the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena. 🙏

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

does anyone want a girlslop pinktax essay about how i feel like i, 30, have to buy and wear makeup and some nicer clothes for all my Author Public Appearances but if i were some 30 yr old dude i could just show up in jeans and a t shirt and no one would give a shit?

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If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Unknown to so many. news.artnet.com/art-world/ed...

“They’ve stolen all the works of humanity, the books, the art, everything we’ve ever put on Reddit, they’ve turned around and tried to monetize and sell it back to us and defund education, libraries, public health institutions,” Safiya Noble says. “People are not stupid."

I would say that #2 needs to be not "have to be ready" but "have to demand" because if there are no consequences and people just reap multiple billions of dollars in personal profit this will happen again.

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Lee Jae-myung drawing parallels between Palestine and the colonial occupation of Korea by Japan has started shit abroad and afaict resonated with the party and the public www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots

🚨 Record high of 40 Senators have just voted to block $300M of bulldozers to Israel. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Rosen, Schumer voted w/ Republicans. Along with demolishing Palestinian homes, Israel used a bulldozer to kill 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie.

Breathlessly interjecting into every conversation about Rama Duwaji to mention she is a cartoonist!!!

NYT cooking page has basically no meat on it "Dumplings With Peas" "Broccoli Cheddar Beans"

Wait,what is this show? Look at this cast! youtu.be/cL-HUAbenBk?...

seoul offers a climate card for unlimited transit usage (with a few exceptions) and it's been pretty flawless for us so far. $15 for a week. the coverage is *insane* we've never had to wait more than 5 minutes for a bus or subway. frequency is freedom

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“Magnum prevented Ben & Jerry’s from putting out a post supporting Black History Month,” Cohen said. "(Ben & Jerry’s) wanted to come out with a post calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Magnum prevented that. We wanted to support the student protesters. Magnum wouldn’t allow that.”

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Oof it me

This is the collaboration no one would've ever guessed but now also desperately need.

I agree with Bree (as someone who also makes more than the min)

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Ooof. Anyone who's experienced being hit by a chronic illness will resonate with this story. On a bad M.E. day for me, reading it hurt, but in a really *good* way.

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Because of the backsliding moment we're in around fatness, we're getting these "don't judge a book by its cover" storylines that are based on what thin writers see as fat people's inherent repulsiveness. They really do seem to think it's charitable w/o realizing it's insulting, hackneyed, incorrect.

Um, I cannot. Seriously look up 1999 in film and try to pick a fav. The Mummy, Ghost Dog, Fight Club, 10 Things I hate About You, the Matrix... the list goes on and on and on.

Had errands to run this afternoon and even after 8 years, my brain goes hey, you live in Europe holy shit!

Art exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library asks visitors to imagine a world without prisons “The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, builds an environment where visitors can see and feel through the possible answers prismreports.org/2026/04/13/w...

This is what Israel considers a "ceasefire."

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...

My villain era will just be me breaking into influencer and yt designer's houses and turning their books spine out as God fucking intended

the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 2000s and 2010s called and all of them have your mother on line 2

Ceasar misogyny

I use a pen and a notebook. Sometimes I use my Remarkable 2. I write my drafts in Word 2016. I also use two spaces after periods and contrary to what peeps seem to believe, I've never had a single editor complain. 🤷‍♀️

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

I would stand in for him in zoom meetings for 1/10th of his pay. Just saying

"gargantuan" Just a reminder, the US has spent 3.65 trillion so far in this fiscal year! Despite them having 100million less people than us. The MFF funds a pile of vital things but there's always these comments as if it's oversized #speirgorm

this makes me so happy i've basically reposted it three times in quick succession

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Let the music return

We need to give serious thought to how else to take advantage of Vance's god-tier ability to repel all humans.

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

Hope really is a muscle ain't it

one day of this and i’d start talking like barrett in ff7

This is great beadwork at a great price!

not to get sappy but it kinda feels like all you fascists really are bound to lose 🥹