whenever i get into historical details about the reconstruction era, i always come away with the same feeling: they should’ve hung every last confederate. now we live with the actual, spiritual, and ideological descendants of evil who men who were welcomed back instead, and its poisoned this country

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

😱Ohmygod no no!😨

Too hot outside to plant it today. Too windy to leave outside tonight. Too tall to put in a normal room. It's Temporary Stairwell Tree!

There are two ways to have extra cash 1) work hard every day, burn yourself out, eat cheap trash food, never do anything fun, hope you don't get sick ever, forget about starting a family or buying a house or 2) provide an essential service or product and slowly but continually ratchet the price up.

Terra and Cloud’s new handshake unlocked: VI, VII (Collab sketch with @johncaden64.bsky.social) #FF6 | #FF7 | #fanart

Can anyone explain how it was a miscarriage of justice or is better for the country for a guy convicted of insider trading to be pardoned? (Spoiler: no, you can't.)

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

BREAKING: The Senate just passed a bill to add an additional $70 billion to ICE and Border Patrol’s already giant budget without any reforms. The House must hold the line and refuse to give ICE a blank check to violate our rights.

1) nearly all energy that goes into a data center comes out as heat because that's how computer power consumption works, all this heat is considered waste 2) nearly half of US households use electricity as their primary heat source, none of this heat is used for computing 3) ..... 4) profit

I think my future might be in trouble... #NoFate

If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear. How stupid do they think we are? "We'll never investigate" is indistinguishable from "go do crime."

Friends, this breaks my heart. The Supreme Court just sided with the people who try to "convert" queer kids out of being who they are. Let me be clear: so-called "conversion therapy" is not therapy. It is abuse. You should not get to tell a frightened child the truest part of themselves is broken.

This is so fantastically unamerican it makes my soul hurt. 83% of religions don't count anymore? I hate these Christofascists so, so much.

Trump proudly lets repeat-offending criminals out onto the street.

Nnoooooooooooo!!!

You could never make Rope today because no one will believe that bored rich kids who think they're so smart would try to get away with murder just to prove they can and people would be surprised. Kinda "dog bites man" innit?

To the person with the "Honk if you love Democracy" banner above the overpass this morning, I do love Democracy, but traffic was a mess from an accident up the way and it felt like honking would have only made things worse on the road. Sorry, keep doing what you're doing. Maybe change honk to wave.

“we told you so” is unfortunately deeply unsatisfying in the face of what we told you

This is bad.

Greg Bovino was welcomed like a celebrity at one of the world’s pre-eminent fascist confabs. Some of the organizers and other prominent attendees have: -called the Holocaust a “fairy tale and a lie" -been convicted for hate speech -vandalized a synagogue

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

Hey yinz guys, Alec is great. Go to this. Plus you get to meet what I can only assume are 500 very hip and with it cool people. Probably all very good looking and smart too. If you go you'll fit right in because you either already are, or will rapidly become, awesome.

Requiring mandatory monthly reporting of Work Will Set You Free Cannot wait until the revolution brings universal healthcare.

Normalize not letting bigots get away with referring to their bigotries as their consciences. Happy Pride Month.

I think I'd be not angry at website ads if they didn't have much animation, didn't take up more than a like a quarter screen, and most importantly, didn't make the text I'm actually reading jump around to the point where I literally didn't know which direction to scroll to get back to where I was.

Trump voters should have to pay an extra dollar for gas for as long as he stays in office.

I believe that /a/ government could do meaningful oversight of AI models before their release, and it might even be a good idea. But I don't think /this/ government can or should. Because they're not just stupid, they have motivations and priorities that are counter to actual humans.

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

I mean sure if you defund police you’ll have theft and rape and assault and murder but at least you won’t be paying them to do it.

🎼 First day of summer vacation 🎵 🎶 Don't have to drive the kids to school🎵 🎶Gonna get stuff done🎵 🚗💥Click clicky click, car won't start😞

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

Why do we call them gamers and not players? Game isn't a verb.

Are there any real people who follow 50K accounts? I don't believe that can possibly be true. And if it's true it's definitely not healthy. It's got to be bots, right?

Industry, corporations, and the wealthy will help themselves, it must be the goal of democratic government to help The People in spite of, even in opposition to, those efforts. Oppose every merger, support every union, fight venture capital, and pursue fraudulent actors ferociously.

There's so much good stuff on YouTube. And then there's the IP-abusing meme ouroboros that my 10yo watches. It's so intellectually offensive that it makes me want to murder.

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising

AdSense sinks ships.

Believe it or not there is no one state, genre of music, sports or movie fandom, job, or food that is "more American" than another. The great thing about here is that we're from everywhere and do everything. Yet debate-team rejects still want to gatekeep American-ness behind football trivia.

James's response to the "accusation" that he's vegan is pretty good: "I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. If all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I think our chances are pretty good."

It is by no coincidence what so ever that Clark Kent was designed, by the children of immigrants who fled the Nazis, to be a reporter.

This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"

If there's one job AI /should/ replace it would be middle management. If.

FRIENDS!!! HOLY SHIT!!!

Liberals say that Trump has replaced our once-proud democracy with a corrupt, economically stagnant autocracy. They're wrong—Trump has replaced our once-proud republic with a corrupt, economically stagnant autocracy.

"Ronald Reagan? The actor?"

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