneously combust and the beloved Mr. Met mascot will be updated to have top surgery scars

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

A very popular New York Times columnist gets mad when you say this but it needs to be said loudly and repeatedly: cancel your subscription, ignore the Wordle, don’t give them a goddamn penny.

This is heartbreaking. They are strip mining what’s left of nature.

This is a great resource for anyone needing abortion pills in the US. www.plancpills.org

Here is the current lineup for events I’ll be vending at this summer! { #phillypride #mossandbug }

Make being a Luddite cool again.

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

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a really important point, trans are MY PEOPLE, I don't agree with all trans people or their jobs or whatever but they are MY PEOPLE. if you have to rip strips off people facing difficulties, you need to look more at yourself and less at them, we got one boat and it's fucking sinking.

[dracula flow] i stepped in the same river twice. it was the same river, and i was the same motherfucking man

I know @friends-table.bsky.social recorded this weeks/months ago, but I’m listening to Perpetua 02 and thought it was important that @ali-online.bsky.social know what noises ptarmigans make cause they’re delightful youtube.com/shorts/Df6-8...

Hello from the Hallowoods is always a banger but this week’s episode was ESPECIALLY JUICY

If you've ever wondered about Friends at the Table, now is a great time to give it a listen. We're just fully kicking off a totally new season with no previous listening required!

having to put a “don’t worry, i’m a dumbass” placard on the worst car of all time in order to drive it is insane

this is still unbeaten

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It’s telling that it’s *always* about making someone else do the hard labor, and never volunteering for it yourself.

Listening to the end of season 1 of bluff city (available for only $5/month at friendsatthetable.cash) in the same week I watched the @friends-table.bsky.social repo stream got me facecasting the Scrabbler for the Curator

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

It's not an April Fools joke... it's Side Story, a new podcast from Friends at the Table, all about the games we play and the stories we tell about them! Hosted by @austinwalker.bsky.social! sidestory.show the incredible cover art is by @formyths.bsky.social!

Hey! A little news from me! I'm back to talking about games (video and otherwise), twice a month, on a new podcast I'm hosting with the crew from @friends-table.bsky.social!

Proud of my city for this

You can tell this is a product that's in high demand because they keep hiding the ways to turn it off

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

I cannot recommend this episode enough. Probably the two people whose words and insight I have found most helpful talking about mutual care and organizing

i took an adderall for the first time a couple of weeks ago and i’m genuinely at a loss at how i accomplished anything before realizing i need this shit

too much work

Ask and ye shall receive

Republicans are entirely at fault. It would've been better had none of them won their elections. But that doesn't excuse Democrats from failing to use the same parliamentary maneuvers Republicans have used for decades to hinder Democratic majorities. If we have to shame them into it, so be it.

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

extremely important PSA

now more than ever, it must be said: let's go birds transsexual

Gonna need @austinwalker.bsky.social to be on some more podcasts this week talking about the Eagles so I can keep riding this high

Oh you're one of the few pro teams left still clinging to your offensive-ass name and you're getting absolutely manhandled in the Super Bowl? Lol. Lmfao even.

Such behavior used to be frustrating and bewildering to me, but in current national context, it's suddenly reading like Philadelphia never lost a certain spirit since the beginning that finds other ways to vent as needed. I find that very hopeful right now for our national restorative needs.

gritty has seized control of the federal government

Go fuckin birds