Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

Which church, you ask? ALL OF THEM

No jury in the world will convict him

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so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

“And I say: For who are we building? We’re going green now for data centers,” she said. “We’re not going green for Washington and Oregon state mandates. We’re going green for data centers.”

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Air travel hassles are like dreams: the most interesting in the world when happening to you, the most boring thing imaginable in other peoples’ stories.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

Sometimes I think about how marketers convinced the same people that they need scent diffusers AND air purifiers, and I really marvel at American ingenuity. (Actually I'm disgusted. In case you didn't know, diffusers release compounds that degrade air quality.)

Also remember, whenever a Special Counsel is appointed in a Democrat administration, such as Ken Starr, they must be Republican so they are unbiased. But whenever a Special Counsel is appointed in an Republican administration, such as Robert Mueller, they must be Republican so they are unbiased.

this is absolutely worth remembering: when the abolitionists began the struggle against the slave power, the slave power looked unbeatable. they fought anyways--a long, difficult, often thankless struggle. they fought anyways.

We all know what they say about the dildo of consequences...

This article about going to war with the media we have, not the media we wish we had, doesn't get into this, but I think it supports the idea that we need to use costumes and theatrics WAY more. The media and public eat that shit up. It's why the Tea Party & Portland Frog were both successful.

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

Wow, Wayfair really needs to get some human eyeballs on their AI ads. LOL at every single detail here.

Don't believe them when they try to claim that data centers are worth it for the jobs. www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

Can't make this up

Wrong solution, but I feel "And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes," in my soul.

BTW, this is how vouchers have ALWAYS worked when implemented. (1) Almost all the vouchers go to families already privately schooling their kids. (2) Once the vouchers are a thing, the private schools hike their tuition so that the few poors who get vouchers still can't afford them. #Segregation

I'm a vegan, and I don't appreciate the way this graph is coming for my dark chocolate and coffee.

Everything happens once.

No woman should live with a man and a gun.

Is there a betting market for how long until Trump starts threatening to drop a nuclear bomb on the Vatican?

In 1991 at 12 years old I did a report on WWII with research that included video of bulldozers pushing bodies into ditches. That shit fucked me up and stuck with me. More people should have been shown that video. Hell. Watch it now, they're all still out there.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Every single word.

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

In my North Portland neighborhood, copaganda of any sort isn't welcome.

How many Benghazi are we up to now?

Can't believe they missed the opportunity to open the world's first Ihopplebee's. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Some other examples are

My timeline is really on point tonight.

All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

We told the dumb fucks all of this was going to happen. They voted for war, the slaughter of innocents, higher prices for everything, concentration camps, and US imperialism.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Unpopular opinion but gas prices have always been too low. Cheap gas means urban sprawl, giant useless pick up trucks, shitty transit options, shitty rail options and dangerous or no bike & pedestrian options. Oh and burning less gas means the climate apocalypse gets postponed

Never been happier to be privileged to enough to drive an EV. (I always love it, to be honest.)

1/ What’s the price of a 1% drop in MMR vaccination rates? According to a new report by the Common Health Coalition, it’s 17,000+ measles cases, 4,000 hospitalizations, 36 preventable deaths… and a $1.5 billion annual price tag.

Really grossed out by everyone using the term "double tap" as shorthand for double bombing to kill survivors. Don't use their fucking cute lil nickname, the least you can do is spell it out every time.

Watch this. 19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance. As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸 We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA

Me checking news after being in class for the last 4 hours: Hmm, let's see how many people our country has killed, and who else we've started a war with since this morning.