I'm outdoors in Capitol Hill and have been subjected to the horrors of urban life: people walking dogs, playing sports, speaking languages I don't understand, sunbathing, and skateboarding, plus three pop-up food stands and these rhododendrons. Truly a nightmare: suburbanites, do not come here

given that drivers are filled with incandescent rage at literally all times at literally any accommodation, real or imagined, for transit, pedestrians, or cyclists... ...we should base zero percent of our transit policy on making drivers happy, and this, in fact, rules and is a great start. <3

robins do not respect quiet hours - terrible neighbors Also I'm sad to learn from this thread that they yell all night because they're confused by the street lights 😭

Excellent thread, specifically about Camp Mystic, but applicable to a lot of the Christian evangelical/fundamentalist behavior and attitudes that outsiders struggle to understand

If there's a piece like this out there, I want to read it

I play Pathfinder, and I really like the cooperation aspect of ttrpgs, but this thread has given me so many terrible (amazing) ideas. Luckily I don't think any of my party are on here. Enjoy: a brand new D&D player dramatically throws the entire party under the bus in her first campaign

Claire Willet, Catholicism explainer extraordinaire, explains the Pentagon vs Pope drama - absolutely worth reading. Even if you DGAF about the situation, she's hilarious, so read it for the humor

Thread -

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Republicans could end this at any time. They love it. Never forget.

For people intending this evening to publicly petition our government for a redress of grievances: AM I FREE TO LEAVE? and I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. are the only things you say to police or law enforcement.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I've said it before: If you want me to support you in the Democratic Primary, tell me in no uncertain terms you will fully and completely prosecute the Trump administration. No "moving on", "turn the page", "deal with the future" or other pablum and bullshirt.

I think you lot should be filing impeachment articles whether you can carry the motion or not. Sometimes it is literally about principle

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

LISTEN. Thank you, Cecellia Wang.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

Pretty sure the rest of the world is amazed and can't believe what they're seeing because dropping bombs on Iran was an off-the-charts stupid move, even for this clown show of an administration

Play is the work of children. It’s how they process the world around them and practice adult skills. In the photo below, children in Gaza are reenacting a funeral procession in play. (The photo is a screenshot I took from an even more heartbreaking video via AlJazeera.)

In 2016, a bunch of us were told that we were just being dramatic, we didn't need to be upset, there were checks and balances, we didn't need to worry and that things could not possibly get as bad as we imagined because no one would ever let that happen. Anyways,

This war is ridiculous - there was no defensible reason for Trump to start it. We've killed hundreds (thousands?) of innocent people and displaced thousands more, and for what?! So bloodthirsty assholes like Hegseth could blow stuff up and billionaires could make more money on oil investments?

Sorry I’ve just spent WAY too much time around this nonsense growing up & can’t believe we’ve continued to let these dopey christofascists throw the world into chaos for their End Times wet dreams.

My latest:

This might be the most adorable thing I've seen in weeks

None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have

All this torture to still not believe women's pain

Boeing Access Road station is the exact kind of station we should be deferring for cost saving measures. Low ridership, above ground, infill, suburban. The idea that this kind of station could get built instead of Ballard or Alaska Junction or even SLU is insane

This whole thing isn’t going well.

I may need to adopt this approach

Exhibit 3,789 in my collection of "discrimination is pretty much always rooted in anti-Black racism, except when it's antisemitism (sometimes it's both)

"The matter he had been appointed to hear involved only her unborn baby." Along with the racism, this is one of the most infuriating sentences in the article. It's crystal clear the people making up this personhood bullshit do not give a shit about children. Protecting babies my ass.

Giving fetuses & embryos rights negatively impacts every area of women’s lives, including labor and delivery. No one should have to argue a legal matter while 12 hours into labor. No one should have to advocate for themselves while still groggy from a forced c-section.

This is fucking outrageous - FL forced these women who were already in labor to attend a court proceeding, with no legal representation. The judge ordered them to have a C-section, against their express, informed medical choices. WTF.

Whyyyyy is it snowing in the middle of March?!

This is horrifying. I'm definitely rooting for the meteor at this point.

Fund mass transit.

AI is not magic. It's human labor. The opening anecdote in this story made my jaw fall on the floor. www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

"Anna says, the MAGA movement is 'insisting that women subject themselves entirely to male authority, while advertising that male authority will be cruel and vicious and fickle.'” This is nothing new - they're just louder and more vulgar about it than the older conservative talking heads.

WTF, UN Security Council - shameless!

Next time this culture of casual massacre Republicans have created and forced us all to live in ricochets back to hurt one of their own every media outlet will start wringing their hands about political violence as if this guy hasn’t been out here saying loathsome shit like this all along.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Millions of children of Evangelicals would like a word.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

Paging George Orwell.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

To be fair to DHS, they have to lie about everything because they're COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. Which makes telling the truth very awkward.

This nationwide, grassroots whistle printing and distribution operation is amazing 🤩

Haha, somehow I had no idea that tech companies have their own PACs, but uh, yeah, this all tracks. Like the big wigs with all the money buying politicians is bad enough, but they're squeezing contributions out of run-of-the-mill employees, too?! That's fucked up, and also very on brand