"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

Don't look at me, OP's logic is flawless.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Great thread for Trans Day of Rememberance. God, I miss Pterry.

At Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social we are by definition older Americans. We've seen more stuff than most people. But we've never seen the president demand the execution of members of Congress.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I love how this tree looks like it's dropping tongues of flame to the pavement

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

amazingly enough I did actually check to see if the generic lisdexamfetamine that might as well have been sugar pills for all the good they did me were from Sun right after seeing this skeet. they weren't, for the record; my utterly useless lisdex was from Lannett.

From the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly.

Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says. n.pr/43bcc7y

Commentary: There is a dangerous willingness among too many political, civil, and community leaders — and, anecdotally, far too many everyday citizens — to sacrifice civil and human rights on the altar of authoritarianism, writes Rev. Earle T. Fisher of Memphis.

A hero for our times

Happy birthday to @hwinkler4real.bsky.social, who is 80 years young today! Here we are at the 1977 Golden Globes, just a little bit younger 😉

Yes I know it’s the Cato Institute but when they’re right I’m gonna support that. This is the correct take.

Thread.

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Memphis Police are required to live in their county. Miller is an idiot.

Open thread to read the comic 🐈‍⬛🪄✨✨✨#halloween

And the government knows it. bsky.app/profile/heat...

For a nation that was assigned British at birth, we seem to have a strange problem with trans people.

Small bright moments to remind you that not everyone sucks: a Dallas, TX United Methodist Church responds to TX's law preventing rainbow crosswalks by painting their steps and church doors instead www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/t...

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

Perfect metaphor.

I absolutely love how the inflatable costume is taking off for protest! It offers protection in so many fucking ways but if they go into battle, we will need to level the costumes up for extended dancing in tear gas smoke. Let’s talk 🧵🧵🧵🧵

Hey, in case you needed a boost. Drink water Breath deep Get a good nights sleep Eat some feel good food IRS loves you.

Exactly. I want Democratic leadership that are openly letting us know that if/when the clock turns, there will be Nuremberg Trials for the fascists that have taken control of this country.

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

‼️‼️‼️Please read the entire thread. This is blatantly illegal. Medical professionals need to stand against this en masse immediately.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

A reminder that the Senate is controlled by Republicans (as is the House, White House, and Supreme Court), so any shutdown was caused by Republicans, and Republicans only.

Planning for a shutdown— whether it occurs or not— is a waste of taxpayer money. Our staff has been cut, we didn’t have enough to begin with— and now this. You know who isn’t doing their jobs? Congress

The problem is that these solutions require time, money and a lot of effort unlike the showboating of having armed soldiers walking around. Hard work is not photogenic but way more effective for long term solutions.

Learn to decipher the codespeak.

Queer content is NEVER de-facto sensitive content.

The GOP showered billionaires with tax cuts. To try and offset the cost they slashed Medicaid, SNAP, health care, energy assistance and more—and STILL blew up the deficit by $4 trillion. The bill for Tennessee? 310k lose health care, 374k lose food aid, 21k jobs lost, and higher costs for everyone.

“Was not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity was the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It was the argument of tyrants: it was the creed of slaves.” William Pitt (1783)

My oven is nonfunctional and need to get it working again. Lately it has been a series of crappy events that I've dealt with that I don't have the currency to fix. If you think you could - and it won't hurt you - could you toss a penny in the jarro? Thanks! (RT please!) linktr.ee/ravenpenny

We start to lose muscle in our 30s, and the loss accelerates with age, putting us at risk of frailty later in life. But what you eat — specifically how much protein — is a big part of the solution.

On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.

Aha! Found it! "One learned to pretend one wasn’t a coward, and take out the change in bad dreams." Busman's Holiday. No wonder I was having trouble; I thought it was in one of the earlier novels.